Description

Ray is a desktop app for macOS and Windows that displays debugging information in a dedicated window. When I reviewed Ray, I was blown away by the ability to pause execution to inspect data sent to Ray—the ability to examine the state of database records in the middle of a request is incredible!

Ray is going to be a fantastic companion to your PHP workflow. You might even find that it’s easier to get started with than XDebug or other alternative methods you’ve used for code debugging.

Some of its main features at launch include:

A framework-agnostic PHP package and Laravel package to start logging from your apps to the Ray desktop app

Define colors of logs to filter by various colors that relate to debugging code

Measure performance and see the output in Ray

Ability to pause code to inspect data, API calls, etc. before proceeding

Display desktop notifications from Ray PHP debugging code

See the caller and entire call stack from a certain point in the code

Laravel-specific helpers that aid debugging in Laravel apps:

Clean model debug output with attribute values

Send database queries to Ray

Ray receives calls to the Laravel logger automatically

Displays mailables automatically

Manual control over sending mailables

Use Ray to debug data in blade views

Show events fired during execution

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