It never occurred to me to debug the generated JS... can you sketch out your use case a bit more?
On Sat, 22 Oct 2016 at 11:19 Robin Heggelund Hansen <[email protected]> wrote: > While I spend a lot less time debugging in Elm than in JS, sometimes it's > useful to debug the generated Javascript. > > This would be greatly simplified, if it was possible to add a `debugger;` > statement to the code. > > What do people think of a new function added to the Debug module of > elm-lang/core, called breakpoint. It would work like the identity function, > but also include the `debugger;` statement, causing a breakpoint to happen > when the browsers dev-tools are open. > > used like: > > ``` > faultyFunction a b = > let > _ = Debug.breakpoint () > in > a + b > ``` > > Granted, this would cause a breakpoint to happen in the actual > Debug.breakpoint function, but since that function is very small, stepping > out of it is no big deal. The only other option I can think of is compiler > support, but I'm unsure how hard this would be to include. > > Opinions? > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Elm Discuss" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Elm Discuss" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
