If there's any way you can develop and test locally you will save a TON of time. Depending on what server language you're using (PHP, Ruby, etc), you should be able to setup a pretty basic dev environment for testing the AJAX stuff. That way you won't need to upload any files to a server until you are sure they are working.
Firefox & Firebug is pretty much all you will need for testing and debugging. My personal preference for coding almost anything is Textmate (Mac only), Firefox + Firebug On Apr 5, 6:25 am, Jay <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Prototype/javascript gurus, first of all I've gotten some great > help from this forum before so just wanted to say.. > Thanks!! You guys are awesome. > > I was just playing around with script.aculo.usand javascript (BTW, JS > turned out to be much cooler language than I thought) but it got me > thinking about good javascript editor/debugger. > > Right now one of my pain points is this: > debugging my code is pain because first, I need to upload the modified > js file to server (I'm testing things with Ajax so don't know if there > is better way to do this), then open up FF and see if I get: > > 1. javascript syntax error (which happens fairly common for me since > I'm JS novice). > 2. object reference error (logically) (with all the binding and > function passing, I can't always get this right either) > > I'm just using Firebug to do all this and sure, this is great tool but > after writing-uploading-fixing-writing... so many times, I would have > to think there's better way to at least reduce the number of times I'd > have to repeat these steps. I'm just curious what do script.aculo.us > pros use for this purpose. > Thanks in advance. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Prototype & script.aculo.us" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/prototype-scriptaculous?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
