Before I start - as of my knowledge this is not possible.
What you'd need (even before creating the debugging feature) is the raw string types already boxed to String the native built-in object and String then already proxied.
Some more explanation:
only having
const s = "hi"
is not yet an instance of String - the built-in native object, which is supplied by the ECMAScript implementation to your scope - but a raw type.
Such raw types are nothing more than pointers to a raw data memory reference. I even assume there are built in pools like in Java to optimize cases like
const s = "hi"
const x = new String("hi")
to be the same memory reference of the data object. but the later of course would be boxed by String.
http://bespin.cz/~ondras/html/classv8_1_1String.html
On raw types we couldn't - even if we wanted to - add a subscriber.
for example then:
s.charAt(i)
will autobox s to its wrapper String.
to observe every raw type would mean that we'd have to box all raw strings to String which wouldn't be a good thing for performance at all.
not only that but also the implementation of String itself would have to allow us to add a subscriber and therefore be proxied already.
in JS such proxy would look like this (to make it more understandable what I mean by proxied):
var proxiedString = new Proxy(String, {
defineProperty(target, propKey, propDesc) {
console.log('defined a new string')
},
set(obj, prop, value) {
console.log('set a new value to a string')
}
});
proxiedString.x = 'newPropValue'
and that again I guess - wouldn't be good for performance.