Javascript Tools

[Roger Schaad]

Hello,

Along the years our development environment has seen quite a few enhanced, specially since the arrival of .NET web development. The VS editor, syntax highlighting, auto complete, debugging, etc.. are all tools that help us write better solutions, quicker. What I am still missing is a set of tools to edit, manage, debug these little javascript code fragment. As all your controls generate quite a few javascripts, I was wondering what tools you use internally while elaborating these scripts ? Some recommendations ?

Cheers
Roger

[Chris]

Hi Roger,
We use VS.NET 2003 for javascript development. It doesn't provide very good code auto completion but as we know there isn't such IDE as JavaScript is a very tricky language especially when it comes to DHTML and multiple browsers support. As for debugging javascript code VS.NET provides a slick way for doing this using the "debug" keyword which you could place anywhere in your javascript.
e.g.
testFunc1();
debug
testFunc2();
We hope this helps.

Have a nice day,
Chris
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[Roger Schaad]

Hi Chris,

Thanks for the answer. I am also using VS.NET (both 2003 and 2005) but as you say, javascript can be pretty tricky, but we can't do without it.

Take care
Roger

[Shane Milton]

Roger (and others),

You might want to take a look at this tool:
http://www.nikhilk.net/Project.WebDevHelper.aspx

It has some very nice uses though is a bit cumbersome to get installed for the first time.  Be sure to read the documentation on how to install it or you will mess it up.  :P

[armand datema]

There are better ways of debugging javascript as wel as some other tools

Venkman is a good tool to start with

http://www.mozilla.org/projects/venkman/

for more detailed usage info

http://www.svendtofte.com/code/learning_venkman/

and the venkman faq

http://www.hacksrus.com/~ginda/venkman/faq/venkman-faq.html