The browser console has a count method

#browser #tip #javascript #console

When debugging or analysing JavaScript, you often see people trying to find out how often a certain function is called. The common way to do that is to use a global counter variable to increment and log in the function.

var i = 0;
function test(){
  // other functionality
  i++;
  console.log(i);
  // other functionality
}

There is, however, a better method. The Console of the browser has a count() and countReset() method that event takes a label. That means you can avoid the global.

function bettertest(){
  console.count('bettertest');
}

You can see it in action in this screencast.

Screencast of the two ways to count how often a method was called in comparison

This is part of the standard Console API and should be supported in all browsers.

How I fixed 20 seconds of lag for every user in just 20 minutes.

Our AI agent was running 10-20 seconds slower than it should, impacting both our own developers and our early adopters. See how I used Sentry Profiling to fix it in record time.