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JavaScript

Erwan EL
Erwan EL
7,669 Points
Posted by Erwan EL
Erwan EL
7,669 Points

Can anyone explain simply the difference between console.log, console.dir and console.error

Hi i tried all in this course at multiples occasion and i don't really see a difference. Read the documentation too but if anybody can explain it here, could be great.

Gal Paz
Gal Paz
11,272 Points

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11954152/whats-the-difference-between-console-dir-and-console-log

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1 Answer

Jordan Watson
Jordan Watson
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Jordan Watson
Jordan Watson
14,738 Points

Console.log([1,2,3]) Would usually spit out a string if its not an object thats being logged so in the example it would be "[1,2,3]", console.dir([1,2,3]) would spit out a tree of the array structured so ARRAY: 0: [1], 1:[2], 2: [3]. good place to check for more documentation is Mozilla MDN A lot of documentation on this can be found there.