Dex

The ultimate debugging suite

Important

This project is almost entirely abandoned which is why it's now publicly available I'm not even sure if it runs properly since I don't have Roblox Studio installed PR's and Issues are gladly accepted though.

local repo = "Paficent/Dex"

local Dex = game:HttpGet(string.format("https://github.com/%s/releases/latest/download/Dex.luau", repo))
loadstring(Dex)()

local Dex = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage").Dex
require(Dex)()

Building Locally

• Install Luau-LSP and optionally Stylua if you plan to contribute to this project
• Install rokit (restart your computer afterwards on Windows)
• Run rokit install to install the neccessary tools
• Run rojo serve to get Dex working via rojo
• Run lune run build to build for production

TODO

Ordered by priority

• Rewrite Code:
  • Lib and UI
  • Explorer
  • Properties
  • init.luau
• Implement Luau Syntax:
  • Avoid using next, ipairs & pairs
  • Type-checking (only for Plugin API and utils)
  • if-then-else expressions
  • Compound Operators
  • Floor division
• Update Build Script:
  • Optimize build for client and studio
• Update Console Window:
  • Remove lua syntax highlighting
  • Add text color based on error message output
  • Implement a command input at the bottom
• Update README:
  • TODO (that's this)
  • Acknowledgements
  • Better Installation and Build Instructions
• Remote Spy:
  • Pausing / Resuming Remote Spy
  • Remotes captured in specific interval, saving this interval to a file with all remotes captured
  • Some sort of way to view the interval and remotes via a graph, and clicking on a remote in the timestamp to view information
• Debugger:
  • Upvalue Scanner
  • Constant Scanner
  • Script Scanner
    • Get protos in GC
    • ModuleScripts and LocalScripts
• 3D Viewer:
  • Use a viewport frame
  • Mouse controls, should be able to rotate and zoom, basically freecam script
  • saveinstance within the viewer
• Settings Window
• Plugin API

Acknowledgments

Important

This project is based almost entirely off the works of Moon, who originally created Dex explorer, which this project is a highly edited fork of. Additional credits include:

• FastSignal by Lukasmz.
• UniversalSynSaveInstance for their README template and open sourced saveinstance script

*** View the source code of this file for more credits