Browser dev tools

All modern browsers now come with some flavor of development tools, or dev tools as they are commonly referred to. With dev tools, you can perform a variety of tasks, such as view the source of a page, debug and step through the code of a site, or watch network traffic to see what happens as the code executes, to name a few. Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Chrome, all have dev tools, but here we will be discussing Chrome's dev tools, as they are some of the easiest, most complete, and most intuitive to learn and use.

Don't let the dev tools intimidate you. My son was inspecting pages and checking out the JavaScript behind them in Chrome when he was in the fourth grade. Blew my mind.

Let's say you have a web mapping application ...

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