Devtools not working, debugging not helpful

[loxy]

Hi,

when using the latest Devtools (Devtools version: 4.3.1) everything is empty (explorer, queries, mutations, cache).

After following debugging section on docs I see this:

Just to clarify: Does that mean it cannot connect somehow? Is this an error message? I would expect something like: "Error: Not possible to ..." as a first sentence, and not "Welcome ...". But I tried to check all those points anyway. So, my server is running on /graphql (via a proxy, this should be enough, right?) and I disabled authentication. CORS is not involved. But still it doesn't work.

Any hints? What else can I check? Is it even required? So, does my server really needs to run on these special endpoint and authentication needs to be disabled? I cannot find anything mentioning that in docs...

I'm using latest Chrome on Windows with Apollo Client 3.8.9 in an Angular application (together with apollo-angular).

Best regards,
Kersten

[jerelmiller]

Hey @loxy 👋

So sorry to hear you're having problems connecting! You're right, I'm not sure those debugging messages are super useful. The devtools looks for a local client instance on window, so queries/mutations/etc would depend on whether it could connect to your client instance, no so much the server itself.

That being said, would you see if you have a window.__APOLLO_CLIENT__ variable in your browser console? We set this on the client for the devtool to connect. This depends on whether connectToDevTools is set to true. If you don't explicity set connectToDevTools in options, it tries to infer it based on whether you're running a development build or not.

Let me know if you see window.__APOLLO_CLIENT__ and I can help assist further if you're not seeing this!

[jerelmiller]

Hey @loxy 👋

We've done a number of improvements to the devtools in recent versions. I'd love for you to try out the most recent version (4.7.0) and see if you're still having troubles seeing data or not. If so, I'd love to help you debug whats going on. Thanks!