Communication with iOS devices complies with the WebKit Remote Debugging Protocol, which is compatible with the Chrome Debugger Protocol for the script debugging API, which means that Microsoft debugger for Chrome can work almost unmodified. The new Visual Studio Code “Debugger for iOS Web” extension leverages vscode-chrome-debug-core, an open-source library that Microsoft developed to power their Visual Studio Code Chrome debugger, and uses two additional libraries to enable communication with an iOS device over USB, ios-webkit-debug-proxy and ios-webkit-debug-proxy-win32. A new extension for Visual Studio Code aims to allow developers to debug JavaScript web apps and sites running on iOS devices directly from their editor both on Mac and Windows, writes Microsoft program manager for JavaScript Diagnostics Kenneth Auchenberg.ĭebugging iOS web apps used to require access to a Mac to run Safari Web Inspector, Auchenberg explains, or to use a specific cross-browser compatibility checkers such as BrowserStack.
