Autoloader eats errors

[woahdae]

Since work is currently being done on the autoloader (#3, #11) I thought I'd ask - any interest in letting autoloader errors just happen?

The autoloader transforms import errors into a "Failed to autoload controller: ..." message. While writing a stimulus controller, I made a SyntaxError by importing a wrong module name, and had to stick a debugger into the catch statement to dig it out.

IMHO if something fails to load, swallowing the error a) confuses development, and b) will almost certainly break something downstream anyways unless your controller was entirely cruft.

At the minimum, it should console.log the error, no?

[mgodwin]

I was bitten by this as well - I think a fix could be as easy as
console.log(`Failed to autoload controller: ${controllerName}`, error)

[dhh]

Agree we should add a console log error.

[dhh]

Fixed in f551af0