MobX Developer Tools

Temp

2021-12-26

Almost useless, redux devtools a cut above

David Munger

2021-10-11

It's a bare minimum of useful, although it defaults to doing nothing unless you click a button called 'record', which is not what you would expect. Turns out 'record' actually means it turns logging on, just like logging in the network tab. To make matters worse, 'record' (i.e., log changes), is off by default.

Another strange thing is that if you click 'Open Mobx Dev Tools' from the context menu, it opens an empty browser window, which remains empty (just blank white page) no matter what you do. I could only see anything by using the Mobx tab in the standard dev tools pane.

Finally, it did nothing to help with my #1 frustration with Mobx, which is that sometimes I get errors about 'wrappedComponent' coming from an observer, and it's impossible to tell which of my components is causing the error, much less why, since it points to the mobx library code. It is simply not possible to find what line of my own code actually caused the error. I was hoping these dev tools would help by enhancing these error messages, or at a bare minimum, at LEAST showing which 'wrappedComponent' triggered the error. Unfortunately, it does none of this.