Spent 3 hours debugging because I forgot a single semicolon in my JavaScript

I was working on a small project to make a button change colors, and my code just wouldn't run. I checked the logic, the function names, everything I could think of. Turns out, I missed a semicolon on line 17, and the error message in the console was not helpful at all. Has anyone else lost a huge chunk of time to a tiny syntax error like that?

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keith_rivera1915d ago

Honestly three hours seems like a lot for one semicolon. You gotta learn to read the actual error messages, they usually point you close to the problem.

finley_price2415d ago

Read the error messages" is easy to say. What do you do when they just point to a blank line?

taylor_miller1015d ago

Check the lines around it. The error might be on a different line than it says. Sometimes the compiler just gets confused.