This new tool and library from Alex Grebenyuk looks great. It’s a network monitor, but in a similar way to Proxyman with Atlantis, there’s no need to worry about proxies. View the logs either on-device in your app, or via a macOS app. 👍
There’s also an interesting business model here. If you want access right now, you'll need to sponsor his open-source work on GitHub, but once the number of sponsors reaches a certain level, the project becomes open-source and available to everyone.
I've linked to Alex Grebenyuk's Pulse project twice before, once when it launched with an interesting business model and again when he reached the funding goal and released the app. Why the third link? He looks to have been working hand on enhancing it, and this is a fantastic post about the enhancements to the app and mixing SwiftUI and AppKit.
This is far from the first time I’ve linked to Alexander Grebenyuk’s Pulse project! Version 2.0 adds another feature that certainly deserves a mention, though. Seeing network requests update in the log as they start and end is a powerful way to visualise your app’s network communication. I think you’ll be impressed as soon as you see it demonstrated in the video embedded in this launch post. 👍
I linked to Pulse from Alex Grebenyuk back in February. When I did, I mentioned his plan to open-source it if it received enough sponsorship. The good news is that that has now happened, which means we can continue to use the tool and now also learn from how it works!
I've linked to Pulse a couple of times, and here it is again. The Pro version is now open-source and available to everyone, which is terrific news because it remains a fantastic tool. If you ever want to look over your app's network traffic, you should try it. I'd also recommend reading this introduction to Pulse article published by Mark Struzinski this week.
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I've been enjoying all of Alex Grebenyuk's posts while building Pulse in SwiftUI. The majority of the post is about the app itself, but it also includes a great retrospective on the good, the bad, and the ugly of implementing an app with SwiftUI today.
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