I don't know if anyone here ever used the Pry debugger for Ruby/Rails I was wondering if it's possible to do the same thing with re-frame. That is, to be able to drop into a repl inside a function?

In a Rails handler you'd put a statement like binding.pry! and, when execution hits that statement, it would drop into a REPL so that you could explore the local bindings etc...

@sandbags Maybe not exactly what you mean/want, but you can use (js-debugger) and https://github.com/binaryage/dirac

@p-himik actually, i think so

@p-himik thanks

although, at a glance, the setup appears somewhat less trivial

you seem to require a custom version of Chrome etc...

have you used it?

so many fragile moving parts

https://github.com/vvvvalvalval/scope-capture

This might do what you want too although not in exactly the same way

Unfortunately having set Dirac up I was able to set a breakpoint in my code, but the local scope isn't actually available!

also code-stepping doesn't appear to work properly

i mean, i guess it is incredible enough that you can even start this monstrosity. it seems almost churlish to expect it to work.

I'm working on an app in react native in clojurescript these days and I get vertigo if I think too long about the stack underneath me

yeah

scope-capture looks potentially something like basic pry

thanks for that

for such a repl centred language i am little more surprised this isn't out-of-the-box

though i realise that probably just means it isn't easy

Great shame Dirac doesn't seem to work

back to logging statements i guess

@sandbags Dirac works, you probably didn't follow the setup steps properly. I could help you to set it up if you provided more info.

@darwin i don't want to put you to any trouble, what information would you need?

chrome version, dirac version, clojurescript version, any possible warnings/error messages, etc.

we can move to #dirac

btw. are you aware of this FAQ point? you must use Chrome Canary with latest Dirac: https://github.com/binaryage/dirac/blob/master/docs/faq.md#why-should-i-use-recent-chrome-canary-with-dirac-devtools

Yes, I was using Canary latest

also for troubleshooting you could try to open internal devtools on Dirac itself and also on Dirac's chrome extension background page: https://github.com/binaryage/dirac/blob/master/docs/faq.md#something-broke-how-do-i-debug-dirac-devtools-frontend

there might be some error messages