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Spotlight: Sentry for Development

145 points by coloneltcb 3y ago

zeeg 3y ago
David from Sentry here. If yall have feedback around Spotlight we’d love to hear it. This is a passion project for a few of us and seemed like a natural fit for our technology, and becomes especially interesting with the service oriented world we all find ourselves in.
- kyawzazaw 3y ago
  https://spotlightjs.com/ https://spotlightjs.com/ doesn't work Only http
  - zeeg 3y ago
    What error are you seeing? Works over here. Its hosted on Vercel so shouldn’t be too complicated or different than most similar deployments.
    - OJFord 3y ago
      Both say 'Unable to connect' for me (Firefox built in page) in the UK. Which I think means the name resolved but no response. (But I'm on mobile so can't say more than that.)
      - zeeg 3y ago
        Are you using NextDNS by chance? Someone reported an issue with it blocking the domain on there, but it was unclear _which_ setting was blocking it. Was also odd given its just a Vercel website and the domain (afaik) was unused prior.
        OJFord 3y ago
        Yeah I just came back here to say that was the culprit. It's because it's a newly registered domain.
      - e1g 3y ago
        The domain name is new, and those get blocked by many DNS-based ad-blocks. I use NextDNS and get the same error - spotlightjs.com is blocked (resolves to 0.0.0.0) NextDNS calls this "Block Newly Registered Domains (NRDs)", and applies to all domains <30 days. ZScaler has something similar for corporate users, so people connecting from work might see a big red warning page.
        simonw 3y ago
        Isn't a tool that blocks all domains registered less than 30 days ago hugely annoying? I guess I can see the upside in terms of helping avoid newly registered phishing sites, but I don't think I could live with the downsides.
        OJFord 3y ago
        It happens I frequently enough that I forgot it, I've used NextDNS for at least a year, and it's happened at most once before. How often do you try (deliberately) to use something so newly registered? Frankly even most new things have older domains. (I know I'm not alone here in having domains registered for projects that may or may not ever materialise..!) Also maybe worth saying that it's not even really about NextDNS as a tool, it's that block list or ones like it. I'm not sure if it's enabled by default or not.
        simonw 3y ago
        "How often do you try (deliberately) to use something so newly registered?" Often when myself or one of my friends launches a new web project!
  - arcanemachiner 3y ago
    Works on my machine.
- patrick91 3y ago
  I'd love to see this a replacement for django debug toolbar in future :D
- paulirish 3y ago
  I'm curious. I figure you considered building the UI as a DevTools extension; why 'd you go this in-page-DOM-overlay route instead?
  - zeeg 3y ago
    More control and far lower barrier to hack on. This actually opens up a lot of doors for us even if you ignore usability and discoverability. For example, we have a POC that pops the overlay when a server error happens, giving you a rich debug experience where otherwise you might not be able to have one.
    - paulirish 3y ago
      I can't disagree at all. And this is super useful, thanks.
- amccloud 3y ago
  Does this new package impact devtools source and initiators in a way where everything is attributed to spotlight?
  - zeeg 3y ago
    What’s an example concern? It shouldn’t anymore than Sentry already does
    - amccloud 3y ago
      Mostly other devs seeing instrument.js everywhere in devtools vs. the actual source. The issue is for all envs and in development has been most problematic. So obscuring console.log or network initiators the way Sentry currently does. Webpack and bundlers seem to generally have this problem too. Sourcemaps help resolve when present in dev.
