The Best Chrome Extensions for Developers, Designers, and Testers
Steffan Addison
. 2 min read
The process of discovering color codes and web fonts, testing responsive website design, or creating elements that are pixel-perfect is now simpler than it has ever been for Chrome users. The most widely used browser in the world provides web designers and developers with access to a wealth of helpful add-ons that can significantly improve their workflow.
When the Chrome DevTools Console Merley isn't Sufficient
The Chrome DevTools Console gives users access to a comprehensive collection of powerful web development tools. However, even having access to these resources is not always enough. Chrome extensions have the potential to make up for the shortcomings of Console. The most important thing to keep in mind, however, is to check that none of the Chrome add-ons you install are either inferior to DevTools Console or replicate its functionality.
Sessionbuddy
An extension for Google Chrome that makes it easier to manage the tabs and bookmarks in the browser. Session Buddy is a feature-rich session manager that enables you to save collections of open tabs and save them as a backup that can be easily restored at a later time.
VisBug
VisBug is a web design debugging tool that is open source and was built with JavaScript. By utilizing this, you will be able to Point, click, move, resize, Edit or style any page, in any state, inspect styles, spacing, distance, accessibility and alignment, and Nitpick layouts and content, in the real end environment.
Amino: Live CSS Editor
Amino is a free browser extension that enables you to write and apply custom CSS to any website. This gives you the ability to customize a variety of aspects of the website, including the colors, fonts, and page layout. Because your customized CSS is saved in the cloud and loaded automatically whenever the page is viewed.
Postman
We can use the postman extension that is offered by Google Chrome to perform quick API-related activities. This extension provides assistance in performing some of the most important basic level operations in the POSTMAN application. Downloading the POSTMAN application is always something I recommend doing for high-level API functions.
GoFullPage
GoFullPage is a different kind of extension for taking screenshots, as I mentioned earlier when discussing screenshots. There is a possibility that some of the web pages we visit will be quite lengthy and contain a great deal of information below. Therefore, we might have to scroll in order to see the whole page.
You.com
This extension functions as a type of search engine and is primarily geared toward developers for the purpose of copying coding snippets from websites such as StackOverflow, GitHub, and Geeks for Geeks. In addition to that, it comes with two additional features one of these features is a built-in color picker.
Downloader for Images
You can search the internet for photographs and download them to your computer with just one click. You will be able to browse photos on the current page, filter by width and height as well as URL, and perform many other tasks with the assistance of this Chrome extension.
Site Palette
Site Palette is an extension for Google Chrome that extracts the primary colors from the page that is currently being viewed. This is a tool that you can use to create and share the color palettes of your favorite things. You could also make use of the Adobe Swatch support or acquire a template in Sketch.
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