Editing in the Chrome debugger

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How do I  dynamically  edit JavaScript code in the Chrome debugger  It s not for me  so I don t have access to the source file  I want to edit code and see what effects they have on the page  in this case stopping an animation from queuing up a bunch of times

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here s a gentle introduction to the js debugger in chrome that i wrote  Maybe it will help others looking for info on this  http   meeech amihod com getting-started-with-javascript-debugging-in-chrome

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You can use  Overrides  in Chrome to persist javascript changes between page loads  even where you aren t hosting the original source    Create a folder under Developer Tools   Sources   Overrides Chrome will ask for permission to the folder  click Allow Edit the file in Sources Page then save  ctrl-s   A purple dot will indicate the file is saved locally

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you can edit the javascrpit files dynamically in the Chrome debugger  under the Sources tab  however your changes will be lost if you refresh the page  to pause page loading before doing your changes  you will need to set a break point then reload the page and edit your changes and finally unpause the debugger to see your changes take effect

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I came across this today  when I was playing around with someone else s website   I realized I could attach a break-point in the debugger to some line of code before what I wanted to dynamically edit  And since break-points stay even after a reload of the page  I was able to edit the changes I wanted while paused at break-point and then continued to let the page load   So as a quick work around  and if it works with your situation    Add a break-point at an earlier point in the script Reload page Edit your changes into the code CTRL   s  save changes  Unpause the debugger

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I was looking for a way to change the script and debug that new script  Way I managed to do that is    Set the breakpoint in the first line of the script you want to change and debug  Reload the page so the breakpoint is being hit Paste your new script and set desired breakpoints in it Ctrl s  and the page will refresh causing that breakpoint in first line to be hit   F8 to continue  and now your newly pasted script replaces original one as long as no redirections and reloads are made

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Pretty easy  go to the  scripts  tab  And select the source file you want and double-click any line to edit it

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This is what you are looking for   1 - Navigate to the Source tab and open the javascript file  2 - Edit the file  right-click it and a menu will appear  click Save and save it locally   In order to view the diff or revert your changes  right-click and select the option Local Modifications    from the menu  You will see your changes diff with respect to the original file if you expand the timestamp shown   More detailed info here  http   www sitepoint com edit-source-files-in-chrome

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Now google chrome has introduce new feature  By Using this feature You can edit you code in chrome browse   Permanent change on code location   For that Press F12 --  Source Tab --  right side  --  File System - in that please select your location of code  and then chrome browser will ask you permission and after that code will be sink with green color  and you can modify your code and it will also reflect on you code location  It means it will Permanent change   Thanks

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Place a breakpoint Right click on the breakpoint and select  Edit breakpoint  Insert your code  Use SHIFT ENTER to create a new line

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You can use the built-in JavaScript debugger in Chrome Developer Tools under the  Scripts  tab  in later versions it s the  Sources  tab   but changes you apply to the code are expressed only at the time when execution passes through them  That means changes to the code that is not running after the page loads will not have an effect  Unlike e g  changes to the code residing in the mouseover handlers  which you can test on the fly   There is a video from Google I O 2010 event introducing other capabilities of Chrome Developer Tools

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If its javascript that runs on a button click  then making the change under Sources Sources  in the developer tools in chrome   and pressing Ctrl  S to save  is enough  I do this all the time    If you refresh the page  your javascript changes would be gone  but chrome will still remember your break points

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Chrome DevTools has a Snippets panel where you can create and edit JavaScript code as you would in an editor  and execute it  Open DevTools  then select the Sources panel  then select the Snippets tab   https   developers google com web tools chrome-devtools snippets

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Just like  mark  s answer  we can create a Snippets in Chrome DevTools  to override the default JavaScript  Finally  we can see what effects they have on the page

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As this is quite popular question that deals with live-editing of JS  I want to point out another useful option  As described by svjacob in his answer      I realized I could attach a break-point in the debugger to some line of code before what I wanted to dynamically edit  And since break-points stay even after a reload of the page  I was able to edit the changes I wanted while paused at break-point and then continued to let the page load    The above solution didn t work for me for quite large JS  webpack bundle - 3 21MB minified version  130k lines of code in prettified version  - chrome crashed and asked for page reloading which reverted any saved changes  The way to go in this case was Fiddler where you can set AutoRespond option to replace any remote resource with any local file from your computer - see this SO question for details   In my case I also had to add CORS headers to fiddler to successfully mock response

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