Essential JavaScript Debugging Tools for the Modern Detective

Explore essential JavaScript debugging tools and techniques in this JSConf Budapest 2019 conference talk. Learn to move beyond console.log and master advanced debugging skills for modern web development. Discover how to track critical issues in production, overcome challenges when adding new features, and improve your deductive reasoning abilities. Gain insights into reproducing bugs in tests, utilizing console methods effectively, leveraging breakpoints, and optimizing performance. Dive into topics such as pause on exceptions, blackboxing, logpoints, snippets, live expressions, proxy overrides, source-map configuration, and debugging Node.js applications. Elevate your debugging prowess and become a more efficient JavaScript detective.

Intro
a skill to be mastered
reproduce in a test
console.log() with context
console.logwith colors
console.group
$_and
stepping
line of code in dev tools
breakpoint types
breakpoints
pause on exceptions
disabling
blackboxing
logpoints
snippets
live expressions
proxy overrides
source-map config
source-map deployment
format
performance
dev tools for node
console.log on the client