While following along during a Udemy course I couldn’t figure out why instead of logging it to the console, each time I had an error the Chrome developer tools would go straight to the source tab and show the code.
This was convenient to be able to see where the error happened but this meant I didn’t see the details of the error itself, and it was also annoying since a good chunk of the time I can debug just from the summary without needing to see the code but I couldn’t figure out why it had suddenly started showing up this way.
After I finally got annoyed enough with it, I went in to try and figure out why this had changed. I couldn’t find anything on Google (hard to know what to search for to describe this behavior) but I happened to notice that the pause on exceptions button was blue on the sources tab of the developer tools.
This was the change! After I turned that off the tools returned to the familiar error summary for me. Not sure when I accidentally turned that on but if you run in to the same trouble check it out!
This did provide another way that I could choose to use the tools, if I am working on a project where I need to see the location of the error I can turn this on and not need to click on the file name in the console each time to get there!