IC Inspector

A little chrome extension to decode CBOR/Candid responses from the Internet Computer blockchain in Chrome devtools.

Download from the Chrome Web Store

ICP Tips: 799d9974ec7604d031c34ea487015ef7efc92f283da4ce0b84a3aaadbeae0934

Why?

Developing on the Internet Computer blockchain, you will see ugly responses in the chrome devtools network tab:

This extension decodes responses from canisters into something more readable:

Development

For development with automatic reloading:

npm run start

Open the Extensions Dashboard, enable "Developer mode", click "Load unpacked", and choose the dist folder.

You will see the "Dfinity" tab in your devtools window.

When you make changes in src the background script and any content script will reload automatically.

Storybook

To simplify testing and development the extension's UIs, storybook is available with a set of message stubs captured from real IC apps.

npm run storybook

Releasing

Pushing a new tag to github will trigger a release to the chrome webstore.

1. Bump the version in manifest.json
2. Create a new git tag with the same string
3. Push code and tags to github

git tag vX.X.X
git push origin main
git push origin --tags

Funding

This library was originally incentivized by ICDevs. You can view more about the bounty on the forum or website. The bounty was funded by The ICDevs.org commuity and the award paid to @jorgenbuilder. If you use this library and gain value from it, please consider a donation to ICDevs.