inspector: expose original console

Adds require('inspector').console, mapping it to the original
global.console of V8. This enables applications to send messages to
the inspector console programmatically.

Fixes: https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/21651

PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/21659
Reviewed-By: Gus Caplan <me@gus.host>
Reviewed-By: Michaël Zasso <targos@protonmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Tiancheng "Timothy" Gu <timothygu99@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com>

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/doc/api/inspector.md b/doc/api/inspector.md
index 7b1adcc47b..8ab827bd1f 100644
--- a/doc/api/inspector.md
+++ b/doc/api/inspector.md
@@ -28,6 +28,17 @@ started.
 If wait is `true`, will block until a client has connected to the inspect port
 and flow control has been passed to the debugger client.
 
+### inspector.console
+
+An object to send messages to the remote inspector console.
+
+```js
+require('inspector').console.log('a message');
+```
+
+The inspector console does not have API parity with Node.js
+console.
+
 ### inspector.close()
 
 Deactivate the inspector. Blocks until there are no active connections.