I can’t tell if it’s SST or CDK doing it, but when I run

DEBUG=rc:* yarn start

to get debugging messages for my own stuff, I get a fair amount of other debugging messages, because they’re just checking for the existence of

process.env.DEBUG

. (to clarify, I’m using the npm

debug

package which lets you namespace your stuff to get selective debugging messages)

yeah, SST internally sets

process.env.DEBUG

when the

--verbose

flag is passed in. I think you are seeing the verbose logs.

I wish the

debug

package let you change which env var it reads from

Is there a convention of name spacing it in node?

yeah. basically:

import createDebug from 'debug';

const debug = createDebug('namespace:something');

i used to think TJ Hollowaychuck (debug author) was a group with how many node modules he published