Simon Willison’s Weblog

31st August 2021

TIL Using the Chrome DevTools console as a REPL for an Electron app — I figured out how to use the Chrome DevTools to execute JavaScript interactively inside the Electron main process. I always like having a REPL for exploring APIs, and this means I can explore the Electron and Node.js APIs interactively.

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Posted 31st August 2021 at 9:09 pm

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