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.

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.

Any other thoughts from anyone?

On Jan 2, 2013, at 7:58 AM, Sebastien Blanc <scm.blanc@gmail.com> 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 :

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 : 


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

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