Eruda: Console for Mobile Browsers

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59 points·fiatjaf··9 comments

I'm wrapping up my 6th month of using an iPad as my main computer [1] and this is one of my largest remaining annoyances. Working on frontend code is a huge pain, and I often have to resort to hacks like alert()ing to debug problems. Weinre [2] is great but it's in a separate tab and requires you to run a server.

It would be great if someone wrapped this into a React component so you could drop an <Inspector /> into the root of your project.

[1] http://campedersen.com/2017/06/30/ipad/

[2] https://people.apache.org/~pmuellr/weinre/docs/latest/

Or into a bookmarklet, so you could use it anywhere.

I think every two weeks of buying an iPad Pro as my daily driver and then I think, nah I'll miss the Inspector. Otherwise the iPad should have all I need.

Wow, thanks for posting [1]. I read numerous posts on the same topic, but your is incredibly useful -- blink is impressive, etc.

Interesting although if you have access to a computer it probably makes more sense to plug your phone in and use remote debugging.

“What’s a computer?”

// Typed on iPad Pro

Hey, great efforts. But why don't you use browser's remote debugging? Same GUI for debugging website on mobile devices.

So one can debug without a full desktop OS, at least for my use-case :)

Thank you!!!

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