Chrome devtools console method autocompletion for node is not working

Version

v22.13.0

Platform

Microsoft Windows NT 10.0.19045.0 x64

Subsystem

No response

What steps will reproduce the bug?

1. open Chrome 132.0.6834.84 and load chrome://inspect
2. open dedicated devtools for node
3. run "node --inspect"
4. wait for node to connect to devtools
5. enter "global." in the devtools console
6. the autocompletion method list does not pop up

How often does it reproduce? Is there a required condition?

always

What is the expected behavior? Why is that the expected behavior?

The autocompletion method list is expected to pop up as it does for browser objects and as it used to for node:

What do you see instead?

No autocomplete method popup.

Additional information

Since this is working in Chrome 113, it appeared as a Chrome issue and was submitted on the Chrome bug tracker, but was closed with the following response:

https://issues.chromium.org/u/2/issues/390205856#comment5

This is a Node.js issue. I can reproduce this down to Node 14, but with Node 12 autocompletion works as expected.

The way autocompletion of object properties works is that we evaluate the input, but abort if this evaluation may cause a side effect. Without side effect, we get the object properties and offer these properties as autocomplete options.

From Node 14, side effect check fails. You can easily check this by running Node with node --trace-side-effect-free-evaluate --inspect.

I would suggest you file an issue on the Node issue tracker.

Reproduce with Node v22.13.0 using node --inspect, Chrome 132, and global. in the dedicated DevTools console. Compare this with node --trace-side-effect-free-evaluate --inspect and trace the inspector autocomplete side-effect evaluation path; done means method completions appear for global. again.