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by SyrupThinker 1052 days ago
Using a `debugger;` statement allows you to trigger a breakpoint with code.

This only gets activated when the devtools window is opened, so placing this statement in a frequently executed piece code will continuously interrupt whatever you are doing in the devtools when you use them.

I assume in the past the tooling might not have had the necessary configuration options to suppress that, but nowadays you can just disable debugger statement breakpoints to avoid it.