Now, another cool thing about the console is that we have access to the variables created by our application; most notably the socket variable. This means that inside Google Chrome, in the developer console, we can call socket.emit and we emit whatever we like.
I can emit an action, createEmail, and I can pass in some data as the second argument, an object where I have a to attribute equal to julie@example.com. I have my other attributes too—something like text, which I can set equal to Hey:
socket.emit('createEmail', {to: 'julie@example.com', text: 'Hey'});
This is an example of how we can use the developer console to make debugging our app even easier. We can type a statement, hit enter, and it's going ...
