Remote Redux DevTools

Use Redux DevTools remotely for React Native, hybrid, desktop and server side Redux apps.

Installation

npm install --save-dev remote-redux-devtools

Note: for Windows use [email protected] (newer versions will not work due to a Windows issue fixed in react-native).

Usage

There are 2 ways of usage depending if you're using other store enhancers (middlewares) or not.

Add DevTools enhancer to your store

If you have a basic store as described in the official redux-docs, simply replace:

import { createStore } from 'redux';
const store = createStore(reducer);

with

import { createStore } from 'redux';
import devToolsEnhancer from 'remote-redux-devtools';
const store = createStore(reducer, devToolsEnhancer());
// or const store = createStore(reducer, preloadedState, devToolsEnhancer());

Note: passing enhancer as last argument requires [email protected]>=3.1.0

When to use DevTools compose helper

If you setup your store with middlewares and enhancers like redux-saga and similar, it is crucial to use composeWithDevTools export. Otherwise, actions dispatched from Redux DevTools will not flow to your middlewares.

In that case change this:

import { createStore, applyMiddleware, compose } from 'redux';

const store = createStore(reducer, preloadedState, compose(
  applyMiddleware(...middleware),
  // other store enhancers if any
));

to:

import { createStore, applyMiddleware } from 'redux';
import { composeWithDevTools } from 'remote-redux-devtools';

const store = createStore(reducer, /* preloadedState, */ composeWithDevTools(
  applyMiddleware(...middleware),
  // other store enhancers if any
));

or with devTools' options:

import { createStore, applyMiddleware } from 'redux';
import { composeWithDevTools } from 'remote-redux-devtools';

const composeEnhancers = composeWithDevTools({ realtime: true, port: 8000 });
const store = createStore(reducer, /* preloadedState, */ composeEnhancers(
  applyMiddleware(...middleware),
  // other store enhancers if any
));

Enabling

In order not to allow it in production by default, the enhancer will have effect only when process.env.NODE_ENV === 'development'.

For Webpack you should add it as following (webpack.config.dev.js):

// ...
plugins: [
  new webpack.DefinePlugin({
    'process.env.NODE_ENV': JSON.stringify('development')
  })
],
// ...

In case you don't set NODE_ENV, you can set realtime parameter to true or to other global variable to turn it off in production:

const store = createStore(reducer, devToolsEnhancer({ realtime: true }));

Monitoring

Use one of our monitor apps to inspect and dispatch actions:

• redux-devtools-extension - Click "Remote" button (or press Cmd+Ctrl+Arrow up) to open remote monitoring.
• remotedev-rn-debugger - Used in React Native debugger as a dock monitor.
• atom-redux-devtools - Used in Atom editor.
• redux-dispatch-cli - A CLI tool for Redux remote dispatch.
• vscode-redux-devtools - Used in Visual Studio Code.

Use remotedev-app to create your own monitor app.

Communicate via local server

Use remotedev-server cli to run it locally in order to make the connection faster and not to require an internet connection. You can import it in your server.js script and start remotedev server together with your development server:

var remotedev = require('remotedev-server');
remotedev({ hostname: 'localhost', port: 8000 });

See remotedev-server repository for more details. For React Native you can use remotedev-rn-debugger, which already include remotedev-server.

Parameters

All parameters are optional. You have to provide at least port property to use localhost.

Example:

export default function configureStore(preloadedState) {
  const store = createStore(
    reducer,
    preloadedState,
    devToolsEnhancer({
      name: 'Android app', realtime: true,
      hostname: 'localhost', port: 8000,
      maxAge: 30, actionsBlacklist: ['EFFECT_RESOLVED'],
      actionSanitizer: (action) => (
       action.type === 'FILE_DOWNLOAD_SUCCESS' && action.data ?
       { ...action, data: '<<LONG_BLOB>>' } : action
      ),
      stateSanitizer: (state) => state.data ? { ...state, data: '<<LONG_BLOB>>' } : state
    })
  );
  return store;
}

Demo

• Toggle monitoring

Examples

• Web
• React Native

License

MIT