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by eurasiantiger 1406 days ago
And now you have to set up debugging for a Scala backend, a Node application running a GraphQL server, and a React Native frontend running in an iOS simulator.
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Anytime something new comes along there'll be a period of time where debugging tools aren't adequate or substantially more difficult to set up. But for a piece of tech to be a competitive choice, it's just just such a productivity waste to not make that a pretty high priority. JS frameworks themselves are classically terrible at this, even React itself is pretty meh, but usually you can fall back to just standard devtool breakpoints.

I'd have a really hard time respecting someone's choice to bet on a tool that is very difficult to troubleshoot, if there's an alternative that isn't, unless that tool is extremely better at something else.