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Kiran Naragund
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15 Best Chrome Extensions for DEVs🧑‍💻

Hello Devs👋

As software developers, we always seek ways to make our jobs easier and improve productivity. 🧩Chrome extensions are very useful tools when it comes to increasing efficiency and boosting the productivity.

In this blog post, I will share some of the best developer Chrome extensions.

Share your experience or feedbacks if you’re already using them, in the comments section! 💬.

Kiran Naragund

Let's get started🚀

1. Qodo Merge: AI-Powered Code Reviews & Chat

Qodo Merge

🚀Qodo Merge enables the integration of AI-powered chat and code review tools into the GitHub environment to help developers to automate the code review process, ensure high quality code and prevent bugs before merging.

The Chrome Extension is free for open-source repositories, offers feature-rich chat interfaces:

  • In the Files Changed tab, you can have a private chat, a threaded conversations to ask targeted questions about your PR code.
  • You can use the below commands in your GitHub comment box to streamline the code review process:
    • /describe – Generates a comprehensive PR description.
    • /review – Automates feedback, ensuring code quality and security.
    • /improve – Offers suggestions for enhancing and optimizing code.

Qodo-Merge supports all leading code generation models, including Sonnet, available for free

🌍 Website - Qodo

➡️ Chrome Extension - Check Here


2. Stacks - Your search co-pilot

Stacks

Stacks is a powerful web workspace that serves as your search co-pilot, helping you organize and access your online research seamlessly. It lets you effortlessly save and organize your bookmarks, ensuring you can always find what you need when you need it.

🌍 Website - Betterstacks

➡️ Chrome Extension - Check Here

3. Daily.dev

Daily.dev

Daily.dev is a personalized Chrome extension that delivers the latest tech articles, tutorials, and news on web development and tech trends straight to your browser.

➡️ Chrome Extension - Check Here

4. HackerTab.dev

HackerTab.dev

HackerTab.dev is also similar to Daily.dev Chrome extension which transforms your new tab page into a personalized dashboard for developer news and resources. It's designed to keep you up-to-date with the latest tech trends, tutorials, and tools in the tech world, all in one convenient place.

➡️ Chrome Extension - Check Here

5. 10015

10015

10015.io offers a collection of online tools aimed at simplifying everyday tasks for developers, designers, and general users. These tools are web-based, free, and designed to boost productivity by helping users manipulate text, images, code, and files without needing to install any software.

➡️ Chrome Extension - Check Here

6. EditThisCookie

EditThisCookie

EditThisCookie is a popular Chrome extension that provides a simple and powerful interface to manage, edit, and manipulate cookies in your browser. It is widely used by developers and testers to view, create, edit, delete, and export cookies, making it an essential tool for debugging and testing web applications.

➡️ Chrome Extension - Check Here

7. Web Developer Checklist

Web Developer Checklist

Web Developer Checklist Chrome extension helps developers follow best practices for building modern websites. It scans your webpage for issues related to SEO, performance, accessibility, security, and usability, offering a convenient way to ensure that your website adheres to industry standards.

➡️ Chrome Extension - Check Here

8. Clear Cache

Clear Cache

Clear Cache is a lightweight extension that allows you to quickly clear your browser's cache, cookies, and other data with a single click. It maintains your browser's performance and resolve issues related to outdated content.

➡️ Chrome Extension - Check Here

9. Session Buddy

Session Buddy

Session Buddy is one of the most popular session managers that allows developers to manage their tabs by saving the open tabs as collections to be restored later. It can also recover the changes after a crash.

With the help of search functions, you can easily find what you are searching for in open or saved tabs.

➡️ Chrome Extension - Check Here

10. Fake Filler

Fake Filler

Fake Filler is an extremely useful tool for developers while testing forms. It allows you to quickly auto-populate all form fields with random dummy data, saving you from repetitive typing.

➡️ Chrome Extension - Check Here

11. Pesticide for Chrome

Pesticide

Pesticide is an incredibly useful extension for front-end developers, especially those working on complex CSS layouts. It outlines every element on a page, allowing you to easily visualize the box model.

➡️ Chrome Extension - Check Here

12. React Developer Tools

React Developer Tools

React Developer Tools is a handy extension that lets you inspect the component hierarchy of your React applications, helping you debug and optimize your code.

➡️ Chrome Extension - Check Here

13 Wappalyzer

Wappalyzer

Wappalyzer is a must-have extension for developers who want to quickly identify the technologies used on any website. Whether it's the content management system (CMS), JavaScript libraries, or analytics tools, Wappalyzer provides instant insights of the particular website.

➡️ Chrome Extension - Check Here

14. JSON Viewer

JSON Viewer

JSON Viewer is a handy Chrome extension that formats JSON files, making them easier to read and debug. As developers, we work with APIs and JSON data frequently, and having a tool that beautifies JSON is a huge time-saver.

➡️ Chrome Extension - Check Here

15. Lorem Ipsum Generator

Lorem Ipsum Generator

The Lorem Ipsum Generator extension helps create placeholder text for your web projects, saving you the time and effort of manually looking for and pasting dummy content.

This extension is also customizable and lets us select the exact number of words we want our dummy text to have.

➡️ Chrome Extension - Check Here

That's It.🙏

Thank you for reading this far. If you find this article useful, please like and share this article. Someone could find it useful too.💖

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John • Edited

Nice Kiran👍

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Kiran Naragund

Thanks John