Manual testing and debugging
Let's start with manual testing, debugging your responsive application locally on your development machine. For this purpose, I created a little dashboard application that is displayed in the following screenshot. The picture is a screenshot from a Chrome window on my desktop computer:
Testing and debugging locally
Running your devices locally has one big benefit: it is super fast, and you can quickly see how the visualization feels. You have control over the device; it's either in your hands or running on your local machine. The following figure shows a typical local development setup:
Changing Device Modes in a Chrome desktop browser
The fastest and most convenient way of quickly testing an application with a different screen resolution is to use the Device Mode setting in the Chrome Developer Tools. You can open it by first opening the Developer Tools (pressing F12) and then clicking...