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Building Scalable Apps with Redis and Node.js

By : Joshua Johanan
Book Image

Building Scalable Apps with Redis and Node.js

By: Joshua Johanan

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Building Scalable Apps with Redis and Node.js
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Using Chrome Developer Tools


We will need Google Chrome (http://www.google.com/chrome) for this chapter. It is a free download, and if you currently do not have it, install it before proceeding.

Chrome has great developer tools that allow us to see exactly what is going on with the HTML, CSS, and JavaScript on any page. We will introduce tools quickly here before really digging into them later in the chapter. The first thing to do is to get the developer tools to show. The easiest way is to right-click anywhere on a web page and select Inspect Element. A pane should come up from the bottom of the screen by default. There should be eight different tabs across the top of the pane, as shown in the following screenshot:

Note

Google is always updating Chrome and the name, order, and functionality could change at any point in the future. Although, for the most part, the core task of each tab has remained static for a while now.

Elements

The Elements tab allows us to see every HTML element that is on...