Visualforce Developer Guide

Introducing Visualforce
Tools for Visualforce Development
Getting a Quick Start with Visualforce
Customizing the Appearance and Output of Visualforce Pages
Standard Controllers
Standard List Controllers
Custom Controllers and Controller Extensions
Advanced Examples
Override Buttons, Links, and Tabs with Visualforce
Using Static Resources
Creating and Using Custom Components
Dynamic Visualforce Bindings
Dynamic Visualforce Components
Integrate Email with Visualforce
Visualforce Charting
Creating Maps with Visualforce
Render Flows with Visualforce
Templating with Visualforce
Developing Salesforce Apps with Visualforce
Adding Visualforce to a Salesforce AppExchange App
Using JavaScript in Visualforce Pages
Using $Component to Reference Components from JavaScript
Using JavaScript Libraries with Visualforce
JavaScript Remoting for Apex Controllers
What Is JavaScript Remoting?
When to Use JavaScript Remoting
Adding JavaScript Remoting to a Visualforce Page
Declaring a Remote Method in Apex
Handling the Remote Response
Debugging JavaScript Remoting
JavaScript Remoting Limits and Considerations
JavaScript Remoting Example
Common Visualforce JavaScript Remoting API Validation Errors
Visualforce Remote Objects
Communicating Across the DOM with Lightning Message Service
Visualforce Best Practices
Standard Visualforce Component Reference
Appendices
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Debugging JavaScript Remoting

Debugging pages that use JavaScript remoting requires you to debug Visualforce, Apex, and JavaScript.

Keep your JavaScript console open during development when using JavaScript remoting. Errors and exceptions encountered by JavaScript remoting are logged to the JavaScript console, if enabled, and are otherwise silently ignored.

Important

When a @RemoteAction method throws an exception due to a programming error or other failure, the Apex stack trace is returned to the browser within the event object. Inspect the stack trace in a JavaScript debugger console or use it in the error handling of your response callback function.

Here’s a callback function that simply displays the stack trace when there’s an exception.