mirrorConsole

Debug webapps on mobile devices without connecting them to a computer (and more importantly, debug an iPhone without a Mac).

Installation

• Clone this repo
• run npm install

Run the servers

• Run npm run HTTP
• A simple HTTP server will start, it will be used to serve the Javascript to the client - note the ip addresses suggested.
• Run npm run WS
• The websocket server will be launched and start listening for the incoming console messages.

Set up the client

• In the head of the HTML file you need to debug copy <script src="http://<one-of-the-ips-suggested-by-the-HTTP-server>:9998/client.js"></script>
• Serve it how you normally do through a web server and you start seeing flowing logs in the console where you fired the server

Settings

Host

You can change the ip address and the port for the websocket server in the config.json file.

Colors

You can change the colors based on the console event (log, info, warn and error), by editing the file config.json. You can find all the color options on the Chalk readme page https://github.com/chalk/chalk.

Troubleshooting

If you don't see the logs flowing in the console as expected, try changing the host ip address from the client.js file to a working one. You can start trying with those suggested by the HTTP server.

// var hostIP = location.host.split(':')[0];
var hostIP = '192.168.1.1';

That's it. If you don't see the colors on Windows, try http://cmder.net/.