[Question] How to disable Debug mode, once I set PWDEBUG in env. variable now it's always running in debug mode

[yousufwaqar]

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[pavelfeldman]

What do you call a debug mode? pw:api only prints the logs, it isn't a debug mode, PWDEBUG=1 is.

[mxschmitt]

Probably you used set on Windows, which sets the environment variable for the current shell, try to either reset it with:

set DEBUG=

or create a new terminal shell.

[yousufwaqar]

@pavelfeldman, even though by just using node Filename.js. it's opening the inspector tool every-time and has to explicitly press the play button to continue the execution. It's been only a few days that I am using Playwright, maybe I've missed something but I think the inspector feature introduced in 1.9.1 a few days ago only.

[yousufwaqar]

Probably you used set on Windows, which sets the environment variable for the current shell, try to either reset it with:

set DEBUG=

or create a new terminal shell.

No, I only used set DEBUG=pw:api

[pavelfeldman]

Could you check if your environment has PWDEBUG variable set?

[yousufwaqar]

Could you check if your environment has PWDEBUG variable set?

@pavelfeldman , Yes env. had PWDEBUG variable set to 1. after deleting it. the scripts are running fine but to check I set the variable again it was again launching the browser along with inspector even after simply just running the script using node fiilename.js. Is this expected behavior that we have to explicitly add and delete PWDEBUG variable every-time we want to debug using inspector cuz it could be a little tedious.

[pavelfeldman]

You can use cross-env to simplify it on Windows:

npx cross-env PWDEBUG=1 node test.js

This will only enable this environment variable for the time of execution.