muban-devtools

This extension is forked from Vue 3 devtools beta - an amazing peace of software! Muban makes use of the same Reactivity API from Vue, so a lot of the features in devtools are usable as-is.

Installation

Until the Chrome extension is approved and available on the store, you have to install it manually

Build the .zip file from this project, or download from this Google Drive

• Open the Chrome extension page (currently under Menu > More Tools > Extensions), or chrome://extensions/.
• Enable the "Developer mode" toggle on the top right
• Click "Load unpacked" at the top left, and select the zip file

Features

• View the full muban component tree
  • The "grey" nodes in the tree are "refs" that have bindings attached to them
  • The tree can be filtered
  • When hovering components or refs in the tree, they are highlighted on the page
  • Inspecting (picking) components on the page will show them selected in devtools
• Selecting a component in the tree shows an inspector on the right
  • Show component props
  • Show component refs
  • Show component bindings (both from self or parent)
  • Show parent/owner components
  • Show provided context
  • Values that are reactive/refs/computeds are editable
• Timeline to show (mouse) events that happens on the page
• Light and Dark mode

Important Usage Notes

To make it work for pages opened via file:// protocol, you need to check "Allow access to file URLs" for this extension in Chrome's extension management panel.

Open component in editor

To enable this feature, follow this guide.

Release

1. Run yarn release
2. Enter a new version number
3. muban-devtools.zip is now present in the dist folder.

Manual Installation

This is only necessary when you want to build the extension yourself from source to get not-yet-released features.

Make sure you are using Node 6+ and Yarn

1. Clone this repo
2. cd muban-devtools the newly created folder
3. run yarn
4. then run yarn build
5. Open the Chrome extension page (currently under Menu > More Tools > Extensions)
6. Check "developer mode" on the top-right corner
7. Click the "load unpacked" button on the left, and choose the folder: muban-devtools/packages/shell-chrome/
8. Alternatively to step 3, you can also use yarn dev:chrome to build & watch the unpacked extension

Development

# Clone repo
git clone git@github.com:mubanjs/muban-devtools.git

# Change into devtools directory
cd muban-devtools

# Checkout next branch
git checkout next

# Install dependencies
yarn

# Build TypeScript dependencies
yarn build:watch

# Start local environment
yarn dev:shell-muban

Once everything is setup, you should be able to visit http://localhost:8090/

This page will load an iframe at http://localhost:8080/bundle.js where your muban dev app should be running from.

Common problems and how to fix

1. Fixing "Download the Muaban Devtools for a better development experience" console message when working locally over file:// protocol:

   1.1 - Google Chrome: Right click on muban-devtools icon and click "Manage Extensions" then search for muban-devtools on the extensions list. Check the "Allow access to file URLs" box.

License

MIT