Quick Answer
Debug tricky jQuery production issues: reproduce in isolation (jsFiddle/CodePen), check jQuery version and plugin version conflicts, use browser DevTools Event Listeners panel to find unexpected handlers, add temporary console.log in plugin internals, check for CDN loading failures, verify noConflict() usage when multiple libraries are present, and check for timing issues (code running before DOM ready).
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Use DevTools to inspect event listeners. Log selector outputs. Check for duplicate event bindings. Inspect plugin states using .data().
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