ExDebugToolbar v0.3.0 ExDebugToolbar View Source
A toolbar for Phoenix projects to display all sorts of information about current and previous requests: logs, timelines, database queries etc.
Project is in its early stages and under active development. Contributions to code, feedback and suggestions will be much appreciated!
Features
Toolbar is built with development environment in mind. It’s up to you to enable or disable it in configuration.
Calls to toolbar functions such as Toolbar.pry
are no-op when it is disabled.
After enabling the toolbar, it automatically injects itself at the bottom of html pages. Some panels on the toolbar are optional and only appear when relevant data is available (ecto queries, for example).
Let’s take a look at available panels:
Timings
It shows overall time spent rendering current controller as reported by Phoenix instrumentation. In addition, it provides aggregated stats for each template.
Connection details
Surfaces information from conn
struct of current request.
Logs
Log entries relevant to current request only
Ecto queries
A list of executed ecto queries including parallel preloads when possible.
Breakpoints
Think of having multiply IEx.pry
breakpoints available on demand right from the toolbar.
Note, unlike IEx.pry
, this does not interfere with execution flow of phoenix server.
Usage is similar to IEx
.
Drop require ExDebugToolbar; ExDebugToolbar.pry
in a file you’d like to debug
and breakpoint will appear in this panel. Breakpoints are not limited to current request, but are capped at
configurable number (100 by default).
A click on any breakpoint will take you to familiar iex
session with context as it was at execution time.
Installation
Add
ex_debug_toolbar
to your list of dependencies inmix.exs
:def deps do [{:ex_debug_toolbar, "~> 0.2.0"}] end
Ensure
:ex_debug_toolbar
is started before your application:
def application do
[applications: [:ex_debug_toolbar, :logger]]
end
- Add
ExDebugToolbar.Phoenix
to your endpoint inlib/my_app/endpoint.ex
defmodule MyApp.Endpoint do
use Phoenix.Endpoint, otp_app: :my_app
use ExDebugToolbar.Phoenix
...
end
- Enable toolbar in config
config/dev.exs
and setup collectors. Replace:my_app
andMyApp
with your application name
# ExDebugToolbar config
config :ex_debug_toolbar,
enable: true
config :my_app, MyApp.Endpoint,
instrumenters: [ExDebugToolbar.Collector.InstrumentationCollector]
config :my_app, MyApp.Repo,
loggers: [ExDebugToolbar.Collector.EctoCollector, Ecto.LogEntry]
config :phoenix, :template_engines,
eex: ExDebugToolbar.Template.EExEngine,
exs: ExDebugToolbar.Template.ExsEngine
- To display parallel Ecto preloads you have to use
master
branch
defp deps do
[
{:ecto, github: "elixir-ecto/ecto", branch: "master", override: true}
]
end
Configuration
To change configuration, update :ex_debug_toolbar
config key in your config/dev.exs
. For example:
config :ex_debug_toolbar,
enable: true
Available options:
Option | Values | Default | Description |
---|---|---|---|
enable | boolean | false | Enable/disable toolbar. When disabled, toolbar code is not injected in page and toolbar functions are mostly no-op. |
iex_shell | string | “/bin/sh” | Shell executable to be used for breakpoint session |
iex_shell_cmd | string | “”” stty echo; clear; iex —sname %{node_name} -S mix breakpoint.client %{breakpoint_id} “”” | Shell command to launch breakpoint iex session |
breakpoints_limit | integer | 100 | Maximum number of available breakpoints. After reaching this cap, new breakpoints will push out oldest ones. |
Contributors
Special thanks goes to Juan Peri!
Contribution
Contributions in the form of bug reports, pull requests, or thoughtful discussions in the GitHub issue tracker are welcome!
TODO
[ ] Toolbar panels
- [ ] Messages output panel (Toolbar.inspect and Toolbar.puts)
- [ ] System info panel (versions, vm info, etc)
- [ ] Help/Docs Panel (links to dev resources)
[ ] Request time panel
- [ ] Request history (historical graphs?)
- [ ] Visualize timeline
- [ ] Ajax requests panel
- [ ] Channels info panel
- [ ] Visualize gettext
[ ] Toolbar API
- [ ] Decorator for functions to time them
- [ ] Add metadata to events and use groupable names (template.render, controller.render etc)
[ ] Documentation
- [ ] Add function specs
- [ ] Document top level API, hide internal modules from docs
[ ] Tests
[ ] breakpoints
- [ ] client test
- [ ] server test
- [ ] terminal test
- [ ] Hide debug logs/output behind
debug: true
config - [ ] Simple installer mix task
- [ ] Upgrade to Phoenix 1.3
- [ ] Elm/React instead of jquery?
Demo App
Use demo app to simplify development process.