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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 25, 2022
Essential tool for front end developers
To test web applications and for front-end web development. It enables us to test, understand what the application will look like on devices, and debug. As it's already built into the Chrome browser, it's readily available and easy to use to enhance the performance of any website.
- User friendly to navigate around
- Debugging
- Can test Java script codes
- Ability to export reports
- Documents are too technical is areas
- Can't customise to a full extent
July 15, 2022
It's just easy (and you already have it)
As most internet users today use Google Chrome, their DevTools are essential when building or supporting a web application. As a member of an application support team, I use it every day to check any issue on our platform. It helps me to identify and quickly correct, or send the issue to a developer to correct it.
- It is avaliable for free to every Chrome user
- You can easely run commands to test a code issue
- It's really ease to use after a short learning time
- It's well documented, so you never get lost when using it
- It's not that good when using for mobile browsing
- It needs to improve on its layout, it can get really messy
- Should have an option to erease its content when reloading a website
Currently, use Google Chrome DevTools to test how content looks on various devices and platforms. This enables us to create images/crops to ensure they are optimized for user devices, and avoid scenarios where the content is cut off or isn't cropped properly -- ensuring our brand image remains premium.
- Visualize content across breakpoints.
- Identifying loading issues with webpages.
- Enables user to create customizable resolutions.
- Auto-reload when picking a device.
- More pre-filled devices.
- Available via mobile.
Chrome Dev Tools help me debug my websites, find css classes to change styles on my development websites, and also use it to test various different view ports , device or what the website looks like on certain mobiles. It also has the Lighthouse functionality which aids in my SEO activities and determining the performance of the website such as how the page assets load and page load speeds
- inspect elements by right clicking directly on the element on the website
- determine page speeds and optimization advise for SEO using the lighthouse
- great for seeing what websites will look like on mobile
- I don't really like the UI and visual aspect of the tool, I prefer a dark theme
- Sometimes it glitches after editing a style, and then I can't edit other styles until reload
July 08, 2022
Great and free tool for JavaScript Developers
The Chrome DevTools is very useful for debugging front-end projects. In this, we have a lot of options to check application performance. We can see the cookie and stored values. We can see network call status and response in the network tab. We can run the javascript in the console of the developer tool. We can set breakpoints or debugger points to check errors in the script. We can see all HTML element structure in the Elements tab. We can test the performance of the application using the performance insights tool. We recently used this tool to check application timeout using the console tab.
- It is very useful for front end developers to test JavaScript code
- DevTools given flexibility to check API response time(load time)
- It is used to check DOM element structure and we can change element structure for testing purposes.
- Is used to test and modify the CSS of Page elements
- Chrome DevTools need to provide options to download application performance reports
- They need to provide some type of editor for developers to write code on the fly.
- They need to give security information in the console to developers
- Compared to other tools, Chrome DevTools are very useful but if they provide more options like code editors, that will be helpful.
July 06, 2022
Chrome DevTools are Essential to Workflow
I use Chrome DevTools inspector almost every day to source code, or to see how a website looks on mobile. I also use Page Speed Insights on a very regular basis to check site performance and improve scores. In WordPress, I also use a plug-in to use speed insights to check page speed scores within WordPress itself. I only scratch the surface of Chrome DevTools and honestly couldn't work without them. They are completely indispensable to my workflow.
- Identify code
- Previews on different devices
- Performance of webpage
- There should be a "Chrome DevTools for non-developers" course - sometimes the documentation is very technical.
May 15, 2022
Chrome DevTools : A must tool for web developers
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.
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.
- responsive
- Genrate report
- Use Console
- Show Website Elements
- Select element
- Generate report
- Security info
May 07, 2022
Chrome Dev Tools for Frontend developers !
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.
Overall it is an excellent tool for frontend web developers.
- 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
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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.
- Show current html DOM objects
- Display CSS properties in an accurate way
- Emulate mobile devices
- Limited customasation
- Google tracking
- High memory and CPU usage
January 20, 2020
Chrome DevTools, a web developer's best friend.
