What Debugging JavaScript on WebAssembly Looks Like

WebAssembly (Wasm) debugging remains, understandably, a challenge for this relatively new and exciting technology that is still evolving. Originally designed for the browser, it functions well in that environment, especially for debugging web applications from within another browser. Emscripten, as the toolchain compiler and extensions built in Firefox and Chrome, offers reasonably reliable debugging for Wasm running in the browser.

However, moving beyond the browser — particularly to backend use cases and deployment across different…