Salesforce Lightning Inspector

For inspecting Lightning apps

What is Salesforce Lightning Inspector?

Salesforce Lightning Inspector is a Chrome extension designed to streamline and boost Lightning Component development. It equips you with access to important data about your running applications and components. Features allow navigation and inspection of component structures, identifying performance bottlenecks, debugging server interactions, tracking event sequences, among others. Regular updates bring in a host of enhancements, bug fixes, better compliance, and new features like telemetry, Lightning Stylesheet Previewer, and more.

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By: Salesforce

View on Chrome Web Store

Users: 60,000+

Rating: 2.66 (47)

Version: 1.0.11 (Last updated: 2021-03-20)

Creation date: 2020-07-26

Risk impact: Moderate risk impact

Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood

Manifest version: 2

Permissions:

contextMenus
http://*.force.com/*
https://*.force.com/*
http://*.salesforce.com/*
https://*.salesforce.com/*

Size: 9.14M

Email: ch*****@salesforce.com

URLs: Website ,Privacy policy

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Chrome-Stats Rank

# 3636 ▼ 76

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#2483 in Developer Tools ▲ 1

#22 in component keyword 37

#29 in salesforce keyword 40 ▲ 2

#56 in performance keyword 11 ▲ 1

#95 in bug fixes keyword 59

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Summary

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The Salesforce Lightning Inspector opens up and improves your Lightning Component development, giving you access to a wealth of data about your running applications and components.

With the Salesforce Lightning Inspector you can:

Easily inspect and navigate the structure of your components
Identify performance bottlenecks by looking at a graph of component creation time
Debug server interactions faster by monitoring and modifying responses
Navigate the component tree, inspect components and their associated DOM elements
Track event firing and handling sequences

Update March 19, 2021

Added telemetry

Update July 10, 2020

User reviews

User reviews summary

These summaries are automatically generated weekly using AI based on recent user reviews. Chrome Web Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.

Pros

Helpful for troubleshooting and diagnosing problems with Apex and lightning callbacks from components.
The ability to monitor Actions and Events is very valuable.
Beneficial when used in conjunction with the Developer Console.

Cons

Does not work with enhanced domains in community.
Frequent errors such as being unable to clear marks on inspected window.
Functionality issues with areas such as the Performance Tab and the Component Tree.
Search is not fully functional and the tool often crashes or hangs up.
Does not function consistently across different machines.

Most mentioned

Issues with the Performance Tab.
Errors and crashes.
The inability to inspect objects properly or fully using the Developer Console.
Problems with the Component Tree.
Search functionality problems

Recent reviews

Please add an ability to manage site's that app can access. It doesn't work in community if enhanced domains are on.

Dmitry Komarov, 2023-06-27

I would give it 10 stars if I could

Caleb Burke, 2023-03-21

Незаменимое расширение!

Vladimir Opyata, 2022-11-02

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Safety

Risk impact

Salesforce Lightning Inspector may not be safe to use and it requires some risky permissions. Exercise caution when installing this extension. Review carefully before installing.