alpinejs-devtools is a simple extension to help you debug Alpine.js apps easily.

Note: this extension is mainly inspired by Vue Devtools. so some of the code is borrowed from those awesome folks.

• Get the Chrome Extension
• Get the Firefox Extension

If you are using Google Chrome, Alpine Devtools won't work with local files unless you configure the extension to be allowed Access to File URLs. You can allow it by following these steps:

1. Open chrome settings
2. Go to extensions tab
3. Choose Alpine.js devtools and press details
4. Enable Allow access to file URLs

Check the following screenshot with it enabled

To help with inspection, component "names" are be computed from the following attributes (if present and in order of precedence): id, name, x-data function name (if a function is used), tag name.

1. Clone this repo
2. Run npm install
3. Run npm run dev
4. Load unpacked extension inside dist/chrome directory
5. Open any html file that imports alpine js then inspect by dev chrome inspection tool.

1. Follow the Development instructions to get a development build.
2. Go to about:debugging in Firefox
3. Click the "This Firefox" tab (left side nav)
4. Click "Load Temporary Add-on..."
5. Open one of the files in the built extension folder (./dist/chrome)

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