The Case for Client-Side Developer Tools

Every time you paste a JWT into a decoder, run a regex against a sample string, or convert a color value from HSL to hex in an online tool, you're making a small architectural choice: where does the processing happen? For most online tools, the answer is a server you don't control. Your input travels over the network, gets processed somewhere, and a result comes back. For a JWT decoder or a Base64 transformer, this is completely unnecessary. These are trivial operations. JavaScript can do them i