- lol768 3y ago
  Hey David! Few questions: I'm slightly stuck with the Vite plugin Currently getting this when trying to do an npm run dev: [plugin externalize-deps] No known conditions for "./vite-plugin" entry in "@spotlightjs/sidecar" package The plugin "externalize-deps" was triggered by this import vite.config.ts:7:29: 7 │ import spotlightSidecar from '@spotlightjs/sidecar/vite-plugin'; Should I be telling externalize-deps to leave it alone somehow? Also, I note the PHP SDK has gotten support for Spotlight - are there plans to do the same for the .NET SDK too?
  - deleted 3y ago
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  - zeeg 3y ago
    Let me circle back on the Vite issue. Bundles are the biggest challenge when doing this turns out :) Would you mind opening a GitHub so we can circle back there? Regarding .NET - it’s coming to all Sentry SDKs (even mobile!). They were looking at .NET already but I’m not sure off hand what prevented its release. I’d expect our other core languages have full support in the next 60 days.
    - lol768 3y ago
      > Let me circle back on the Vite issue. Bundles are the biggest challenge when doing this turns out :) > > Would you mind opening a GitHub so we can circle back there? For anyone else in this boat, I got it working by adding "type": "module" to my package.json file. Getting Tailwind to play nice with this was a bit of a battle, and I didn't manage to figure out how to import the defaultTheme properly, but Spotlight works flawlessly and the Vite plugin auto-starts the sidecar.
  - brungarc 3y ago
    Thanks for asking, created a ticket for .NET support here: https://github.com/getsentry/sentry-dotnet/issues/2955 https://github.com/getsentry/sentry-dotnet/issues/2955 I'm actually looking forward to it, I wanted to try on NuGet Trends but stopped on the first hurdle: https://github.com/dotnet/nuget-trends/pull/247 https://github.com/dotnet/nuget-trends/pull/247
waydegg 3y ago
>Spotlight is built that you don’t need Sentry to run it Pretty cool that this is a feature. I was assuming you'd be required to use Sentry to use Spotlight.
- zeeg 3y ago
  Yep- runs fully local! We had to make some small changes to our SDKs to support the sidecar, but a fundamental goal was that this was free software and valuable without the core Sentry service.
kyawzazaw 3y ago
Spotlight has a pretty strong brand name for API dev tool - https://stoplight.io/ https://stoplight.io/ Could be confusion
- zeeg 3y ago
  Stoplight vs Spotlight - names are going to names at the end of the day, but I’ll tell you I’ve personally not heard of that tool :')
- joshmanders 3y ago
  Can we stop this? There's only so many names in this world and we're going to find overlap. If you're afraid of confusing two projects that are two completely separate things just because they share the same name, instead of reading what you're using, that's a you issue, not the projects.
  - verdverm 3y ago
    They aren't even the same stop vs spot
- bdcravens 3y ago
  In related news, there's concern that when you shuffle the name Tesla, it ends up being Least
pelagicAustral 3y ago
Looks interesting, but I'd rather die that npm-install anything on one of my webapps.
- deleted 3y ago
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jay-barronville 3y ago
This looks interesting! I’ll be trying it soon.
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naiv 3y ago
I am not sure if I fully understand the architecture. Is the sidecar run on the server or in the client?
- zeeg 3y ago
  Its run on your local device - its just a local devserver that allows Sentry's SDKs to pipe data to it. The overlay (the Spotlight UI) then connects to the sidecar via a Server-Sent Events stream (basically a pubsub HTTP stream which operates unidirectional - think websockets but simpler). This is needed due to the distributed nature of services, but our goal is to push this abstraction into dev servers, e.g. Vite. Added a ticket to track improving the docs here: https://github.com/getsentry/spotlight/issues/242 https://github.com/getsentry/spotlight/issues/242
