Laravel-debugbar: Directly display debug bar without using a blade

[ajcastro]

I am working on json rest api.
Is there a feature how can I use Debugbar directly without using a blade? Because for me to see the debugbar output, I need to return a view from the controller.
I am hoping that I can do something to directly output debugbar instead creating a blade file just to output debugbar.

I am thinking something like this:

Debugbar::info($data1);
Debugbar::info($data2);
Debugbar::info($data3);

Debugbar::renderAndStop();
// or return it from controller
return Debugbar::render();
// or lets make a dd in debugbar
Debugbar::dd($data);

[barryvdh]

You can just return a string 'ok' for example

[ajcastro]

really? I will try it if works.

[ajcastro]

@barryvdh , this works but only if you are inside the controllers,.. what if you are inside the other classes or sevices, and on that certain line or breakpoint you want to profile the runtime especially the queries,. how are you going to do it?

For me, I suggest like Debugbar::renderAndStopProfiler().. what do you think?
you may think of better method name.

This really speeds up debugging especially query optimizations especially in api development.

[giovannipds]

I think it would be awesome to rely on something similar as dd, maybe a ddebug helper :grin:.

[giovannipds]

Perhaps a ddb, ddbar 😁 ...

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