Source maps support

[judofyr]

Any plans on supporting source maps?

[somebee]

The lexer already marks all tokens with their original location (both char and line/col), as it is used for analysis / annotations and the highlighter. I have limited knowledge of source maps, but from what I understand it should be relatively easy to support.

[marvinroger]

This feature is definitely needed for any serious project. Debugging unfortunately happens so often!

[judofyr]

It's not that bad actually. The JavaScript it generates is rather clean and
easy to debug. But yes, it's definitely a feature we want to implement.

On lør. 22. aug. 2015 at 12.04 Marvin Roger notifications@github.com
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This feature is definitely needed for any serious project. Debugging
unfortunately happens so often!

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[marvinroger]

That's right, the generated JS is clean, but when your debugger tells you that there is an error at x line, you lost some time to find the corresponding imba line. :)
Anyway, no hurry!

[somebee]

@marvinroger Preliminary support for sourcemaps has been added and released with v0.12.0. The sourcemap is embedded directly in the compiled files if you include --source-map-inline in imba watch/compile. Make sure the imba-file is accessible from the browser (correctly relative to the compiled file). I've tested it in Chrome and it seems to work well. Still a few mappings missing, but it should be pretty usable :)

[marvinroger]

Great! Thanks, you guys are very fast. :)