Debug tools in browser side? about grpc-web HOT 7 OPEN

It is a chrome extension, much like the network tab in chrome but only for gRPC calls. The idea is to show the payload decoded against the proto. It's very much a work in progress right now, still having some issues with decoding grpc-web payloads in the extension. Will try to clean it up this week and push it to a repo so we can start a discussion if we want to take the approach and if so, in what direction.

The current version is at https://github.com/easyCZ/grpchrome

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You can set debug: true in the request options to have the library output events to console.log, but that's about as far as it goes at the moment.

It's possible that the library could expose hooks for an extension to collect much more and structure it better.

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Can't agree anymore. Cause I also tried using debug flag, the output is not very human-friendly. If we could read grpc-web req/res info just like json ones in dev tool of chrome, it will be very handy for dev/debug.

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@easyCZ iirc you said you were looking at the possibility of creating a Chrome Extension for gRPC Web -- if you are, is it in a state where it can be shared / opened for further development?

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The extension approach sounds good! This extension will improve grpc-web dev/debug productivity significantly I think. Thanks for your greate work!

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@demongaorui We've now proposed a debugger interface which will allow the chrome extension to be built. See #87 for details.

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Any news on compatibility with gRPC-Web Developer Tools?

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