I have a Mac and am going to be spending a lot of time without internet/wifi.
Are there any off-line applications for Mac to practice Javascript? (I’m a total beginner, so for all I know maybe there is already something on my Macbook Pro?)
I just want to see what I’m outputting to the console as I write practice code (it wouldn’t involve linking to anything). Thank you
Well you could download a few pdf files?
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Your web browser and a text editor are good enough. You don’t need an internet connection to print to the browser console.
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you also could use the terminal :3 it’s build in your mac
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If you have some pdf books with U as @KittyKora said, there won’t be anything you need to practice JS. Just open up ur browser and open devtools from there on the console you can practice offline.
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@KittyKora Thanks- it sounds like this is a good suggestion but I totally don’t understand it. I download a pdf and then @bitzs-alex said I open Devtools? What kinds of pdfs? Sorry I’m a total beginner, I’ve never even opened Devtools before. Are the PDFs specifically Javascript books?
Look @El_Escandalo just download any JS books that U r interested and read the book while U r reading if U want to practice open Ur browser then after open DevTools, on the DevTools U find a console tab click on it the U can practice there by writing any JS codes.
I think now I made myself clear
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Also @El_Escandalo if you need any references I find really helpful Dash where you can download DocSets for any languages you want to have offline and it has a really handy search functionality, and well to practise just use the console of Chrome (F12 to open it) which is really a good way to start 
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Dev tools is already on your MAC. any pdf books about JS u like really.
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@El_Escandalo you might having trouble using web developer console, it hard to get used to it, I found it hard to practice on it. But I’ve been exploring to get a better environment to easily practice JS like a code editor or something and I found an amazing tool in Firefox Developer browser, am currently using the updated version I don’t know it would work with older versions. Let me walk you how it would be easy to use, here are the steps:
- click menu then navigate to web developer
- click on web console menu item
- then when the console pops up you will find a small button in top right corner of your console that says switch to multi-line editor mode, click it
- then you will get a brand new code editor for JS to practice on. you can write as many lines of code like any code editor and if you want to run your code just simply hit the Run button found at the top of your code editor
I found it cool, I don’t know what your feeling would be but let me know if it helps you, it helped me a lot rather than like coding in an editor then navigate back to the browser then refreshing the browser to be able to see the change.
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@bitzs-alex Thanks so much!!! I will try this out. Yes I went to Web Dev. Console and found it a bit overwhelming… I will try this out!
@bitzs-alex I followed your instructions but still had difficulties. I found the Firefox console but I can’t find the multi-line editor (and after Googling most people seemed to say it doesn’t exist?). I did find the “scratchpad” which seemed promising as I can write multi-line code in there. But when I do it still logs nothing. I’m not sure what I’m doing wrong?
The Scratchpad doesn’t show the result of logging values. You can see them in the separate Console tab in the dev tools.
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@El_Escandalo firstly I said am using Firefox Developer Edition not regular Firefox browser, and If you already installed the Developer edition and have difficulties where the multi-line console switcher button found, I attached you an image to show you where it is found
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Ok thanks, sorry about that, I misunderstood
You can use Visual Studio Code and also, in your mac, there should be a built-in app called Script Editor. It can hold JS files.
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