Sidekick is a live application debugger that lets you troubleshoot your applications while they keep on running. Sidekick Open Source is here to allow self-hosting and make live debugging more accessible. Built for everyone who needs extra information from their running applications. : (don’t forget to star it ) Sidekick Open Source Github repo ⭐ Quickstart We have prepared a simple project to show how you can start live debugging using a self-hosted Sidekick instance in just 5 minutes. Prerequisites Docker Make sure the docker daemon is running. npm npm install npm@latest -g Visual Studio Code Note: Sidekick has many other clients. Check out our headless options if you don’t want to install a new IDE . here Installation Running Sidekick with default settings 1. Clone the Sidekick repo git clone https://github.com/runsidekick/sidekick.git 2. Go to the docker folder under the project 3. Run command and wait for a minute docker-compose up -d Your Sidekick instance is ready. Running Quickstart Project 1. Clone the Quickstart Application repo git clone https://github.com/boroskoyo/sidekick-nodejs-quickstart.git 2. Install NPM packages npm install 3. Run! npm start Now you have your self-hosted Sidekick instance and Quickstart application up and running. It is time to use a client to put tracepoints and collect data from the Quickstart application. And live debugging for all! 1. Install Sidekick Extension from the VSCode marketplace: 2. Open the folder of the Quickstart application at VSCode 3. folder in this repo should set the config for you. If you have any issues just check the instructions . .vscode here 4. Now log in using Sidekick plugin. 5. Head to the Sidekick: Trace Events panel to enable it 6. Right-click on the 10th line on app/routes/index.js and put your first tracepoint. Check for extra info. docs 7. Visit to trigger your tracepoint. http://localhost:3000/ 8. Observe your collected trace events at VSCode Sidekick: Trace Events panel! That’s it! That is all you need to start using Sidekick Open Source. Happy debugging y’all! Also published . here

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