Renfield

Just as Renfield was a loyal companion to Dracula and did all his dark bidding, this project exists to help you with all your Laravel debugging needs.

More seriously, it's a couple of tools that I find handy when working with Laravel projects, put together as a desktop app. Created mostly as an excuse to play with wails.

While this project is still in pretty fluid state - stuff is being added, changed and moved around - the basic functionality is already there.

Tools

• Tinker - an interface for Lararavel Tinker
• JSON Tools - an easy way to avoid pasting JSON on random sites on the internet - pretty format, convert from and to PHP arrays
• Beam - super simple remote debugging with HTTP calls - it's not xDebug, but it won't stop application flow like dd() or spam UI like dump()

Roadmap

• Tinker
• JSON Formatter
• Remote debugger
• PHP arrays / JSON converter
• code editor tabs
• Grepping JSON - to help with analyzing larger JSON payloads
• Static analysis tools - show info on models / relations / routes
• Log viewer
• saved snippets / bookmarked code
• dynamic message filtering

Development

Requirements:

• go 1.20+
• npm
• wails command (https://wails.io/docs/gettingstarted/installation)

To run in live development mode, run wails dev in the project directory. This will run the project with hot-reload. You might need to run npm install inside the frontend directory first.

Building

wails build

This will produce a binary in build/bin/ directory.

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