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What is Chrome DevTools?

Chrome DevTools is a set of authoring, debugging, and profiling tools built into Google Chrome.

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What is Chrome DevTools?

Chrome DevTools is a set of authoring, debugging, and profiling tools built into Google Chrome.

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What is Chrome DevTools?

Chrome DevTools is a set of authoring, debugging, and profiling tools built into Google Chrome.

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July 08, 2022

Chrome DevTools simplifies Dev's life

Verified User
Consultant in Information Technology
Computer Software Company, 11-50 employees
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
When developing websites, I use a lot the network tab and JS debugging The masterpiece is the possibility to change CSS live to adjust the rendering I recently use webauthn to debug SSO implementation Chrome DevTools is also powerful to optimize the existing sites to gain reliability and simplicity The DOM exploration can be really difficult manually and this is just the only way to get into it
Pros and Cons
  • DOM Exploration
  • Live CSS debugging
  • Resources downloading report
  • Responsive website debugging
  • Animation tools can be easily improved
  • A new tool to export reportings in external DB or in cloud
  • A new tool to follow an external logs like ASPX or Python
Likelihood to Recommend
Chrome DevTools is really well suited for debugging frontend HTML/CSS. It helps to give a focussed view for developers and parts they want to test, correct, or play with But Chrome DevTools is not appropriate for backend debugging with REST web services where Postman is a better tool Introduce Postman features in Chrome DevTools could be great
July 07, 2022

Free, Useful and already installed in your Google Chrome browser

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Sandro Silva
IT Consultant
dormakaba (Computer Software, 51-200 employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Very useful for debugging and troubleshooting web pages. We also use it to measure component loading performance and visualization tests at different resolutions. We recently used this tool to identify timeout errors in the ajax request of a component on the page, which was derived from the security rules applied in Application Gateway in the Cloud, and adjust the parameters
Pros and Cons
  • Page load time graph, detailing the required load time for each component.
  • Analysis of sent and return content
  • Security reporting of in-memory components such as secure cookies and cached data.
  • PWA configuration validation
  • A resource to work with secure HTTPS content, decrypting the traffic data, as a sniffer would.
  • An online editor for page elements is very useful, but it should always be used with a large monitor, above 15".
  • Exporting or printing the analysis reports would be very helpful
Likelihood to Recommend
A great support tool for quick analysis and on-the-fly troubleshooting, but it should be used by technical personnel with good programming skills. Very practical for testing visual changes in the page's source code, and measuring the performance and security of all components used on the website, regardless of the technology adopted as the back-end.
July 07, 2022

Chrome's DevTools are very potent for front-end designers

Verified User
Administrator in Information Technology
Information Technology & Services Company, 10,001+ employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
The Chrome DevTools are a complete set of resources for creating websites and online applications. To help developers create better, quicker, and more responsive websites, Google has integrated a development tool straight into the Chrome browser. We use a wide variety of frontend technology stacks for our websites, from the relatively dated to the cutting edge. Chrome's DevTools are used to ensure webpages are compatible with older browsers.
Pros and Cons
  • Running JavaScript on the fly is possible via the console.
  • Method for determining where a network is slowing down.
  • Take a look at how a page is structured by using the DOM in Inspect.
  • High demands on both RAM and processing power.
  • The steepness of the learning curve.
  • The Chrome DevTool needs to provide an editing panel in addition to the console. Creating functions that span many lines would be helpful.
Likelihood to Recommend
All-in-one platform for creating websites. It's simple to inspect the dom structure and source code, which facilitates JavaScript code debugging. Modifying the CSS and stylesheets on the fly is a breeze. To aid with performance troubleshooting, the network tab lists each HTTP request in great detail. Refactoring and improving legacy web applications by integrating modern front-end frameworks like React.
May 15, 2022

Chrome DevTools : A must tool for web developers

Verified User
Project Manager in Engineering
Computer Software Company, 1-10 employees
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
1. With lighthouse generate report for performance, PWA , Best practises etc to check the website.
2. Check the responsiveness of the website using by checking how it will look in mobile , ipad , laptop etc.
3. Use the console the check values and execute code.
4. Check the network performance.
5. Check the memory of the website like local storage.
Pros and Cons
  • responsive
  • Genrate report
  • Use Console
  • Show Website Elements
  • Select element
  • Generate report
  • Security info
Likelihood to Recommend
1. If you want check a website performance
2. Check the website data like cookies , local storage etc.
3. Check how the website will look in mobile , desktop or tablet.
4. Check the security info
5. Check the notifications or Push Messaging info
6. Check the network info like , which files are loaded first
May 07, 2022

Chrome Dev Tools for Frontend developers !

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Manas Singh
IT Architect
Guardian (Financial Services, 10,001+ employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Chrome Developer Tools is a comprehensive toolkit for developers which helps them in developing web apps. Dev tool is built directly into the Chrome browser and lets the developer edit web pages in real-time, debug problems quickly, and build better, faster, and more responsive websites. Our websites are a mix of older and newer frontend technology stacks. Chrome dev tools are used by the developers for testing the websites for backward compatibility. For mobile app development also the emulators are handy. Developers use it to identify where resources are loading from, performance, and configuration issues. We also use it to interact directly with the JavaScript console.

Overall it is an excellent tool for frontend web developers.
Pros and Cons
  • Provides tools for observing network and application performance, and way to simulate varying network speeds.
  • The console can be used for ad-hoc JavaScript running.
  • Performance analysis tool for finding network bottlenecks.
  • Inspect tool to view the DOM structure of the webpage.
  • Emulator for different screens (mobile , iPad, etc).
  • High memory and CPU usage at times
  • Learning curve is a bit steep
  • Apart from the console, the Chrome dev tool should provide a panel with the editor. It would be useful to write multi-line functions.
  • No other complaints. Pretty much comprehensive set of tools
Likelihood to Recommend
Comprehensive web development tool. It is easy to see the source code and dom structure which helps in debugging JavaScript code. Easy to manipulate the styles and CSS on the fly. The network tab provides detailed information about the HTTP requests which helps in performance debugging. Making changes to existing old stack websites and enhancements with new frontend frameworks like react.
May 16, 2021

Best tool for troubleshooting your Javascript code and HTML websites

Verified User
Professional in Customer Service
Internet Company, 10,001+ employees
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Used to detect and find root cause of html/css issues as well as javascript debugging when there are unexpected results in a specific scenario. Chrome DevTools helps to see the stack trace at any execution point in scripting language.
Pros and Cons
  • Show current html DOM objects
  • Display CSS properties in an accurate way
  • Emulate mobile devices
  • Limited customasation
  • Google tracking
  • High memory and CPU usage
Likelihood to Recommend
Works Well with desktop websites.
Well suited for jQuery websites.
Luckily Chrome Dev Tools is faster than firebug and it is not an extension but part of the browser which makes it very useful.
Pretty printing is another feature than Chrome Dev Tools does incredibly well.
Chrome Dev tools could improve the console interface to allow multi-line scripts as smoothly as Firebug.
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