JavaScript Absolute Beginner's Guide, 2nd Edition

11. Console Logging Basics

In This Chapter

• • Learn how to go beyond alerts for displaying results

• • Understand how the console works

• • Learn the variety of logging solutions you have at your fingertips

When you are writing code, you will often find yourself in one of two situations. One situation is where you wonder if the code you just wrote is going to run at all. In the other situation, you know your code runs, but it isn’t running correctly. There is something wrong...somewhere.

In both of these situations, what you need is some extra visibility into what your code is doing. A timeless approach for bringing this visibility involves ...