  - naiv 3y ago
    ok! thank you
freedomben 3y ago
Apologies if this is a dumb question, but is this related at all to the popular Sentry that captures stack traces and such? It seems like it isn't, but I can't tell from looking through the website. If it's totally separate, that's a quite unfortunate namespace collision
- zeeg 3y ago
  Its related in that we (Sentry) built it, and that it uses Sentry's open source SDKs to create its payloads, but its separate in that it doesnt require Sentry's monitoring service to work. Hopefully that helps, and definitely something that is quite tough to clarify but we are still looking to improve upon. Also added a ticket here to track this in case other folks have thoughts: https://github.com/getsentry/spotlight/issues/243 https://github.com/getsentry/spotlight/issues/243
  - freedomben 3y ago
    Ah yes, that helps a ton! So when the doc says "Sentry" it's talking about the Sentry we all know, not a new project called Sentry. Much appreciated
    - pacifika 3y ago
      The footer (now?) says created by Sentry.
- deleted 3y ago
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pb060 3y ago
May I suggest adding some additional context to the home page? While I heard about Sentry I find difficult to understand what Spotlight does. I might not be the intended target audience though.
- zeeg 3y ago
  This seems to be a super shared point of view. I’ll admit we were a bit fire-and-forget on the homepage and definitely agree with all the feedback that we need to explain what it is better.
  - conor- 3y ago
    Is this supposed to be intended for people who are already all-in with Sentry? Or can you possibly share some insight as to where this makes sense to use vs instrumenting with an OTEL SDK?
    - zeeg 3y ago
      Both. Fwiw lots of folks have yet to invest in OTel so the market is super open. We’re also trying to adjust our approach to leverage OTels community instrumentation when it makes sense. That means that ideally you’ll be able to invest in OTel if you want and we’ll just consume those spans. The other thing to note: OTel doesn’t do everything and Sentrys error context is a big part of the value prop.
      - conor- 3y ago
        Thanks for the reply. Would the Spotlight sidecar possibly be able to run independently and consume spans emitted by the Sentry exporter[0] or some other similar flow beyond strictly exporting directly from the Sentry SDK provided by Spotlight? This tooling looks really cool and I'd love to play around with it, but am already pretty entrenched into OTel and funneling data through the collector and don't want to introduce too much additional overhead for devs. [0] https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/tree/main/exporter/sentryexporter https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-co...
yewenjie 3y ago
Sorry, what does this do exactly? I have only cursory familiarity with Sentry and it's not obvious why would I want it.
- the_mitsuhiko 3y ago
  It basically leverages the Sentry SDKs during development and sends them into a local UI rather than a production Sentry instance. It also shows the data in a way that's more akin to local development.
  - robertlagrant 3y ago
    When's it coming to Flask? :)
    - the_mitsuhiko 3y ago
      It works with it but it should be made more convenient. I will have a look :)
- zeeg 3y ago
  “What sql queries did the api make that my react ui is talking to” Makes it much easier to debug local systems during development. Same kind of thing for errors- takes something that shows up in a console somewhere and brings it into a UI.
boothemoo 3y ago
Is it compatible with Sentry API (drop in replacement)?
- simlevesque 3y ago