I use Chrome DevTools every day in my current position. It's great for testing my javascript, writing experimental in the console, testing various CSS changes, and occasionally making live edits to local javascript source files. It is being used by the developers in my department who write front-end code. Chrome tools provide us as developers a way to test code and make changes without having to edit the original source code.
- DevTools gives you a console for writing javascript code to interact with or change the behavior of the page you are currently working. This is particularly useful when debugging code.
- CSS edits. The ability to change the style of dom elements and see the effect those changes have in real time without having to switch to your editor, make the changes, and reload the browser window saves a lot of time.
- Providing a way to set javascript break points so you can see the runtime values of a variable.
- The network tab is also a life saver for inspecting what assets are being loaded on the page and in what order they load, how long they take to load etc...
- It would be nice in the elements panel, if clicking on a node scrolled the screen to that node. On some large pages its easy to get lost in the code and not know where the element you're inspecting resides on the screen.
- It would be nice if, in addition to the console, there was a panel that behaved more like an editor instead of a command prompt. It may seem trivial but it would be very helpful when writing multi-line functions.
August 31, 2019
Powerful development tools are built into the browser
We use Chrome DevTools for front-end development and debugging. Everyone on my team uses it, and I would suspect others in my department use it as well, probably anyone using Chrome as their main browser. The DevTools allow us to inspect our sites and find problems with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
- Inspect front-end code.
- Find and debug issues.
- Apply changes in the browser for testing.
- Test responsive designs at various device resolutions.
- Test page speed and performance.
- Test various network situations (e.g. low/no internet connection).
- Improved screenshot support.
- Quicker access to common testing settings (e.g. disabling JavaScript).
- Improved CSS tools.
Web application testing and troubleshooting are one of the most time-consuming areas of a software engineer's tasks and the availability of reliable and comprehensive tools to facilitate this important job is critical. Chrome DevTools is an important tool in any developer's arsenal and it has been one of my long-time go-tos for this purpose. DevTools can reveal important information to you about errors your code is throwing, the state of your document model (the elements of your web page and how they are laid out) and the factors that are affecting the performance of your application. In my organization, we use Chrome DevTools across our engineering team to troubleshoot and test all of our front-end application code.
- Excellent DOM inspection tool that gives you important insights into your styles and element behavior, and allows you to make changes in-line that can show you what impact they will have if applied to your code.
- Outstanding tools for observing network and application performance, including throttling to simulate varying network speeds.
- A fantastic device emulator that allows you to view how your pages and application views will appear when viewed on a wide array of mobile devices such as tablets and smartphones.
- Debugging tools that give you the power to insert breakpoints to pause code execution and view the value of your code variables.
- It could really use an easier way to separate the kind of errors being logged to the console, such as network, security and CSS errors. This becomes a more acute problem when you consider that Firefox does have this feature.
- Unlike the Firefox and Edge dev tools, it forces you to click into a line item for network request in order to view the details of that request.
- Its performance measuring tool could stand to catch up to that of Microsoft Edge, which currently displays visualizations that are a bit easier to review.
As our Company has many departments, Chrome DevTools are only being used by the web development teams. We have lot of development teams for different projects we generally use Chrome DevTools for debugging, better analysis of code or when we get stuck somewhere. As per the business problems it let us fix different JavaScript issues and suggests how to optimise the code that is running on the PCs as well as mobile phones.
- First is the Debugging capabilities of Chrome DevTool i.e. very impressive you can set the break points where you think error might exist or you can simply go step by step until you encounter the issue.
- Second the capability of simulating mobile devices with device mode in Chrome DevTools - It is also great feature in which one can see where the network is throttling one can check for responsiveness of the view port on the mobile device.
- To analyse network performance - Generally it is a great feature to have because it lets us know which file it may be and if it's JS or CSS that is taking time to load or taking more resources then one can focus on them to make it light weight.
- As of now I don't have any issue with Chrome DevTool, it is best and improving day by day but if they can they should improve the interface so that switching between different tabs becomes easy.