Chrome Extensions for Web Developers

Chrome Extensions for Web Developers

Most of the web developers use Google Chrome as their primary browser. Working with Google Chrome Browser offers access to an immense repository of Chrome extensions and tools, which makes our daily development tasks less of a chore.

With the built-in developer tools, there seems to be no further need for more tools. However, I’d like to present the Top 4 Google Chrome extensions for website developers.

Web Developer

The Web Developer extension adds a toolbar button to the Google Chrome browser with various web developer tools that can be used on any web page. These are grouped by category (CSS, forms, images, etc.) and allow you to do such things as disable JavaScript, outline images with missing alt attributes, resize the browser window, validate a page’s HTML, view a page’s meta tag information and much more.

You can download it here.

Usersnap

The Usersnap extension lets you capture any web page directly in your Google Chrome browser. It’s super-easy to provide visual feedback on prototypes or report bugs with this Chrome extension. All created screenshots are directly stored in your project dashboard, making bug tracking and feedback a lot of fun!

You can download it here.

ColorZilla

ColorZilla is an incredibly useful Chrome extension for gathering Hex codes, which can be tagged, labelled and categorized for individual web design projects.

It enables you to select an eye-dropper tool to extract the colour from any web page and save it to the ColorZilla clipboard.

With it, you can quickly develop colour palettes for later use and ensure you are using colour consistently in web design and development.

ColorZilla also acts as a colour analyzer and CSS gradient editor to convert an image to CSS.

You can download it here.

JSONView

The JSONView Google Chrome extension allows developers to view documents on the web browser (similar to XML files) instead of downloading them or rendering them as text. The document is formatted and highlighted. Arrays and objects can be collapsed or expanded.

This tool allows you to check JSON code on both your site and others on the web and includes the ability to click on links and complete necessary validation. Although initially created for Firefox, it has been made to work with Google Chrome.

You can download it here.

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