Accessing console and devtools of extension’s background.js

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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 can’t find any error messages either.

My manifest file:

{
  "name": "My First Extension",
  "version": "1.0",
  "manifest_version": 2,
  "description": "The first extension that I made.",
  "browser_action": {
    "default_icon": "icon.png"
  },
  "background": {
    "scripts": ["background.js"]
  },
  "permissions": [
    "pageCapture",
    "tabs"
  ]
}

background.js:

alert("here");
console.log("Hello, world!")

When I load the extension, the alert comes up but I don’t see anything being logged to console. What am I doing wrong?

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