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This is very cool! What do you believe to be the prime use cases for this kind of tool?

• mostlystatic 8y ago
  I'm still trying to figure that out :) Here are some ideas: • Debugging: figuring out why a variable or object property has an unexpected value • Finding relevant code, possibly during onboarding of new devs • Security: see where insecure values end up at runtime • Telling BE devs what endpoint is used for a specific part of the UI The architecture could also enable a few other features, like pausing when a particular value is encountered anywhere in the code.
  • hn_throwaway_99 8y ago
    Finding relevant code, possibly during onboarding of new devs That one is huge for me. So often coming into a new codebase (especially in the case where some of the libraries or underlying frameworks are new to me) I just want to know "How the F was that value populated??" Kudos, would be super useful in my opinion.
    • Klathmon 8y ago
      I can already imagine the dev tool improvements that could come from something like this. Being able to highlight a part of the dom and click through the stack of where it came from would be awesome! And it would work with just about any framework out there!
  • btown 8y ago
    > new devs By the time you're no longer a "new dev," you're a "new dev" to the code you wrote when you started the job :) so it's a pretty universal need!