Most web developers are familiar with some of the available developer tools out there in various browsers at this point. However, most people don’t use them anywhere near their full potential. The goal of this post is to explore the javascript console in a bit of detail, describing some of the features and techniques of using it, but without duplicating effort on the part of some other good blog posts. I’m sure I’ll miss some items that people deem appropriate or necessary, so please feel free to fill in the gaps in the comments below. I’ll mostly be speaking from the context of the Chrome developer tools, unless I specify otherwise, as I find them to be one of the more (if not the most) robust offerings currently. Continue reading →