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Most people don't know all the tools at their disposal, or how to use them. I certainly don't and I consider myself above average in this regard.

Chrome DevTools has that issue since it's always changing, adding new things, and they're not discoverable/learnable from inside of it.

If you had a drawer of 50 kitchen implements, would you even think to search for the mandoline slicer if you didn't already know about it?




You are right. But what I wanted to say is, some people stick to very basic tools, even after you show them more convenient tools like a sharp knife with a firm handle and a knife sharpener. Often the switching part of the process seems to big of a hassle.


Yeah, I've shown the junior devs a dozen times how to set up breakpoints in VSCode and they still opt to console.log everything instead


I'm junior myself and this is so weird.


Chrome dev tools are an engineering marvel; the downside is it’s quite hard to find the perfectly shaped tool.

I spent about a week tracking down a memory leak in our web app. About 5 days in I discovered you could compare heap snapshots which led to the root cause of a chrome bug with hidden classes. The fix was to move object spread to the bottom of an object literal.

Here’s the bug. It was a fun one to hunt: https://crbug.com/v8/13303




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