When developing in JavaScript, I always get a little annoyed about the lack of a debug console on iOS. And when I say ‘lack’ I mean the complete ass backwards obfuscation introduced in iOS 6, requiring you to physically hook your iPhone to your (Mac only!) development computer to view debug output. This approach, including various remote debuggers that are out there, is much too tedious when you simply need to view a value, see the contents of an object or – more likely – see the error message(s) your script caused, indicating why it isn’t working in the first place.

To that goal, I have developed mobileConsole; a JavaScript console for mobile devices. Lees verder »