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@mstange mstange commented Nov 6, 2025

Sometimes I've wanted to inspect profiles from the command line, without loading them in the web UI.

Here's an experiment I've been working on, which creates a pq tool ("profile query"). To test, clone this branch and run yarn build-profile-query-cli - this creates a ./dist/pq.js artifact. Then somehow make it accessible via your path, for example by putting a shell script with the contents node ~/code/profiler/src/profile-query-cli/dist/pq.js "$@" into a bin directory in your path.

pq load 'https://share.firefox.dev/hash' or pq load profile.json.gz start a session.

Only tested on macOS so far. It uses unix domain sockets so it probably doesn't work on Windows atm.

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❌ Patch coverage is 52.51323% with 1077 lines in your changes missing coverage. Please review.
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@canova canova force-pushed the pq-cli-wip branch 5 times, most recently from 288f7da to c87bd3c Compare March 16, 2026 21:44
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canova and others added 17 commits April 12, 2026 13:40
This is useful for cases where I want to drop all the "idle" category
samples, so I can focus on non-idle samples. Or it can be useful for
dropping the whole profiler overhead by removing the "profiler"
category.

I would like to use this transform in the pq cli tool, so we can remove
the idle category before finding the "top functions". Otherwise the idle
category just pollutes the output of the cli a lot.
A `yarn test:cli` script was added to run only the cli tests, but it
looks like the main tests are also running them since they match the
testMatch glob.
`pq thread select t-x` doesn't work without running `pq profile info`
first. If the pq session is restarted in between, we need to call it
again to make sure that we generate the thread handles etc.
canova added 3 commits April 12, 2026 14:34
On Windows, npm binaries (cross-env, jest, run-p, etc.) are installed as
.cmd files and can't be found by spawnSync without shell: true. This
caused all scripts using this wrapper to silently succeed without
running anything, since spawnSync returns status: null on ENOENT, which
Node.js treats as exit code 0.

Fix by passing the command as a single joined string with shell: true,
and add an explicit error check for result.error to catch spawn failures
in the future.
@canova canova force-pushed the pq-cli-wip branch 2 times, most recently from cd573e7 to d877f24 Compare April 12, 2026 13:07
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