Boltly

Boltly (formally codenamed: "Project Lightning"), will be a complete Socket.io test client allowing you to send and receive messages from your server in order to debug your applications. Think of it as "Postman for Socket.io"

Why?

I sent out a survey a bunch of people asking different questions about how they use Socket.io. The biggest question I asked, was:

What do you currently do in order to test to make sure your Socket.io logic in your application is correct?

Astoundingly, these were the results:

Debugging Socket.io server logic is a mess. This is what Boltly (formally codenamed: "Project Lightning") hopes to fix. It will save time by allowing developers to test their logic with a click of a button.

MVP Features

• Beautifully styled with Material Design guidelines
• Multiple connections
• Send events with complex bodies thanks to Ace Editor.
• History of sent messages
• Track any event
• Watch messages come in in real time
• Multi-platform support thanks to Electron

Dark theme

Oh yeah... There's also a slick dark theme.

Roadmap and progress

The progress of this project will be kept on Trello here.

Prereq

This project has one prereq: Sass.

To install sass, go here.

For more information on Sass, see their homepage.

Getting Started

1. clone this repository or download the zip
2. cd project-lightning/
3. npm install
4. gulp
5. npm start

You should be good to go. If you need a simple Socket.io server to test it out, try this: https://github.com/tylerl0706/echo-socket.io-server