Shoutout to the guy who told me to use console.log more

For the first 3 months I was learning JavaScript, I kept guessing why my code broke. I'd stare at the screen for 20 minutes before tweaking one thing. Then a guy on a forum told me to start sprinkling console.log statements everywhere to see what my variables actually held. Now I do that from the start of every script and it saves me hours. Just last week I found a typo in a loop condition in 2 minutes because I logged the counter. Anyone else have a simple habit that changed how they debug?

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alice4453d ago

Honestly, @eva243 might be sarcastic but they're not wrong-using console.log changed everything for me too. Do you find yourself logging everything at the very start now, or do you still try to guess first before reaching for it?

eva2433d ago

Oh wow, you cracked the code of debugging with console.log. Groundbreaking stuff, really.