Awesome Chrome DevTools

Awesome tooling and resources in the Chrome DevTools ecosystem

Contents

• Learning
• DevTools tooling and ecosystem
• Chrome DevTools Protocol
• Using DevTools frontend with other platforms
• DevTools Extensions

Learning

• Dev Tips - Large collection of tips as animated gifs.
• DevTools Snippets - Collection of snippets.

Multiuser DevTools

• DevTools Remote - Remotely debug someone else’s browser.

DevTools tooling and ecosystem

Object formatting

• immutable-devtools - Custom formatter for Immutable-js values.

Network Inspection

• betwixt - System level network proxy, providing inspection via Network panel.
• Weer - A HTTP protocol debugger (closed source)

CPU profile

• call-trace - Can instrument your JS with hooks, and then generate a .cpuprofile of the of the complete (non-sampled) execution. View either time or call counts.
• cpuprofilify - Converts output of various profiling/sampling tools to the .cpuprofile format.
• Wishbone python framework - Profiling data can export as .cpuprofile.

Multimedia

• snapline - Converts timeline screenshots to gif.

Timeline, Tracing & Profiling

• DevTools Timeline Viewer - Share URLs of your timeline recordings.

Chrome Debugger integration with Editors

• VS Code - Debugger for Chrome - Breakpoint debugging in VS Code.
• VS Code - Elements for Microsoft Edge - Elements panel inside VS Code.
• ChromeREPL - Within Sublime Text, use the Chrome console.
• Sublime Web Inspector - JavaScript Breakpoint debugging right in Sublime Text.
• WebStorm/JetBrains Chrome Extension - The WebStorm IDE can debug JavaScript, view the DOM tree, and edit HTML, CSS and JS live.

Chrome DevTools Protocol

• ChromeDevTools/devtools-protocol - Canonical location of the protocol JSON. Issue tracker for protocol bugs. TypeScript types.
• DevTools Protocol API Docs - Easy browsable UI for exploring the protocol’s domains, methods and events.

Developing with the protocol

• chrome-remote-interface Wiki - Many useful recipes.
• Chrome Protocol Proxy - Tool for debugging clients using devtools protocol.
• Remote Debug Gateway - Allows you to connect a client to multiple browsers at once.
• DevTools Backend - Standalone implementation of the Chrome DevTools backend to debug arbitrary web environments.
• RemoteDebug - Initiative to normalize debugging protocols across today’s browsers.
• ChromeDriver - The official Selenium/WebDriver implementation for Chrome is implemented on top of the DevTools Protocol.
• BrowserGap Community Edition - A remote browser product, open sourced. Makes heavy use of the raw, tip-of-tree Chrome DevTools protocol.

Automation

• Puppeteer - Node.js offering a high-level API to control headless Chrome over the DevTools Protocol.
  • Python port: pyppeteer
  • Rust port: Rust Headless Chrome
  • .NET port: Puppeteer Sharp
  • Ruby port: Ferrum
  • headless-devtools - Puppeteer plugin to get CSS Coverage or JS Heap snapshot.
  • PuPHPeteer - PHP-bridge to control Puppeteer using PHP.
• Playwright - Node.js library to automate Chromium, Firefox and WebKit with a single API.
• Taiko - A Node.js module to automate the Chrome/Chromium using DevTools protocol.
• cuic - Clojure library providing a high-level API for UI test automation over the DevTools Protocol.
• Also all Protocol Driver Libraries below

