Phoenix LiveDebugConsole

This package implements an extension to the error view shown in Phoenix applications, adding a fully-interactive IEx shell. Here's a video of me triggering an error in a Phoenix application and then poking around a little bit using the live debug console:

https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/533425/189327007-a3fc4bda-8519-4a02-9a7c-f8b1331e19a9.mov

Installation

1. This package currently requires that your application uses a bleeding edge development build of Phoenix which has https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix/pull/4938 applied.

2. Install the package by adding phoenix_live_debug_console to your list of dependencies in mix.exs:

   def deps do
   [
   {:phoenix_live_debug_console, "~> 0.1"}
   ]
   end

3. Configure the endpoint of your application such that debug_errors and debug_error_handlers are set as follows:

   config :my_app, MyAppWeb.Endpoint,
   debug_errors: true,
   debug_banner_hooks: [{PhoenixLiveDebugConsole, :render_console, []}]

Credits

This library was written by Frerich Raabe, however it is really just standing on the shoulders of giants:

• Underthehood is what implements the IEx terminal
• Phoenix LiveDashboard served as an inspiration for developing an extension package which comes with its own assets.