What is metro-symbolicate?
The metro-symbolicate package is part of the Metro bundler (used by React Native) that provides functionality for symbolication. Symbolication is the process of converting machine code addresses back into human-readable source code locations (file names and line numbers). This is particularly useful for interpreting stack traces that are generated from minified or compiled code, making debugging much easier.
Symbolicating stack traces
This feature allows developers to pass a stack trace to the `symbolicateStackTrace` function, which returns a promise that resolves to a symbolicated stack trace. The symbolicated stack trace includes file names, line numbers, and even column numbers when available, making it easier to debug issues.
const symbolicateStackTrace = require('metro-symbolicate').symbolicateStackTrace;
symbolicateStackTrace(stackTrace).then(symbolicated => {
console.log(symbolicated);
});