Applications and extensions

Helpful applications and browser extensions.

Useful applications

Cyberduck

Cloud storage browser.

DBeaver

Free, open source universal database tool. Available for Windows, OSX, and Linux.

VirtualBox

Windows VMs for testing IE - provided by Microsoft

Browser Extensions

Analysis

• NoCoffee - vision impairment simulator

• Wappalyzer - detect libraries/frameworks used on a website

Dev tools

• React DevTools

• MobX DevTools

• Lighthouse - now included with Chrome under the “audits” tab in DevTools. Perform audits on performance, PWA, a11y, best practices, and SEO.

Other

• Page Ruler redux - measure dimensions on a webpage in the browser

• GA Debugger - enables the debug version of analytics.js without having to change the tracking code

• Tag Assistant

Editors and IDEs

VS Code

Open source IDE.

In order to use VS Code for Drupal development, use this guide as a starting point. The editor is highly configurable with many extensions available. You will likely want to customize it further based on your needs.

WebStorm/PHPStorm