A-Frame Inspector

A visual inspector tool for A-Frame scenes. Just hit <ctrl> + <alt> + i on any A-Frame scene to open up the Inspector.

• Documentation / Guide
• Example

Also check out:

• A-Frame Watcher - Companion server to sync changes to HTML files.

Using the Inspector

Keyboard Shortcut

A-Frame comes with a keyboard shortcut to inject the inspector. Just open up any A-Frame scene (running at least A-Frame v0.3.0) and press <ctrl> + <alt> + i to inject the inspector, just like you would use a DOM inspector:

Specifying Inspector Build

This is done with the inspector component. By default, this is set on the scene already. If we want, we can specify a specific build of the Inspector to inject by passing a URL. For debugging:

<a-scene inspector="url: http://localhost:3333/dist/aframe-inspector.js">
  <!-- Scene... -->
</a-scene>

To use the master branch of the Inspector:

<a-scene inspector="url: https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/aframevr/aframe-inspector@master/dist/aframe-inspector.min.js">
</a-scene>

Local Development

git clone git@github.com:aframevr/aframe-inspector.git
cd aframe-inspector
npm install
npm start

Then navigate to http://localhost:3333/examples/

Self-hosting the sample-assets directory

The textures modal is using https://aframe.io/sample-assets/dist/images.json to get the available textures. The GitHub repository for those assets is https://github.com/aframevr/sample-assets

If you want to self-host this directory, do the following:

cd examples
git clone git@github.com:aframevr/sample-assets.git

edit index.html and define before any script tag this global variable:

<script>window.AFRAME_SAMPLE_ASSETS_ROOT = "./sample-assets/";</script>

Config overrides

Since A-Frame 1.7.0, the inspector perspective camera position is kept in sync with the A-Frame active camera. This means you can move around the scene, toggle the inspector and you will be at the same position. If you want to disable that behavior, you can do that by defining a global variable like this:

<script>
  window.AFRAME_INSPECTOR_CONFIG = { copyCameraPosition: false };
</script>

Customizing the A-Frame Watcher save endpoint

If you run the A-Frame Watcher from a different host or port, you can set AFRAME_INSPECTOR_CONFIG to specify a custom endpoint like this:

<script>
  window.AFRAME_INSPECTOR_CONFIG = {saveEndpoint: "http://my-custom-host.org:1234/save"};
</script>