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The "Sourcemaps" Lesson is part of the full, Front-End Tooling and Workflows with Grunt and Beyond course featured in this preview video. Here's what you'd learn in this lesson:
Sourcemaps make debugging in the browser easier by tying the generated CSS/JS back to the original file. For example, showing the correct .coffee file a line of generated JavaScript came from.