How to find JS Memory Leaks?

Question

I have struggled around with the heap profiler in chrome but it is very confusing. Especially if there are minimized libraries inside. But even the DOMElements views, elemen

Answer 1

Google open sourced a tool for this purpose, leak-finder-for-javascript. They also proposed a method so-called the three snapshot technique (also see a brief description in this article).

First paragraph of the leak-finder link

Note: jsleakcheck is no longer supported! It was working against an unofficial and unstable Dev Tools protocol for taking heap snapshots. The protocol is being worked on, and it is not stable enough so that I could keep jsleakcheck working with various Chrome versions. In addition, a lower level compatibility tool, remote_inspector_client.py, which jsleakcheck was using to communicate with Dev Tools, got removed.