openreplay VS Docker Compose

Uncover frustrations, understand bugs and fix slowdowns like never before with OpenReplay — an open-source session replay tool for developers. Self-host it in minutes, and have complete control over your customer data. Check our GitHub repo and join the thousands of developers in our community.

- Optimize user experience: use insights to refine and improve your app’s usability.

Interested? For more details, you can check out the GitHub repo [0] or documentation [1]:

[0] https://github.com/openreplay/openreplay or documentation

[1] https://docs.openreplay.com/en/rn-sdk/

Hey HN,

For anyone who uses session replay tools to debug, monitor, or analyze user journeys, this feature might come in handy. OpenReplay — the self-hosted session replay tool that helps developers troubleshoot web apps faster — now supports tabbed browsing.

*Here's how:*

1. Capture and replay user sessions that span across multiple browser tabs, all within a single recording.

2. OpenReplay's tracker communicates across browser tabs, ensuring accurate tracking of each tab, even when duplicated or opened with `window.open` without `_blank`.

3. With "co-browsing", you can watch and support users in real-time and see how they navigate across multiple tabs of your app.

*Why it’s important?*

1. This feature is convenient for developers as it allows them to easily identify bugs by reviewing a complete session in one replay, rather than having to reference multiple recordings.

2. It provides a deeper understanding of the user journey and interactions across multiple tabs in your web app, helping in the comprehension of complex user behaviors and paths.

3. It provides accurate feedback on user tab actions such as opening, switching, and closing tabs, assisting in UX/UI improvements.

Interested? For more details, you can check out the GitHub repo at https://github.com/openreplay/openreplay.

You could maybe get in a scenario where a company rather sneakily changes their license without proper announcement to make usage non-open and billable, but that's pretty rare and bad behavior and that underhandedness may bite them back if it goes to court (I am not a lawyer). That said, it can happen. As an example, see this discussion I opened where the project switched licenses and the maintainers thought it was enough to only really announce this within a 1 hour YouTube video (Rather than their blog or update notes).

OpenReplay would not be typically be considered open source. (Which I have raised with them and have since been blocked from their repos).

How does it compare to OpenReplay ?

> Before deciding on ClickHouse, we were planning to use OpenSearch

You should have tried Quickwit :)

Anyway, sounds like a great project, best of luck!

[1] https://github.com/openreplay/openreplay

[2] https://github.com/quickwit-oss/quickwit

sudo curl -L https://github.com/docker/compose/releases/latest/download/docker-compose-$(uname -s)-$(uname -m) -o /usr/local/bin/docker-compose sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/docker-compose

Solutions are many, and could include Docker Compose, VS Code dev containers, Telepresence, Localstack or setting up temporary AWS accounts as a development environment for serverless applications.

Using Docker Compose to run Postgres and any third-party services locally provides a streamlined and consistent development environment. Developers can define services in a docker-compose.yml file, which enables them to configure and launch an entire stack with a single command. In this case, Postgres is encapsulated within a container with predefined configurations. Docker Compose also facilitates easy scaling, updates, and isolation of services, enhancing development efficiency and reducing the setup time for new team members or transitioning between projects. It encapsulates complex configurations, such as Postgres' performance monitoring and logging settings, in a manageable, version-controlled file, simplifying and replicating the service setup across different environments.

“Compose simplifies the control of your entire application stack, making it easy to manage services, networks, and volumes in a single, comprehensible YAML configuration file. Then, with a single command, you create and start all the services from your configuration file.” - Docker documentation

curl -fsSL https://get.docker.com -o get-docker.sh sudo sh get-docker.sh # Install docker compose sudo curl -L "https://github.com/docker/compose/releases/download/1.29.2/docker-compose-$(uname -s)-$(uname -m)" -o /usr/local/bin/docker-compose # Apply executable permissions to the binary sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/docker-compose # Run Project docker-compose up -d

Docker,

This foundation now opens the door to even more powerful concepts. You can explore more advanced concepts such as container networking, streamlining the management of complex applications with Docker Compose, and how to make your application data persistent using volumes.

In many projects that are containerized, especially in cases where development is also done locally with docker-compose, teams often have two Dockerfiles, 1 for Development, the other for Production. If you happen to have multiple environments like pre-prod, staging and so on, some teams could have different Dockerfiles for these environments.