🔥5 Best Chrome Extensions You Should Try 🫵

#webdev #productivity #javascript #css

Chrome extensions are very useful tools when it comes to increasing efficiency and boosting the productivity.

In this blog post, I will be sharing 5 useful Chrome extensions you should try.

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

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Qodo Merge

With Qodo Merge extension you can chat with your GitHub pull request(PR) code, and get AI-powered reviews, descriptions, and code suggestions for your PRs.

Qodo merge Chrome extension is free to use in public/open-source repositories.

#️⃣ Key Features:

💬 AI-Powered Chat in PRs: Ask targeted questions about specific code changes and receive context-aware answers within the pull request comment section.

🔍 Automated Code Reviews: Instantly review pull requests and identify potential bugs, security vulnerabilities, and adherence to best practices with the /review command.

⚙️ Code Improvement Suggestions: Use the /improve command to get actionable recommendations for optimizing code efficiency, robustness, and maintainability.

📝 Auto-Generate PR Descriptions: Save time with the /describecommand to create comprehensive PR descriptions, including summaries, labels, and step-by-step walkthroughs.

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Web Developer

The Web Developer Chrome extension adds a toolbar button to your browser, providing a set of features designed to streamline various aspects of web development.

#️⃣ Key Features:

🧊 CSS Management: Easily view and edit CSS styles directly within your browser, allowing for real-time adjustments and experimentation.

📝 Form Manipulation: Access and modify form elements, including hidden fields, to test and debug form behaviors effectively.

💻 Responsive Design Testing: Resize your browser window to emulate different screen resolutions, ensuring your designs are responsive across various devices.

JavaScript Control: Enable or disable JavaScript to observe how your site performs under different scenarios, aiding in the identification of potential issues.

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GoFullPage

Have you ever struggled to take a full-page screenshot of any webpage?
With this extension you can easily capture a full-page screenshot of any webpage.

You don't need to scroll or do anything, just click on the extension button and it will auto-scroll, capturing the complete webpage.

You can save the screenshot as png, jpg or PDF file. Editing and cropping features are also available in the Premium plan.

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Lighthouse

Lighthouse is an open-source, automated tool developed by Google to help web developers enhance the quality of the web pages.

It offers comprehensive audits like performance, accessibility, best practices and SEO. You can run Lighthouse against any web page, whether it's public or requires authentication.

#️⃣ Key Features:

Performance Metrics: Lighthouse evaluates your site's load times and provides actionable insights to improve speed and responsiveness.

Accessibility Checks: It identifies accessibility issues, ensuring your content is usable by all users and can navigate.

SEO Analysis: It offers recommendations to enhance your site's search engine visibility, helping you reach a broader audience.

Best Practices: Provides best practices to improve code health of your web page.

Lighthouse is easily accessible in Chrome DevTools as well.
Right Click on webpage -> Inspect -> Click on the "Lighthouse" tab within DevTools.

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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.

It identifies over a thousand technologies across various categories, including programming languages, analytics tools, marketing platforms, payment processors, and content delivery networks (CDNs).

Once installed the extension, click on the Wappalyzer icon in your browser's toolbar provides a detailed breakdown of the technologies used on the current website.

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