Node-inspector is actually getting installed with the devDependencies, so it shouldn't have to be installed separately right? But either way I don't think it's a problem. I guess I might have been unclear in my comment, but I was thinking a script to just turn on the server with debug mode: <code>node --debug node-server.js</code> not actually turning on node-inspector too. Presumably there are other tools that take advantage of the debug flag, and we wouldn't want to limit people to just node-inspector.