As requested, I've filed https://github.com/devtools-html/debugger.html/issues/4853 . Thanks for the help in advance!
Alex On Fri, Dec 1, 2017 at 8:58 AM, Jason Orendorff <[email protected]> wrote: > Alex, > > I asked around, and our debugger folks say that stepping over await should > work in current shipping Firefox. Haven't checked out your test case yet, > but someone here will. > > In any case, please do report a bug! Instead of Bugzilla, report it here: > https://github.com/devtools-html/debugger.html/issues > > If you don't mind Slack, you can hop on this one (and ping @yulia or > @jorendorff) to talk more about async debugging: > https://devtools-html.slack.com/ > https://devtools-html-slack.herokuapp.com/ <-- to sign up > > -j > > > > On Fri, Dec 1, 2017 at 3:27 AM, Alex Vincent <[email protected]> wrote: > >> A few minutes ago, I released version 0.8.2 of the es7-membrane project. >> [1] I've been using Mozilla Firefox primarily to debug it as I go, and I >> find the built-in JavaScript debugger has a few quirks when asynchronous >> functions come into the mix... >> >> Most notably, when I step over an "await" statement, the debugger treats >> it as if I'm exiting the function altogether. >> >> Also, exceptions thrown within the async functions after an await tend >> not to show up when I'm stepping through the code. >> >> I know I should be filing this in Bugzilla, and I will this weekend... >> I'm posting this here for all JS engine & debugging tools teams, as a >> heads-up: when it comes to async functions, the step-through-code user >> experience is subpar. >> >> As for tests people can step through to see what I'm talking about: see >> [1] for the source under docs/gui/tests. To run the tests, type |npm run >> gui-tests|. I use Karma to implement the tests. The karma.conf.js file in >> the root directory has a "singleRun" setting that developers can change to >> false for debugging purposes (attaching breakpoints to a test, for example). >> >> If it's on a weekend, I can be available to demonstrate what I'm >> referring to, or to show people how to reproduce these behaviors. >> >> Thanks! >> >> >> >> Alex Vincent >> Hayward, CA, U.S.A. >> >> [1] https://github.com/ajvincent/es7-membrane >> >> >> -- >> "The first step in confirming there is a bug in someone else's work is >> confirming there are no bugs in your own." >> -- Alexander J. Vincent, June 30, 2001 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> es-discuss mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss >> >> > -- "The first step in confirming there is a bug in someone else's work is confirming there are no bugs in your own." -- Alexander J. Vincent, June 30, 2001
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