Relog: PHP debug logs in your shell and Chrome DevTools

Greetings! 👋 A couple months ago, I was debugging a JSON API in PHP and I was having a hard time. I needed information from PHP but I couldn't output anything in the response because it would break the JSON formatting. Therefore, I looked for a debugging tool. I tried several and Xdebug seemed to be the best. The problem was that I had issues with its Sublime Text plugin and it also slowed down PHP a lot. I just wanted some information back from PHP and it was surprising to see how such a simple thing can be so complicated. I created a small script that output data from PHP in a file, just so I could finish my job debugging. Then, I figured it would be a good idea to make it usable for future issues like that and made a CLI tool based on Node.js that streamed the changes of that log file in the console. After that, my browser extension mania kicked in and I made a Chrome extension too. I thought that being able to see back-end logs in literally the same place as front-end logs would be too much awesome. And I was right. Now, whenever I need to debug PHP, I run `relog server` in my shell to start a WebSocket server that streams logs and open DevTools to see them. I urge you to try this tool because it saves time. Even if you can use the echo/var_dump way of debugging, this is just so much easier. I use it daily.

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