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18 DevTools for productivity 🚀

Christopher Kade on November 05, 2019

This may sound crazy, but developers are lazy. I know, unbelievable. Some of us are, we need to automate lots of our tasks because repetition can b...
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Didin 👨‍💻 • Edited

19 dbdesigner.id to create Entity Relationship Diagram 😎😎😎.
This can help you to collaborate with your team on web and cut off your step in generate SQL Create database.
I write this article to explain more about this devtool medium.com/@didin1453fatih/databas...

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bbilginn

an alternative dbdiagram.io/

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Didin 👨‍💻

Yes, this is alternative for opensource project.

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Jakub Sarnowski

Didn't know about ngrok. It looks very useful! Thanks!

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🦁 Yvonnick FRIN

I use it a lot! It is really useful to share a local app when you are pair-programming remotely 👍

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Jakob Attkinson

How does it work, more exactly?

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🦁 Yvonnick FRIN • Edited

ngrok http 3000 creates a tunnel on the port 3000 and expose it on an url. So you have to start your app on port 3000 then it is available to the url 🎉

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jappyjan

Great alternative to be mentioned is localhost.run it’s actually just an ssh command forwarding your local traffic which results in not needing to install anything on your local machine.

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Jakub Sarnowski

Doesn't look to secure - their website doesn't even have a valid SSL certificate 😅

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jappyjan

LOL... it definitely was valid when I visited their site 😅

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🦁 Yvonnick FRIN • Edited

Nice article 👏

If someone use gitmoji-cli there is gitmoji-changelog that generates changelog for projects using gitmoji convention 😄

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Christopher Kade

Thank you ! I use it quite often, I should have mentioned it 😬

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Paul Wanjohi

for people in the same network as you, ifconfig will do, then share your ip

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Aravind Kothandaraman

Is it "ipconfig", or am i wrong? Sorry if its another tool named as ifconfig.

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Luís Ferreira

I believe ifconfig is on Unix based systems while ipconfig is for Windows.

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Aravind Kothandaraman

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Deyvison Rocha

Nice tools! Thanks for share!

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James George

These projects are definitely worth checking out:-

MEVN-CLI - Light speed setup for MEVN stack-based apps.

teachcode - A tool to develop and improve a student’s programming skills by introducing the earliest lessons of coding.

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Alexey Melezhik

Hi! I have a dozens of plugins ( some of them could be broken, anyway ) - helping to automate typical devops tasks - git/azure/azure-devops/whatever

github.com/melezhik/sparrow-plugins

To use plugins you'll need a Sparrow6 - Raku Automation Framework.

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Alex Kaul

One more productivity tool: Freeter
And here is a story on how I boosted my productivity with it: dev.to/alexk/how-i-boosted-my-prod...

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aRtoo

holy holy. this fkill works. bless you sir!

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johannchopin • Edited

Concerning the Gitmoji topic there is also a browser extension for Chrome and Firefox. Have a look to the source code: github.com/johannchopin/gitmoji-br...

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Damian Dziaduch

Please check out the devdocs.io

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Marko Shiva

fkill is more then funny.
There is no way that kill don't work.
Only situation when I saw kill and by that pkill is lagging is when there is a mounted resource that become unavailable and cpu and memory is on maximum usage. basically kill will immediately open a system call to kill process and remove it from table of processes without waiting for the same to release resources.
If you are developer who do not know linux you might do not know about signals and that by default and SIGTERM to kill a process which is also known as terminate as send a signal to a process to release a resources and cleanly remove from table and memory.
To use a kill as a kill you can just pass
-9 or -SIGKILL or simply -kill as the argument.
So writing a new utility to kill a process is not needed.

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Anthony Thong Do

Nice post!

Have you checked out our free product dbdiagram.io, there are 100K developers using since it was launched last year

dbdiagram.io

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davidhopkins

Just added this to my .bashrc

alias man=tldr
alias woman=/usr/bin/man
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Debojyoti Chatterjee

Thanks a lot !! This is quite helpful indeed!!! :)

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Liyas Thomas

hoppscotch.io - A free, fast and beautiful API request builder, alternative to Postman.

Github:

GitHub logo hoppscotch / hoppscotch

👽 A free, fast and beautiful API request builder used by 120k+ developers. https://hoppscotch.io

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ari.length

Excellent post thank you ! the big DevHints cheetsheet is especially impressive ^

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Douglas J B • Edited

Helpful tools! Thanks for share!

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Ranga Vadhineni

the list is very useful.

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Tarun Nagpal

Nice one