Debugging Play Application Does Not Also Debug My Javascript/View Layer
Now I don't know if I'm just being stupid, or what I'm proposing is beyond the realms of possibility, but I would have thought with modern multi-stack web technologies, when debugging an application in Intellij, I'd be able to debug the lot from within Intellij.
For example, I'm currently developing a Play application, with my stack using a Scala for the controllers, and (obviously) Html/Javascript for the view. If I debug the application and stick breakpoints in the scala code and also the javascript, I'd expect them all to get hit. Being a Play application and using a 'Play 2 App' Debug configuration, I could appreciate that the debugger might only want to debug the Play Java/Scala source. But frankly, having to use an external debugger for the view layer just doesn't sit comfortably with me.
Am I missing something here, or asking to reinvent the wheel?
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