4 Reasons Chrome DevTools are Great for Responsive Web Design

Last week I introduced the basics of Getting Started with Responsive Web Design. That post introduced 4 practical starting points when upgrading a website to become more mobile friendly. This post dives deeper into the debugging process.

Any web designer spends a lot of time coding in a text editor and debugging in a web browser. I prefer using Google Chrome to debug my web applications, primarily because of DevTools. Instead of constantly jumping back and forth between the editor and the browser to optimize and test code, I prefer debugging with DevTools directly inside of Google Chrome. The DevTools save even more time for testing your code on mobile devices. Instead of constantly tweaking, publishing, and viewing these changes on a mobile device you can debug on a mobile device right inside of Chrome.

Four Reasons Chrome DevTools are Great for Responsive Web Design

1. DevTools are great for debugging any website
2. Emulate real devices with Device Mode.
3. Responsive Toolbar with active Media Queries.
4. Remote debugging for real devices.

DevTools are great for debugging any website

The Google Chrome DevTools are great for general debug. You can test them out on any website. This screencast shows a few quick tips for getting started.