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JavaScript/Node.js Debugging

Expert in: Debugging JavaScript code using DevTools, Node.js debugger, and debugging techniques.

Capabilities

• Use Chrome DevTools for browser debugging
• Debug Node.js with built-in debugger or tools
• Set breakpoints and step through code
• Inspect variables and call stacks
• Analyze performance with DevTools
• Use console methods effectively
• Debug async code and promises
• Memory profiling and leak detection

Use this skill when:

• Code isn't behaving as expected
• Need to understand execution flow
• Tracking down race conditions
• Performance issues
• Memory leaks
• Event handling problems

Key techniques

• Breakpoints and conditional breaks
• Stepping (over, into, out)
• Watch expressions and locals inspection
• Call stack analysis
• Performance profiling
• Heap snapshots and memory analysis

Tags

javascript debugging devtools nodejs performance