On Debugging and the Firefox Debugger

Script & Style - A podcast by Todd Gardner and David Walsh

Categories:

Technology

Showing Love

  • debugger community
  • Rey bango, (others) helped get me into Mozilla
  • MDN, my go to when I don’t understand JavaScript.
  • Google and StackOverflow. When the docs just aren’t good enough
  • Twitter: When I’m ragey and I need to tell people on the Internet they’re wrong
  • Meetups, wafflejs
  • Nicolas Zackas, ESLint
  • AST Explorer, the nerdiest!

Main Topic: Firefox Debugger

  • Jason: “The term debugging is terrible”
  • “We want to understand our creations”
  • What tools can we use? Firefox DevTools, Chrome DevTools, TrackJS
  • What is the hardest bug you’ve ever had to debug?
    • Todd: building a debugging tool to solve old android issues
    • Logan: debugging async flow of data.
    • Jason: debugging the debugger with webreplay to rewind your debugging

Coming soon to Firefox DevTools Debugger

  • Log points
  • Better breakable location information (“specificity”)
  • Column breakpoints
  • Event listener breakpoints
  • XHR Breakpoints
  • WebReplay

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