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Chrome DevTools in 2016 and Beyond

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Re: Chrome DevTools in 2016 and Beyond

#51
It's ironic that scrolling stutters so much on a Google Developers page when using Chrome on Android (51.0.2704.81). Inertial scrolling is broken too.

I rarely have this problem on other sites. It usually only occurs on Javascript heavy sites (disproportionately frequently on Google sites using that Material UI toolkit).

I'm using a Samsung S7, but had this same issue on my Nexus 6.

Re: Chrome DevTools in 2016 and Beyond

#52

Very happy about debugging Node.js in DevTools. Hard to imagine any third-party debugging applications having that amount of features and polish...

I usually try to pop into the debugger from within unit or integration tests, but have found this to be very slow and unreliable when doing it over a port. Have you found your experience to be different?What is your setup to debug mocha.js (or another framework) tests in chrome?

You should give VSCode a try. I was pleasently surprised about the quality of the debugger. A part from the UI I didn't have any other complaints.

Re: Chrome DevTools in 2016 and Beyond

#53

I'm glad to see Css source diffs in there. My workflow consists of tweaking Css in dev tools and then updating source. I've found that if I map directly so Devtools updates the source file I get lost very quickly. Incidentally I'd be interested in knowing of better ways of writing / debugging css.

http://livereload.com/

Re: Chrome DevTools in 2016 and Beyond

#54

After 5+ years of developing in Chrome Dev tools, I switched to Safari 2 weeks ago (Mac) and couldn't be happier. Chrome has become bloated. Ever notice CPU fans ramping up? Only while Dev Tools is open. Memory hog is an understatement. Furthermore, while Chrome's light, prebundled Flash was an asset 3 years ago it's now a liability: most websites now gracefully fallback to HTML5 video. Safari's upcoming leading edge…

Page loads feel faster in Chrome for me, but yes, the dev tools are much cleaner. There are at least worth a second look if you can't find the bug in chrome.

Re: Chrome DevTools in 2016 and Beyond

#55
post #21
post #9

Scrolling is broken in Safari on this page. Maybe the page authors should spend less time in the Chrome dev tools and more in the dev tools of other browsers.

I'm glad these folks spend their time on Chrome dev tools rather than catering to the users of inferior browsers who expect people to invest extra energy catering to their preferences. Edit: This may help: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/

> expect people to invest extra energy

Funny you use that phrase, because that's what Google expects me to invest to use their bloated excuse of a browser.

I mainly use Safari since it has such a performant UI that doesn't chew up battery-intensive CPU cycles all the time.

Re: Chrome DevTools in 2016 and Beyond

#56
slowly the browser is becoming an JS IDE, and that's nice. Ctrl-Shift-I can become the "READY" prompt of the C64. The "next thing" is CDT auto-saving your changes to css and js for a website, and optionally re-applying them on future browsing.

Re: Chrome DevTools in 2016 and Beyond

#57
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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Pretty much what I thought, thanks! I'm a fan of the concept, hating apps that could easily have been webpages (public transport apps are often a good example), so it sounds like a good idea to give this a name and promote it. It's too bad that this name sounds like Microsoft came up with it in the early 2000s, but oh well.

It's an awesome idea and one that is actually not too hard to implement, at least partially. Problem is browser support of the APIs, with Safari lagging behind.

It's a laundry list of enhancements that are usually not in any way critical to business and product requirements, and whose absence will likely not be noticed by many users. Great to have and I support the idea 100%, but this stuff is usually the first to get cut when launch is looming, and for good reason.

Re: Chrome DevTools in 2016 and Beyond

#58
post #50
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Scrolling is broken in Safari on this page. Maybe the page authors should spend less time in the Chrome dev tools and more in the dev tools of other browsers.

We will be fixing this. There was a change in safari that busted our material design lite usage.

FYI: It still doesn't work in Safari(9.1.1)

Re: Chrome DevTools in 2016 and Beyond

#59
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post #40

NodeJS and Chromium have complete different debugging API's. It would be cool if they where the same, so you could reuse the debugging tools on both platforms.

> Thanks to the V8, DevTools, and Google Cloud Platform for Node.js teams, you can now use all of DevTools’ powerful debugging features to introspect a Node.js app. See also: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/6792

Will probably have to wait a while until it lands in LTS, but this is awesome!
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