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Summary: Linux appears to spawn a completely separate browser process whereas MacOS either forks or uses a thread. Either way, Linux no longer has access to the parent process's environment variables we use to look up plugins. Using the remote module fixes that. In the medium term, we should convert the `plugin` module to not rely on import effects and instead use the IPC mechanism, making the plugin resolution asynchronous: https://electronjs.org/docs/api/web-contents#contentssendchannel-arg1-arg2- That would also allow us to do the plugin resolution while starting up the browser window, lowering the startup time. Reviewed By: danielbuechele Differential Revision: D9423628 fbshipit-source-id: 76351f267864147c4494aadaf4e16ea636952118
Flipper 
Flipper, formerly Sonar, is currently in the process of being renamed. This may cause some inconsistencies until everything is in place. We apologize for any inconvience caused.
Flipper is a platform for debugging mobile apps on iOS and Android. Visualize, inspect, and control your apps from a simple desktop interface. Use Flipper as is or extend it using the plugin API.
Table of Contents
- Mobile development
- Extending Flipper
- Contributing to Flipper
- In this repo
- Getting started
- Building from Source
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 and native mobile 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 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 (
/src) - native Flipper SDKs for iOS (
/iOS) - native Flipper SDKs for Android (
/android) - Plugins:
- Logs (
/src/device-plugins/logs) - Layout inspector (
/src/plugins/layout) - Network inspector (
/src/plugins/network)
- Logs (
- website and documentation (
/website//docs)
Getting started
Please refer to our Getting Started guide to set up Flipper.
Requirements
- macOS (while Flipper is buildable using other systems as well, only macOS is officially supported)
- 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
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
yarn build --mac --version $buildNumber
iOS SDK + Sample App
cd iOS/Sample
pod install
open Sample.xcworkspace
<Run app from xcode>
Android SDK + Sample app
Start up an android emulator and run the following in the project root:
./gradlew :sample:installDebug
Documentation
Find the full documentation for this project at fbflipper.com.
Contributing
See the CONTRIBUTING file for how to help out.
License
Flipper is MIT licensed, as found in the LICENSE file.