Recently Laravel `dd()` function seems to have stopped working properly in latest Chrome. The dump does not render output properly. It looks like below:

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I found a workaround [here](https://github.com/symfony/symfony/issues/24688). Seems Chrome renders errors as HTML. To use this workaround in Laravel, just create a helper function and include in `composer.json`

* helpers.php (your_project/helpers.php)

```php
<?php
if (!function_exists('_dd')) {
  function _dd(...$args)
  {
     if (!headers_sent()) {
         header('HTTP/1.1 500 Internal Server Error');
     }
     call_user_func_array('dd', $args);
  }
}
```

* composer.json

```json
...
 "autoload": {
    "files": [
        "helpers.php"
    ]
},
...
```

Then run the command:
>composer dump-autoload

That’s it! Now use `_dd($data)` function instead of `dd($data)`.

Happy debugging!

Any questions or suggestions? please comment!

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Laravel dd($var) function output issues in new Chrome?

Laravel dd($var) function output issues in new Chrome?

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