While debugging JavaScript is certainly useful, enabling it generates
about 100 extra HTTP requests because we include about 100 JavaScript
files (including external dependencies and files written by us).
Depending on the browser configuration, this might make the browser take
a very long time processing these requests.
On my machine, with these changes, refreshing a page on Firefox takes
about 1 second, while previously it took about 6-8 seconds. With
Chromium, there doesn't seem to be much difference.
Developers are encouraged to temporarily turn debugging while debugging
JavaScript (which is a task I personally do about once a month) if that
makes debugging easier for them.
This change doesn't affect our CSS files, since for CSS we use Sass
instead of the asset pipeline. Sass already compiles all CSS files into
one in the development environment.
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