README.md

RxJS DevTools for debugging streams

This extension allows you to debug your RxJS stream emissions by hooking into the rxjs-spy debugging library.

The project was inspired by rxjs-spy-devtools.

How to use in your app

1. Install the chrome extension
2. Set up rxjs-spy-devtools-plugin in your app and tag the streams that you wish to inspect in the devtools.

Structure & Philosophy

The repo is split into three packages:

• packages/rxjs-spy-devtools-plugin: plugin for rxjs-spy that sends info about stream emissions to the dev tools extension
• packages/extension: chrome extension for the devtools
• packages/shared: shared types, interfaces and utils for communication between the rxjs-spy plugin and the extension

Although the extension currently depends on rxjs-spy-devtools-plugin to receive info about stream emissions. In theory this repository can be extended with another plugin that sends info about stream emissions in a different manner.

Install the extension from the Chrome Web Store

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/rxjs-devtools/abgkgpfkdkafjidfgcjddeffnfnkoeil?hl=en

Developing the extension

1. cd packages/extension
2. Run yarn install to install the dependencies.
3. Run yarn start
4. Load the extension in Chrome:
   1. Access chrome://extensions/
   2. Check Developer mode
   3. Click on Load unpacked extension
   4. Select the packages/extension/build folder.
5. Happy hacking!

Installing the extension in developer mode

1. git clone this repository
2. cd packages/extension
3. yarn install to install the dependencies.
4. yarn build
5. Load the extension in Chrome:
   1. Access chrome://extensions/
   2. Check Developer mode
   3. Click on Load unpacked extension
   4. Select the packages/extension/build folder
6. You should now see RxJS Devtools as a tab in dev tools.