Every developer knows this situation: You're writing your code, hammering your keyboard all day long. Your code seems to work. Until it doesn't. Either it's not working as expected at all or only in some situations.
You try to find the problem. You have a close look at the code. But nothing seems wrong! So why the heck is this happening?
With time you will have found debugging strategies to deal with these kinds of problems. You will have some intuition that tells you where to look.
But for beginners, code that's not working can feel like a black hole. You don't know where to start. You're poking around and maybe, if you're lucky, you find a solution. But that can take hours or days.
At the beginning of my career, it was always great to learn by watching more experienced people doing their work. This is why I want to share the way I debugged a problem that another developer had in their project.
Be aware that debugging is not always a linear process. All roads lead to Rome. Some developers have a very logical step by step debugging process. Some are rather chaotic and jump around to find leads.
You can read this post like a protocol of the debugging process for this particular problem. I recommend you follow along step by step for better understanding. Simply clone this repository as a starting point.
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