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Debugging
JavaScript debugging with Chrome DevTools
Daniel Verner -
Introduction
Tracking down what happens in JavaScript code is not always trivial, especially when many event handlers and/or asynchronous ajax calls are involved. Using console.log in these cases can be tiresome and ineffective, in this article I am going to show the basics of how to use Chrome DevTools for debugging JavaScript.
Getting started
Open the inspector (Cmd+Option+i or Ctrl+Shift+i), and navigate to the Sources tab, and choose the JavaScript file you want to debug on the navigation bar on the left-hand side.
Add a breakpoint by clicking on the line number:
Run the code in the browser, when the debugger stops, you can use the usual things to debug your code including:
Step into function – F11
Step over – F10
Step out of function call – Shift + F11
Watch variables
Inspect local variables
Additional useful features
I’ve recently learned some very handy features to use while debugging.
debugger
Adding a debugger; command to the code the debugger stops executing the code, it is a very quick way to add a breakpoint, no need to browse the source files in the dev tools.
console.table()
Similar to the console.log, but it shows the variable as a table, useful to quickly check the values of complex variables.
Pretty print
If you need to inspect/debug minified code (especially in production) devtools can pretty-print the minified code by clicking on the curly braces in the bottom left corner of the main debugger window:
The pretty printed output is not as clean and useful than the original source code, but it is more understandable/debuggable than the minified version, it looks like this:
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