Summary
At the time of writing this, Chrome has, in my opinion, the best developer tools. We can capture, track, and inspect almost anything about a web page. Firefox, Opera, Safari, and Internet Explorer all have developer tools that would have blown away any developer a few years ago. The fact that there are multiple great browsers makes right now a great time to be a web developer.
In this chapter, we looked at how to view the network exchange between browser and server. Then, we looked at debugging. We can debug JavaScript on both the server and browser. Finally, we looked at profiling the CPU and memory. Both of these resources are becoming more and more important to track as JavaScript applications become larger and longer lived.
This concludes ...
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