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JavaScript

Posted by Vanessa Clifton
Vanessa Clifton
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What is the point of the console.log command? Nothing happened on the screen?

Why would this be used if the user cannot view it?

1 Answer

Michael Kobela
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Michael Kobela
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Michael Kobela
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Michael Kobela
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It's used for debugging issues with your code. It's only seen within the browser developer tools console window. It's not meant for the normal user. Have you used the dev tools yet?

https://developers.google.com/web/tools/chrome-devtools/open