17 Chrome Extensions that Developers Actually Use

Originally published by Milica Maksimovic on August 27th 2018 1,681 reads

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Milica Maksimovic

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There are thousands of apps on the Google web store, but how many of them do developers actually need and find useful? There’s an ongoing discussion on Hashnode about this 🔥, and here are the tools that people are talking about:

• Lighthouse — an open-source, automated tool for improving the performance, quality, and correctness of your web apps.
• JavaScript Errors Notifier — notifies you about JavaScript errors by icon in toolbar bar or notification popup.
• Wappalyzer — a cross-platform utility that uncovers the technologies used on websites.
• JSON Viewer — customizable JSON/JSONP highlighter
• React Developer Tools — adds React debugging tools to the Chrome Developer Tools.
• Redux dev tools — Redux DevTools for debugging application’s state changes.
• ZenHub’s extension — project management tool that integrates natively within GitHub’s user interface.
• xdebug — a must have for everyone who’s debugging, profiling and tracing PHP code with Xdebug.
• postman — sends requests fired through the Postman chrome app.
• raindrop.io — all in one bookmark manager.
• Google tag assistant — helps troubleshoot installation of various Google tags including Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager and more.
• GTM Sonar — debug your page template to see if it works with Google Tag Manager’s auto-event listeners.
• Blackfire — profile your PHP application from your browser.
• Daydream — a chrome extension to record your actions into a nightmare script.
• Pocket — saves articles and web pages so you can read them later on.
• uBlock Origin — adblocker
• Adblock plus — adblocker

Before installing all of them, keep in mind that every extension spins up a new process and takes a chunk of your RAM. Which extensions do you actively use? Share them with the rest of the dev community on Hashnode!