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15 Useful Bookmarklets for Web Devs (What Are They, Anyway? 🤔)

Best Codes on December 13, 2023

Hey, everyone! Today, I want to share something with you called a Bookmarklet. What is that? Read on to find out!! What is a Bookmarklet...
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Lev N.

Didn’t you just make a post about how listices are bad for the community?

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Volodymyr Yepishev

If you cannot stop them, join them 😂

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Arek Nawo

Yeah... this is a good listicle (especially for me, given I don't know much about bookmarklets), but publishing it shortly after the other one (which gathered attention) wasn't a good idea.

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Best Codes

Perhaps it wasn't, but oops! So they're both popular, and I'm fine with that, LOL.

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LOL, that's not what I'm doing… I followed the guidelines here:

dev.to/devteam/best-practices-for-...

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hel0_code

IKR I saw it

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I updated it to be more explanatory.

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hel0_code

OK

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:D

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Yep. Did you check the content of my post to see if it is really a listicle? I thought it was fairly helpful and in depth, explained what a bookmarklet was, and gave examples.

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Lev N.

Lol, you hiding the comments gives me everything I need to know…

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Is there a specific reason you would like me to un-hide them? I will if needed.

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Lev N.

Is there a specific reason for hiding them? Are they not valid comments?

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As stated already, I didn't see any reason why comments that weren't about someone who learned something or constructive criticism should be seen. If you can give me a good reason, I'll unhide them.

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A few years ago, I wrote a web utility that made it easy to turn multiple lines of JavaScript into a bookmarklet.
comne.kr/js4link/
You can also test a simple Bookmarklet online, so try it if you want to write bookmarklet quickly.

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Awesome! Thanks for the resource!

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Felix

Wow, you just posted how listicles are bad for dev.to and now are just making one.
Good work 👏👏

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@felixdev9 See my post to you here:

dev.to/best_codes/comment/2bedf

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Felix

Why are you hiding the comments?

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I didn't see any reason why comments that weren't about someone who learned something or constructive criticism should be seen. If you can give me a good reason, I'll unhide them.

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OpenSource • Edited

Great content, my friend. I also learned one from W3Techs recently that tells the underlying tech of any website. I’ll look for it to share it here

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OpenSource

It’s in this website: w3techs.com/sites

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There's a more modern site and browser extension for that called Wappalyzer, but thanks, I'll check it out!

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OpenSource

Didn’t know that one, thanks for sharing!

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Best Codes • Edited

I think I prefer the other actually (yours), as it is more comprehensive and free. I added it with attribution. Thanks!

P.S. I added it to my site with attribution as well.

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Thank you! You can check out my database of them here:

the-best-codes.github.io/tools/boo...

There aren't very many, so I will probably accept whatever you can find.

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Vedangi Thokal

Great blog, didnt know what a bookmarklet was at all before this

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Thanks for commenting! I'm glad you learned!

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I added the bookmarklet with attribution to @aarvinr! Thanks for contributing!

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Thanks for sharing! I'll check it out and see about adding it to my list!

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Alex Roor

excellent material! thanks for the detail

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Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed!

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