I’m thinking of introducing Elm into a React project with Browser.element. It’ll only be one element for now but I am wondering what’s gonna happen with the debugger when a second element is added? Are there two debuggers? Is there a way to switch between them? What’s a good way to deal with it? W…

There will be multiple debuggers, one for each app. Because the debuggers have a fixed position, they will overlap and you can only easily interact with the top most one. But each debugger works as normal. You could use a contain - CSS: Cascading Style Sheets | MDN property on the parent element of…

Hey @klaftertief thanks for sharing this tip. Wow, I never would’ve come up with that. I gave contain a check on caniuse and it has surprisingly good browser support. I guess I could even set the contain to be set only when I’m in dev mode or so. Another question that popped into my head was this: …

This PR might interest you - adds a CSS class to the debugger so that you have somewhere to hook alternative styling onto: Add class to elm debugger elm:master ← neslinesli93:feature/add_class_debugger opened 03:50PM - 10…

Yes, we only set the CSS in development mode. We do not have client side routing on the page, so I can’t really comment on the route change behaviour. My guess is that the debugger will disappear when the React app removes the wrapping Elm app element, but you might have memory leaks if you do not …

Ah thanks, if only that got merged :slight_smile:

I added some info about those memory leaks to the issues justification for adding app.kill() · Issue #886 · elm/core · GitHub

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ChristophP February 25, 2022, 8:06pm 6

Ah thanks, if only that got merged

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