I am currently debugging complex JavaScript code with Firebug. I am looking for a way to stop the JavaScript execution as if it was a breakpoint programmatically.  Example:  instructions ... degugger.breakpoint(); // the execution stops here as if a...

I am struggling with breakPoint issue in VS 2012 for more than hours. I am from eclipse background, there I never heard about such issues.  Problem :      The breakpoint will not currently be hit. No symbols have been loaded   for this document.   I...

I am not able to use the breakpoint in Studio with Javascript.  I'm able to debug if I use the debugger;    I've seen this Breakpoint not hooked up when debugging in VS.Net 2005 question already.  I tried the answer and it didn't work.  L...

I use Babel and Google Chrome Developer Tools with JavaScript source maps enabled. Given this code  function myFunc(elements) {   return elements     .map(element => element.value)     .filter(value => value >= 0); }   how can I pause execut...

I could be wrong, but I believe the gist of breakpoints is to pause the state of an application, and review it's previous/current state, and cycle through each "breakpoint", to identify holes, bugs, and irregularities.  I was never taught...

I need to stop on breakpoint after page reloading. I put a breakpoint in code but after reload  it's being disabled.  putting  debugger;   in code works fine.  But I was wondering if there is a way to do it in firebug or chrome dev tools....

I want to force the Chrome debugger to break on a line via code, or else using some sort of comment tag such as something like console.break()....

Say I have some JavaScript code like this:  function breakpointInside() { console.log("How do I add a breakpoint here?"); } breakpointInside();   Assume I can't edit the source file. I would like to debug breakpointInside, but I cannot fi...

I'm debugging some 3rd-party minified Javascript that somewhere is triggering a browser page refresh. However, I can't figure out what part of the code is causing the refresh.  Is there a way to put a breakpoint in Chrome that will be hit jus...

Can I put a data breakpoint which triggers if any variable is assigned to a string containing a certain substring?  For example, I want to reverse-engineer how a URL containing &ctoken= is constructed. It's done with complicated JavaScript wh...