Core: debugging advice?

[tobyhodges]

I'd like to see some advice about how to debug JS near the start of the book. Probably in Core?

I learned about debugger last week and can see how that might be very useful for debugging things in the browser. I would love to hear other suggestions from people with more JS experience than I.

[tobyhodges]

Should we do this?

What have we learned about strategies for debugging JS?

[gvwilson]

console.log is my friend. Some days, it's my only friend...

[erictleung]

This isn't peer-reviewed advice, but Julia Evans has been working on a zine on debugging (see https://twitter.com/b0rk/status/1146159551315677189). There's a blog post of theirs that talks about debugging, but at a general level, rather than specific for JS https://jvns.ca/blog/2019/06/23/a-few-debugging-resources/. It could possibly be used and translated for JS-specifics.