Whenever I see someone really effectively debug JavaScript in the browser, they use the DevTools tooling to do it. Setting breakpoints and hopping over them and such. That, as opposed to sprinkling console.log() (and friends) statements all around your …
We’ve been able to do this for years, largely for free (ignoring the costs of the computer and devices), but I’m not sure as many people know about it as they should.
TL;DR: XCode comes with a “Simulator” program you …
Writing code is only one small piece of being a developer. In order to be efficient and capable at our jobs, we must also excel at debugging. When I dedicate some time to learning new debugging skills, I often find …
Kayce Basques wrote an excellent interactive tutorial that explores how to debug JavaScript with DevTools. Kayce looks into a number of techniques and options that I was completely unaware of and, as he notes in the beginning of the tutorial, …
The Firebug extension isn’t being developed or maintained any longer. We invite you to use the Firefox built-in DevTools instead.
Looks like the end of an over 2 year process.
Firebug was probably the single most important tooling advancement …
