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My Favorite Chrome Extensions for web development and design

Thea on February 20, 2020

Chrome extensions are one of the ways to boost daily basis productivity and optimize development workflow. I've collected a list of my favorite, mo...
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Freddie •

I'm using Kontrast as for wcag/color-picker/contrast-checker. It's awesome!

Kontrast

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Thea •

Wow, it's amazing, thank you! I used this web page to check contrast ratio but the extension is much faster and handy <3

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Freddie •

Yeah I used different web pages as well before, this extension is so much better! Glad I could help :D

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Tigran Sargsyan • • Edited

Wappalyzer was a gem! Thanks for sharing the info!
I would also add ChromeVox to the list.

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Thea •

Thank you, will check it!:)

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David B. • • Edited

I'd add page ruler and my favourite Tampermonkey, first one lets you measure width and height in your screen and second one lets you attach custom scripts to pages. So basically you are writing chrome extension by yourself very easily. It's very productive

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Thea •

Added both:) Tampermonkey seems very interesting, thank you

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VyvIT •

Add to your list an extension for showing file tree in github - Octotree.

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Thea •

Thank you!:)

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Abdul Ghani •

30 seconds of knowledge sounds cool

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LucasAlt •

You should try Daily. It's a great application that allows you to gather a lot of development related articles in one place. The app is convenient, simple and looks great.

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Thea •

Wow, it looks amazing, thank you! Added:)

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Jithesh. KT •

Why use colorzilla? You can pick colors using the built-in dev tools right?

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Thea •

Maybe I'm lazy and prefer to get colors just by one click:)

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Mike •

What makes Window Resizer better than just using the one in Chrome DevTools?

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Thea •

It's just my personal choice, I find it handier:)