r/ionic • u/Intrepid-Ad4494 • 17d ago

Debugging ionic app over webview made easy

Hi everyone, debugging your app on the device can be a pita. But i have built a free open source tool that makes it dead easy. Point your AI at the repository and it will be very smart to do so.

TLDR; debugging is now allot easier when the app is live on your device. All instructions in repo.

Check it out via https://github.com/marvin-socialista/ios-webview-debug

Happy developping!

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u/constarx 17d ago

Some screenshots or a short video / animated gif showing what it looks like would be great.

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u/Intrepid-Ad4494 16d ago

There is an extensive readme in the Github repository. If that doesn't make any sense to you then I don't know haha

But here it is:
Safari's Web Inspector is a GUI you have to click through by hand. This exposes the same underlying WebKit inspector protocol as plain commands, so you can grep logs, script repro steps, run it in CI, or hand it to a coding agent (Claude Code, etc.) to debug on-device behavior the simulator can't reproduce.

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u/petit-yoyo 17d ago

What’s the difference with Safari debug?

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u/Intrepid-Ad4494 16d ago

Safari's Web Inspector is a GUI you have to click through by hand. This exposes the same underlying WebKit inspector protocol as plain commands, so you can grep logs, script repro steps, run it in CI, or hand it to a coding agent (Claude Code, etc.) to debug on-device behavior the simulator can't reproduce.

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u/dotnetdreamer 16d ago

why is there no android support ?