No longer possible to enable debug mode on a per-plugin basis?

[mnaoumov]

I raised a very similar problem once they trimmed this support

Source map trimming in dev builds

Obsidian 1.7.1 started to trim source maps always, while in previous Obsidian versions, source maps were preserved if localStorage.getItem("debug-plugin") is set. Now the plugin developers don’t have an option to enable source maps which will heavily worsen the developer experience. Please consider adding a flag for developers to keep the source maps during plugin development.

There is a workaround that works without setting app.debugMode(), though.

If you add at the end of main.js

(newline)/* nosourcemap */(end of file)

then, the sourcemaps won’t be trimmed, even if debug mode is not enabled

I even made an esbuild plugin that adds this magic string on npm run dev

Maybe you can consider adding this magic string within your Hot Reload plugin. I can send a corresponding PR, if you are interested.