electron-debug
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Adds useful debug features to your Electron app
Toggle DevTools.
Force reload the window.
Open DevTools and focus the Element Inspector tool.
Just install any of these extension and they'll be activated for you:
preloadScriptPath if the BrowserWindow's nodeIntegration is off.$ npm install electron-debug
Requires Electron 5 or later.
const {app, BrowserWindow} = require('electron');
const debug = require('electron-debug');
debug();
let mainWindow;
(async () => {
await app.whenReady();
mainWindow = new BrowserWindow();
})();
Only runs when in development, unless overridden by the isEnabled option. So no need to guard it for production.
Install keyboard shortcuts and optionally activate DevTools on each created BrowserWindow.
Type: object
Type: boolean
Type: boolean
Default: true
Show DevTools on each created BrowserWindow.
Type: string
Default: 'previous'
Values: 'undocked' 'right' 'bottom' 'previous' 'detach'
The dock state to open DevTools in.
Toggle DevTools for the specified BrowserWindow instance or the focused one.
Type: BrowserWindow
Default: The focused BrowserWindow
Reload the specified BrowserWindow instance or the focused one.
Type: BrowserWindow
Default: The focused BrowserWindow
Open DevTools for the specified BrowserWindow instance or the focused one.
Type: BrowserWindow
Default: The focused BrowserWindow
Type: string
The absolute path to a preload script to use in session#setPreloads().
Use it to enable devtron even when nodeIntegration is turned off.
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Adds useful debug features to your Electron app
The npm package electron-debug receives a total of 28,077 weekly downloads. As such, electron-debug popularity was classified as popular.
We found that electron-debug demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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