Building a Debugger for Fluid

Ideas

• 
• Present the fluid.activityTrace
• Faceting search/filter for activities
• Use colours to distinguish event types
• A mechanism to navigate to the instantiator record for a component
• An interface to explore or ask questions about the history of a component

Fluid Debug Internals

fluid.activityTrace

The fluid.activityTrace Array contains a record of activities.

There are 2 types of entries in the activityTrace:

1. An activity record
2. A pop entry

An activity record contains:

• type
• message
• args
• time

fluid.pushActivity() (Fluid.js)

fluid.popActivity() (Fluid.js)

fluid.activityTracing

Boolean to turn tracing on and off.

fluid.instantiator

Live IoC record.