6 Top Debugging Tools for Angular Developers
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The document discusses six effective debugging tools for Angular developers, emphasizing their importance in addressing bugs and improving application performance. It highlights tools like Angular DevTools, Angular Augury, Chrome Developer Tools, Visual Studio Code Debugger, Zipy, and RxJS DevTools, each offering unique features for debugging and profiling. Overall, these tools enhance the developer experience by simplifying the debugging process and optimizing code functionality.
6 Top Debugging Tools for Angular Developers
- 1. 6 Good Debugging Tools For Angular Bugs are the ultimate nightmares of every developer. Much of their time goes into reading and debugging the code, and Angular developers are no exception. Debugging effectively can be quite a challenge if you don’t know the right tool to use. Zipy is one of the best debugging tools for angular, that brings stack trace, console logs, network calls, session replay capabilities all in one screen. In this blog will share angular debugging tools that all developers should know about. 1. Angular DevTools Angular DevTools is a browser extension that adds angular-specific debugging and profiling capabilities. It enables many features, including component tree visualization, debugging change detection issues, state inspection, and profiling of your application. There is also a profiler tab that will give your insights into the execution of the application. It will show you the individual change detection cycles, their trigger cause, and how much time angular spent in them. Identifying such issues makes it easier to fix them and improve your application. Also, it can jump directly to the source code of your chosen component. We recommend you review the official guide to get a clear idea about how this tool works.
- 2. 2. Angular Augury The second tool making our list is Angular Augury. It is one of the most popular extensions among developers for debugging and profiling applications inside Chrome or Firefox browsers. Augury enables you to visualize the app structure as a tree by showing the relation between the components and their dependencies. It provides immediate insight into an application's structure, change detection, and performance characteristics. Augury has a performance profiler that allows you to identify performance bottlenecks and optimize your application. It is an open-source effort updated regularly to feature compatibility with the latest Angular edition. 3. Chrome Developer Tools Chrome Developer Tools is a developer's comprehensive tool kit built into the chrome browser. It helps the developers visualize the structure and performance of their application and make edits in real time. They allow developers to analyze and inspect their HTML, CSS, and JavaScript network activity and profile the performance. It is also possible for developers to simulate different types of devices and network conditions in order to test their applications under different scenarios. Developers across other frameworks as well rely on Chrome Developer Tools for easy use and support. 4. Visual Studio Code Debugger VS Code is a popular code editor known for providing a built-in debugger for Angular applications. It typically supports launching a program in debugging mode or attaches to a program running in the debug mode. VS Code debugger has tools like breakpoint insertion, call stack viewing, and expression evaluation to help the developers. It enables them to pause execution at specific points to inspect variables, analyse objects for bugs, and make their codes more efficient. This tool supports remote debugging, allowing developers to debug applications on different devices or servers.
- 3. 5. Zipy Debugging is easier with Zipy, a proactive tool that monitors web app user sessions. Additionally, it tracks any errors or exceptions encountered by users. To accomplish this, you can build your web app using Zipy's JavaScript SDK. Zipy starts recording user actions, request-responses, console events, errors and exceptions in the user environment once it has been installed, so developers can proactively address user issues. 6. RxJS DevTools RxJS DevTools is a browser extension that allows you to debug RxJs stream emissions by hooking into the spy library. It provides access to several features like debugging, tracing, and inspecting the RxJS observables. It provides a single utility function for debugging RxJS streams. It is an easy-to-use debugger that integrates well with all angular applications. Wrapping Up: An angular monitoring tool is a developer's best friend as it reduces the time spent searching the bugs to improve the code's functionality. The tools discussed here are some of the most popular tools used by developers for debugging their applications. Using DevTools is beneficial for the developers in many ways as they improve the functionality of the code, reduce development time and enable the developer to deliver reliable applications for a seamless experience.