BrowserWindowProxy debug

[riteshatsencha]

Does electron-debug support BrowserWindowProxy? It seems like BrowserWindowProxy has very limited features and I can't seem to figure out how to debug.

I have an app that opens a proxy window. Kind'a stumped on debugging it.

Thx

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[sindresorhus]

Not at the moment. I don't really see an obvious way to support it, but happy to take a pull request if there is.

[parro-it]

@riteshatsencha you can debug it remotely, using command argument `--remote-debugging-port=' and later connecting to that port via http (from chrome).

Actually I'm working on a tool to simplify exactly this use case: it let you open multiple devtools within the same window, each one debugging a different renderer process:

in the tab showed I'm debugging a page I opened with window.open

It support browser windows, webview and window proxies (also main process when Electron will support node --inspect flag)

[riteshatsencha]

@parro-it Thanks for the response. Yeah, tried it. Doesn't work.

Remote debugging for the main browser window works just fine. I can work with the dev tools like expected.

As soon as I open a BrowserWindowProxy none of the console logs are displayed in the console. Heck there is no way to open dev tools for BrowserWindowProxy, unless I am missing something.

[parro-it]

@riteshatsencha that's strange, it's working for me.
Are you doing the following steps, in order?

1. --remote-debugging-port= command line arg when you launch electron?
2. open your window with window.open as you usually do
3. connecting to http://localhost: using chrome you should see a devtools instance connected to the page you opened. What do you see instead?

You should see in chrome a list of links. Could you post it?
One of this links should show an instance of devtools

[riteshatsencha]

@parro-it as per the steps above...

1. Launched electron with remote-debugging-port option.
2. App launches main window and I can see the dev tools attached to it. I can print console logs. All good here.
3. Next, this main browser window opens another window which is a window proxy. This is where I have an issue. I just can't seem to open dev tools for the proxy window. May be it just doesn't support it.

Where exactly should I be looking for links? Let me know and I will be happy to post it here.

Thx

[parro-it]

After step 3), you have to open chrome and navigate to http://localhost:
Port is the debugging port you put in cmd line arg in step 1.

You should see a list of link, one for each renderer process in your app. Clicking them, you get a devtools (in chrome, not in your window) connected to the process you clicked.

One of the process should be the window.opened one...

[riteshatsencha]

Here are the links from http://localhost:9222.

[parro-it]

Have you tried them?

[riteshatsencha]

Yeah, so clicking on both links I see this error in the console.

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