Firefox Debugger and DevTools (Interview)

Jason Laster joined the show to talk about Firefox Debugger and DevTools. We talked about the backstory of Firefox, Firebug, the new Debugger.html, why React and Redux made a good fit to develop Debugger as a standalone application, community efforts, and getting started.

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Featuring:

• Jason Laster – Website, GitHub, X
• Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
• Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

Show Notes:

• The Recurse Center
• A quick history of Firefox DevTools
• Firebug
• Web Developer (Add-on)
• 3D view
• Issue #544 - James Long and Jason Laster of the mozilla debugger.html project - thanks Bryan Clark
• Firefox Developer Tools
• WebIDE
• XUL Tutorial
• Firefox Debugger
• debugger.html Homepage and readme
• Firefox DevTools on GitHub
• GDB: The GNU Project Debugger
• Reactide - the first dedicated IDE for React web application development
• The Changelog #242: The Burden of Open Source with James Long

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!