JavaScript debugging tips

I came across this blog post which provides some very handy tips for debugging JavaScript in the browser.  My favorite top three are:

Display an object in a table format for an easier view

var animals = [
   { animal: ‘Horse’, name: ‘Henry’, age: 43 },
   { animal: ‘Dog’, name: ‘Fred’, age: 13 },
   { animal: ‘Cat’, name: ‘Frodo’, age: 18 }
];
 
console.table(animals);

with this output:

Unminify code as an easy way to debug JavaScript

Custom console log messages

console.todo = function(msg) {
	console.log(‘ % c % s % s % s‘, ‘color: yellow; background - color: black;’, ‘–‘, msg, ‘–‘);
}
 
console.important = function(msg) {
	console.log(‘ % c % s % s % s’, ‘color: brown; font - weight: bold; text - decoration: underline;’, ‘–‘, msg, ‘–‘);
}
 
console.todo(“This is something that’ s need to be fixed”);
console.important(‘This is an important message’);

for this result:

Very handy stuff!