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FlowTrace

Visualizing What Happens Behind a Click

Educational visualization of the full web request and render flow.

Web Application Web Live
Official product page Publisher: POLPROG
Official product page
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Stack Layers Visualized
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Trigger Types
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Interaction Modes (Planned)
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Tracking / Accounts
01 / FlowTrace

About

FlowTrace is an experimental educational web application that visualizes what really happens behind common user actions: a click, a keypress, a form submit, a scroll. It traces the request and render path across the full web stack - browser event loop, DOM, JavaScript runtime, DNS, TLS, CDN, gateway, server, cache, queue, database, response and render - and turns each layer into something a developer or student can see and step through.

The project explores several interactive modes, including a high-level system view, a cinematic journey along the request path, a first-person flow through the stack and a scenario builder for custom flows, alongside a FlowTrace Lab concept for hands-on experimentation.

02 / Key Features

Key Features

The most important capabilities, explained in practical terms.

Click, Keypress, Submit, Scroll Triggers

FlowTrace starts from a concrete user action and traces what happens next, instead of explaining the web stack in the abstract.

Full Stack Trace - Browser to Render

Each visualization walks the same path: browser event loop, DOM, JS runtime, DNS, TLS, CDN, gateway, server, cache, queue, database, response and back to render.

3D System Flow Simulation

An interactive 3D scene shows requests moving through the stack in real time so the order, fan-out and bottlenecks are visible at a glance.

Multiple Viewing Modes

System view for the big picture, cinematic journey for guided playback, first-person flow for the stack-from-inside perspective, and a scenario builder for custom flows.

FlowTrace Lab (Experimental)

An exploratory sandbox concept where individual layers can be inspected, toggled or made to fail, to see how the rest of the stack reacts.

Built for Learning

Designed for developers, students and bootcamps - the goal is intuition about how a real request travels, not a marketing demo.

03 / Download

Product access

A clear path from the official source to your first successful workflow.

Choose the right platform

Use one of the official links available for your device or browser.

Install or open

Follow the store instructions or open the web application. No third-party installers.

Configure and begin

Review the options, choose your preferences and start with the core workflow.

Official access options
04 / Technology

Technology behind the product

A transparent look at the core technologies used to build and maintain this product.

Next.js
React
TypeScript
Tailwind CSS
Prisma
PostgreSQL
Docker
05 / Security

Privacy & Security

Your data stays on your device. Always.

Educational purpose
Runs in the browser
No personal data collected
Honest roadmap
WCAG 2.1 AA