I believe that "Live Preview" conflicting with Chrome DevTools is a limitation on the Chrome side. Note that the Brackets feature isn't a live "reload" - Bracke

I believe that "Live Preview" conflicting with Chrome DevTools is a limitation on the Chrome side. Note that the Brackets feature isn't a live "reload" - Brackets pokes into the live DOM and makes changes dynamically, without reloading the page. As I recall, it does this with the same hooks DevTools uses, and Chrome only allows one entity at a time to do such things. Personally I've gotten in the habit of switching back and forth. I tend to use Live Preview when I'm tweaking layout and design (so much easier than doing things in the inspector and then remembering what changes to reflect in my code), but switching to the browser tools for most script stuff. If Live Preview had a javascript console I suspect I'd hardly use the browser tools..