Yep. This sounds like a trap to me. But OP sounds like he's not using it that way. Phew. If I were asked to do it on my own laptop, it might be way more obviou

Yep. This sounds like a trap to me. But OP sounds like he's not using it that way. Phew. If I were asked to do it on my own laptop, it might be way more obvious for me to set up some watches or debug certain lines right from VSCode which I already have set up to integrate with Chrome debugging. That's how I most often debug. I've never learned to use those tools on Chrome directly because it's way more convenient to set a break point from my editor. On someone else's laptop, I'm going to reach for console.log because it's a tool I know is there no matter what the browser and what the dev env is on a stranger's laptop. I've worked really hard to never use anything that could be a trap when I am interviewing a candidate. I'd rather do a sort of pair coding for 30 minutes and collaborate on solving a problem together.