  It's made by and uses Sentry.
- zeeg 3y ago
  It leverages the sentry SDKs so not so much a replacement but something else that you can use during local development (vs sending this data to the Sentry dashboard which is a little odd in development).
simonw 3y ago
Feature request: documentation for running this with a Python web app. It looks to me like it should work - the Python Sentry library can presumably publish to the local Spotlight forwarder. I don't have a npm/npx/etc build mechanism setup, so I'd appreciate instructions for running a separate web server to serve the UI, rather than running the UI integrated directly into my existing Python web application.
- zeeg 3y ago
  Would a bundled JS asset work for the UI? Eg something from a CDN? Feel free to add a GitHub issue with more details if that’s easier!
  - simonw 3y ago
    Yeah, a CDN link would be fine - anything that means I don't have to figure out how to run "npm install" for a project which isn't using that yet. Or even something like "npx sentry-spotlight-http-server" which starts a server running containing the UI.
    - the_mitsuhiko 3y ago
      Maybe the docs are not good enough for that, but you can just run npx @spotlightjs/spotlight
      - zeeg 3y ago
        That’ll get you the sidecar but not the UI widget. I think we could: 1- serve the widget from the sidecar 2- add the CDN distro
        simonw 3y ago
        Serving the widget from the sidecar would work great for me, then I only have to run one thing.
kunwon1 3y ago
It seems to be getting more and more common to leave your git repository completely undocumented. If you're releasing a software project on github, I want to read about it on github. A basic README that outlines what it does, how it does it, and basic syntax - this is really easy. Table stakes, I might say. I can checkout your repo and I have everything I need to work
- zeeg 3y ago
  Don’t disagree, but technically the docs are in the same repo. Not easily consumed though. We removed bits from the readme as it kept becoming duplicated and eventually wrong. I think that’s the usual reason folks like to avoid it. DRY and all.
- ren_engineer 3y ago
  a lot of "open source" companies leave their repos bare so you are forced to go onto their website where they can better track and retarget you
  - bentlegen 3y ago
    I assume you're not talking about this company because there is no such script on spotlightjs.com (easily verifiable), and the docs are also actually in the repository: Example: https://github.com/getsentry/spotlight/blob/main/packages/website/src/content/docs/about.mdx https://github.com/getsentry/spotlight/blob/main/packages/we...
  - joshmanders 3y ago
    Retarget you for what? "Hey you should come back and read the docs on our open source project you were interested in last week"
    - gapchuboy 3y ago
      Hey I see you are interested in spotlight and 78 other things and your ip belongs to fortune 1k. May be you should buy the sentry enterprise license. Just my ads. I work on martech.
aestetix 3y ago
Why are so many software things written in node now? Seems that every new project I see, the installation begins with "npm install" :(
- zeeg 3y ago
  In this case it makes sense: it’s a UI widget. We wrote the proxy also in Node just because you already likely needed JavaScript to install the UI component that it felt logical. Aside, 2019 and onward JavaScript has become the largest and fastest growing ecosystem of developers. To others feedback though there’s no reason we should force you to take a bundler running in your UI. We’re gonna fix that quickly.
zubairq 3y ago
Will give it a spin, always looking for better debug tools, thanks!
ripperdoc 3y ago
This doesn't seem to be it, but I always wondered if it would make sense to have an extension to the IDE that uses the aggregated data from Sentry to highlight lines of code that have caused errors or slowdowns.

