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Sentry for Development

Spotlight is a highly customizable debug tool embedded in your web app.
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As easy as npm install

Install Spotlight, inject the Spotlight overlay and run the sidecar.

Setup
1. Install Spotlight
npm install @spotlightjs/spotlight
2. Init the Overlay
import * as Spotlight from '@spotlightjs/spotlight';
if (process.env.NODE_ENV === 'development') {
Spotlight.init();
}
3. Start the Sidecar
npx spotlight-sidecar

Your perfect dev companion

Embedded in your frontend

Notifies you of errors and other signals as they happen. No more context switching.

How?
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Works Everywhere

Compatible with Sentry's universal SDKs

Take the power of Sentry's telemetry and bring that into your development environment with Errors and Traces in both Frontend and Backend.

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An Extension of You

Customizable overlay to support your use cases

The powerful overlay and event proxy make it easy to extend Spotlight to other concepts including first-party concerns.

Customize

Spotlight directly integrated into Astro Dev Overlay

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