The Web Developer extension adds various web developer tools to a browser. The extension is available for Chrome, Edge, Firefox, and Opera, and will run on any platform that these browsers support including Windows, OS X and Linux.
The extension can be installed from its home page:
Or directly from the Chrome, Edge, Firefox or Opera extension repositories:
- Chrome: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/web-developer/bfbameneiokkgbdmiekhjnmfkcnldhhm
- Edge: Coming soon.
- Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/web-developer/
- Opera: https://addons.opera.com/en/extensions/details/web-developer/
For announcements about the Web Developer extension including news about beta releases and previews of upcoming versions follow:
- Blog: https://chrispederick.com/blog/
- Mastodon: https://social.lol/@chrispederick
Help for the Web Developer extension can be found on its home page:
- Help: https://chrispederick.com/work/web-developer/help/
- Known issues: https://chrispederick.com/work/web-developer/issues/
- To-do list: https://chrispederick.com/work/web-developer/to-do/
To report a new issue or suggest a new feature please contact me:
- Contact: https://chrispederick.com/contact/
The Web Developer extension is written in JavaScript, HTML, and CSS.
For information about how to write browser extensions check out the Chrome, Firefox, and Opera documentation:
- Chrome: https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/
- Edge: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/extensions-chromium/
- Firefox: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons
- Opera: https://dev.opera.com/extensions/
The extension uses the Gulp build system.
Once Gulp is installed the extension is built by running the following:
gulp
To build the extension for Chrome, Edge, Firefox, or Opera only run gulp chrome, gulp edge, gulp firefox, or gulp opera respectively.
When the extension is built it creates build/chrome, build/edge, build/firefox, and build/opera directories as well as packaged versions of the extensions build/web-developer-chrome.zip, build/web-developer-edge.zip, build/web-developer-firefox.xpi, and build/web-developer-opera.nex.
The extension can be installed in Chrome, Edge, Firefox, or Opera by loading the unpacked extension in build/chrome, build/edge, build/firefox, or build/opera respectively as described in the Chrome, Edge, Firefox, and Opera documentation.
The following libraries are used by and included in the extension as-is:
- Bootstrap: https://getbootstrap.com/
- CodeMirror: https://codemirror.net/
- DOMPurify: https://github.com/cure53/DOMPurify
- Eric Meyer's Reset CSS: https://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/css/reset/
- JS Beautifier: https://github.com/beautify-web/js-beautify
- mustache.js: https://github.com/janl/mustache.js/ imported from https://unpkg.com/browse/mustache@4.2.0/mustache.js
They should not be altered apart from to update to their latest versions for maintenance reasons.
The icons used in the extension are from Nucleo and any new icons used in the extension should also come from there for consistency.
An EditorConfig file is included to unify the coding style for different editors.
Supported by:
All files are distributed for free under the terms of the GNU General Public License. This does not apply to the included libraries or icons mentioned in the Developer section which have their own individual licenses.
