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

I had this problem as well. It seems as though my webpage was not updating to the newly saved script. This was solved by pressing Ctrl + refresh (or Ctrl + F5) in the chrome browser.