In this video from //build/ I show what’s new for web developers in Visual Studio 2013. Here are some of the highlights:

• URL rewrite Intellisense in web.config
• JavaScript navigational dropdowns
• EcmaScript 6 support
• A few CSS/LESS trics
• New HTML editor
• Browser Link (project “Artery”)
• Open sourcing Web Essentials

Enjoy!

Earlier this year, Sayed and I released Web Developer Checklist to help web developer adhere to best practices. Checklists like these can be really helpful to make sure we don’t forget anything before releasing new or updated websites.

Now we’re introducing Web Developer Checklist as a Chrome extension that can automate a big portion of the checklist. The extension let’s you run checks for various best practices on any website - including your own running from localhost.

It performs a serious of checks by analyzing the DOM as well as integrating with 3^rd-party services like Google PageSpeed.

Next steps

This first version of the Web Developer Checklist Chrome extension does a serious of really valuable checks. The next releases will have even more.

Specifically, we’re looking at adding:

• HTML validation
• CSS validation
• Accessibility validation
• JSHint
• CssLint
• Guidance for each item Done v.1.4.4

We think these checks would be hugely beneficial. If you have ideas for other checks that can be automated, please let us know in the comments below.

Open source

The Web Developer Checklist Chrome extension is open source and hosted on our GitHub org. As always, pull requests are more than welcome.