Debugging


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Updated Aug 27th, 2022

There is a built-in debugger in VSCode and we can debug using the chrome dev tools. Good to know both but the VSCode debugger seems like table stakes.

VS Code

The Ziskind video is the best

Note: Debugger for chrome extension by MS as mentioned by Max is deprecated? Yeah because it is built directly into VSCode.

Chrome Dev Tools

The data structures and algorithms course was my first introduction. In the explanation of recursion and a factorial function he showed the calls on the call stack and although the function names were the same the value for n was different.

Sources

Alex Ziskind here

Traversy Media here Call Stack in Chrome Dev tools

Jay Wolfe here

VSCode 2018 here

Max Schwarzmueller TS Course