DevTools: Inspector and Debugger for "Virtual Modules"

[SMotaal]

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Happy new year!

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One thing we want to explore more closely with non-native modules is tooling, more specifically the runtime-time side of, more so in development.

Positions

1. Invest in making virtual modules compatible with devtools
2. Invest in making user-land alternatives work as expected

I'm personally very biased here, because the latter always came with never-ending and perpetual failures that could not always be anticipated or managed, and in my case, somehow being conventional or not was always the argument that mattered, not specs, accuracy… etc.

This is likely going to need a few discussions, so I'd like to keep those and others in this thread.

Goals

• TBD

Threads

• @nodejs/modules: hot reload modules w/ es6 modules #459

  @jkrems: … thanks to @ak239 Debugger.setScriptSource does work these days for modules! v8/v8@0cec56a