added debugModeEnabled option

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 (!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
-            if (!glob.isDev) {
+
                 utils.reloadApp();
             }
+            else {
+                alert("Encountered error, check out the console.");
+            }
         }
 
         for (const syncRow of nonProcessedSyncRows) {

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() {