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Re:Show HN: Time travel debugger for web development by mattmanser on Wednesday September 15, 2021 @07:19PM (#28545718)
Err, conditional breakpoints are your friend.

Also the GP claims "nobody" uses breakpoints? Everyone in my team uses them all the time.

Suppose it all depends on your language/tool chain, in my experience breakpoints are very commonly used by developers in visual studio.

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Re:Show HN: Time travel debugger for web development by cambaceres on Thursday September 16, 2021 @01:07AM (#28548248)
I assume he referred to breakpoints in the browser.
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Re:Show HN: Time travel debugger for web development by quickthrower2 on Thursday September 16, 2021 @03:41AM (#28549140)
Chrome does conditional breakpoints - just edit the breakpoint and type your condition in - but it massively slows down the page of that code gets hit a lot.

So much so that I prefer to put the condition in my local build as source code then put a normal breakpoint on that after it has rebuilt (a few millseconds with a good watcher)

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Re:Show HN: Time travel debugger for web development by HeavyStorm on Saturday September 18, 2021 @12:17AM (#28573668)
I use it ALL the time. Not sure how people are debugging code nowadays?
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