145 points by coloneltcb 3y ago

zeeg 3y ago

David from Sentry here. If yall have feedback around Spotlight we’d love to hear it. This is a passion project for a few of us and seemed like a natural fit for our technology, and becomes especially interesting with the service oriented world we all find ourselves in.

kyawzazaw 3y ago
https://spotlightjs.com/ https://spotlightjs.com/ doesn't work Only http
- zeeg 3y ago
  What error are you seeing? Works over here. Its hosted on Vercel so shouldn’t be too complicated or different than most similar deployments.
  - OJFord 3y ago
    Both say 'Unable to connect' for me (Firefox built in page) in the UK. Which I think means the name resolved but no response. (But I'm on mobile so can't say more than that.)
    - zeeg 3y ago
      Are you using NextDNS by chance? Someone reported an issue with it blocking the domain on there, but it was unclear _which_ setting was blocking it. Was also odd given its just a Vercel website and the domain (afaik) was unused prior.
      - OJFord 3y ago
        Yeah I just came back here to say that was the culprit. It's because it's a newly registered domain.
    - e1g 3y ago
      The domain name is new, and those get blocked by many DNS-based ad-blocks. I use NextDNS and get the same error - spotlightjs.com is blocked (resolves to 0.0.0.0) NextDNS calls this "Block Newly Registered Domains (NRDs)", and applies to all domains <30 days. ZScaler has something similar for corporate users, so people connecting from work might see a big red warning page.
      - simonw 3y ago
        Isn't a tool that blocks all domains registered less than 30 days ago hugely annoying? I guess I can see the upside in terms of helping avoid newly registered phishing sites, but I don't think I could live with the downsides.
        OJFord 3y ago
        It happens I frequently enough that I forgot it, I've used NextDNS for at least a year, and it's happened at most once before. How often do you try (deliberately) to use something so newly registered? Frankly even most new things have older domains. (I know I'm not alone here in having domains registered for projects that may or may not ever materialise..!) Also maybe worth saying that it's not even really about NextDNS as a tool, it's that block list or ones like it. I'm not sure if it's enabled by default or not.
        simonw 3y ago
        "How often do you try (deliberately) to use something so newly registered?" Often when myself or one of my friends launches a new web project!
- arcanemachiner 3y ago
  Works on my machine.
patrick91 3y ago
I'd love to see this a replacement for django debug toolbar in future :D
paulirish 3y ago
I'm curious. I figure you considered building the UI as a DevTools extension; why 'd you go this in-page-DOM-overlay route instead?
- zeeg 3y ago
  More control and far lower barrier to hack on. This actually opens up a lot of doors for us even if you ignore usability and discoverability. For example, we have a POC that pops the overlay when a server error happens, giving you a rich debug experience where otherwise you might not be able to have one.
  - paulirish 3y ago
    I can't disagree at all. And this is super useful, thanks.
amccloud 3y ago
Does this new package impact devtools source and initiators in a way where everything is attributed to spotlight?
- zeeg 3y ago
  What’s an example concern? It shouldn’t anymore than Sentry already does
  - amccloud 3y ago
    Mostly other devs seeing instrument.js everywhere in devtools vs. the actual source. The issue is for all envs and in development has been most problematic. So obscuring console.log or network initiators the way Sentry currently does. Webpack and bundlers seem to generally have this problem too. Sourcemaps help resolve when present in dev.
lol768 3y ago
Hey David! Few questions: I'm slightly stuck with the Vite plugin Currently getting this when trying to do an npm run dev: [plugin externalize-deps] No known conditions for "./vite-plugin" entry in "@spotlightjs/sidecar" package The plugin "externalize-deps" was triggered by this import vite.config.ts:7:29: 7 │ import spotlightSidecar from '@spotlightjs/sidecar/vite-plugin'; Should I be telling externalize-deps to leave it alone somehow? Also, I note the PHP SDK has gotten support for Spotlight - are there plans to do the same for the .NET SDK too?
- deleted 3y ago
  [deleted]
- zeeg 3y ago
  Let me circle back on the Vite issue. Bundles are the biggest challenge when doing this turns out :) Would you mind opening a GitHub so we can circle back there? Regarding .NET - it’s coming to all Sentry SDKs (even mobile!). They were looking at .NET already but I’m not sure off hand what prevented its release. I’d expect our other core languages have full support in the next 60 days.
  - lol768 3y ago
    > Let me circle back on the Vite issue. Bundles are the biggest challenge when doing this turns out :) > > Would you mind opening a GitHub so we can circle back there? For anyone else in this boat, I got it working by adding "type": "module" to my package.json file. Getting Tailwind to play nice with this was a bit of a battle, and I didn't manage to figure out how to import the defaultTheme properly, but Spotlight works flawlessly and the Vite plugin auto-starts the sidecar.
- brungarc 3y ago
  Thanks for asking, created a ticket for .NET support here: https://github.com/getsentry/sentry-dotnet/issues/2955 https://github.com/getsentry/sentry-dotnet/issues/2955 I'm actually looking forward to it, I wanted to try on NuGet Trends but stopped on the first hurdle: https://github.com/dotnet/nuget-trends/pull/247 https://github.com/dotnet/nuget-trends/pull/247

waydegg 3y ago

>Spotlight is built that you don’t need Sentry to run it Pretty cool that this is a feature. I was assuming you'd be required to use Sentry to use Spotlight.

zeeg 3y ago
Yep- runs fully local! We had to make some small changes to our SDKs to support the sidecar, but a fundamental goal was that this was free software and valuable without the core Sentry service.

