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Replay Blog: Debugging, Testing and Changelog
Company blog · blog.replay.ioprogrammingwebai
Replay Blog: Debugging, Testing and Changelog is the company blog at blog.replay.io, writing about programming, web and ai. Since 2023, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 14 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Replay's blog for posts on its time-travel debugger and its backend API. Commenters mostly cite it to explain how the product works, and one calls its API overview the best technical overview.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Engineering stories, changelog updates and guides from the Replay team on debugging, time-travel and automated QA for modern web apps.
Most-linked posts?
- /how-replay-works2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-05-10
What Hacker News says?
Exactly - that's what we've already built for web development at https://replay.io :) I did a "Learn with Jason" show discussion that covered the concepts of Replay, how to use it, and how it works: - https://www.learnwithjason.dev/travel-through-time-to-debug-... Not only is the debugger itself time-traveling, but those time-travel capabilities are exposed by our backend API: - https://static.replay.io/protocol/ Ou…
Comment linking /how-we-rebuilt-react-devtools-with-replay-routines
on “Is something bugging you?”Submitted Replay.io is discontinuing Replay Test Suites as a story · 19 points
HN discussionHi, I work at Replay.io. There's a very good reason for that "custom browser" requirement. Session replay tools like LogRocket or Jam do capture a lot of information, but they can only capture what's _in_ the page, and are thus limited by the JS execution environment and permissions. This is still very useful for seeing what the user did in the page, and you do get a good amount of detail (video, DOM, network). Repl…
Comment linking /how-replay-works
on “Show HN: A web debugger an ex-Cloudflare team has been working on for 4 years”Submitted Show HN: Replay for Test Suites – Time travel debugging for browser tests as a story · 7 points
HN discussionWe use rrweb as a DOM-recorder in our extension, and it does come with some limitations. Taken from our docs: - DOM recording has the fundamental trait that nothing outside the DOM can be recorded. This latter limitation means that only content on the specific page is recorded: Data in popup dialogs or other tabs is not recorded, neither is anything outside the HTML document like native MacOS/Windows menus shown for…
Comment linking /how-replay-works
on “Rrweb – record and replay debugger for the web”Submitted Replayability Roadmap as a story · 3 points
HN discussionWell, it can be both. This post https://blog.replay.io/the-nut-api is the best technical overview of the API and discusses several examples.
Comment linking /the-nut-api
on “Show HN: Time travel debugging AI for more reliable vibe coding”Submitted Debugging a flaky metabase.com Cypress test as a story · 2 points
HN discussionMentioned it up thread, but this is _exactly_ what our Replay time-traveling debugger for JS lets you do! We specifically let you add "print statements" to any line of code from the recorded app, let you toggle them or change conditions, and recalculate the logged output every time you make a change: https://docs.replay.io/reference-guide/print-statements Longer-term, we have plans to implement functionality for "pe…
Comment linking /how-we-rebuilt-react-devtools-with-replay-routines
on “Omniscient Debugging”Submitted Improving AI developers with data flow analysis as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Fixing a browser test failure with AI and time travel as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Full stack time travel debugging as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Build a Time Machine as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted We Rebuilt React DevTools with Replay Routines as a story · 1 points
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