ChromeDevTools/devtools-frontend
The Chrome DevTools UI
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Where it stands
Rank, growth pace and release cadence relative to everything GStars tracks.
Ranks #18 among Developer Tools repositories tracked this week, and #18 over the last 30 days; #397 of 2,794 repositories GStars tracks this week (top 14%).
The project lists 320 contributors on GitHub.
Gained 12% fewer stars in the last 90 days than in the 90 days before.
Use Cases & Benefits
- Provides the client-side TypeScript and CSS codebase for the Chrome DevTools web application interface.
- Enables seamless integration and updates aligned with Chromium commits for consistent debugging and inspection experience.
- Use for extending or customizing Chrome DevTools UI components in web development workflows.
- Use for embedding Chrome DevTools frontend features into custom browser-based debugging tools.
- Use for contributing to or studying the architecture and design of a large-scale, production-grade developer tool frontend.
Should you depend on it?
License terms, project hygiene and risks, from GitHub metadata and GStars' snapshots.
License
BSD 3-Clause
Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution.
Community files
- README: present
- Contributing guide: present
Watch-outs
- No GitHub releases; pin a commit or tag instead of a release.
General guidance from repository metadata, not legal advice. How we score
From the README
The client-side of the Chrome DevTools, including all TypeScript & CSS to run the DevTools webapp.
The frontend is available on chromium.googlesource.com. Check out the [Chromium DevTools documentation] for instructions to set up, use, and maintain a DevTools front-end checkout, as well as design guidelines, and architectural documentation.
DevTools frontend repository is mirrored on GitHub.
DevTools frontend is also available on NPM as the chrome-devtools-frontend package. It's not currently available via CJS or ES modules, so consuming this package in other tools may require some effort.
The version number of the npm package (e.g.
1.0.373466) refers to the Chromium commit position of latest frontend git commit. It's incremented with every Chromium commit, however the package is updated roughly daily.
Daily snapshots
Stars gained per day, and how forks and open issues moved, from GStars' daily snapshots
Forks
731+34
Open issues
124+0
Compared with peers in Developer Tools
Fastest-growing repositories GStars tracks in this cohort for the week of Oct 18, by 7-day star growth
| Repository | Stars | +7d | Health | Last release |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| stablyai/orca | 102.8K | +9.4K | 60 | 1 day ago |
| DietrichGebert/ponytail | 173.5K | +9.2K | 75 | 6 days ago |
| OpenCut-app/OpenCut | 95.1K | +1.7K | 59 | 23 days ago |
| michael-denyer/pstack-claude | 3.3K | +1.1K | 75 | today |
| ShawnPana/phone-harness | 3.8K | +596 | 31 | 2 days ago |
| ChromeDevTools/devtools-frontend | 4.1K | +0 | 40 | — |
| Category median | 95.1K | +1.7K | 60 | — |
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