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🦸 Supercharge your debugging skills with the console.trace

Ravin Rau on December 13, 2024

Summary šŸ” What's your debugging superpower? Mine was discovering console.trace() - it turned hours of debugging into minutes by revealin...
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Rohit Khokhar •

I'm a big fan of articles about console.trace()—thanks for sharing this!

When debugging, I often use console.trace() within a conditional breakpoint. Since it doesn’t have a return value, it won’t pause execution like a debugger would, but it allows me to add trace logs almost anywhere. This is especially helpful when working with third-party libraries interacting with my code, as it doesn’t require recompiling.

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Ravin Rau •

Thank you very much @rohitkhokhar, I am surprised that many people were not talking about the console.trace and there weren't many articles about it either. So I decided to do a write-up and share about it.

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Rohit Khokhar •

That's great! Keep it up!

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Samuel Rouse •

I love to see articles about console.trace()! Thanks for posting this!

When troubleshooting I sometimes put console.trace() in a conditional breakpoint. Because it has no return value, it doesn't pause like a debugger but allows you to add tracing almost anywhere – even in third-party libraries that may be interacting with your code – without recompiling.

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Ravin Rau •

Oh wow, that is a wonderful trick—conditional breakpoint and console.trace. Thank you very much for sharing this. Will give it a try.

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Ravin Rau •

Thank you very much @hosseinyazdi for the tool recommendation. Will look into those too.

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Souvik Kar Mahapatra •

Have recently started using console.trace(), often use when I'm trying to track down complex issues, especially when dealing with nested function calls or multiple services interacting or recursive calls. Great post btw :)

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Ravin Rau •

Thank you very much @souvikinator. Yup, it is always handy when it comes to tracking down the nested function calls or multiple service interacting.

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Gabriel Rowan •

Nice, I didn't know about console.trace - thanks! šŸ˜„

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Ravin Rau •

Thank you very much @gabriel_rowan_1b96f237438, hope now you know about console.trace you will enjoy using it while debugging.

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Nagesh Gunji •

Thanks for sharing this

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Ravin Rau •

Thank you very much @nagesh_gunji_7020fb5d963d

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Abdullah Nadir •

Thanks for sharing ā£ļø

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Ravin Rau •

Thank you very much @abdullah_nadir.

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CB •

Thank you for this! I will try this at work :)

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Ravin Rau •

Thank you very much, do try and tell me how it improved your debugging experiences.

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BIPIN KUMAR SINHA •

Thanks... nicely explain.

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Ravin Rau •

Thank you very much @bipin_kumarsinha_39ea823

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Annavajjala Niketh sandiliya •

Thank you for sharing this

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Ravin Rau • • Edited

Thank you very much @annavajjala_nikethsandil . 😁

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Amit Kumar •

Thanks for sharing. Reading the other comments, about the conditional breakpoint alongside, seems really useful for debugging, will try it out.