Likelihood to Recommend Chrome DevTools is best for web developers, front end designers and anyone who is developing a website. It's great for SEO optimization to get advice and info on the assets and resources the website uses and how it performs. Also great for checking if your website is mobile friendly. Great for debugging
Read full review Pros Provides clear, easy to understand, and actionable intelligence on how the browser is retrieving, parsing and rendering the page. Covers a wide gamut of front-end development tasks, from manipulating CSS rules to line-by-line debugging of JavaScript to helpful page and server insights. Continuously incorporates new tools and helpful features. With nearly every major Chrome release there is a "What's new" update with at least one or two useful items. Read full review SonarLint highlights all the issues in our codes and also displays the severity of each issue. SonarLint also provides suggestions for how to fix those code issues which are highlighted. SonarLint starts the processing of the file as soon as it is opened and highlights all the issues which it found. When we fix the issue, we don't even need to create a new build or generate fresh code quality report, as soon as we save the file with the changes, it does the processing again and shows the result if the issue is fixed or not. SonarLint saves a lot of time and effort by saving us from doing fresh build every time and generating new code quality report every time, thus increasing the efficiency and output which is in return beneficial for the client. Read full review Cons I think the layout is too complex, it should be simpler and easy to use for an average developer. I would like more tools for CSS oriented development like Grid Helpers, Flux containers, CSS animations, etc. I would like a better tool for errors, like telling me what to do if I find a JS problem, CSS problem or a wrong redirection. Read full review Sometimes, SonarLint does not highlight the issues in the code correctly. The severity of the issues highlighted is according to the default rules set, we should also be given authority to set the severity of the issues. The default fixes which SonarLint provides should be more enhanced and there should be more fixes available. Sometimes it takes a lot of time for processing of the file when any new file is loaded or changes are saved in a file. Read full review Usability While Chrome DevTools are very powerful, it's not the easiest thing to use, as there are so many different tools built in. It takes some exploring to discover all the options possible within DevTools, but with a little exploring, the DevTools become a very powerful asset. Accessing the basic HTML and CSS inspection is very easy though, and that's the most common usage for the DevTools.
Nate Dillon Front-End Web Developer, Office of Mediated Education
Read full review Support Rating I'm not entirely sure what to rate the support for DevTools, because I don't have any experience dealing with official customer support for DevTools. I would guess the primary support for DevTools would be in a Chrome forum. Typically if I have a question or issue, I am able to find an answer from doing a quick Google search. It's pretty widely used, so it's not difficult to find answers.
Nate Dillon Front-End Web Developer, Office of Mediated Education
Read full review Alternatives Considered Chrome DevTools stacks up well against similar browser tools like those offered by Microsoft Edge and Firefox. It has plenty of strengths and while it may not stand out strongly from the crowd amongst its peers it has built a strong user base around it due to its constant improvement and the popularity of the Chrome browser. It is an easy pick for us to lean on for the majority of our front-end development needs.
Read full review SonarLint works along with SonarQube
Read full review Return on Investment One major positive impact that using Chrome DevTools has on business is the ability to test your page on multiple devices, screen sizes, and user agents. You can do a lot of QA testing from chrome and that saves time. Since DevTools is a free product that comes bundled within another free product I don't see any negative impact that derives from its use. Read full review SonarLint helps in achieving all the business requirements in a more efficient way. It reduces the manual and redundant work which we would have to do else every time if we did not use SonarLint. SonarLint helps in maintaining code quality, and thus also highlights the loopholes for the cyber attacks and phishing attacks. SonarLint makes work easy and helps the developer to invest less time in manual work thereby increasing their capacity to deliver the maximum output to the client. Read full review ScreenShots