Tinkerwell v4 is now released

Tinkerwell, the code runner for PHP, just released version 4 with a host of new goodies, including AI support, a new detail dive, custom themes, a log viewer, and so much more.

If you are unfamiliar with Tinkerwell, it's an app I use daily. Everything from quickly debugging some code to tinkering on the server to using it to explain code in videos. It's an app I love using, and v4 took everything I like about it and made it better. This is a massive release, and let's take a quick look at some of the new features.

#AI Support

You can now add your Open AI API key in the settings to enable AI features. You can select between GPT 3.5 or GPT-4.

With AI support you can have Tinkerwell write code for you, explain code, and more. All within the editor.

#Detail Dive

Instead of showing the CLI output that Tinkerwell previously used, Tinkerwell 4 has a more structured output called Detail Dive.

Depending on the result, Detail Dive allows you to expand the view, like in the screenshot above, or display collections and arrays in a table view.

If the result is a Mailable, Tinkerwell previews the email. This makes testing emails even easier, as with HELO or Invoker, because you can pass the data to the view you need for your test case.

#New Object Graph

This allows you to display all relations in a graph for debugging.

Which expands into:

#SQL Queries

If you enable the SQL query output at the top right when running Detail Dive, Tinkerwell shows you all queries during the code execution.

#New Log View

Tinkerwell 4 has a log viewer with log tailing. Connect to a Laravel app and check the logs via the icon in the sidebar.

#Get Tinkerwell

You can find out all the features of this release on the Tinkerwell v4 page and buy yourself a copy today while they are running a special.