Chrome JavaScript Console

The purpose of this extension is to allow multi-line in-browser prototyping of JavaScript within any web-page from within Google Chrome.

Basically, if you’re working on a web-page, and you want to write some new JS functionality for that page, you can pop open the console and prototype it right there inside the page. You can do this through Firebug if you are in Firefox, and this plugin attempts to allow the same sort of functionality.

Yes, I am aware of the built-in JavaScript console in Chrome. However, I have not found a way to do multi-line JavaScript prototyping from within that console. If you know of a way, please comment and let me know.

Here is the Github page for this project.

Here is the Chrome Extension page.

Changelog:

v0.0.3 (unreleased, on github)
Made buttons into images (so they are smaller)
todo (before release):
Make console hidden by default
Namespace functionality to reduce chance of conflicts

v0.0.2
Rewrite of the insertion engine by Radek Horsky
Made buttons hidden when irrelevant

v0.0.1
Initial release

2 Responses to “Chrome JavaScript Console”

  1. Scott Hyndman says:
    July 23, 2010 at 4:14 pm

    For multiline entry on the Chrome console, try pressing option (maybe alt on Windows?) at the same time as return.

  2. Christopher McCulloh says:
    July 23, 2010 at 4:20 pm

    Hrm… doesn’t work for me…

    I tried “alt” “ctrl” and even the “windows” key…

    Thanks though.

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