From ec7021b436e9a81f6925f8b77166eb37a1204c1c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: zadam <adam.zivner@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2020 23:22:28 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] added debugModeEnabled option

---
 src/public/app/services/ws.js | 8 ++++++--
 src/services/options_init.js  | 3 ++-
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/public/app/services/ws.js b/src/public/app/services/ws.js
index 4f8e47b96..502b8596c 100644
--- a/src/public/app/services/ws.js
+++ b/src/public/app/services/ws.js
@@ -155,10 +155,14 @@ async function consumeSyncData() {
         catch (e) {
             logError(`Encountered error ${e.message}: ${e.stack}, reloading frontend.`);
 
-            // if there's an error in updating the frontend then the easy option to recover is to reload the frontend completely
-            if (!glob.isDev) {
+            if (!glob.isDev && !options.is('debugModeEnabled')) {
+                // if there's an error in updating the frontend then the easy option to recover is to reload the frontend completely
+
                 utils.reloadApp();
             }
+            else {
+                alert("Encountered error, check out the console.");
+            }
         }
 
         for (const syncRow of nonProcessedSyncRows) {
diff --git a/src/services/options_init.js b/src/services/options_init.js
index 4fe655a18..26283a424 100644
--- a/src/services/options_init.js
+++ b/src/services/options_init.js
@@ -87,7 +87,8 @@ const defaultOptions = [
     { name: 'hideIncludedImages_main', value: 'true', isSynced: false },
     { name: 'attributeListExpanded', value: 'false', isSynced: false },
     { name: 'promotedAttributesExpanded', value: 'true', isSynced: true },
-    { name: 'similarNotesExpanded', value: 'true', isSynced: true }
+    { name: 'similarNotesExpanded', value: 'true', isSynced: true },
+    { name: 'debugModeEnabled', value: 'false', isSynced: false }
 ];
 
 function initStartupOptions() {