NativeScript / NativeScript/nativescript-cli
[Bundle workflow] VSCode call stack window contains a lot of garbage debugging linked source
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Description
Environment
Provide version numbers for the following components (information can be retrieved by running tns info in your project folder or by inspecting the package.json of the project):
- CLI: rc
- Cross-platform modules: rc
- Android Runtime: rc
- iOS Runtime: rc
Describe the bug
Debugging linked tns-core-modules source in VSCode with bundle workflow currently requires us to do it from the top NativeScript folder -- this causes a problem where some of the call stack window entries contain the full filepath thus becoming extremely long (and hiding the essential debugging information). To fix this we have to make the call stack window twice as wide (thus limiting the file listing space)
Screenshot demonstrating the issue (default call stack window width practically shows no meaningful information):

Screenshot demonstrating the workaround:

To Reproduce
git clone git@github.com:NativeScript/NativeScript.gitcd NativeScripttns create bottom-nav-test --template tns-template-blank-tscd bottom-nav-testtns migrate- Open NativeScript folder in VSCode
- Replace the contents of bottom-nav-test/app-root.xml with:
<BottomNavigation>
<TabStrip>
<TabStripItem title="First"></TabStripItem>
<TabStripItem title="Second"></TabStripItem>
</TabStrip>
<TabContentItem>
<GridLayout>
<Label text="First View" />
</GridLayout>
</TabContentItem>
<TabContentItem>
<GridLayout>
<Label text="Second View" />
</GridLayout>
</TabContentItem>
</BottomNavigation>
- Place a breakpoint in the
OnLoaded()method in tns-core-modules/ui/bottom-navigation/bottom-navigation.android.ts and adebugger;statement at the beginning of the file - Configure NativeScript debugging and add the following debug configuration in launch.json:
{
"name": "bottom-nav | Launch on Android",
"type": "nativescript",
"request": "launch",
"platform": "android",
"appRoot": "${workspaceRoot}/bottom-nav-test",
"sourceMaps": true,
"stopOnEntry": true,
"watch": true
},
- Debug using the newly added configuration
- Breakpoint in
OnLoaded()is hit -- see the call stack window
Expected behavior
Call stack window should not display full filepath but only meaningful debug information.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Reproduce the issue using the documented NativeScript CLI steps, the bundle workflow launch configuration, and the breakpoint in tns-core-modules/ui/bottom-navigation/bottom-navigation.android.ts. Inspect the bundle-workflow debugging and source-map handling around the VSCode configuration; done means the call stack shows meaningful entries without unnecessarily long full paths.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- android, javascript, typescript, vscode
- Domain
- cli, developer-experience, mobile-dev, tooling
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 38/100