App Instance Tags

App Instance Tags

Tag all instances of web apps you're developing so you never end up messing with the wrong one.

What is App Instance Tags?
App Instance Tags is a convenient Chrome extension for web developers. It allows you to register and tag different instances of web apps you're developing, such as local, staging, and production. Easily avoid making changes in the wrong instance and keep your development process organized.
Stats
Users: 57
Rating: 4.67 (6)
Version: 1.3 (Last updated: 2015-07-25)
Creation date: 2015-07-25
Risk impact: Moderate risk impact
Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
  • tabs
  • storage
  • notifications
Size: 878.59K
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Summary

Are you a web developer? Familiar with working on a large number of projects simultaneously? Surely, you are using versioning to make your life easy in terms of collaboration and deployment, but what about viewing different instances of the same app in your browser… have you ever changed something in the production instead in your local app instance? Ever messed up badly?

This convenient extension enables you to register an unlimited number of web applications you’re developing and define different instances with URLs for each one. You can register three different types of web app instances:

  • Local - most developers use something like "localhost/path-to-app" or define their own paths and create virtual hosts, e.g. “the-app.development.com"
  • Staging - although most web app development processes support deploying directly to a production server, a lot of them define a staging server that is used for testing and showcasing development changes
  • Production - this is the live application

Once you registered your apps you will see a recognizable letter icon in the URL bar matching the instance type of the page you are currently browsing (L icon for local, S for staging and P for production). You will be able to click on it to see details about the specific app.

You are developing on different machines? No problem, your data is synced between browsers when you sign to Chrome with your Google account!

What about permissions?

  1. Tabs
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User reviews
Just what i need but i missed some things for me. 1. An instance for development server is missing. 2. A notification is nice but an colorized indicator would be better for each of the instances. Thans for this usefull tool.
by Süleyman Karagöz Süleyman Karagöz, 2015-10-15

Extremely useful and intuitive, especially for projects with a lot of different version instances, made my life a lot easier, thanks.
by Miloš Milivojević Miloš Milivojević, 2014-10-09

Great solution, easy to use. Thanks
by Marina R. Marina R., 2014-07-08
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Safety
Risk impact

App Instance Tags may not be safe to use and it requires some risky permissions. Exercise caution when installing this extension. Review carefully before installing.

Risk likelihood

App Instance Tags has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

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