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Xuanming L.
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Chrome Extensions for React Developers

Google developed Google Chrome (or just Chrome), a popular internet browser. One of the reasons Chrome browser is the most popular browser for web development is that it has Chrome developer tools out of the box and allows third-party dev tools to be installed to the browser, to provide more capabilities for web development aka React Chrome extension.

1. React Developers Tools

You will get two new tabs in your Chrome DevTools: “⚛️ Components” and “⚛️ Profiler”.

The Components tab shows you the root React components that were rendered on the page, as well as the subcomponents that they ended up rendering.

By selecting one of the components in the tree, you can inspect and edit its current props and state in the panel on the right. In the breadcrumbs, you can inspect the selected component, the component that created it, the component that created that one, and so on.

2. Lorem Ipsum Generator

Quickly generate Lorem Ipsum placeholder text. Select a desired length and choose between paragraphs, words, bytes or lists.

Elegantly designed and easy to use. The values you enter are stored so that your preferred option will always be immediately available.

3. Redux DevTools

The extension provides power-ups for your Redux development workflow. Apart from Redux, it can be used with any other architectures which handle the state.

4. What Font - font finder

What Font allows you to know the font name, its family, color, style, size, position. Such a great tool to create designed web pages fastly. Now you can simply identify a liked font and select exactly the same for your needs without a long search for a suitable one. This extension supports Google API as a font finder, so you will have info about all popular Google Fonts.

5. ColorZilla

With ColorZilla you can get a color reading from any point in your browser, quickly adjust this color and paste it into another program. And it can do so much more...

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