Maybe you already have a bunch of Chrome Extensions on your browser? Do you know that you can increase your productivity as a web developer using some of the listed Chrome Extensions below?
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Web Vitals
Measure metrics for a healthy site in order to increase your web project’s SEO score. Web Vitals are quality signals key to delivering great UX on the web.
This extension measures the Core Web Vitals, providing instant feedback on loading, interactivity, and layout shift metrics. It is consistent with how these metrics are measured by Chrome and reported to other Google tools (e.g. Chrome User Experience Report, Page Speed Insights, Search Console).
Web Server for Chrome
A Web Server for Chrome, serves web pages from a local folder over the network, using HTTP. Runs offline.
Web Server for Chrome is an open-source (MIT) HTTP server for Chrome.
JSON View Pro
A completely free extension to visualize JSON response in awesome Tree and Chart view with great user experience and options.
No advertisements.
Directly beautify JSON from API response in the browser.
Live editor for CSS
Live preview of CSS/Less/Sass code changes.
It can auto-save files, autocomplete code, convert Less/Sass to CSS, beautify your code, and provide CSS reloader and linting.
Run this extension and start writing your CSS/Less/Sass code which gets applied immediately. The code you write will be saved in the browser extension’s storage space or the site’s local storage.
LightShot
Lightshot is the fastest way to take a customizable screenshot. Simple interface, nothing useless and lightweight.
WhatFont
The easiest way to identify fonts on web pages.
Firecamp
A campsite for developers Firecamp enables you to test out APIs of your choices, WebSocket, HTTP, and GraphQL collaboratively within a single app across your team.
BuiltWith Technology Profiler
The BuiltWith Chrome Extension lets you find out what a website is built with by a simple click on the BuiltWith icon!
EditthisCookie
EditThisCookie is a cookie manager. You can add, delete, edit, search, protect and block cookies!
Dimensions
A tool for designers to measure screen dimensions.
Measure between the following elements: images, input fields, buttons, videos, gifs, text, icons. You can measure everything you see in the browser.
Clear Cache
Clear your cache and browsing data with a single click of a button.
Quickly clear your cache with this extension without any confirmation dialogs, pop-ups, or other annoyances.
ColorZilla
Advanced Eyedropper, Color Picker, Gradient Generator, and other colorful goodies.
ColorZilla is one of the most popular developer extensions with over 5 million downloads.
This is the end of the Chrome Extensions list for web developer productivity. If you know and use any other cool extensions as a web developer, please make sure to share them with us. I hope you enjoyed the list.