I saw BenCodeZen debugging some snippet of Javascript code he wrote in a dataviewjs section. Doing this he opened the “developer tools”. But I don’t understand how to manage this in Obsidian under Windows. I can’t find any feature in the settings doing this. Can you help me?
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The Developer Tools can be opened on windows with the shortcut:
Ctrl + Shift + I
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Thank you. Next time I will ask earlier 
Some more context for others finding this: Obsidian is made using Electron, basically the Chrome browser. And because it’s a browser we can use Chrome’s Developer tools to debug Obsidian.
More information about the Chrome Dev Tools: Chrome DevTools - Chrome Developers
Hi,
I am very interested in learning how to debug JavaScript snippets of DataviewJS or Templater, but I am not sure how to get started. While I have some beginner knowledge of JavaScript, I have no experience with the console.
Here are my questions:
- Do you have any tips on how to get started?
- When I look at the Obsidian console, I see error messages like this:
but I don’t understand them. - Is it possible to set breakpoints in a Templater or DataviewJS snippet? With this, I could at least identify the location where the code has an error.
Thank you in advance,
Silias
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