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Development Tools

Jonathan Grieve
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Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,253 Points
Posted by Jonathan Grieve
Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,253 Points

Building websites with Chrome DevTools

Hi all

I was working on a client project today, in fact have been all week. Which I'm involved turning a websit e built for the desktop responsive. I rely on a range of tools to do this including Quirktools Screenfly and Chrome DevTools to write CSS on the fly.

It's incredibly useful to use tools like this to see what my changes do to the site while I'm typing them, just so lot as I remember add the changes to my file before I refresh the browser :D

What about others, do you work in a similar way? Is it cheating? Is it viable? Is it a learning tool?

Matt Brock
Matt Brock
28,330 Points

I've found this to be an incredibly helpful method of working. If there's something I'm just a little uneasy about coding "blind", I'll use the Chrome Dev Tools to see my changes live then just copy over to my master file as you said. I don't think it's cheating, either!

I especially love being able to drill down into other people's sites to see how they do things.