Faster Smarter JavaScript Debugging in Firefox DevTools

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2019/05/faster-smarter-javascript-debugging-in-firefox/

by headalgorithm • 7 years ago

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neetodavid• 7 years ago

Cool to see logpoints. In Chrome dev tools you can write console.log messages inside of a conditional breakpoint to get quick logging. You can also do any other scripting in there. I've sometimes used conditional breakpoints to assign values to variables to probe past null references and test things out...

danShumway• 7 years ago

I realize it's an insanely complicated feature, but is there any progress at all being made on live script modifications?

For years, it's been the feature I miss most from Chrome -- the ability to throw a breakpoint, edit the code that I'm looking at in the debugger, and then resume running with the new code. I'm never going to be able to switch 100% to Firefox dev tools as long as Chrome is the only browser with that feature.

Am I the only person who relies on this? I rarely see it brought up anymore, so it makes me wonder if with jsx and precompilers, people just don't use live editing as much as they used to. There must be some reason why more people aren't asking for it.

I know that at one point a couple years ago Mozilla was working on this, but since then I've heard nobody talking about it or giving progress updates of any kind.

Faster Smarter JavaScript Debugging in Firefox DevTools

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