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Ask HN: Debugging JavaScript

3 pointsyannis5 comments

I have been debugging JavasScript so far using:

   - A sprinkling of assert() and log () statements through my code
   
   - Firebug (but since the new versions of FF keeps giving me problems)

Recently I have been working mostly in Chrome, while developing and I find their inspector of limited use.

Is there a better way? What are HN members using?

compares IE8, firebug, dragonfly. I think i'll need to familiarize with IE 8 Dev Tools. Opera, not sure about

I've found Venkman quite reasonable: www.mozilla.org/projects/venkman.

Thanks I will give it a try.

I am using: - Firebug for FireFox - Microsoft Visual Web Developer 2008 for IE (6+7+8) - Dragonfly for Opera

I'm partial to Safari 4's Web Inspector. It's what Chrome's Web Inspector is based on, only much more powerful.