Great points Josh - it's pretty common for new Meteor devs to rely only on console.log - this is a valuable reminder of all the other options for stepping up our debugging game :)
Thanks. I was on the fence about listing testing as another form of debugging. Didn't feel right, but maybe I will write a separate article on that at some point.
It is a neat feature. I also hear that it will persist changes from node-inspector web interface back to your code itself... I didn't mention in the article as I didn't have time to confirm it myself.
Yeah, I am thinking of adding a debugging section as a PR to the Meteor docs.
I've been playing with Meteor since 0.5 and only recently discovered the WebStorm IDE. I HIGHLY recommend it even for personal projects. It has built in support for meteor, and gives you a truly powerful debugging environment. You can set breakpoints and examine the state of the app (var values, etc...) while viewing the console within the IDE itself. It also has a Chrome plugin that allows the IDE to launch and debug apps in the browser.
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Thanks for reading everyone!
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