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MQTT Explorer
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The App has moved to mqtt-explorer.com
MQTT Explorer is a comprehensive and easy-to-use MQTT Client.
Downloads can be found at the link above.
This page is dedicated to its development. Pull-Requests and error reports are welcome.
Run from sources
npm install -g yarn
yarn
yarn build
yarn start
Develop
Launch Application
npm install -g yarn
yarn
yarn dev
The app directory contains all the rendering logic, the backend directory currently contains the models, tests, connection management, src contains all the electron bindings. mqttjs is used to facilitate communication to MQTT brokers.
Automated Tests
To achieve a reliable product automated tests run regularly on travis.
- Data model
- MQTT integration
- UI-Tests (The demo is a recorded ui test)
Run UI-tests
A mosquitto MQTT broker is required to run the ui-tests.
Run tests with
# Run chromedriver in a separate terminal session
./node_modules/.bin/chromedriver --url-base=wd/hub --port=9515 --verbose
Compile and execute tests
npm run build
node dist/src/spec/webdriverio.js
Create a release
Create a PR to release branch.
There needs to be a "feat: some new feature" or "fix: some bugfix" commit for a new release to be created
Create a beta release
Create a PR to beta branch. A "feat" or "fix" commit is necessary to create a new version.
Write docs
git clone --single-branch -b gh-pages https://github.com/thomasnordquist/MQTT-Explorer.git mqtt-explorer-pages
cd mqtt-explorer-pages
bundle install
bundle exec jekyll serve --incremental
Readme file: Readme.tpl.md
Preview is available at http://localhost:4000/Readme.tpl
Update docs
npm install
./updateReadme.ts
The readme will be generated from the docs.
License
The license is a little restrictive to distributing derived work, this may change in the future if the interest arises or more people work on this project.