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.

Extension stats

Users: 60,000+
Rating: 2.71 (48)
Version: 1.0.11 (Last updated: 2021-03-20)
Creation date: 2020-07-26
Risk impact: Low 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

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Extension 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

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User reviews

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 Chrome Web Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.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
  • Helps in troubleshooting and diagnosing problems with Apex and lightning callbacks from components.
  • Some users find the tool great for inspecting crucial lightning objects.
Cons
  • The extension often does not work properly, with many users reporting it is unusable.
  • Crashes and reloads a classic page.
  • The inspector is frequently blank when attempting to inspect lightning components.
  • Missing functionality, such as the option to use the Inspector from the right click menu.
Most mentioned
  • Does not work or is broken.
  • Inspector is blank when inspecting components.
  • Errors experienced during use, such as those related to performance tab.
  • User experience issues related to component tree functionality.
Recent reviews
by shruti asthana, 2024-10-28

Please add an ability to manage site's that app can access. It doesn't work in community if enhanced domains are on.
by Dmitry Komarov, 2023-06-27

I would give it 10 stars if I could
by Caleb Burke, 2023-03-21
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Extension safety

Risk impact

Salesforce Lightning Inspector requires very minimum permissions.

Risk likelihood

Salesforce Lightning Inspector has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

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