Web Component DevTools

Developer tooling for Web Components and Web Component Libraries

Web Component DevTools: Firefox Add-on for Web Components

Web Component DevTools is a Firefox add-on designed to enhance developer tooling for Web Components. It creates a new Chrome Devtools panel on your browser, allowing users to inspect and modify custom elements on a webpage. Key features include the ability to list custom elements, filter such elements, modify their attributes, observe dispatched events, and call element functions directly. Ideal for developers seeking a more intuitive, user-friendly interface for working with Web Components.

Add-on stats

By: Matsuuu
Users: 1,214
-10
Rating: 5.00
(5)
Version: 0.1.17 (Last updated: 2022-06-20)
Creation date: 2021-07-16
Weekly download count: 34
Firefox on Android: No
Risk impact: High risk impact
Risk likelihood:
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
  • tabs
  • contextMenus
Size: 1.85M
URLs: Website

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Add-on summary

Developer tooling for Web Components and Web Component Libraries Web Component DevTools is aimed at all developers working with Web Components. The tooling provided creates a new Chrome Devtools panel, which allows a quick look at the custom elements on the current page, and enables modification of attributes and properties of said components.

Web Component DevTools utilizes the Custom Elements Manifest (https://github.com/webcomponents/custom-elements-manifest) to analyze the Web Components.

Features:

Web Component DevTools provides advanced features to the developer, straight from the browser's UI to, for example:

  • Listing custom elements on the page, and accessible iframes inside the page
  • Filtering custom elements on the list
  • Inspecting and modifying the attributes of custom elements
  • Inspecting and modifying the properties (even objects and arrays) of custom elements
  • Observing dispatched events
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Add-on safety

Risk impact

Web Component DevTools requires some sensitive permissions that could impact your browser and data security. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk likelihood

Web Component DevTools has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

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