CloudIDEaaS JavaScript Debugger v0.1.35

[kenlnetherland]

🚀 CloudIDEaaS JavaScript Debugger v0.1.35

This release delivers a working F5 browser-debugging workflow for straightforward JavaScript and HTML projects in Visual Studio Code.

✨ Highlights

• 🌐 Built-in local web server
• 🚀 Chrome launch and debugger connection
• 🔴 Startup breakpoint support
• 👣 Step into, step over, step out, continue, and pause
• 🔍 Variables, scopes, objects, and call stacks
• 🧮 Expression evaluation
• ⚠️ Exception breakpoint configuration
• 🔗 DAP ↔ CDP translation through a C#/.NET debug adapter
• 📦 Self-contained Windows x64 package

🎯 Design Goal

CloudIDEaaS is built around a simple principle:

Spend your time debugging your application instead of debugging your debugging environment.

The goal is a lightweight, convention-over-configuration workflow where you can set a breakpoint, press F5, and start debugging in Chrome with fewer moving pieces.

🔧 Architecture

Visual Studio Code
        |
        | Debug Adapter Protocol (DAP)
        v
CloudIDEaaS C# Debug Adapter
        |
        | Chrome DevTools Protocol (CDP)
        | WebSocket
        v
      Chrome

<hr /><em>This discussion was created from the release <a href='https://github.com/CloudIDEaaS/cloudideaas-vscode-debugger/releases/tag/v0.1.35'>CloudIDEaaS JavaScript Debugger v0.1.35</a>.</em>

[kenlnetherland]

🔧 How the Debugger Works

I've published a technical walkthrough of the architecture behind CloudIDEaaS JavaScript Debugger:

How a VS Code Debugger Actually Works: DAP, CDP, and a C# Debug Adapter

It walks through the complete debugging pipeline:

Visual Studio Code
        |
        | DAP
        v
C#/.NET Debug Adapter
        |
        | CDP / WebSocket
        v
      Chrome

The article covers startup breakpoints, breakpoint resolution, call frames, scopes, variables, remote JavaScript objects, stepping, state management, and why I chose C# for the adapter.

If you're interested in DAP, CDP, VS Code extension development, or debugger architecture, this is the deeper technical look at how the project works.