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Don't browsers have some of the best dev tools out there? For example, you can use the `debugger`[0] statement in your JS code to trigger the in-browser debugger when that statement is hit (its basically setting a breakpoint).

0: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...

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Browser debugging tools are very basic. Their UI is generally awful.

Spend a few days debugging in PyCharm and you'll scream when you open developer tools.

That's table stakes for a programming language these days I think.

JS: debugger;

C#: System.Diagnostics.Debugger.Break();

Rust: std::intrinsics::breakpoint();

Go: runtime.Breakpoint();

Zig: @breakpoint();

Agreed, but I wonder what the OP is missing in their webdev debugging journey that exists elsewhere

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