Boltly
Boltly (formally codenamed: "Project Lightning"), will be a complete Socket.io test client allowing you to send and receive messages from your server in order to debug your applications. Think of it as "Postman for Socket.io"
Why?
I sent out a survey a bunch of people asking different questions about how they use Socket.io. The biggest question I asked, was:
What do you currently do in order to test to make sure your Socket.io logic in your application is correct?
Astoundingly, these were the results:
Debugging Socket.io server logic is a mess. This is what Boltly (formally codenamed: "Project Lightning") hopes to fix. It will save time by allowing developers to test their logic with a click of a button.
MVP Features
- Beautifully styled with Material Design guidelines
- Multiple connections
- Send events with complex bodies thanks to Ace Editor.
- History of sent messages
- Track any event
- Watch messages come in in real time
- Multi-platform support thanks to Electron
Dark theme
Oh yeah... There's also a slick dark theme.
Roadmap and progress
The progress of this project will be kept on Trello here.
Prereq
This project has one prereq: Sass.
To install sass, go here.
For more information on Sass, see their homepage.
Getting Started
- clone this repository or download the zip
cd project-lightning/npm installgulpnpm start
You should be good to go. If you need a simple Socket.io server to test it out, try this: https://github.com/tylerl0706/echo-socket.io-server