As developers, we use many tools to make our job easier. Either working on a personal project or at a company, there are many useful tools to help us do our job better. In this post, I have listed 7 useful Google Chrome extensions for developers.
SEO
Web Developers are not necessarily SEO experts, but they have to know some SEO techniques when writing HTML code. They have to use meta description tags, headings, alt texts for images, etc.
A very helpful tool that checks your website’s HTML and gives warnings and tips about SEO.
MozBar is an SEO toolbar that finds on-page elements, open graph meta tags, highlights internal/external links, and more. You have to register in order to use it.
Technologies Identifiers
Sometimes we want to find what technologies a website, an online platform or an e-shop uses.
WhatRuns extension is one click away for you to find technologies used on any website you visit. From Developer Tools and Ad Networks to WordPress Plugins and Themes, we detect even new and upcoming tools and services.
Wappalyzer is a utility that uncovers the technologies used on websites. It detects content management systems, e-commerce platforms, web frameworks, server software, analytics tools, and many more.
BuiltWith is a website profiler tool. Upon looking up a page, BuiltWith returns all the technologies it can find on the page.
Other
Simple chrome extension that gives you the IP address of the server where the current page was received from.
A tool to view JSON documents on the browser. Useful if you want to see an API response.
See also my list of
22 useful tools for Web Developers.