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

In Chrome developer tools, there is a Timeline - Memory tab:

We can watch the memory occupied by it.

There is also Profiles - Memory, where we can take a snapshot and see what’s inside. Snapshots can be compared to each other:

Most of time, it doesn’t tell you anything. But at least you can see which objects are piling up, and probably the structure of the leak.

Other way is using 'Task Manager' here is an article regarding this:

http://www.javascriptkit.com/javatutors/closuresleak/