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Object colors with a plurality of parameters

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Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
42/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
javascript
Domain
devtools

Research direction

Reproduce the two debug calls shown in the issue and compare their formatted output. Trace the handling of multiple arguments and object-property colorization in the JavaScript debugging utility; done means the object values retain their colors when a string argument precedes the object.

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Description

question

When one does

debug({a:1, b:2});

the object properties' values are printed with colours

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but when one does

debug("string", {a:1, b:2});

colours are gone

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just FYI

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