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Tools for debugging

Bugs can happen. Twake Desktop has some tools to track them.

Debug logs

The first and most important one is logging. If you think you might have found a bug, the first thing to do is running Twake Desktop with debug:

DEBUG=true yarn start

To both keep logs on a file and display them on screen, you can use tee:

DEBUG=true yarn start 2>&1 | tee $(date '+%Y-%m-%d.log')

It’s possible to have even more logs if you want, by enabling pouchdb debug logs and request debug logs:

NODE_DEBUG=request DEBUG=pouchdb:* yarn start

When Twake Desktop is running, it’s possible to send it the USR1 signal to make it list the paths watched by chokidar:

kill -USR1 <pid>