Debugging

When we are developing a dashboard, we may face problems and we need to know where to look for solutions. Many of the problems we face when developing a dashboard can be identified using the developer tools in your browser.

I usually use Chrome, so the examples here are based on the developer tools of this browser. The version that was used while writing this was 46.0.2490.86 (64-bit). Anyhow, if you are using Firefox, you also have developer tools, or you can install Firebug, a developer tool that does not come installed by default. To be honest, I find the developer tools of Internet Explorer to be very poor, even if they are getting better in the latest versions of the browser. Anyhow, we must use them when we are debugging problems ...

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