Hello,
I'm reading David Flanagan's "JavaScript: The Definitive Guide, 6th ed".
It only actually tells users how to run JS code on page 311, where users are told of the following solutions:
"Client-side JavaScript code is embedded within HTML documents in four ways:
Inline, between a pair of <script> and </script> tags
From an external file specified by the src attribute of a <script> tag
In an HTML event handler attribute, such as onclick or onmouseover
In a URL that uses the special javascript: protocol
."
I was wondering what professional JS developers use to write and test their code: Do they use a good text editor with syntax high-lighting + autocompletion, hit F5 in the browser to reload the page every time they make a change, and use some add-on in the browser to investigate errors? Or are there full-fledged IDE's similar to MS VisualStudio for non-web languages?
Thank you.
Edit: For instance, I wrote this piece of code, which doesn't work (nothing displayed on screen when calling index.html), but Firefox doesn't display any error. How would I go trying to understand why it's not working?
//mycode.js
<script>
function myfunc(){
alert("hello");
}
</script>
//index.html
<html>
<head>
<script language="JavaScript" src="mycode.js">
</script>
</head>
<body>
<script language="JavaScript">
myfunc();
</script>
</body>
</html>
Thank you.
