fforjan/ChromeDevTools.Host

Hosting Chrome Dev Protocol endpoint into your C# Application

ChromeDevTools.Host

The library allows to host a chrome dev protocol endpoint into your own .net 4.7.2 application or a asp.net core application.

You can then use the Chrome DevTools to explore your application. The idea is that th ChromeDevTools should explore the domain information and not low level data: in case of chrome, you do not see the full set of low level TCP info or low-level C++ javascript objects details but the network activities or the javascript objects. You can now do the same with your application !

Supported feature

• Logging support
• Memory analysis
• Scripting
• Debugging virtual scripts

Demo

Samples

There is 2 samples provided :

• EchoApp : a AspNetCore application
• FwkConsoleApp : a more advanced sample but implemented into a regular .net console application

Step 1 - run the sample you want.

$ FwkConsoleApp.exe
listening on http://127.0.0.1:12345/

Step 2 - configure the port in the chrome://inspect window

Step 3 - explore !

Implementation details

This is the counter part of https://github.com/BaristaLabs/chrome-dev-tools-runtime and re-use part of it (JSON definition)

• AspNet.Core is reuse the AspNet Core Middle
• FwkSelfHosted is re-use the HttpListener available in .Net Framework.