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Magento 2 Developer Toolbar & Profiler Tools: Streamline Your Workflow

Accelerate daily Magento 2 development: instant in-browser cache flushing, reverse-seek log tailing, dependency injection reflection, and real-time storefront block profiling.

By Kenneth D'SilvaReading Time: 14 min readCategory: Magento & Commerce

Eliminating the CLI Round-Trip in Magento 2

Magento 2 developers spend dozens of minutes every day switching between code editors, browser tabs, and terminal terminals to run bin/magento cache:flush, tail var/log/system.log, or inspect DI configuration.

To eliminate this friction, I created two complementary developer extensions:

  • Admin Dev Tools: Adds an in-browser utility toolbar inside the Magento Admin for selective cache pool clearing, indexer management, log tailing, and object manager reflection.
  • Frontend Dev Tools: Injects a lightweight storefront profiling bar that measures block execution times, layout handle trees, database query counts, and template origins.

Installation via Composer

# Install Admin Dev Tools
composer require modracx/module-admin-dev-tools
bin/magento module:enable Modracx_AdminDevTools
bin/magento setup:upgrade

# Install Frontend Dev Tools Profiler
composer require modracx/module-frontend-dev-tools
bin/magento module:enable Modracx_FrontendDevTools
bin/magento setup:upgrade

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