FIGURING OUT WHERE THE ERROR COULD BE
READ THE CODE
USING THE CONSOLE
THE CHROME DEV TOOLS
THE DEBUGGER
BREAKPOINTS
SCOPE
WATCH VARIABLES AND EXPRESSIONS
RESUME THE EXECUTION
EDIT SCRIPTS
INSPECT THE CALL STACK
BLACKBOX SCRIPTS
Often times you work with libraries where you don’t want to “step into”, you trust them and you don’t want to see their code in the call stack, for example. Like in the above case for
validator.min.js
, which I use for email validation.USE THE BROWSER DEVTOOLS TO DEBUG NODE.JS
USE THE BROWSER DEVTOOLS TO DEBUG NODE.JS
- Open your terminal and run
node --inspect
- Then in Chrome type this URL:
about://inspect
.
- Open your terminal and run