Ableye

One of the first tasks I was given when I started work at Ably was to build a demo project that showcased one of their SDKs so I built Ableye. Ableye is a visualisation tool that allows a user to explore, debug and test an SDK in a visual way, rather like how the Postman API Client interacts with an API. It’s also possible to attach a Delve debugger when running Ableye to set breakpoints which can enable a developer to debug issues in realtime.

The following gif is Ableye showing how one client can subscribe to a channel, a second client can publish a message to that channel and the first client receives the message in realtime.

The Ableye source code can be found at Ably Labs

I also wrote this article about how I built Ableye