Developed Debug Playground UI with React

📅 2025-04-16 — Session: Developed Debug Playground UI with React

🕒 14:30–15:50
🏷️ Labels: React, Debugging, Ux Design, Traceability, Development Tools
📂 Project: Dev
⭐ Priority: MEDIUM

Session Goal:

The session aimed to explore and develop a comprehensive understanding of designing and implementing a debugging playground UI using React, focusing on traceability and user experience in development tools.

Key Activities:

• Reviewed insights on Prompt Flow’s observability features, emphasizing tracing capabilities and integration with OpenTelemetry.
• Planned a modern developer playground UI for AI flows, focusing on debugging and tracing.
• Designed a portable and modular trace JSON schema for debugging and UX.
• Outlined the foundational design for an AI execution runtime with traceable semantics.
• Discussed UX design principles for trace inspection in development tools.
• Curated a glossary of UX and debugging terms for flow tools.
• Explored the concept of ‘grok’ in tech culture for better understanding of APIs and dev tools.
• Provided a guide to building a debug playground UI using React, with emphasis on global state management using Context API.
• Analyzed the RunContext.tsx file for managing global state in React components.

Achievements:

• Developed a structured plan and design framework for a debugging playground UI using React, integrating traceability features.
• Established a clear understanding of the necessary components and design considerations for effective debugging and UX in development tools.

Pending Tasks:

• Implement the planned debugging playground UI in a live development environment.
• Further refine the trace JSON schema based on real-world testing and feedback.
• Continue developing the AI execution runtime with enhanced traceability features.