Met Your Buddy

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🌌 Met Your Buddy – The Complete Debugging Companion for Meteor.js

Met Your Buddy is an all-in-one debugging and inspection toolkit for developers working with Meteor.js applications.
Access and understand your app’s Minimongo, methods, subscriptions, and DDP messages — directly from your browser.

⚡ Key Features
🧩 1. Collections Explorer

View all Minimongo collections available in your app.

Inspect documents in table or tree view.

Instantly explore your app’s reactive data layer.

JSON inspector with syntax highlighting and expandable nodes.

🧠 2. Method Inspector

View all Meteor methods available on the client.

Invoke methods manually with custom arguments (JSON supported).

Monitor live method calls as they happen.

See real-time status, arguments, and results of each method call.

🔭 3. Subscription Inspector

List all active subscriptions in your Meteor app.

Watch live updates when subscriptions start or become ready.

Check arguments and readiness state for better debugging.

Identify unused or long-pending subscriptions easily.

🛰️ 4. DDP Monitor

Track live DDP messages between the client and server.

View message types (method, result, ready, sub, nosub, etc.).

Filter by message type or source for easier analysis.

Understand the real-time data flow between the Meteor app and backend.

💡 Why Use Met Your Buddy?

✅ Instantly debug your Meteor app without console logging.
✅ Understand data reactivity, subscriptions, and method behavior in real time.
✅ Detect and analyze DDP communication visually.
✅ Save time switching between browser dev tools and console.
✅ Built specifically for Meteor developers — fast, reactive, and intuitive.

🧰 Built For

Meteor.js developers building reactive web apps.

Debugging client-server interactions and reactivity.

Understanding how Minimongo, Methods, and DDP messages work together.

Anyone who wants deeper visibility into Meteor internals.

🔒 Privacy & Permissions

Works entirely client-side — no data is collected or shared.

Requires permission only to access the active tab for debugging Meteor-based apps.

🚀 Get Started

Install the Met Your Buddy extension.

Open a Meteor-based web app.

Click on the extension icon and start exploring your app’s internals in real time!

✨ Empowering Meteor developers with transparency, insight, and control — all in one beautiful interface.