Debugging in VS Code

[etherealHero]

I understand that it is the civet extension's responsibility to implement debugging in vs code. It would be really cool to use breakpoints just like in typescript. So far I have found a temporary solution to use the "debugger" instruction or "console.log", it refers to the compiled file, but this is not so convenient (I want to use logging points, etc.).

Have you tried anything in this direction? Could this opportunity appear in the future?

[edemaine]

I hadn't tried debugging a Civet script, but given that error message it seems like there's hope of getting it working. Thanks for the report.

[STRd6]

It should be as simple as making sure we are setting the correct sourcemap in the correct place.

In your build script do you have sourcemap: true or sourcemap: 'inline'?

Sourcemapping is working for me when debugging in Chrome but maybe there is something we need to add to the extension.

[etherealHero]

I tried installing an inline sourcemap, but it didn't work. In general, in vs code there is no way to set breakpoints, this is what is needed. I thought it would be better to set up gulp (Just, I made sure that you have a gulp plugin for civet 😊) and combine it with bundler so that I have a civet source layer and a .ts distribution that is given to the bundler. And there I can already use all the features for ts debugging

[STRd6]

Ok, so it's probably something we need to do in the LSP to enable setting breakpoints in the VSCode IDE.

Thanks for the report! Hopefully we can get to it the next time we're working on the LSP code.