Show HN: Inspect – DevTool to debug Safari and WebViews on iOS devices

Show HN: Inspect – DevTool to debug Safari and WebViews on iOS devices(inspect.dev)

75 points by auchenberg 5 years ago | 19 comments

nickphx 5 years ago |

How is this showing anything? It's a landing page with an email capture form and a 47 second video of the same screen shot.

ultrarunner 5 years ago | |

I was trying to figure out how it's different from inspecting from within Safari on a Mac, but I don't see the answer there. I just tried and it works fine over Wi-Fi as well. Maybe Windows support?

8K832d7tNmiQ 5 years ago |

Any plan for Linux support in the future?

auchenberg 5 years ago | |

:wave Kenneth here. Linux support is on the roadmap, and can be supported via https://libimobiledevice.org/ but not all functionality might be possible, as libimobiledevice isn't 100% on pair with Apple's own driver that's provided via iTunes on MacOS and Windows.

Would love to get some help testing this as I'm not a Linux user myself. Shoot me an email at kenneth@auchenberg.dk if you are interested!

GranPC 5 years ago | |

Seconded. I've been working on a webapp that's meant to work on iOS and I haven't figured out any way to debug it from my Linux machine, even with my phone being jailbroken.

lights0123 5 years ago | | |

Side note, if you just want to test with WebKit: GNOME Web (sudo apt install epiphany) uses WebKit internally. It doesn't have a responsive design mode or even a way to change the user agent, but it does have the exact same rendering and JS engine.

andrethegiant 5 years ago |

> With Inspect you don’t need an expensive Mac, all you need is a USB cable

> Inspect can debug your iOS devices over Wifi. It's time to let go off the cables.

Which is it? Also minor typo, "off" should be "of".

But looks great, congrats on launching. Excited to try it out!

charlieegan3 5 years ago |

I was actually hoping this ran on iPad OS/iOS

I use https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/inspect-browser/id1203594958 but would like a more fully featured environment. Not sure if anyone has found a better developer browser for iPad?

egfx 5 years ago |

I could see how this is useful. I indeed had to buy a Mac for the not so niche use case of web testing in iOS. Interestingly it’s so easy to debug chrome on iOS by just heading to chrome://inspect over http

untog 5 years ago |

Does this use the existing iOS Chrome proxy or is it built from scratch?

https://github.com/google/ios-webkit-debug-proxy

auchenberg 5 years ago | |

This is a new pure JavaScript implementation. No native dependencies. See more on https://inspect.dev/why

bonestamp2 5 years ago |

Does it support websockets... as in, can I view/debug the data sent/received on the websocket that the web app is using to connect to its backend?

prox 5 years ago |

What are the advantages over the app web tools?

auchenberg 5 years ago | |

Hi! Kenneth, the creator here. Inspect have several advantages over Safari Inspector. I've outlined them here: https://inspect.dev/why

rusinov 5 years ago |

Video uses same music that Apple used in their recap video. Didn't like it, not original.

ctraganos 5 years ago |

Very excited for this, especially the screencast + debug over wifi features.

BigBalli 5 years ago |

So this is a tool for people without a Mac?

mortenjust 5 years ago |

Wifi debug!