Preprocessor that locates and loads existing source maps.

When you use karma not in isolation but as part of a build process (e.g. using grunt or gulp) it is often the case that the compilation/transpilation is done on a previous step of the process and not handled by karma preprocessors. In these cases source maps don't get loaded by karma and you lose the advantages of having them.

This plug-in supports both inline and external source maps.

Inline source maps are located by searching "sourceMappingURL=" inside the javascript file, both plain text and base64-encoded maps are supported.

External source maps are located by appending ".map" to the javascript file name. So if for example you have Hello.js, the preprocessor will try to load source map from Hello.js.map.

Just add karma-sourcemap-loader as a devDependency in your package.json.

{
  "devDependencies": {
    "karma-sourcemap-loader": "~0.3"
  }
}

Or issue the following command:

npm install karma-sourcemap-loader --save-dev

The code below shows a sample configuration of the preprocessor.

// karma.conf.js
module.exports = function(config) {
  config.set({
    preprocessors: {
      '**/*.js': ['sourcemap']
    },
    sourcemap: {
      useLocalPaths: false
    }
  });
};

• useLocalPaths - bool - converts webpack sourcemap paths to the local path of the original source. This is useful when running tests from the commandline so that the original source can be reached simply by clicking the path in your terminal.