Chapter 7. Tools for debugging Cordova and other hybrid apps

This chapter covers

  • Why debugging is so important
  • Debugging Cordova apps on Android
  • Debugging Cordova apps on iOS
  • Debugging with Weinre

I’ve been programming in some capacity or another since I was around 10 years old. In the 30 years or so of coding I’ve yet to write a computer program 100% correctly the first time. I hope to program for another 30 years, but I have no illusion about my ability to start writing perfect programs.

7.1. Finding the bug is nine-tenths the work of solving it

The absolute most important thing a developer can learn is how to properly debug an application. Things will go wrong. Period. Being able to determine the particular thing going wrong will ...

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