fwenzel / fireplay-sublime

A fantastic plugin connecting your favorite editor with your favorite web debugger

Fireplay Sublime

ATTENTION: this piece of code is super experimental and can be so radioactive that it could break your Sublime! It's going to be amazing.

The aim is to:

1. Connect Sublime Text to Firefox Developer tools: live-updates of HTML and CSS, read console logs can be done directly from Sublime without any external tool by connecting to super-powerful RDP (aka Remote Debugging Protocol). This allow us to edit CSS during runtime exactly as the Web Inspector would.

2. Use Sublime Text to deploy apps for FirefoxOS: while the new Firefox WebIDE is awesome, some developers might want to use their favourite editors.

Installing (for braves on OS X)

1. Install the plugin

$ cd ~/Library/Application\ Support/Sublime\ Text\ 2/Packages
$ git clone https://github.com/mozilla/fireplay-sublime fireplay

2. In Firefox about:config set devtools.debugger.remote-enabled to true

Usage

Usage instruction are even more experimental and will be soon simplified.

Usage (long way but safer)

1. Open browser and shift+F2 and type listen
2. Run cmd+shift+p
3. In Sublime select Fireplay and follow the instruction

Usage (short way but less safe)

1. In Firefox about:config set devtools.debugger.prompt-connection to false

Usage for Firefox OS

1. Open WebIDE or App Manager and run the simulator
2. Find the port of the simulator and save it into your settings
3. Run cmd+shift+p
4. In Sublime select Fireplay and follow the instruction

Inspirations

Existing projects and libraries to explore

• https://github.com/campd/python-fxdevtools
• https://github.com/harthur/firefox-client

Change UI in real time

• Paul's implementation of live-css with devtools

Deploy from command line

• Offer a command line tool that communicates with the device and webapps actor
• CLI app tools should have a way to push apps
• Emscripten ffdb.py for b2g interaction
• WebIDE implementation for pushing the app in javascript

Ideas

• Remote style editor (start there, probably performance issues, gotta work around that)
• Binding Sublime console