Idea: Debugging tools for runtime (inspect services etc.)

[mbeckem]

Debugging tools

This is a collection of ideas for useful features during development / debugging.

• Inspect service states
• Show a service graph (dependencies)
• Inspect packages and their configuration
• Show which packages or services are never used (idea: show package version too)
• Implement a simple search (package name, service name, interface names)

Ideas how to implement:

• Browser Extension

  • pro: integrated into the browser (e.g. can output objects to the console)
  • pro: only little new code in runtime
  • pro: can debug hosted sites (if compiled with support for debugging)
  • con: new technology
  • con: some (?) code duplication across browsers
  • con: rather complex implementation needed to interact with the app

• Popup in dev mode (possibly integrated with vite)

  • pro: simple to implement (single code base, simple interaction with app)
  • pro: supports all browsers out of the box
  • con: implementation must live in runtime package
  • con: not integrated into the browser, worse DX