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Sidekick

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Live debug Node.js and Python applications your without stopping or redeploying. Like Chrome DevTools for your backend
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Sidekick

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Introduction

Debug your remote applications natively on production environments. Stop mocking resources and simulating the environments! Put tracepoints of the Node.js and Python functions to see the events.

Sidekick Demo

Installation

To use Sidekick, you need to complete all installation steps. Please follow the instructions below.

  • Install the extension from the marketplace.

  • After installing the extension, instrument your application.

    1. Guide for NodeJS
    2. Guide for Python

If you need any help, please join our Sidekick Discord Community and get personal support from the contributors.

How to use

Sidekick Setting

  • Before login to Sidekick, If you have self-hosted broker, you can change broker url & port from Sidekick Settings.

Sidekick Panels

  • Open Sidekick Sidebar from left side of vscode. Click on the button next to Sidekick text. Login/Sign-up from opening browser.

Sidekick Applications

  • After login process finished, select a application to debug.

Sidekick Context Menu

  • Open file on editor you want to put tracepoint, right click on line and select "Add Tracepoint" from Sidekick context menu. After your application triggered on line that is put tracepoint, you can see incoming events by clicking tracepoint or opening Sidekick Panel.

Sidekick Context Menu

Commands

  • Add Trace Point to add tracepoint to line on which cursor.
  • Hide Gutter Icons to hide Sidekick icons on gutter to use vscode gutter clicks.
  • Show Gutter Icons to show Sidekick gutter icons.
  • Open Sidekick Settings to change self-hosted broker url & ports.

You can access all of the above commands from the context menu (Right-Click on opening file).

Documentation

Please see the Sidekick Documentation for VSCode Extension for more details.

Issues

Issues can be reported through the Sidekick Issue Repository.

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