Accessing console and devtools of extension's background.js

Question

I just started out with Google Chrome extensions and I can\'t seem to log to console from my background js. When an error occurs (because of a syntax error, for example), I

Answer 1

additionally

if you want to see content_script js file ( when "background" property is not set ) in manifest.json

"content_scripts": [{
    "matches": [""],
    "js": ["popup.js"],
  }]

"browser_action": {
    "default_icon": "icon_32.png",
    "default_popup": "popup.html"
  }

then right click on extension icon and click on Inspect popup and developer window opens with popup.html opened , there you see console tab.