# Introducing Discourse developer toolbar

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/introducing-discourse-developer-toolbar/346215>\
**Category:** Development\
**Tags:** dev-news\
**Created:** [January 8, 2025, 4:33pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/introducing-discourse-developer-toolbar/346215 "2025-01-08T16:33:31Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 5, 2025, 1:27pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/introducing-discourse-developer-toolbar/346215/9 "2025-02-05T13:27:52Z")

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When viewing a development environment on mobile, the toolbar will appear on the left of the screen so you can use it as normal.

In production environments, you’ll need to call `enableDevTools()` from the console (or from theme/theme-component javascript) to turn on the toolbar. Note that this has a performance cost, so you shouldn’t do it for all users on a real production site.

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