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Do you know if shadow-cljs support source maps for React Native? (Their absence was a really significant pain point when I worked on a production CLJS/RN app.)

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You need two source maps: one produced by ClojureScript and one produced by RN Metro. When you get an error with a stack trace from RN, you need to walk the source maps in the correct order to find where the error in the CLJS code originated. I wrote some custom code to do this but I haven’t polished it/made it into a lib at this point.

Sure, I understand. But that's several orders of magnitude less useful than what one gets in eg the chrome devtools console from a CLJS webapp.

I found this to be a major timesink when debugging things, and never came up with a good bulletproof solution to automate this traversal. It was especially painful with random breakages due to NPM's automatic dependency/transitive dependency upgrades due to version ranges (ie, things that don't just fix themselves by checking out a previous known good version).

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