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๐Ÿ”ฅ Debugging Frontend Apps inside VS Code!

Did you know that we can also debug client-side, frontend code right from VS Code, using its powerful built-in debugger? ๐Ÿคฏ

In this 94-second video, we'll use the Chrome debugger extension to debug an event handler in a React app.

Although the demo is in React, the same knowledge applies to any frontend apps! ๐Ÿฅณ


This video is part of my new 6-minute crash course series on YouTube ๐Ÿ‘‰ Debugging in VS Code ๐Ÿ”ฅ

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Francois K

๐Ÿ”ฅ ๅŽ‰ๅฎณ !

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hexrcs

๐Ÿ’–

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Guilherme Orcezi

Awesome! I will use it.

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John Eric

That was awesome๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ

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hexrcs

Thanks, glad you like it!

It's super handy to debug right in the code editor, instead of popping up the devtools in the browser, head to the source panel, identify which line to set a breakpoint at...

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Daset

I would appreciate your content in the article with optional external link to the video