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Summary: There was a frustrating issue previously where the UI would jump everytime a new frame came in with bloks data. This would occur constantly as the client was generating new frames every 10 seconds. The issue was because the previous appraoch to speed up the augmentation was to display the raw client raw and then asynchronously process a new frame with the added derived components. The issue was the raw client frame has less nodes so we would breifly display this, and because the reduciton trace was cache on the next tick we would show this causing a jump. Now we have a new solution: 1. We use an event emitter to push frames / metadata into the interceptor 2. The interceptor should always produce 1 frame, this can be the same or augmented, for open source its just the same 3. We use react query to check if we already have the reduction trace cached, if so then we are able to quickly process the whole thing, if not its split into 2 parts. React query is also nice since we can add a cache time for the reduciton traces which are very large and not useful one your screen is gone. This should help keep memory usage under control a bit. one other benefit to this approach is i can remove the error handling stuff from the main plugin code, since the blok augmentation is not on the critical path and it can retry internally and push out a new frame whenever. Reviewed By: antonk52 Differential Revision: D49272152 fbshipit-source-id: e5539d36231a32754e8612014195449b9faafdb1
Flipper
Flipper (formerly Sonar) is a platform for debugging mobile apps on iOS and Android and JS apps in your browser or in Node.js. Visualize, inspect, and control your apps from a simple desktop interface. Use Flipper as is or extend it using the plugin API.
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Mobile development
Flipper aims to be your number one companion for mobile app development on iOS and Android. Therefore, we provide a bunch of useful tools, including a log viewer, interactive layout inspector, and network inspector.
Extending Flipper
Flipper is built as a platform. In addition to using the tools already included, you can create your own plugins to visualize and debug data from your mobile apps. Flipper takes care of sending data back and forth, calling functions, and listening for events on the mobile app.
Contributing to Flipper
Both Flipper's desktop app, native mobile SDKs, JS SDKs are open-source and MIT licensed. This enables you to see and understand how we are building plugins, and of course, join the community and help to improve Flipper. We are excited to see what you will build on this platform.
In this repo
This repository includes all parts of Flipper. This includes:
- Flipper's desktop app built using Electron
(
/desktop) - native Flipper SDKs for iOS (
/iOS) - native Flipper SDKs for Android (
/android) - React Native Flipper SDK (
/react-native) - JS Flipper SDK (
/js) - Plugins:
- Logs (
/desktop/plugins/public/logs) - Layout inspector (
/desktop/plugins/public/layout) - Network inspector (
/desktop/plugins/public/network) - Shared Preferences/NSUserDefaults inspector
(
/desktop/plugins/public/shared_preferences)
- Logs (
- website and documentation (
/website//docs)
Getting started
Please refer to our
Getting Started guide to set up
Flipper. Or, (still experimental) run npx flipper-server for a browser based
version of Flipper.
Requirements
- node >= 8
- yarn >= 1.5
- iOS developer tools (for developing iOS plugins)
- Android SDK and adb
Building from Source
Desktop
Running from source
git clone https://github.com/facebook/flipper.git
cd flipper/desktop
yarn
yarn start
NOTE: If you're on Windows, you need to use Yarn 1.5.1 until this issue is resolved.
Building standalone application
Provide either --mac, --win, --linux or any combination of them to
yarn build to build a release zip file for the given platform(s). E.g.
yarn build --mac --version $buildNumber
You can find the resulting artifact in the dist/ folder.
iOS SDK + Sample App
cd iOS/Sample
rm -f Podfile.lock
pod install --repo-update
open Sample.xcworkspace
<Run app from xcode>
You can omit --repo-update to speed up the installation, but watch out as you
may be building against outdated dependencies.
Android SDK + Sample app
Start up an android emulator and run the following in the project root:
./gradlew :sample:installDebug
React Native SDK + Sample app
Requires RN 0.69+!
cd react-native/ReactNativeFlipperExample
yarn
yarn android
Note that the first 2 steps need to be done only once.
Alternatively, the app can be started on iOS by running yarn ios.
If this is the first time running, you will also need to run
pod install --repo-update from the
react-native/ReactNativeFlipperExample/ios folder.
React Native Windows (Experimental)
An experimental version of Flipper for React Native Windows is available. The following steps prepare the React Native Flipper project:
cd react-native/react-native-flipper
vcpkg install openssl:x64-uwp openssl:arm-uwp
vcpkg integrate install
yarn install
cd windows
nuget install ReactNativeFlipper/packages.config
In a nutshell, vcpkg is used to install OpenSSL. Nuget is used to install Boost.
Then, the sample application can be built and run as follows:
cd ../../ReactNativeFlipperExample
yarn install
yarn relative-deps
npx react-native run-windows
At the moment there's no available package for React Native Flipper. This means that to integrate Flipper with any other existing applications, an explicit reference to the project needs to be added just as is done with the sample application.
JS SDK + Sample React app
cd js/react-flipper-example
yarn
yarn start
Troubleshooting
Older yarn versions might show an error / hang with the message 'Waiting for the
other yarn instance to finish'. If that happens, run the command yarn first
separately in the directory react-native/react-native-flipper.
Documentation
Find the full documentation for this project at fbflipper.com.
Our documentation is built with Docusaurus. You can build it locally by running this:
cd website
yarn
yarn start
Contributing
See the CONTRIBUTING file for how to help out.
License
Flipper is MIT licensed, as found in the LICENSE file.