Hi @nonware, this isn’t answering your question directly I know, but I tend to use an IO.inspect (or friends) either side of a function call as my primary debugging tool. Elixir is a functional language and by and large you put data into a function and get transformed data out with no side effects so I find this style of debugging quite effective for me personally. In addition, code recompile and reload in a running system is generally very quick and just works in Phoenix, so moving a few IO.inspects around while the system is running is no trouble. I coded a lot of .Net in the past and made heavy use of the Visual Studio debugging tools, which were excellent, but I honestly haven’t found the same need for that style of debugging (yet) in Elixir. In over 2 years I haven’t even taken the time to try and set them up.
I’d be keen to hear informed responses though - it’s probably about time I learned about it!
