I'm currently playing around with Haxe to create a simple little web framework. Everything but the front-end framework (Yahoo Pure) is being written from scratch using a combination of Haxe/HTML/CSS. I'm writing it in FlashDevelop, using USBWebServer, and a couple of custom build/deploy scripts to copy the output JS to the UsbWebserver host directory, and to launch Google Chrome and point it at http://localhost/myserver/whatever.
For all intents and purposes, my development environment is a jumbled up mess of scripts and files in a bunch of different directories. The output directory on the server has absolutely zero Haxe code, just the generated javascript and PHP files that came out of the Haxe compiler.
Yet somehow, by some black magic, the Google Chrome developer tools (opened with F12) have a "Sources" tab which
Correctly points to my Haxe source files in the write directory
Displays the sources with simple syntax highlighting
Allows me to add breakpoints in the haxe code itself
AND lets me see the value of variables (included objects) by highlighting them with my mouse when a breakpoint is reached (like you'd see in Visual Studio or other fancy IDEs)
So how the hell can Google Chrome do this? My "launch script" is just this:
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" "http://localhost:8080/mysite"
That might explain how it finds my source directory, because that script is run from there. That doesn't explain how Google Chrome understands Haxe, or knows how to match the generated javascript code with the source Haxe code on a line-by-line basis.
I don't have any Haxe plugins installed. The only development-related plugins I have are Advanced REST client, and Javascript Errors Notifier (which just adds a little visual indicator when there's a javascript error)
This all seems like (extremely useful) black magic.
