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•Created by EndergamerMC on 6/27/2023 in #djs-questions

Pagination error

Once you find a place where your expectations don't match reality, you should go backwards through the code and find where those variables are modified

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DIAdiscord.js - Imagine an app

•Created by EndergamerMC on 6/27/2023 in #djs-questions

Pagination error

then compare with what they actually are

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DIAdiscord.js - Imagine an app

•Created by EndergamerMC on 6/27/2023 in #djs-questions

Pagination error

in the demonstrated case, what do you expect each of these values to be the first time this line gets executed?

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DIAdiscord.js - Imagine an app

•Created by EndergamerMC on 6/27/2023 in #djs-questions

Pagination error

const buttonIndex = startIndex + index + 1;

const buttonIndex = startIndex + index + 1;

set a breakpoint on this line

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DIAdiscord.js - Imagine an app

•Created by EndergamerMC on 6/27/2023 in #djs-questions

Pagination error

That will make the problem easier to reason about without getting overwhelmed

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DIAdiscord.js - Imagine an app

•Created by EndergamerMC on 6/27/2023 in #djs-questions

Pagination error

I have a tip that might help: try coming up with a simpler test case. For example, try modifying the code so that there are only 1 or 2 items per page rather than 5, then see if the bug still happens

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DIAdiscord.js - Imagine an app

•Created by EndergamerMC on 6/27/2023 in #djs-questions

Pagination error

Debug that specific case. Follow from inputs until something unexpected happens

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DIAdiscord.js - Imagine an app

•Created by EndergamerMC on 6/27/2023 in #djs-questions

Pagination error

Break the calculation into steps until you can apply my expectation method

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DIAdiscord.js - Imagine an app

•Created by EndergamerMC on 6/27/2023 in #djs-questions

Pagination error

And then develop new expectations to test

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DIAdiscord.js - Imagine an app

•Created by EndergamerMC on 6/27/2023 in #djs-questions

Pagination error

Either I find a place where my expectations are wrong, which usually leads to the bug, or I don't find anything and I can eliminate those expectations as causes of the bug

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DIAdiscord.js - Imagine an app

•Created by EndergamerMC on 6/27/2023 in #djs-questions

Pagination error

Using the debugger

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DIAdiscord.js - Imagine an app

•Created by EndergamerMC on 6/27/2023 in #djs-questions

Pagination error

I don't know what you saw when debugging, but for me, I always find places in my code where I expect certain variables to hold certain values, and then I check if my expectations are correct

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DIAdiscord.js - Imagine an app

•Created by EndergamerMC on 6/27/2023 in #djs-questions

Pagination error

If you are capable of writing it, and you know there's a bug in it, you are definitely capable of finding the bug.

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DIAdiscord.js - Imagine an app

•Created by EndergamerMC on 6/27/2023 in #djs-questions

Pagination error

You know the code that handles pagination here has a bug. Did you write that code?

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DIAdiscord.js - Imagine an app