Just a little tip, you can debug-output into HTML, too, because it supports comments ;-)

<!-- YOUR COMMENT HERE -->
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So you can check your variable used in TT like this:

<!-- Foo: [% Bar %] -->
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If you are generating HTML used in a browser, you can also debug to the JS console:

<script>console.log("Foo: [% Bar %]");</script>
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