Document application debugging procedure for project developers

Wolfy7 commented 3 years ago

Describe the request

I would like to contribute to this project. Because i have this issue: https://github.com/arduino/arduino-ide/issues/385#issuecomment-895861208 i tried to build the project from source to analyse it.

But I'm not a really familiar with TypeScript and the Theia IDE, so i faced some "issues" and open question. As already requested in https://github.com/arduino/arduino-ide/issues/172 it would be helpfull if the Contributions and development process would be improved with the following (for example):

How to debug with VS Code for example if i try to set a breakpoint, after starting the Debug "App (Electron)" the breakpoint changes to "Unbound breakpoint" want be reached:
Description of the different Debug Configurations also for the different tasks (launch.json and tasks.json)

Arduino IDE version

N/A

Operating system

Any

Operating system version

All

Additional context

Additional idea(s):

An area, in the forum or maybe use the GitHub-Wiki, for development/building/contributing were questions can be raised, known issues, best practices and so could be written down. To get in contact with more experienced contributors.

Issue checklist

[X] I searched for previous requests in the issue tracker
[X] I verified the feature was still missing when using the latest nightly build
[X] My request contains all necessary details

per1234 commented 3 years ago

An area, in the forum or maybe use the GitHub-Wiki, for development/building/contributing were questions can be raised, known issues, best practices and so could be written down. To get in contact with more experienced contributers.

There is already a dedicated section of the Arduino Forum for discussion of Arduino IDE 2.x: https://forum.arduino.cc/c/software/arduino-ide-2-0-beta/93 Please feel free to use that.

Wolfy7 commented 3 years ago

An area, in the forum or maybe use the GitHub-Wiki, for development/building/contributing were questions can be raised, known issues, best practices and so could be written down. To get in contact with more experienced contributers.

There is already a dedicated section of the Arduino Forum for discussion of Arduino IDE 2.x: https://forum.arduino.cc/c/software/arduino-ide-2-0-beta/93 Please feel free to use that.

@per1234 yes, i found this section of the Arduino Forum. But for my understanding is this Section for "normal" users of the Arduino IDE with question related to the Usage and Issues related to the IDE itself. What im looking for isa Section for Developers that whant to contribut. Where they can ask / share information about for example:

Problems during the Build process
Debug issues
and so on...

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