On Pico WebIDE Connect - Unable to retrieve board information. Connection Error?

Tue 2018.08.21

Situation 2

Syntactically correct Javascript lines of code, but poorly placed

Reading the link provided by @allObjects in #5 above, then @Gordon #3 comment Have you tried uploading some more simple code?

and after twenty plus upload restart cycles isolated the fact that code in a static file was in fact the culprit. I learned this before the balance of the responses, but those helped, as it validated what I was also seeing. A big plus.

Actually taking a close inspection of the results of 'dump()' and after reading:

From http://www.espruino.com/Saving

Beneath 'Notes'

'You may be able to save code to Espruino that puts it into a state that stops you from reprogramming it.'

Here was the a solution to my issue that provided the insight as to what was going on:

'holding down a button while applying power can be used to force the device to boot without loading any of the saved code'

In that process however, I noticed an IDE anomaly, that through sheer persistance was the root cause of not being able to make progress: