# c4milo/node-webkit-agent

NodeJS agent for WebKit devtools front-end

Repository: https://github.com/c4milo/node-webkit-agent
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/node-webkit-agent
Homepage: http://c4milo.github.io/node-webkit-agent/
Language: JavaScript
License Family: other
Last push: 2024-06-17T19:18:17+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5276, "days_push": 807, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1093, forks 77 (observed 2026-08-28T04:03:33.782718+00:00)

## What it is
A Node.js library implementing the Chrome Developer Tools protocol so you can remotely profile and debug Node applications using the WebKit/Chrome DevTools front-end in a browser. It supports remote heap and CPU profiling, activated via a SIGUSR2 signal or programmatically.

## Use cases
- profile cpu usage of a nodejs app remotely
- take heap snapshots of a running node process
- debug nodejs application with chrome devtools
- inspect memory leaks in production node server
- connect chrome devtools to nodejs over websockets

## When to avoid
- you use modern Node.js, which has a built-in inspector
- you need debugger, networking, or console agents - they were never implemented
- you need a maintained library - the project is abandoned and targets ancient Node versions

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: abandoned
- function: monitoring, tracing, developer-tools, websocket
- domain: developer-tools, performance, backend
- platform: cli
- tags: profiling, cpu-profiler, heap-profiler, chrome-devtools-protocol, remote-debugging, nodejs

## Member repositories
- c4milo/node-webkit-agent (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:33.782718+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T06:47:41.361152+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/c4milo/node-webkit-agent (fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:33.782718+00:00, sha 18a39d007669)
  - homepage: http://c4milo.github.io/node-webkit-agent/ (fetched 2026-08-29T12:50:48.544739+00:00, sha ab64dcc5556c)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.