Is there a way to debug CoffeeScript line-by-line?
I understand that it compiles into Javascript. But this sounds like it could make it a pain to debug.
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At the moment it is quite a pain to debug CoffeeScript. Most people use lots of unit tests.
There is some work being done on debugging for CoffeeScript but it is probably a while away before we’ll have a really good debugger. One example is http://www.infoq.com/news/2011/08/debug-languages-on-javascript-vm