Looking to woo Apple iOS developers, Microsoft is enhancing its Visual Studio Code editor this week with the capability to debug JavaScript code for iOS mobile devices.
The iOS Web Debugger for Visual Studio Code is an extension supported on both Mac and Windows PCs that enables developers to debug JavaScript code running in the Safari browser on iOS devices.
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Until now, the ability to debug websites running on iOS devices has only been available to a subset of developers, said Kenneth Auchenberg, program manager for dev tools and remote debugging at Microsoft. "For example, using the Safari Web Inspector (Safari DevTools) requires an instance of desktop Safari that only is available for MacOS users," he said. "Today, we're enabling mobile web developers to debug JavaScript running on their iOS devices directly from their editor."
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