How do I generate sourcemaps when using babel and

Question

I'm new to webpack, and I need a hand in setting up to generate sourcemaps. I'm running webpack serve from the command line, which compiles successfully. But I really need sourcemaps. This is my webpack.config.js.

var webpack = require('webpack');

module.exports = {

  output: {
    filename: 'main.js',
    publicPath: '/assets/'
  },

  cache: true,
  debug: true,
  devtool: true,
  entry: [
      'webpack/hot/only-dev-server',
      './src/components/main.js'
  ],

  stats: {
    colors: true,
    reasons: true
  },

  resolve: {
    extensions: ['', '.js', '.jsx'],
    alias: {
      'styles': __dirname + '/src/styles',
      'mixins': __dirname + '/src/mixins',
      'components': __dirname + '/src/components/',
      'stores': __dirname + '/src/stores/',
      'actions': __dirname + '/src/actions/'
    }
  },
  module: {
    preLoaders: [{
      test: /\.(js|jsx)$/,
      exclude: /node_modules/,
      loader: 'jsxhint'
    }],
    loaders: [{
      test: /\.(js|jsx)$/,
      exclude: /node_modules/,
      loader: 'react-hot!babel-loader'
    }, {
      test: /\.sass/,
      loader: 'style-loader!css-loader!sass-loader?outputStyle=expanded&indentedSyntax'
    }, {
      test: /\.scss/,
      loader: 'style-loader!css!sass'
    }, {
      test: /\.(png|jpg|woff|woff2)$/,
      loader: 'url-loader?limit=8192'
    }]
  },

  plugins: [
    new webpack.HotModuleReplacementPlugin(),
    new webpack.NoErrorsPlugin()
  ]

};

I'm really new to webpack, and looking though the docs hasn't really helped as I'm not sure what this problem is specific to.

Answer 1

On Webpack 2 I tried all 12 devtool options. The following options link to the original file in the console and preserve line numbers. See the note below re: lines only.

https://webpack.js.org/configuration/devtool

devtool best dev options

                                build   rebuild      quality                       look
eval-source-map                 slow    pretty fast  original source               worst
inline-source-map               slow    slow         original source               medium
cheap-module-eval-source-map    medium  fast         original source (lines only)  worst
inline-cheap-module-source-map  medium  pretty slow  original source (lines only)  best

lines only

Source Maps are simplified to a single mapping per line. This usually means a single mapping per statement (assuming you author is this way). This prevents you from debugging execution on statement level and from settings breakpoints on columns of a line. Combining with minimizing is not possible as minimizers usually only emit a single line.

REVISITING THIS

On a large project I find ... eval-source-map rebuild time is ~3.5s ... inline-source-map rebuild time is ~7s