Jason Laster joined the show to talk about Firefox Debugger and DevTools. We talked about the backstory of Firefox, Firebug, the new Debugger.html, why React and Redux made a good fit to develop Debugger as a standalone application, community efforts, and getting started.

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Featuring:

• Jason Laster – Twitter, GitHub, Website
• Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
• Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn

Show Notes:

• The Recurse Center
• A quick history of Firefox DevTools
• Firebug
• Web Developer (Add-on)
• 3D view
• Issue #544 - James Long and Jason Laster of the mozilla debugger.html project - thanks Bryan Clark
• Firefox Developer Tools
• WebIDE
• XUL Tutorial
• Firefox Debugger
• debugger.html Homepage and readme
• Firefox DevTools on GitHub
• GDB: The GNU Project Debugger
• Reactide - the first dedicated IDE for React web application development
• The Changelog #242: The Burden of Open Source with James Long

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!