The 10 best Chrome extensions for web developers 2022. Here is the list of the best chrome extensions for front end developer, including chrome plugins for web developers and chrome addons for web developers.
1. WhatFont
It is the easiest way to find out the fonts used in a webpage. With this extension, anyone can inspect web fonts by just hovering on them. It is that simple and elegant. It also detects the services used for serving the web fonts. The extension supports Typekit and Google Font API.
2. GitHunt
GitHunt is an extension that replaces the new tab of your browser with the trending github repositories. One can look through the repositories for any technology of their liking and for any period of time. By default it shows the trending repositories for the last week and as you keep scrolling, you will be presented with the popular repositories of the consecutive past weeks.
3. ColorZilla
ColorZilla, one of the most popular Firefox developer extensions is an advanced eyedropper tool which also works as color picker and gradient generator. It features eyedropper to get the color of any pixel on the page and an advanced color picker (similar to Photoshop). It also has an ultimate CSS gradient generator, webpage color analyzer to get a color palette for any website and it comes loaded with a palette viewer (7 pre-installed palettes). It can also display element information like tag name, class, id, size etc.
4. Window Resizer
A highly useful extension which resizes the browser window to emulate various screen resolutions. It is particularly useful for web designers and developers by helping them test their layouts on different browser resolutions. The resolutions list is completely customizable (add/delete/re-order). One can set the window’s width/height, window’s position, preset icon (phone, tablet, laptop, desktop) and even the option to apply the new dimensions to the entire window or just to the viewport.
5. Check My Links
Check My Links is a link checker that crawls through your webpage and looks for broken links. This extension is primarily useful for web designers, developers and content editors. ‘Check My Links’ quickly finds all the links on a web page, and checks each one for you. It highlights which ones are valid and which ones are broken.
6. Web Developer
Adds a toolbar button with various web developer tools. The Web Developer extension adds a toolbar button to the browser with various web developer tools. Web Developer is a collection of tools highly useful for developers. Once installed, Web Developer dropdown box appear with a range of options organized into tabs. Simply select a tab to access the tools within and you are ready to go.
7. EditThisCookie
EditThisCookie is a cookie manager which can be used to add, delete, edit, search, protect and block cookies. This cookie manager for Google Chrome can do any task related to cookies. It can edit cookies, delete cookies, add a new cookie, create cookies, search cookies, protect cookies (read-only cookies), block cookies (cookie filter), export cookies in json, limit the maximum expiration date of any cookie, improve the performance, remove old cookies and import cookies.txt.
8. Lightshot (screenshot tool)
Simple and convenient screenshot tool. Lightshot is the fastest way to take a customizable screenshot, select an area, edit your screenshot and upload it to the server. Not just it can be used to take screenshot and share it in few clicks, it can be easily used to select any part of the page and edit screenshot in place or save on a disk or upload to the cloud. Needless to say, users can also copy screenshot in clipboard.
9. Session Buddy
A Chrome extension to manage browser tabs and bookmarks with ease. Session Buddy is a feature loaded session manager that allows you to save, open tabs as collections that can be easily restored later (super useful for freeing up memory and avoiding clutter). It can also recover your open tabs after a crash. For other functions, users can see and manage all open tabs in one place or search open tabs and collections to quickly find what you’re looking for.
10. Clear Cache
Clear your cache and browsing data with a single click of a button using Clear Cache extension. It can be used to clear cache without any confirmation dialogs, pop-ups or other annoyances. You can also customize what and how much of your data you want to clear on the options page, including: App Cache, Cache, Cookies, Downloads, File Systems, Form Data, History, Indexed DB, Local Storage, Plugin Data, Passwords and WebSQL. For cookies, it can either be removed globally, only for certain domains or for everything except for certain domains.
Though the list of the best Chrome extensions for developers is diverse and nearly hard to list the best. But, I personally find these extensions highly useful for every type of developers.