1505392 - (node-dx) [meta] improve developer experience

Status: NEW

(DevTools :: Debugger, task, P5)

Description

[Jason Laster [:jlast]]

We recently landed original sources in the debugger. Here are some things that we can do to make it easier to work locally

1. add support for jest 
2. add support for flow
3. add support for source maps 
4. add a watch mode

Comment 1

[Jason Laster [:jlast]]

The web render team will start landing commits directly in m-c and mirroring them to github https://mozillagfx.wordpress.com/2019/01/10/webrender-newsletter-35/.

In other news we are initiating a notable workflow change: WebRender patches will land directly in Firefox’s mozilla-central repository and a bot will automatically mirror them on github. This change mostly affects the gfx team. What it means for us is that testing webrender changes becomes a lot easier as we don’t have to manually import every single work in progress commit to test it against Firefox’s CI anymore. Also Kats won’t have to spend a considerable amount of his time porting WebRender changes to mozilla-central anymore.

We know that interacting with mozilla-central can be intimidating for external contributors so we’ll still accept pull requests on the github repository although instead of merging them from there, someone in the gfx team will import them in mozilla-central manually (which we already had to do for non-trivial patches to run them against CI before merging). So for anyone who doesn’t work everyday on WebRender this workflow change is pretty much cosmetic. You are still welcome to keep following and interacting with the github repository.

here is a sync pr.
here is the sync to github script.

Kats is the relevant person on the team to talk to.

Comment 2

[Jason Laster [:jlast]]

updated sync script