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Oct 10 - Oct 16, 2022

Learning

• 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.

Sep 05 - Sep 11, 2022

Accessibility (A11y) / Ruby

• 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.

Aug 15 - Aug 21, 2022

Libraries for driving the protocol (or a layer above)

• C#/.NET: Puppeteer Sharp (⭐2.4k) - puppeteer port

Aug 01 - Aug 07, 2022

Learning

• DevTools Tips - Collection of illustrated tips as mini tutorials.

Jul 18 - Jul 24, 2022

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)

• Python: pyppeteer (⭐2.7k) - puppeteer port

• Ruby: Ferrum (⭐1.3k) - high-level API to control Chrome in Ruby

• Clojure: cuic (⭐29) - Providing a high-level API for UI test automation over the DevTools 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 / Ruby

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

Workflow / Ruby

• Web Component DevTools - Inspect, modify and observe Web Components on page.

Alumni / Ruby

• 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)

Jan 10 - Jan 16, 2022

Automation / Ruby

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

Mar 08 - Mar 14, 2021

Libraries for driving the protocol (or a layer above)

• Kotlin: chrome-devtools-kotlin (⭐29) - A coroutine-based client library, providing low-level CDP primitives and high-level extensions.

Jan 18 - Jan 24, 2021

Libraries for driving the protocol (or a layer above)

• Java: jvppeteer (⭐468) - Headless Chrome For Java

• Go: Rod (⭐2.9k)

Nov 18 - Nov 24, 2019

Themes / Ruby

• Material UI Theme - Provides various Material Design inspired themes.

Performance / Ruby

• TracerBench (⭐220) - TracerBench is a controlled performance benchmarking tool for web applications, providing clear, actionable and usable insights into performance deltas.

Sep 09 - Sep 15, 2019

Network Inspection

• Weer - A HTTP protocol debugger (closed source)

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.

Developing with the protocol

• chrome-remote-interface Wiki (⭐3.8k) - Many useful recipes.

• Chrome Protocol Proxy (⭐138) - Tool for debugging clients using devtools protocol.

Libraries for driving the protocol (or a layer above)

• Java: chrome-devtools-java-client (⭐168)

• 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: 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)

• Ruby: Cuprite (⭐989) - Capybara driver

• Clojure: clj-chrome-devtools (⭐123) - The CDP wrapper API is autogenerated and will be updated when CDP protocol changes.

Using DevTools frontend with other platforms / Android

• j2v8-debugger (⭐73) - Debugging JavaScript running in J2V8 (⭐2.3k) with Chrome DevTools.

Using DevTools frontend with other platforms / Node.js

• ndb (⭐11k) - An improved Node.js debugging experience with the DevTools Frontend.

• thetool (⭐199) - CPU, memory, coverage, type profiling with Node.

• chrome-devtools-frontend - Mirror of the frontend that ships in Chrome.

Performance / Ruby

• sloth (⭐196) - Chrome extension allows to enable and save CPU and network throttling for selected tabs.

Oct 29 - Nov 04, 2018

Network Inspection

• betwixt (⭐4.4k) - System level network proxy, providing inspection via Network panel.

CPU profile

• Wishbone python framework - Profiling data can export as .cpuprofile.

Chrome DevTools Protocol

• DevTools Protocol API Docs - Easy browsable UI for exploring the protocol's domains, methods and events.

Using DevTools frontend with other platforms / Android

• Facebook Stetho (⭐13k) - Native Android debugging with Chrome DevTools.

Using DevTools frontend with other platforms / ClojureScript

• Dirac (⭐762) - Debugging of ClojsureScript.

Using DevTools frontend with other platforms / iOS

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

Using DevTools frontend with other platforms / Node.js

• Debugging Node.js with Chrome DevTools - Guide on using the full debugging and profiling support in Node v6.3+.

Workflow / Ruby

• Augury - Debugging and Profiling for Angular 2 applications.

Mar 05 - Mar 11, 2018

Libraries for driving the protocol (or a layer above)

• PHP: chrome-devtools-protocol (⭐143) - A PHP client library for the protocol.

Aug 28 - Sep 03, 2017

Libraries for driving the protocol (or a layer above)

• Kotlin: chrome-reactive-kotlin (⭐72) - reactive (rxjava 2.x), low-level client library in Kotlin

Workflow / Ruby

• Metal.js Developer Tools - Inspect the Metal component hierarchies.

Jul 03 - Jul 09, 2017

Libraries for driving the protocol (or a layer above)

• C#/dotnet: chrome-dev-tools (⭐71) - Protocol wrapper generator that can be customized by editing handlebars templates. Includes .Net Core template.

May 29 - Jun 04, 2017

Object formatting

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

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.

Multimedia

• snapline (⭐391) - Converts timeline screenshots to gif.

Timeline, Tracing & Profiling

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

Aug 01 - Aug 07, 2016

Learning

• Dev Tips - Large collection of tips as animated gifs.

Workflow / Ruby

• 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.

• 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.

Themes / Ruby

• 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.