Javascript Absolute Beginner's Guide, 3rd Edition

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

In both of these situations, what we need is some extra visibility into what our code is doing. A timeless approach for bringing this visibility involves the alert function: ...