kyawzazaw 3y ago

Spotlight has a pretty strong brand name for API dev tool - https://stoplight.io/ https://stoplight.io/ Could be confusion

zeeg 3y ago
Stoplight vs Spotlight - names are going to names at the end of the day, but I’ll tell you I’ve personally not heard of that tool :')
joshmanders 3y ago
Can we stop this? There's only so many names in this world and we're going to find overlap. If you're afraid of confusing two projects that are two completely separate things just because they share the same name, instead of reading what you're using, that's a you issue, not the projects.
- verdverm 3y ago
  They aren't even the same stop vs spot
bdcravens 3y ago
In related news, there's concern that when you shuffle the name Tesla, it ends up being Least

pelagicAustral 3y ago

Looks interesting, but I'd rather die that npm-install anything on one of my webapps.

deleted 3y ago
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jay-barronville 3y ago

This looks interesting! I’ll be trying it soon.

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naiv 3y ago

I am not sure if I fully understand the architecture. Is the sidecar run on the server or in the client?

zeeg 3y ago
Its run on your local device - its just a local devserver that allows Sentry's SDKs to pipe data to it. The overlay (the Spotlight UI) then connects to the sidecar via a Server-Sent Events stream (basically a pubsub HTTP stream which operates unidirectional - think websockets but simpler). This is needed due to the distributed nature of services, but our goal is to push this abstraction into dev servers, e.g. Vite. Added a ticket to track improving the docs here: https://github.com/getsentry/spotlight/issues/242 https://github.com/getsentry/spotlight/issues/242
- naiv 3y ago
  ok! thank you

freedomben 3y ago

Apologies if this is a dumb question, but is this related at all to the popular Sentry that captures stack traces and such? It seems like it isn't, but I can't tell from looking through the website. If it's totally separate, that's a quite unfortunate namespace collision

zeeg 3y ago
Its related in that we (Sentry) built it, and that it uses Sentry's open source SDKs to create its payloads, but its separate in that it doesnt require Sentry's monitoring service to work. Hopefully that helps, and definitely something that is quite tough to clarify but we are still looking to improve upon. Also added a ticket here to track this in case other folks have thoughts: https://github.com/getsentry/spotlight/issues/243 https://github.com/getsentry/spotlight/issues/243
- freedomben 3y ago
  Ah yes, that helps a ton! So when the doc says "Sentry" it's talking about the Sentry we all know, not a new project called Sentry. Much appreciated
  - pacifika 3y ago
    The footer (now?) says created by Sentry.
deleted 3y ago
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pb060 3y ago

May I suggest adding some additional context to the home page? While I heard about Sentry I find difficult to understand what Spotlight does. I might not be the intended target audience though.

zeeg 3y ago
This seems to be a super shared point of view. I’ll admit we were a bit fire-and-forget on the homepage and definitely agree with all the feedback that we need to explain what it is better.
- conor- 3y ago
  Is this supposed to be intended for people who are already all-in with Sentry? Or can you possibly share some insight as to where this makes sense to use vs instrumenting with an OTEL SDK?
  - zeeg 3y ago
    Both. Fwiw lots of folks have yet to invest in OTel so the market is super open. We’re also trying to adjust our approach to leverage OTels community instrumentation when it makes sense. That means that ideally you’ll be able to invest in OTel if you want and we’ll just consume those spans. The other thing to note: OTel doesn’t do everything and Sentrys error context is a big part of the value prop.
    - conor- 3y ago
      Thanks for the reply. Would the Spotlight sidecar possibly be able to run independently and consume spans emitted by the Sentry exporter[0] or some other similar flow beyond strictly exporting directly from the Sentry SDK provided by Spotlight? This tooling looks really cool and I'd love to play around with it, but am already pretty entrenched into OTel and funneling data through the collector and don't want to introduce too much additional overhead for devs. [0] https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/tree/main/exporter/sentryexporter https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-co...

yewenjie 3y ago

Sorry, what does this do exactly? I have only cursory familiarity with Sentry and it's not obvious why would I want it.

