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Best development tool for JavaScript

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web development, asp.net...

I have been using VS2012 for about 10 months (my coding career) doing most stuff in the code behind using c# and following oop style.  I enjoy the syntax errors it gives.   I also single step through my code a lot watching (and finding bugs) and re architect stuff after I see what is really happening.

Periodically I have to do something on the client side in javascript, then things really slow down..... My experience is if there is a problem it just silently skips the rest of any javascript code.  In my newness and not knowing how to hook up VS to the javascript functions, I just put in a LOT of alerts to show code flow and variable values.  I wish I could use VS.  I could not find anything reliable on google, all seemed to be personal preference or what someone learned on.

Sorry about the book.  Please point me to "How to hook up VS to debug javascript" or recommend a good tool instead of VS.

Thanks for sharing your experience.
Sam
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Hi,
if it is client script / HTML then I would recommend Visual Studio Code. It's free, has syntax highlighting and much more.
I would also recommend as the other experts Typescript as well as using console.log for debugging.
Just my 2ct
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Thanks all for the input, hope you all had a Happy Thanksgiving.  Sorry for the "neglected". I got last week off, where I went had no computers or cell phones, it was enlightening to be dis-connected for 10 days!

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Sam