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inspector-slim

v2.0.0

Published

A simple node module to access V8 inspector + some tools to export and read the data.

Downloads

9

Readme

inspector-slim

A lightweight fork of inspector-api with zero dependencies. All AWS/S3 functionality has been removed — this package only uses Node.js built-ins.

Purpose

Simple wrapper around "inspector" module. Basically it adds promises & async/await syntax.

Compatibility

| Version | Supported | Tested | |:-------------:|:-------------:|:--------------:| | 20.x | yes | yes | | 18.x | yes | yes | | 16.x | yes | yes |

Requires Node.js 14 or higher.

Installation

$ npm install inspector-slim --save

Usage

CPU profiling

const Inspector = require('inspector-slim')
const inspector = new Inspector()

await inspector.profiler.enable()
await inspector.profiler.start()
// Invoke business logic under measurement here...

// some time later...
await inspector.profiler.stop()

Memory sampling

const Inspector = require('inspector-slim')
const inspector = new Inspector()

await inspector.heap.enable()
await inspector.heap.startSampling()
// Invoke business logic under measurement here...

// some time later...
await inspector.heap.stopSampling()

Memory snapshot

const Inspector = require('inspector-slim')
const inspector = new Inspector()

await inspector.heap.takeSnapshot()

Code coverage

const Inspector = require('inspector-slim')
const inspector = new Inspector()

await inspector.profiler.enable()
await inspector.profiler.startPreciseCoverage({ callCount: true, detailed: true })

const data = await inspector.profiler.takePreciseCoverage()
await inspector.profiler.stopPreciseCoverage()

Write to disk

const Inspector = require('inspector-slim')
const inspector = new Inspector({
    storage: {
        type: 'fs'
    }
})

await inspector.profiler.enable()
await inspector.profiler.start()
// Invoke business logic under measurement here...

// some time later...
await inspector.profiler.stop()

Files are written to your system's default tmp directory. You can find it with require('os').tmpdir().

Constructor config

new Inspector([config])

config.storage

| Option | Description | Default | |:-------:|:----------------------------------------:|:-------:| | type | Storage type (raw or fs) | raw |

Test

$ npm test

Coverage report can be found in coverage/.