It's All About Services

Hello all! The Glimpse team is really beginning to hit a groove with Glimpse for Node, and today I'm happy to announce the release of 0.18.9. Like the last release, this release is focused on a major new feature: the Services Tab!

0.18.9 Services Tab

Glimpse's Services Tab provides you with a view of all the service calls happening in your app, from both the browser and your Node.js backend. If you've used previous versions of Glimpse, the Services Tab will feel familiar. A lot of the UI and concepts in the Services Tab originally appeared in the Request Tab.

Here's some highlights from the Services Tab:

Filtering

Glimpse's Services Tab tracks all of your outgoing service requests. Sometimes, there can be a lot of them - but our friendly filters let you focus on the ones you care about.

Details

The real magic in of the Services Tab appears when you click on one of the requests. That's when the details panel appears, showing you everything you need to know about the selected request, and its response. You'll never have to log headers, response bodies, cookies or query strings again!

Full Stack

Continuing the trend we've seen in past releases, the Services Tab is Full Stack. It will show you XmlHttpRequests and fetch's made from the browser, as well as any calls to the http or https Node modules.

Other Enhancements

The team made a lot of other little enhancements to Glimpse over the course of this release. You'll have to explore to find them all, but keep an eye out for:

• The ability to collapse and resize the request panel.
• Clearer instructions for how to use Glimpse.
• An overhaul and simplification of our Heads Up Display (HUD).

Next Steps

We thing you're going to love the Services Tab when you're tracking down issues with either 3rd or 1st party services. If you'd like to give it a spin, Glimpse for Node 0.18.9 is available from our private NPM feed right now. Just follow the installation instructions in our Readme to get started.

We hope you love this version of Glimpse. If you have any questions or comments, please don't hesitate to open an issue!