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Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Troubleshooting

Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Wes Bos

Tech News, News, Technology

4.91.2K Ratings

🗓️ 24 November 2021

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Syntax, Scott and Wes talk about ways they troubleshoot issues with their code. LogRocket - Sponsor LogRocket lets you replay what users do on your site, helping you reproduce bugs and fix issues faster. It's an exception tracker, a session re-player and a performance monitor. Get 14 days free at logrocket.com/syntax. Freshbooks - Sponsor Get a 30 day free trial of Freshbooks at freshbooks.com/syntax and put SYNTAX in the "How did you hear about us?" section. Mux - Sponsor Mux Video is an API-first platform that makes it easy for any developer to build beautiful video. Powered by data and designed by video experts, your video will work perfectly on every device, every time. Mux Video handles storage, encoding, and delivery so you can focus on building your product. Live streaming is just as easy and Mux will scale with you as you grow, whether you're serving a few dozen streams or a few million. Visit mux.com/syntax. Show Notes 01:13 Furniture shortages 02:29 Managing stuff 03:05 Basic troubleshooting skills are missing 06:09 Sanity check CodePen Codesandbox 08:05 Isolate the issue 08:57 Commenting out code is free 12:17 Replicate the issue 15:07 Svelte and VS Code error Svelte VS Code 17:02 Wes' course upgrades Parcel 2 Patch package 18:07 Sponsor: Logrocket 19:15 Rollback 20:30 Reading the error message Syntax 47 - How to Get Better at Debugging Syntax 152 - Debugging Tools 23:59 Crack open the node modules directory 26:06 Sponsor: Freshbooks 27:29 Write step by step comments to the code 29:01 Consider outside sources 30:56 Using the right tools for the job 33:19 Rubber ducking it 34:16 Wes' Big Mouth Bass story 37:20 Scott's blown away by his leaf blower 39:56 Copy paste a message into Google Twitter - What are your tips for troubleshooting code or a system that doesn't work? 41:33 Logs and metrics 42:36 CI CD issues and Error Handler 43:41 Using a step debugger 44:24 Explain what's happening to someone else 45:31 Read the documentation 47:05 Take a break, have a cuppa 48:42 Sponsor: Mux 50:57 SIIIIICK PIIICKS 57:05 Shamless plugs Links @jimbomoso - Do you know of any resources for developing/improving code trouble shooting? ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Scott: Forehead Wes: EGO EXINNO 240W/120W Chargers Shameless Plugs Scott: Astro Course - Sign up for the year and save 25%! Wes: All Courses - Use the coupon code 'Syntax' for $10 off! Tweet us your tasty treats Scott's Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes' Instagram Wes' Twitter Wes' Facebook Scott's Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

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0:00.0

You're listening to syntax the podcast with the tastiest web development treats out there strap yourself in and get ready. Here is God to Lensky and West boss.

0:11.0

Welcome to syntax the best podcast in the world.

0:15.0

I love it.

0:19.0

It's pretty good. We are doing an episode today on troubleshooting and that is a question that we got from let's see who was.

0:28.0

Jimbo Mosso on Twitter said do you have any resources for developing or improving code troubleshooting and this is a huge skill we've done a show in the past on debugging, which was more technical than this show is going to be and this is going to be just on like the skill of troubleshooting.

0:46.0

And also I think this is just a light life skill in general as being able to anything in life goes wrong and breaks or whatever being able to figure out what that thing is and help yourself narrow narrow it down.

1:00.0

So we are going to get into all that we are sponsored by three awesome companies today.

1:05.0

Fresh books cloud accounting log rocket JavaScript session replay and max video hosting transcoding on the fly will talk about all them partway through the episode.

1:15.0

How you doing today, Mr Scott to Lensky.

1:18.0

Oh, I'm doing good.

1:20.0

I had a very productive weekend getting a house finally in order.

1:24.0

You know, it's moving in with kids moving with kids has been very tough during a pandemic and all that stuff like it still feel not to mention the fact that you know there's like global furniture shortages so everything that we've ordered for our house is like not existing.

1:40.0

So like actually West we have two two beds in our bedroom right now because our current mattress is super old and tiny.

1:47.0

So we got a new bed and a new mattress and the bed came but the mattress has not come and it's been there for two weeks now just taunting us just saying hey look at this giant new bed that you get to have but you can just sit in there.

2:01.0

Did you get a king?

2:03.0

Yeah, we got a king.

2:05.0

I just even having a new well the dog sleep in the bed too and one of our dogs she's she's not huge but she takes up some space and it's just like dang this is feeling a little tight in here.

2:17.0

But yeah, we got the house feel in order and so we just grind it on that thing on this weekend and just trying to make the house feel a little bit more homie decorating and stuff.

2:30.0

Yeah, hang in stuff up. Yeah, it's look good. I saw some of your photos on Instagram. Yeah, yeah, we spent a bunch of a bunch of time this weekend as well just cleaning up the house and it's crazy with kids, especially kids stuff.

2:43.0

I was telling him it's amazing how much of your time is just managing stuff like it like shout out to the minimalist out there because like we spent I spent time balling my kids socks and selling toys and figuring out what boots don't fit them anymore.

2:59.0

And which ones can be used by our cousins and like they got so much stuff. Yeah, they got too much stuff. Yeah.

3:06.0

All right, how do you troubleshoot something? How do you when something goes wrong?

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