How does the Brave browser have Chrome's dev-tools?

Question

Really Quick question:

Why does the Brave browser have Chrome's dev-tools?

Does this also mean that I don't need to test my website in Brave if it works in Chrome?

Thanks :)

Answer 1

Take a look at their github page. Especially the tags they added:

Notice the word " Electron ", now I could explain to you what Electron is but they have an excellent explanation on their Electron Home page :

Electron is an open source library developed by GitHub for building cross-platform desktop applications with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Electron accomplishes this by combining Chromium and Node.js into a single runtime and apps can be packaged for Mac, Windows, and Linux.

As you can see, Electron uses "Chromium". I could explain but.... you've guessed it they offer a great explanation themselves :

The Chromium projects include Chromium and Chromium OS, the open-source projects behind the Google Chrome browser and Google Chrome OS, respectively. This site houses the documentation and code related to the Chromium projects and is intended for developers interested in learning about and contributing to the open-source projects.

So thats why you can access the chrome dev tools inside Brave.

On to your other question:

I don't need to test in Brave if my website works in Chrome?

Yes and no, you can be fairly certain that Brave will do everything Chromium does. But in the end we can't be certain what Brave does to the pages loaded through it. Having said that I won't be giving you a firm answer on this :)

(PS: if you set up automatic testing it doesn't really matter if you have to test another browser)