Debugging CoffeeScript line-by-line

Question

Is there a way to debug CoffeeScript line-by-line?

I understand that it compiles into Javascript. But this sounds like it could make it a pain to debug.

Answer 1

At the moment it is quite a pain to debug CoffeeScript. Most people use lots of unit tests.

There is some work being done on debugging for CoffeeScript but it is probably a while away before we'll have a really good debugger. One example is http://www.infoq.com/news/2011/08/debug-languages-on-javascript-vm