Awesome Chrome Devtools Overview

Awesome tooling and resources in the Chrome DevTools & DevTools Protocol ecosystem

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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
• Alumni

Learning

• Dev Tips - Large collection of tips as animated gifs.
• DevTools Tips - Collection of illustrated tips as mini tutorials.
• Can I DevTools? - Various workflows, documented. Also a weekly tips & tricks newsletter.
• Web cheatcodes - Browser developer tools for non-developers.
• Dear Console - A collection of snippets to use in the browser console.

DevTools tooling and ecosystem

Object formatting

• immutable-devtools (⭐648) - Custom formatter for Immutable-js values.

Network Inspection

• betwixt (⭐4.4k) - System level network proxy, providing inspection via Network panel.
• Weer - A HTTP protocol debugger (closed source)

CPU profile

• call-trace (⭐30) - 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 (⭐166) - Converts output of various profiling/sampling tools to the .cpuprofile format.
• Wishbone python framework - Profiling data can export as .cpuprofile.

Multimedia

• snapline (⭐391) - 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 (⭐2.2k) - Breakpoint debugging in VS Code.
• VS Code - Elements for Microsoft Edge (⭐611) - Elements panel inside VS Code.
• ChromeREPL (⭐355) - 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 (⭐843) - 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 (⭐3.8k) - Many useful recipes.
• Chrome Protocol Proxy (⭐138) - Tool for debugging clients using devtools protocol.

The big two automation libraries

• Puppeteer (⭐80k) - Node.js offering a high-level API to control headless Chrome over the DevTools Protocol. See also awesome-puppeteer (⭐2k).
• Playwright (⭐44k) - Library to automate Chromium, Firefox and WebKit with a single API. Available for Node.js, Python, .Net, Java. See also awesome-playwright (⭐280).

Libraries for driving the protocol (or a layer above)

• JavaScript/Node.js: chrome-remote-interface (⭐3.8k)
• TypeScript/Node.js: chrome-debugging-client (⭐115)
• Typescript/Node.js: noice-json-rpc - A proxy-based implementation to expose the CDP as its API.
• Typescript/Node.js: Taiko (⭐3.2k)
• Rust: Rust Headless Chrome (⭐1.2k)
• Java: chrome-devtools-java-client (⭐168)
• Java: jvppeteer (⭐468) - Headless Chrome For Java
• Python: PyCDP (⭐48) - Pure-Python, sans-IO wrappers. See also the Trio CDP driver (⭐42)
• Python: chromewhip (⭐105) - drop-in replacement for the splash service
• Python: pyppeteer (⭐2.7k) - puppeteer port
• Python: ChromeController (⭐171) - high-level browser mgmt
• Go: chromedp (⭐8.3k) - High-level actions and tasks for driving browsers
• Go: cdp (⭐641)
• Go: gcd (⭐179)
• Go: godet (⭐349)
• Go: Rod (⭐2.9k)
• C#/.NET: Puppeteer Sharp (⭐2.4k) - puppeteer port
• C#/dotnet: chrome-dev-tools (⭐71) - Protocol wrapper generator that can be customized by editing handlebars templates. Includes .Net Core template.
• Ruby: Ferrum (⭐1.3k) - high-level API to control Chrome in Ruby
• Ruby: Cuprite (⭐989) - Capybara driver
• Kotlin: chrome-reactive-kotlin (⭐72) - reactive (rxjava 2.x), low-level client library in Kotlin
• Kotlin: chrome-devtools-kotlin (⭐29) - A coroutine-based client library, providing low-level CDP primitives and high-level extensions.
• Clojure: clj-chrome-devtools (⭐123) - The CDP wrapper API is autogenerated and will be updated when CDP protocol changes.
• Clojure: cuic (⭐29) - Providing a high-level API for UI test automation over the DevTools Protocol.
• PHP: chrome-devtools-protocol (⭐143) - A PHP client library for the protocol.
• PHP: PuPHPeteer (⭐1.3k) - php bridge to node puppeteer

Browser Adapters

• Inspect - Use devtools against iOS and Android, easily. Browser and Webviews. (closed source)

Using DevTools frontend with other platforms

Android

• Facebook Stetho (⭐13k) - Native Android debugging with Chrome DevTools.
• j2v8-debugger (⭐73) - Debugging JavaScript running in J2V8 (⭐2.3k) with Chrome DevTools.

ClojureScript

• Dirac (⭐762) - Debugging of ClojsureScript.

iOS

• PonyDebugger (⭐5.9k) - Remote network and data debugging iOS apps with Chrome DevTools.

Node.js

• ndb (⭐11k) - 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 (⭐199) - CPU, memory, coverage, type profiling with Node.
• chrome-devtools-frontend - Mirror of the frontend that ships in Chrome.

Ruby

• ruby/debug (⭐774) - Debugging functionality for Ruby.

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 (⭐23k) - 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 (⭐900) - A WebGL debugging toolkit which enables more productive WebGL development and more efficient WebGL applications.
• BEM devtools (⭐44) - Inspect BEM entities expressed in i-bem framework.
• Metal.js Developer Tools - Inspect the Metal component hierarchies.
• Web Component DevTools - Inspect, modify and observe Web Components on page.

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 (⭐196) - Chrome extension allows to enable and save CPU and network throttling for selected tabs.
• TracerBench (⭐220) - TracerBench is a controlled performance benchmarking tool for web applications, providing clear, actionable and usable insights into performance deltas.

Automation

• Puppeteer IDE (⭐101) - Standalone Puppeteer playground in browser's developer tools.

Alumni

Old projects, likely not maintained any longer… But still cool.

• Remote Debug Gateway (⭐87) - Allows you to connect a client to multiple browsers at once.
  • Multiuser DevTools: DevTools Remote (⭐666) - Remotely debug someone else's browser.
• DevTools Backend (⭐134) - Standalone implementation of the Chrome DevTools backend to debug arbitrary web environments.
• Python CDP driver: pychrome (⭐509) - low level CDP transport handler
• ios-webkit-debug-proxy (⭐5.6k) - Exposes Mobile Safari & UIWebView instances via the CDP.
  • Remote Debug iOS WebKit adapter (⭐2.6k) - Builts upon ios-webkit-debug-proxy and translates WebKit's Remote Debugging Protocol API to the CDP.
• IE Diagnostics Adapter (⭐577) - Protocol adaptor for Microsoft IE 11 to CDP.
• go-debugger-devtools (⭐40)