I've found that, due to the prevalence of race conditions in the codebase I'm working in (due to lots and lots of async calls; it's Javascript), the debugger of

I've found that, due to the prevalence of race conditions in the codebase I'm working in (due to lots and lots of async calls; it's Javascript), the debugger often exacerbates and hides the problem more than it illuminates. As a result, the debugger has ended up as a desperation tool rather than as a first-choice... and even then often doesn't tell me anything useful.