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Embedded Mobile DevTools: Use a specialised version of DevTools directly on a mobile device

Last updated: 21st December 2018
Use a specialised version of DevTools directly on a mobile device

There is a third-party and unofficial customised version of DevTools named Eruda which works directly on mobile devices. This is different to remote debugging.

You can:

And more. This project is on Github: github.com/liriliri/eruda and has a demo which you can try on mobile or desktop.

A use case for this is when you're out, without a laptop, and would like to perform some basic web page debugging from a mobile or tablet device.

To run this version of DevTools on a mobile device, you can paste in a JavaScript snippet, or better yet, add in a <script> tag to your page referencing eruda.

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