Re: [aerogear-dev] Debugging your Aerogear Application remotly with Weinre

On 02/01/2013, at 12:15, Kris Borchers <kris(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote: > Weinre is an amazing tool. I would say it is much more useful for hybrid apps as opposed to web apps since, for the most part, you can just run your web app in a desktop browser to debug it. There are definitely cases where testing on the device is useful though and Weinre makes it much easier. +1 > > I would prefer to not add this to the quickstart. I think the extra code will mostly just get in the way of someone trying to grok the JS, especially non-JS devs. I would prefer to see this as a blog post/tutorial/article on AeroGear.org instead as the info is very valuable I just think it needs to be outside of the actual quickstart. Indeed, a blog post on weinre would be rad - wanna give it a run sebi? +1 > > Any other thoughts from anyone? > > On Jan 2, 2013, at 7:58 AM, Sebastien Blanc <scm.blanc(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: > >> Hi, >> A few weeks ago, on the IRC channel there was a question about Weinre . For those who don't know what Weinre is (definition from Weinre's homepage) : >> >> weinre is a debugger for web pages, like FireBug (for FireFox) and Web Inspector (for WebKit-based browsers), except it's designed to work remotely, and in particular, to allow you debug web pages on a mobile device such as a phone. >> >> So it's extremely useful and totally in the scope of Aerogear (Web/Hybrid) which targets mobile development . >> It's easy to setup : >> >> 1. Install the Weinre server , if you have npm : sudo npm -g install weinre >> 2. Start the Weinre server : weinre --httPort 8081 >> 3. Instrument your web page to act as a debug target by adding the following : >> <script src="http://a.b.c:8081/target/target-script-min.js"></script> >> >> To make things even easier, I've created a new branch on the kitchensink app where step 3 is not needed anymore[1]. Instead of this you can just activate remote debugging by passing an parameter in the URL : >> >> http://a.b.c:8080/jboss-as-kitchensink-aerogear-js/index.html?debug=d.e.f... >> >> Where d.e.f is the IP of the server where Weinre is running. >> >> Then you can access the debug page : http://localhost:8081/client >> >> The little tweak I made give more flexibility on how you can integrate your app with Weinre : >> - No hardcoding in your script. >> - You can easily change the IP of the debug server >> - The client makes only make requests to the debug servers (and there are a lot of requests :) ) if debugging is activated. >> >> If more people find this useful maybe we could merge it for the next release. comments welcome ! >> >> Seb >> >> [1] http://people.apache.org/~pmuellr/weinre/docs/latest/) >> [2] https://github.com/sebastienblanc/as-quickstarts/tree/weinre/kitchensink-... >> _______________________________________________ >> aerogear-dev mailing list >> aerogear-dev(a)lists.jboss.org >> https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/aerogear-dev > > _______________________________________________ > aerogear-dev mailing list > aerogear-dev(a)lists.jboss.org > https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/aerogear-dev _______________________________________________ aerogear-dev mailing list aerogear-dev(a)lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/aerogear-dev