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My 12 Favorite Chrome Extensions as a Web Developer ⚡🚀

Tomer Ovadia on October 11, 2020

The way to gain your expertise in web development can be done more quickly with the help of the following Chrome extensions ✌️ 1. Pixe...

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Nimrod Kramer • Oct 11 '20

Hi Tomer, have you heard about daily.dev? We'd love to hear your thoughts on it. It's one of the most loved Chrome Extensions for web devs.

chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/...

Tomer Ovadia • Oct 13 '20

To be honest I didn't, but it looks interesting I'll definitely give it a try :) !

Nimrod Kramer • Oct 13 '20

Thanks :)

Shriji • Oct 12 '20

Night Eye

isn't free! But checkout darkreader which is fully free!

Tomer Ovadia • Oct 13 '20

Thanks sounds like great alternative

Shriji • Oct 13 '20

Absolutely, I use it.

Samuele Zanca • Oct 11 '20

Was not expecting an actual good list. Very nice. Going to try a few of these out.
Might I recommend trying out:

wappalyzer: which detects technologies used client and server side
dark reader (set to opt-in per website)
nightTab: a customizable start page, very handy for getting places and fast while looking sleek in the process. (I'm a contributor, a complete over haul is in the pipeline)

Tomer Ovadia • Oct 11 '20 • Edited

Thank u Samuele! Well I also agree about Wappalyzer, this is a great one, sorry I did not include it in the list but I wanted to focus on those extensions that I feel are more handy for everyday rather than using once in a while. As for the other two, definitely great additions! :)

Sean Wilson • Oct 11 '20

Thanks Tomer for mentioning Checkbot (I'm the developer behind it). 😄 There's more information about Checkbot on the homepage (checkbot.io/) and the list of web best practices it tests for (checkbot.io/guide/). Let me know if you've got any questions.

Tomer Ovadia • Oct 13 '20

Sure mate, was happy to mention it :) great work and thanks for the support

Mishka • Oct 11 '20

And Save Code to save snippets that work for later!

Tomer Ovadia • Oct 11 '20

That's a really nice one, thank you for sharing it Mishka :)

Rizqy H. • Oct 11 '20

For JSON previewing, I prefer JSON Viewer. I like its configurable and theme selections.
chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/...

Paras 🧙‍♂️ • Oct 12 '20

quite helpful list...I like the checkbot extension to check website stats

Amandeep Singh • Nov 10 '20

I would like you to check some of my recommendations and feel free to add some of them in your list.

📌 Awesome Screenshot & Screen Recorder - As the name says it's really awesome, let's us record and capture browser screen. Although there is a limit for free users but I think most of the people use it for small tasks. Link - chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/...

📌 Color by Fardos - Color Picker - Pick colors from websites, save colors & gradients, get matching shades and tints and create beautiful gradients. Link - chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/...

📌 Volume Master - Control volume of any tab. Link - chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/...

📌 Bookmark Sidebar - Adds a toggleable sidebar with all your bookmarks at the edge of your browser window. Link -chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/...

Hope you find them useful.👍

Jang Rush • Oct 28 '20

Hi, I'd like to translate this awesome list to Chinese. Can you give me the permission?

Tomer Ovadia • Oct 28 '20

Hey Jang, thank you for showing this interest. Yes sure, but please do attach a link to the original article :)

Jang Rush • Nov 13 '20

Oh, I forgot to mention that Chinese translation has been published at the end of October: nextfe.com/12-chrome-extensions/ There is a back link to this original article at the beginning of the translated text.