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Some Errors Are not showing on Preview #344

Open rainmakersumit opened 2 months ago

rainmakersumit commented 2 months ago

Describe the bug

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Some errors, like syntax or reference errors, are not being displayed properly. It would be helpful to have a console for the iframe, similar to how a terminal appears in a separate tab.

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AriPerkkio commented 2 months ago

Preview shows everything that the application you are running from template is showing. If the template application doesn't show errors, then they won't be visible.

rainmakersumit commented 2 months ago

I think you guys should work on showing console log into a separate tab rather parent websites chrome devtool

AriPerkkio commented 2 months ago

At the moment we don't override or capture any console errors of the preview iframe. I wonder if we did that, how many false positive errors would we end up catching and showing to the end users. As we don't control what code users run in the webcontainer, it's also possible that we can't run our own scripts there. @Nemikolh, @sulco, any thoughts?

Nemikolh commented 2 months ago

Hey all!

I'm thinking that solving #213 will probably help a bit for that type of scenario. Having a console for each previews would be a nice feature though.

However rather than have this in TutorialKit core, you can have it in your tutorial by changing a bit how your preview works:

                                Preview  /preview            
                               ┌────────────────────────────┐
                               │┌──────────────────────────┐│
                               ││Iframe  /                 ││
                               ││                          ││
                               ││                          ││
                               ││                          ││
                               ││                          ││
                               │└──────────────────────────┘│
                               │┌──────────────────────────┐│
                               ││Iframe  /console          ││
                               ││                          ││
                               │└──────────────────────────┘│
                               └────────────────────────────┘

In your metadata you have:

previews:
  - { port: 1234, pathname: "/preview" }

In your application, you have three endpoints:

This would work right now and is more flexible / customizable.