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Browsers and tools

Browsers and tools - JavaScript Tutorial

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Browsers and tools

- [Narrator] Let's talk about the other essential tool when working with JavaScript on the web, your browser. We're going to talk about the intersection between browsers and their various developer tools, that is the tools that help you see what's happening with JavaScript and other web technologies on the pages. The first thing I want to say is for now just pick one. I'm going to give you several options but really any web browser that you're using right now, probably has some tools built in. And you can just use whatever you're comfortable with. As you progress and get into professional work, becoming at least passingly familiar with all of them will help you, but to start one is fine. In this course, I'll be using Firefox a lot. It's available on every platform and has web developer tools built right in. Here in the Tools menu, there is a Web Developer item and I can choose Toggle Tools to open them up. The key command for…

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