In this episode of Syntax, Scott and Wes talk about debugging — tools, techniques, and the mindset needed to debug a problem and get through it as quickly as possible.
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Show Notes
1:41 - Tools
21:49 - Network requests
- Doesn’t take place in your site/dom, so might not always have all info in your console, debugger
- Network tab in dev tools shows you all requests going in and out of your app
- Filters by type, sees length in request
- Sees headers, responses and more
- Failed requests will be red
26:50 - Debugging mindset
- Check different browsers
- Check the docs/examples
- Isolate when possible
- “What has changed?”
- Get minimal working code
- Rubber Duck Debug
- Step back and re-think
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