[nilliams]

In some cases here, he's talking about fixing bugs in a production. It's not so simple to attach a debugger to a live application serving 100s of requests. Break and you just 500'd all users.

In others granted he's working locally and probably could have found the problems without logging, but that just comes down to preference IMO.

Node does have a debugger though and recently added official (though experimental) support for attaching the Chrome DevTools debugger [1]. Doing so was doable via 3rd party packages previously.

Edit: updated as author wasn't only talking about in-production.

[1] https://nodejs.org/api/debugger.html#debugger_v8_inspector_i...