diff while on breakpoint

[ghost23]

Hi,

I have set a breakpoint at a location in my javascript and while dev tools has paused on that breakpoint I want to diff two objects, which dev tools is showing me. But console.diff(.., ..) is not showing anything in the JSDiff panel when I am on a breakpoint, it seems.

Is this even possible?

[zendive]

Hi @ghost23 ,

It's not possible to see diff results while paused cause it's the same "top window context" [that is paused] responsible to window.postMessage the arguments to background page of extension. src/js/jsdiff-devtools.js@96.
I'm not aware of other methods.

Howether there are workarounds:

• embed console.diff?.(arg1, arg2); into your application, for the timespan of development, then put debugger; after that, to give time to observe the result. Or if code-place allows manual triggering - probably diffPush function would be more handy in that case.
• last resort - while paused, use "Store object as global variable" from context menu like temp1, temp2, etc... Then, after pause, evaluate console.diff(temp1, temp2) on them.

Happy hacking

[zendive]

referenced as a known issue in README.md and closing this issue