the_mitsuhiko 3y ago
It basically leverages the Sentry SDKs during development and sends them into a local UI rather than a production Sentry instance. It also shows the data in a way that's more akin to local development.
- robertlagrant 3y ago
  When's it coming to Flask? :)
  - the_mitsuhiko 3y ago
    It works with it but it should be made more convenient. I will have a look :)
zeeg 3y ago
“What sql queries did the api make that my react ui is talking to” Makes it much easier to debug local systems during development. Same kind of thing for errors- takes something that shows up in a console somewhere and brings it into a UI.

boothemoo 3y ago

Is it compatible with Sentry API (drop in replacement)?

simlevesque 3y ago
It's made by and uses Sentry.
zeeg 3y ago
It leverages the sentry SDKs so not so much a replacement but something else that you can use during local development (vs sending this data to the Sentry dashboard which is a little odd in development).

simonw 3y ago

Feature request: documentation for running this with a Python web app. It looks to me like it should work - the Python Sentry library can presumably publish to the local Spotlight forwarder. I don't have a npm/npx/etc build mechanism setup, so I'd appreciate instructions for running a separate web server to serve the UI, rather than running the UI integrated directly into my existing Python web application.

zeeg 3y ago
Would a bundled JS asset work for the UI? Eg something from a CDN? Feel free to add a GitHub issue with more details if that’s easier!
- simonw 3y ago
  Yeah, a CDN link would be fine - anything that means I don't have to figure out how to run "npm install" for a project which isn't using that yet. Or even something like "npx sentry-spotlight-http-server" which starts a server running containing the UI.
  - the_mitsuhiko 3y ago
    Maybe the docs are not good enough for that, but you can just run npx @spotlightjs/spotlight
    - zeeg 3y ago
      That’ll get you the sidecar but not the UI widget. I think we could: 1- serve the widget from the sidecar 2- add the CDN distro
      - simonw 3y ago
        Serving the widget from the sidecar would work great for me, then I only have to run one thing.

kunwon1 3y ago

It seems to be getting more and more common to leave your git repository completely undocumented. If you're releasing a software project on github, I want to read about it on github. A basic README that outlines what it does, how it does it, and basic syntax - this is really easy. Table stakes, I might say. I can checkout your repo and I have everything I need to work

zeeg 3y ago
Don’t disagree, but technically the docs are in the same repo. Not easily consumed though. We removed bits from the readme as it kept becoming duplicated and eventually wrong. I think that’s the usual reason folks like to avoid it. DRY and all.
ren_engineer 3y ago
a lot of "open source" companies leave their repos bare so you are forced to go onto their website where they can better track and retarget you
- bentlegen 3y ago
  I assume you're not talking about this company because there is no such script on spotlightjs.com (easily verifiable), and the docs are also actually in the repository: Example: https://github.com/getsentry/spotlight/blob/main/packages/website/src/content/docs/about.mdx https://github.com/getsentry/spotlight/blob/main/packages/we...
- joshmanders 3y ago
  Retarget you for what? "Hey you should come back and read the docs on our open source project you were interested in last week"
  - gapchuboy 3y ago
    Hey I see you are interested in spotlight and 78 other things and your ip belongs to fortune 1k. May be you should buy the sentry enterprise license. Just my ads. I work on martech.

aestetix 3y ago

Why are so many software things written in node now? Seems that every new project I see, the installation begins with "npm install" :(

zeeg 3y ago
In this case it makes sense: it’s a UI widget. We wrote the proxy also in Node just because you already likely needed JavaScript to install the UI component that it felt logical. Aside, 2019 and onward JavaScript has become the largest and fastest growing ecosystem of developers. To others feedback though there’s no reason we should force you to take a bundler running in your UI. We’re gonna fix that quickly.

zubairq 3y ago

Will give it a spin, always looking for better debug tools, thanks!

ripperdoc 3y ago

This doesn't seem to be it, but I always wondered if it would make sense to have an extension to the IDE that uses the aggregated data from Sentry to highlight lines of code that have caused errors or slowdowns.