Independent of language and independent of the web framework you use to develop your web application, I can really recommend using Firefox with the “web developer” and “firebug” plugins.
Though these two plugins have a partially overlapping feature set, combined they make it easy to
- make CSS changes on the fly (for quick testing and prototyping)
- evaluate scripts on the loaded page
- see what is loaded as part of the page
- view the page source, both as loaded and current (influenced by scripts)
- see how long loading (each part of the document) took
- investigate cookies and forms
- look at the DOM
- and much more…
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