Five front-end tools I use on every project

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Work smarter, not harder

Every project I ship leans on the same small toolkit. In this post, I share the five front-end tools I use on every project — the editor, debugger, handoff and testing setup that saves me the most time, plus a few tools I stopped using along the way.

From the editor to debugging extensions, each pick earns its place by saving real hours: a design handoff tool that ends guesswork, a browser inspector setup that finds layout bugs in seconds, a formatter that keeps every file consistent, a performance profiler that catches slow pages before users do, and a component playground for building in isolation.

The throughline is simple — automate the repetitive, inspect the invisible, and spend your energy on decisions only a human can make. That is what the right toolkit buys you on every project you touch.