apply sourcemaps to js stack traces
BSD-3-CLAUSE License
This is a simple module for applying source maps to JS stack traces in the browser.
You have Error.stack() in JS (maybe you're logging a trace, or you're looking at traces in Jasmine or Mocha), and you need to apply a sourcemap so you can understand whats happening because you're using some fancy compiled-to-js thing like coffeescript or traceur. Unfortunately, the browser only applies sourcemaps when the trace is viewed in its console, not to the underlying stack object, so you're out of luck.
http://novocaine.github.io/sourcemapped-stacktrace-demo/public_html/smst.html
npm install sourcemapped-stacktrace
https://www.npmjs.com/package/sourcemapped-stacktrace
The npm bundle contains dist/sourcemapped-stacktrace.js, if that's what you're after. The built product is not held in this repo.
Include sourcemapped-stacktrace.js into your page using either an AMD module loader or a plain old script include. As an AMD module it exposes the method 'mapStackTrace'. If an AMD loader is not found this function will be set on window.sourceMappedStackTrace.mapStackTrace.
Re-map entries in a stacktrace using sourcemaps if available.
Arguments:
stack: (str) The stacktrace from the browser.
done: Callback invoked with the transformed stacktrace (an Array of Strings) passed as the first argument
opts: Optional options object containing:
true
, sourcemaps are cached across multiple mapStackTrace()
calls,false
.Supported browsers
try {
// break something
bork();
} catch (e) {
// pass e.stack to window.mapStackTrace
window.mapStackTrace(e.stack, function(mappedStack) {
// do what you want with mappedStack here
console.log(mappedStack.join("\n"));
}, {
filter: function (line) {
// process only sources containing `spec.js`
return /(spec\.js)/.test(line);
}
});
}
Several modern browsers support sourcemaps when viewing stack traces from errors in their native console, but as of the time of writing there is no support for applying a sourcemap to the (highly non-standardised) Error.prototype.stack. Error.prototype.stack can be used for logging errors and for displaying errors in test frameworks, and it is not very convenient to have unmapped traces in either of those use cases.
This module fetches all the scripts referenced by the stack trace, determines whether they have an applicable sourcemap, fetches the sourcemap from the server, then uses the Mozilla source-map library to do the mapping. Browsers that support sourcemaps don't offer a standardised sourcemap API, so we have to do all that work ourselves.
The nice part about doing it ourselves is that the library could be extended to work in browsers that don't support sourcemaps, which could be good for logging and debugging problems. Currently, only Chrome and Firefox are supported, but it would be easy to support those formats by ripping off stacktrace.js.