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Sonyl Nagale
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Chicago-born, Iowa-raised, Los Angeles-seasoned, and now New York City-flavored, Sonyl Nagale started his career as a graphic designer focusing on web, which led down the slippery slope to becoming a full-stack technologist instead. With an eye toward the client use case and conversation with the creative side, he prides himself on taking a holistic approach to software engineering. Having worked at start-ups and global media companies using a variety of languages and frameworks, he likes solving new and novel challenges. Passionate about education, he's always excited to have great teachable moments complete with laughter and seeing the Aha! moments in students eyes.
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Using debuggers and other tools

Many web developers choose to use Google Chrome as their browser of choice as it provides a wealth of developer tools out of the box. If Chrome is not your browser of choice, here are a few browsers that have developer tools that are similar.

Safari

Safari ships with developer mode off by default, so if you use Safari, toggle the Develop menu in the Advanced pane in the preferences at the bottom:

Figure 9.7 - Adding the Develop Menu to Safari

Now, you'll have a Develop menu with tools that may render error messages slightly differently than Chrome, but that are still accessible.

Internet Explorer and Microsoft Edge

With all sincerity and only a little bit of prejudice, I would recommend not using Internet Explorer or Microsoft Edge for JavaScript development. It is important to test your code cross-browser, but I find the developer tools provided in IE and Edge to be lacking. For example, let's take a look at the exact same page in Edge&apos...

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Sonyl Nagale

Chicago-born, Iowa-raised, Los Angeles-seasoned, and now New York City-flavored, Sonyl Nagale started his career as a graphic designer focusing on web, which led down the slippery slope to becoming a full-stack technologist instead. With an eye toward the client use case and conversation with the creative side, he prides himself on taking a holistic approach to software engineering. Having worked at start-ups and global media companies using a variety of languages and frameworks, he likes solving new and novel challenges. Passionate about education, he's always excited to have great teachable moments complete with laughter and seeing the Aha! moments in students eyes.
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