I have an Excel add-in in AppSource. It has a bug: sometimes, when the add-in is launched via its button on Ribbon for the first time, the first page cannot be well loaded (thus there is just a blanc taskpane). Clicking on the button once again loads well the add-in.
I want to see how files are loaded while the add-in is being launched for the first time, and follow this method to debug:
Then, open the Office application and sideload your add-in. Right-click the add-in and you should see an Inspect Element option in the context menu. Select that option and it will pop the Inspector, where you can set breakpoints and debug your add-in.
The problem of this approach is that we can only trigger the "Inspect Element" when the loading has finished. Then in the Network tab, we see all the files have already been loaded with no further information (e.g., time, size). This approach does not allow me to inspect the loading from the beginning:
Does anyone have a better way or better tool?
Have you tried typing
window.location.reload()in the Console and pressing enter? At least on Windows, I have found this to be a very useful debugging technique for diagnosing issues that happen during the taskpane launch -- and it feels like it should force the JS files to be reloaded as well, for the scenario you're looking for.