A chrome extension - your little dev buddy.
[UPDATE] Firefox: localhost
Just a little fun stuff.
So, often while development lifecycle, we open up chrome and type localhost:XXXX and typing that 'localhost' takes quite a few keystrokes. One fine day, I was not in a good mood and funnily enough, I was getting irritated by the littlest of things and thought why not just the port number? 😅
Sadly, to publish this, we need to pay open a google developer account and so I though instead. So here's the code. 😞
To use the extension:
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Clone this repo
git clone git@github.com:abhishekpawl/localhost.git
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Open up chrome, enable Developer mode and load unpacked extension(this project file).
And you're good to go.
Here's a little snippet: