App Debugging

You can monitor the execution information of web apps or JS services running on the target device with Web Inspector and Node Inspector. For this, you need to create a package file (.ipk) without minifying.

Web Inspector

The webOS TV platform supports Web Inspector for debugging web apps. Web Inspector monitors your app running on a target device with the execution information. Web Inspector uses the Chromium browser as a default browser.

To use the Inspector, you need to have Chromium installed, of which the version is compatible with the webOS TV version. The following table shows the compatible Chromium version by webOS TV version and their download links.

webOS TV versionRelease year of webOS TVSupported Chrome versions for using Web Inspector
webOS TV 242024
  • Latest-version Chrome
webOS TV 232023
webOS TV 222022
webOS TV 6.02021
webOS TV 5.02020
webOS TV 4.x2018-2019
webOS TV 3.x2016-2017
webOS TV 2.02015
webOS TV 1.02014

You can see Web Inspector as below.

Screenshot of Web Inspector
Note
Web Inspector is based on Google Chrome Developer Tools. Refer to the Google Developers  for the detailed description of how to use Google Chrome Developer Tools. Some versions of Google Chrome may not support Web Inspector. For more information, refer to FAQ.

Node Inspector

The webOS TV platform supports Node Inspector for debugging JS services. Node inspector monitors your JS service running on a target device with the execution information. Node Inspector uses the Chromium browser as a default browser.

To use the Node Inspector, you need to have Chromium installed, of which the version is compatible with the webOS TV version. The following table shows the compatible Chromium version by webOS TV version and their download links.

webOS TV versionRelease year of webOS TVSupported Chrome versions for using Node Inspector
webOS TV 242024
  • Latest-version Chrome
webOS TV 232023
webOS TV 222022
webOS TV 6.02021
webOS TV 5.02020
webOS TV 4.x2018-2019
webOS TV 3.x2016-2017
webOS TV 2.02015
webOS TV 1.02014

You can see Node Inspector as below:

Screenshot of Node Inspector
Note
For more information about Node Inspector, refer to the GitHub of Node Inspector.
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