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LiveReload (ext) and the LiveReload OS Application.Note: ext = Chrome Extension and app = Chrome Application Throughout much of the remainder of this article, I will examine each of the Chrome enhancements listed below and offer my subjective spiel for each with words and motion (Animated Micro ScreenCasts Gifs, FTW!).

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With a scholarly understanding of DevTools completed (DO IT!), letвЂ™s turn to a small list of extensions and applications that a front-end developer might install to augment the DevTools and Chrome. IвЂ™m a Chrome DevTools Whiz But Something Is Missing.

Now that you are a DevTools whiz, letвЂ™s discuss augmenting Chrome for front-end development where the DevTools and Chrome itself come up short. ItвЂ™s just a fact that a keen awareness of what is provided in DevTools Settings can eliminate the false necessity found in a great deal of Chrome extensions you might otherwise be tempted to install. Make sure you know the whenвЂ™s and the whyвЂ™s of the DevTools settings. My parting advice for getting good with the DevTools is to open the Settings UI in Devtools and acquaint yourself with each and every setting (protip: make sure 'Disable cache while Devtools is open' is checked). Just make sure to roll the window up and down enough to thoroughly understand everything that is provided by the DevTools. If watching a video is mind bogglingly slow in comparison to your cheeta like reading skills? You can always piece together a selection of DevTools articles from HTML5 Rocks to gain insight into the Devtools not found in the docs.Дon't enjoy reading or watching when learning new technologies? At the very least, make sure you open up the DevTools and play with them like a 3 year old child plays with power windows. Some high quality insights from several developer conferences can be found on YouTube regarding Devtools. If formal video training isnвЂ™t your thing, you can always watch whatever filters to the top on YouTube. Or, if you are a high roller, drop da bling on the ' Using The Chrome Developer Tools' course by Pluralsight.

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Watch the free 'Discover-DevTools' course provided by. Once you have gotten your fill of the official docs, the next best place to turn for learning would be video training. By stopping now and taking the time to read the docs carefully, in depth, and with the necessary focus to fully grokk the Devtools I am certain that you will avoid installing extensions and apps that are inferior to the DevTools and duplicate functionality already provided. This recommendation might bestow upon me the 'Captain Obvious' crown, but seriously, read the docs! If you have tried reading them in the past and have felt they were lacking, try again. To gain a comprehensive working knowledge of the Devtools, one should start by reading the documents provided by Google. If not, well you're still reading the right article, read on. Hopefully, minimally, you already knew this. The Chrome developer tools provide a rich set of tools for doing web development. So, letвЂ™s talk about getting good with DevTools first before we talk about extending Chrome with front-end development aids. Of course in order to realize the gaps left behind by the Devtools, a developer must first acquire an in depth working knowledge of the DevTools themselves. In this article weвЂ™ll examine twelve or so Chrome extensions/applications (mostly extracted from this developer survey) that will fill a few of the gaps left behind by the Devtools. What follows, I hope, is more useful and insightfulВ than that. I am not going to write one of those articles. It is pretty much what you might expect to find. Do a search online for 'must have chrome extensions/applications' or 'top XX chrome extensions/applications' for front-end developers and you will most certainly find several cliche articles containing a random curated list of extensions/applications.

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