sourceMappingURL and consolify

[aboutlo]

Hi there,

I'm using mochify and consolify options in a gulp project. Everything works like a charme expect sourceMappingURL missing on my runner.html generated by --consolify. Currently Mochify accepts a debug option but his meaning is not the same of Browserify.

So I dug in mochify source code and to me the browserify debug options seems true as default so dunno why sourceMappingURL is missing. I would like debug my tests sometimes in a browser.

My mochify.js:

gulp.task('mochify', function () {
  mochify( config.test, {
    reporter : 'spec',
    debug: true,
    //cover    : true,
    consolify : 'runner.html'
  }).bundle();
});

Have you any workaround?
cheers Lorenzo

[mantoni]

The source maps are generated and used to map stack traces back to the original sources. However, the original source maps need an additional offset to work properly, because the source lives inline in the html page.

Instead of having wrong source maps, I decided to not have source maps at all until a proper solution can be provided.

I can think of these solutions:

• Modify the source maps to take the additional offset into account
• Generate the bundle as a separate .js file which will then work properly with the source maps as they are

I cannot make any promises when I will have the time to look into this. Ideas / pull request welcome.

[aboutlo]

I guess the best solution is the first one but it seems more complex.
The second one is a workaround and it could be achieved even without mochify. Sounds to me a shame
So far I don't have enough know how about mochify and gulp internals but may be in the future ;)
Meanwhile thank you for you work!

[mantoni]

With Mochify 2.8.0, you can specify a separate --bundle my-bundled-script.js which includes the source maps. You can use this option for debugging now.