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Show HN: A curated list of Chrome DevTools tips and tricks
- gibbitz 12y agoSome nice tips in here. I had no idea multiple cursors were supported. I now live in the future! Would be good to know the cross-platform support for these features without testing them though. No "cmd" key in Linux :( (though, the ctrl key works as expected)
- jefkoslowski 12y agoThanks for your feedback, I will do that.
- exhilaration 12y agoThe second item, Command + Click on CSS, isn't showing your example image: http://devtoolstips.com/image/99439992616 http://devtoolstips.com/image/99439992616 This is on both Safari and Chrome on OS X.
- jefkoslowski 12y agoThats odd. Removed for now, I will create a smaller gif or video. Thanks.
- jefkoslowski 12y agoJust uploaded a new smaller gif, it's working now.
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- Igglyboo 12y agomonitorEvents is really awesome. Would really like a little writeup on each of these to accompany the gif, couldn't quite figure out the "copy an object to the clipboard" one.
- jefkoslowski 12y agoThanks, I will work on it.
- hamburglar 12y agoIn general, some very brief text describing things beyond just an animated GIF would be really helpful. I spent a long time watching the eyedropper one over and over, trying to figure out what exactly you did to get the eyedropper to show up. It doesn't help that this is apparently a feature that's only in canary for now (I'd avoid that, or at least call it out explicitly), but even ignoring that, trying to get instruction by watching a dot flick around unpredictably in a screenshot is difficult/inefficient. edit: great idea for a site, though. I've subscribed to your RSS.
- andybak 12y agoYeah, me too. Ever since I learned to read I've found myself relying less and less on video tutorials ;-)
- heffo 12y agoThe copy to a clipboard has a few elements to it. 1. If you right click on an object in the console, you can store it as a global variable. This makes an exact copy of the object that is in the global scope. 2. They used $_ which is a shortcut to get the result of the last command. So in the example, temp9 was the last command, so $_ is a copy of temp9 3. The important bit is the copy(var) call. This will copy any var into your clipboard! Hopefully this was helpful!
- Cthulhu_ 12y agoWhy does this page use .gifs instead of HTML video? :'(
- jefkoslowski 12y agoSorry about that. I will try to convert everything to video on the next week.
- superasn 12y agoYou can also try using gfycat.com to do this automatically.
- jefkoslowski 12y agoAmazing, great tip! Thanks.
- michaelmcmillan 12y agoChrome Devtools has basically become my main tool when I do web development. I honestly can't imagine what I did before Chrome was around.
- billyhoffman 12y agoYou probably used Firefox + Firebug and couldn't believe you used to do development without them. Before Firefox + Firebug though? Well, you probably have suppressed the memories about using alert() calls for debugging through your tears. :-)
- JeremyMorgan 12y agoYou nailed it. alert("1"); alert("2"); alert("we got here"); Ah, I don't have fond memories of those days.
- vlunkr 12y agohttp://www.briangrinstead.com/blog/chrome-developer-tools-monitorevents http://www.briangrinstead.com/blog/chrome-developer-tools-mo... I didn't know about monitorEvents, it's really nice! This link has more details about what events you can monitor.
- umaar 12y agoNice. FYI: I infrequently post some of these tips to Google+: https://plus.google.com/+UmarHansa https://plus.google.com/+UmarHansa with detailed descriptions. Also on Twitter: https://twitter.com/umaar https://twitter.com/umaar with less description.
- dccoolgai 12y agoMy personal favorite is debug(function_name). Creates a breakpoint at the beginning of the function. I use it almost daily.
- tobeportable 12y agoI don't see a way to suggest a tip or trick. My ah ha moment was when i discovered the usage of :' debugger; ' in a.js with inspector open
- jefkoslowski 12y agoAdded to my todo list, thanks.
- ufmace 12y agoThat one where you click on the curly braces to auto-de-minify is awesome!
- lobster_johnson 12y agoAnyone know of a better way to get proper JSON out of something emitted to the console? The "store as global variable" + copy($_) is ridiculous.