Weekly Vue News — #70 — Force-Enable Vue Devtools in Production Build
Hi 👋
My plans for this week are creating new video content for my brand-new YouTube channel.
I tried many different screencast tools but finally decided to buy Screenflow which is a very powerful tool.
Have a great week ☀️
Vue Tip: Force-Enable Vue Devtools in Production Build
Often we cannot reproduce a bug in the development environment and need to debug it in production.
Unfortunately, in most cases, the Vue Devtools browser extension is disabled in production builds:
Luckily, there is a way to force-enable it in production builds.
Open Console in Browser DevTools
First, we need to open the console in your browser’s DevTools:
Windows or Linux: Ctrl + Shift + J
Mac: Cmd + Option + J
Access Vue App Instance
Now we need to get access to the Vue app instance:
If you are using Vue 2 you need to call:
For Vue 3, you need to run the following code in the console:
The app variable contains a reference to the Vue app instance:
We can now store the app version in a new variable called version:
Access Vue Devtools Instance
In the next step, we need access to the Vue Devtools instance which is available via window.__VUE_DEVTOOLS_GLOBAL_HOOK__:
We store it in a variable called devtools and set its property enabled to true:
Finally, we need to re-initialize the Vue app instance:
The last step is to refresh the browser DevTools to be able to detect the changes on the Vue app instance:
Windows or Linux: Alt + R
Mac: Option + R
Now the Vue Devtools extension is enabled in the production build:
ℹ️ If you don’t want to do this on your own, check the “Vue force dev” Chrome extension
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The finally() method of a Promise schedules a function, the callback function, to be called when the promise is settled (fullfilled or rejected).
It’s very convienient for cleaning up similarly to try/catch/finally blocks.
Like then() and catch(), it immediately returns an equivalent Promise object, allowing you to chain calls to another promise method, an operation called composition.
This lets you avoid duplicating code in both the promise’s then() and catch() handlers.
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