Protocol Driver Libraries

• JavaScript/Node.js: chrome-remote-interface - The most-used JavaScript API for the protocol
• TypeScript/Node.js: chrome-debugging-client
• Java: chrome-devtools-java-client
• Java: karate - Web-service testing framework with a Java API to automate Chrome
• Java: jvppeteer - Headless Chrome For Java
• Python: PyCDP - Pure-Python, sans-IO wrappers. See also the Trio CDP driver
• Python: chromewhip - drop-in replacement for the splash service
• Python: pychrome - low level CDP transport handler
• Python: ChromeController - high-level browser mgmt
• Go: chromedp - High-level actions and tasks for driving browsers
• Go: cdp
• Go: gcd
• Go: godet
• Go: Rod
• C#/dotnet: chrome-dev-tools - Protocol wrapper generator that can be customized by editing handlebars templates. Includes .Net Core template.
• Ruby: Cuprite - Capybara driver
• Ruby: ChromeRemote
• Kotlin: chrome-reactive-kotlin - reactive (rxjava 2.x), low-level client library in Kotlin
• Kotlin: chrome-devtools-kotlin - A coroutine-based client library, providing low-level CDP primitives and high-level extensions.
• Clojure: clj-chrome-devtools - The CDP wrapper API is autogenerated and will be updated when CDP protocol changes.
• PHP: chrome-devtools-protocol - A PHP client library for the protocol.

Browser Adapters

• Remote Debug Firefox adapter - Translates Firefox’s devtools protocol to the CDP.
• ios-webkit-debug-proxy - Exposes Mobile Safari & UIWebView instances via the CDP.
  • Remote Debug iOS WebKit adapter - Builts upon ios-webkit-debug-proxy and translates WebKit’s Remote Debugging Protocol API to the CDP.
• IE Diagnostics Adapter - Protocol adaptor for Microsoft IE 11 to CDP.

Using DevTools frontend with other platforms

Android

• Facebook Stetho - Native Android debugging with Chrome DevTools.
• j2v8-debugger - Debugging JavaScript running in J2V8 with Chrome DevTools.

ClojureScript

• Dirac - Debugging of ClojsureScript.

Lua

• Mare - Lua debugging with Chrome DevTools.

iOS

• PonyDebugger - Remote network and data debugging iOS apps with Chrome DevTools.

Go

• go-debugger-devtools

Node.js

• ndb - An improved Node.js debugging experience with the DevTools Frontend.
• Debugging Node.js with Chrome DevTools - Guide on using the full debugging and profiling support in Node v6.3+.
• thetool - CPU, memory, coverage, type profiling with Node.
• chrome-devtools-frontend - Mirror of the frontend that ships in Chrome.

DevTools Extensions

Accessibility (A11y)

• Chromelens - See how your web app will look to people with different types of vision and the path users will travel when tabbing through your page.

Workflow

• Clockwork - View PHP application profiling data.
• Emulated Device Lab - Experiment with multiple devices being emulated at the same time.
• RailsPanel - View Ruby on Rails application profiling data.
• React Developer Tools - Inspect the React component hierarchies.
• EmberJS Inspector - Allows you to inspect EmberJS objects in your application.
• VueJS Developer Tools - Inspect VueJS components and manipulate their data.
• Angular Batarang - Inspect an Angular application’s scope and profile its data.
• Augury - Debugging and Profiling for Angular 2 applications.
• Marionette Inspector - Inspect a Marionette application’s views, events, and live data.
• Backbone Debugger - Inspect a Backbone application’s views, models, events, and routes.
• App Inspector for Sencha - Inspect a Sencha ExtJS/Touch application’s component tree, data stores, events, and layouts.
• Redux Devtools - Inspect Redux with actions history, undo and replay.
• Three.js - Edit any three.js project.
• Insight - A WebGL debugging toolkit which enables more productive WebGL development and more efficient WebGL applications.
• BEM devtools - Inspect BEM entities expressed in i-bem framework.
• Metal.js Developer Tools - Inspect the Metal component hierarchies.

Themes

• DevTools Author - A selection of themes to modify parts of DevTools related to authoring web applications.
• Zero Dark Matrix - Dark theme for Chrome Developer Tools.
• Material UI Theme - Provides various Material Design inspired themes.

Performance

• sloth - Chrome extension allows to enable and save CPU and network throttling for selected tabs.
• TracerBench - TracerBench is a controlled performance benchmarking tool for web applications, providing clear, actionable and usable insights into performance deltas.