DevTools Links

Links I've collected while working with and contributing to various browser developer tools, all in one place. If you are wanting to contribute to any of these tools, get in contact with the teams that build them, or just want to browse the code (they are all open source), here are some links to help you get started.

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Devtools Snippets

I have been working on a small collection of snippets that are handy to reuse inside of browser devtools. These can be used in any devtools. You can jump straight to the devtools snippets project page and readme if you want to see some screenshots and details about each individual snippet.

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console.log helper function

I have often found it tricky to get a 'just-right' console.log wrapper in JavaScript. I would prefer to just type log, but writing a wrapper function is a little trickier than at first glance. A variation of this used to exist in the HTML5 Boilerplate plugin.js but is now missing.

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Devtools Colorpicker Palette

I'm still trying to figure out how to get a list of all the colors in use on a page from within devtools, but I've been hacking together a little demo with a custom Web Inspector frontend that loads a color palette on the side.

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jQuery UI 1.9 Boilerplate

jsbin has made having to remember some of these links less important. However, with jQuery UI 1.9 coming out, there are some CDN links that aren't working. Here is the updated boilerplate I use to quickly test out a jQuery UI project. If all goes well, you should have a dialog that you can drag around and resize.

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DevTools Feature Request - console.scope()

Sometimes I just want to see all (or many) of the variables inside of the function, and it can be a bit of work to copy all of the variables into the console.log() call when you know that you are just going to delete the line afterwards anyway.

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iOS UIColor Picker

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TinyColor On npm

I have published my TinyColor package to the npm repository - https://npmjs.org/package/tinycolor2. Unfortunately it is called tinycolor2 since tinycolor was already taken.

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Devtools Colorpicker

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DevTools Feature Request: Show Stack Trace In Event Listeners

I was asked a question in my DevTools talk at ComoRichWeb this month.

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