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9 Tools Everyone Should Try🧙‍♂️🫵

Hello Devs👋

In this rapidly evolving tech world, there are lots of dev tools getting launched every day. These tools have become increasingly popular for their flexibility, productivity, community support, and cost-effectiveness.

In this article I will be sharing some amazing tools which can quickly help enhance productivity, efficiency, and the overall quality of your work.

Kiran Naragund

Let's get started 🚀


Qodo- First AI Coding Platform | formerly Codium

Qodo

Qodo is an innovative AI-powered code quality platform designed to enhance the developer's development process. It provides developers with smart code analysis, ensuring that the codebase remains clean, efficient, and error-free.

✨Here are some key products of Qudo:

🔹IDE Plugin -> Qodo Gen

Qodo works as an IDE plugin, and it integrates directly into your development environment. It is specifically built for code analysis, Test paln and Test code.

Get the VS Code Extension here - Qudo Gen

🔹Git Plugin -> Qodo-Merge:

🚀Qodo-Merge is an open-source, AI-Powered 🤖 Tool for Automated Pull Request Analysis, Feedback, Suggestions.

With Qodo-Merge you cam automate the code review process for all pull requests, ensuring that only high-quality code is merged into the main codebase.

⭐ Qodo-Merge on GitHub

🔹CLI tool -> Qodo-Cover:

The Qodo-Cover allows you to easily handle tedious yet critical tasks, such as increasing test coverage.

Try out Qodo


PlusDocs - Supercharge your slides with Plus AI

PlusDocs

🪄 Plus Docs is an AI-powered💪 presentation maker tool that allows you to create high-quality presentations. It simplifies the process of creating and editing professional slide decks. And most importantly, you can use it directly within your Google Slides and PowerPoint, so it’s compatible with your existing presentations tools.

With this tool, you can swiftly structure presentations and effortlessly maintain their accuracy using automatically updated Snapshots of your vital data.

📢 Here are some of the key features of Plus AI👇

🎯 Prompt to presentation –> Provide a short prompt and ask Plus AI to turn it into a full presentation.

📄 Document to presentation –> Upload a document and Plus will convert the content into a slide deck.

🌐 AI in any language –> Write or translate presentations in 100+ different languages.

🎨 Transform your slides –> Automatically reformat your slides into beautiful, professionally-designed formats using AI.

Along with this they provide a chrome extension as well..
🧩 Plus: Live Screenshots of Any App or Website

Plus

Plus chrome extension makes it easy to capture, share, and automate live screenshots of any app or website, ensuring your data is always up-to-date. With automated snapshots, you can track and share metrics across various tools without complex integrations.

Plus allows you to pin live Snapshots to your new tab, build no-code dashboards, and embed or share data seamlessly via tools like Slack, Notion, and Google Slides.

➡️ Chrome Extension - Install Now

📌 Official site: PlusDocs


Penpot - The Design Tool for Design & Code Collaboration

Penpot

Penpot is an open-source design and prototyping platform that allows you and your teams to create, collaborate on, and share design assets and prototypes. It provides a web-based interface for designing UI/UX components, creating interactive prototypes, and generating design specifications.

👇Here are some key features of Penpot:

Design Tool: Create and customize UI/UX designs.

Prototyping: Build interactive prototypes with transitions and animations.

Collaboration: Collaborate with team members in real-time.

Design System: Manage design assets and create reusable components.

Open-Source: Fully open-source and community-driven.

Which one is better Figma vs Penpot?? Comment your thoughts.⬇️

✨Penpot repository has 29k+ stars on GitHub

⭐ Penpot on GitHub


Traefik

Traefik

Traefik is a modern HTTP reverse proxy and load balancer that makes deploying microservices easy. Traefik integrates with your existing infrastructure components (Docker, Swarm mode, Kubernetes, Consul, Etcd, Rancher v2, Amazon ECS, ...) and configures itself automatically and dynamically.

👇Here are some key features of Traefik:

Reverse Proxy: Serve as a reverse proxy for HTTP and TCP traffic.

Load Balancing: Balance traffic between multiple services.

Automatic Configuration: Automatically discovers services and updates routing rules.

Dynamic SSL: Manage SSL certificates dynamically with Let's Encrypt integration.

Open-Source: Fully open-source and cloud-native.

✨Traefik repository has 49.5k+ stars on GitHub

⭐ Traefik on GitHub


Cronitor - Cron Job Monitoring & Uptime Alerts

Cronitor

Have you ever used cron in your projects? Share them in the comment section.

⏰ Cronitor is a monitoring tool designed to keep an eye on your cron jobs, background tasks, and APIs. It ensures that your scheduled tasks are running as expected and alerts you if something goes wrong.

☑️ Here are some key features:

📅 Cron Job Monitoring: Monitor the execution of your cron jobs and receive alerts if they fail or run late.

🔄 Task Automation: Track the success and failure of background tasks, ensuring they complete as expected.

📉 Uptime Monitoring: Monitor the uptime of your APIs and services, and get notified if they go down.

🔔 Custom Alerts: Set up custom alerts for specific conditions, such as task duration or frequency.

Cronitor supports a wide range of integrations, including Slack, PagerDuty, and more.

✅ Try It Now


RunJS- JavaScript Playground

RunJS

🛠️ RunJS is a JavaScript playground that lets you experiment with JavaScript code in a real-time environment. It’s a lightweight tool that provides instant feedback as you write code, making it ideal for testing small snippets, trying out new libraries, or debugging.

☑️ Here are some key features:

Instant Feedback: See the results of your JavaScript code as you type, with real-time output and error messages.

📚 Library Support: Import and experiment with popular JavaScript libraries like Lodash, Moment.js, and more.

💻 Node.js & Browser APIs: Access both Node.js and browser APIs, making it versatile for server-side and client-side code.

🎨 Customizable Interface: Customize the interface to your preferences, including themes and font settings.

✅ Try It Now


Excalidraw - Hand-Drawn Style Diagrams

Excalidraw

✏️ Excalidraw is a web-based drawing tool that allows you to create diagrams and sketches in a hand-drawn style. It’s perfect for creating wireframes, flowcharts, mind maps, and more, with more simplicity and ease of use.

☑️ Here are some key features:

🖌️ Hand-Drawn Style: Create diagrams and sketches with a hand-drawn aesthetic, making your visuals more engaging and approachable.

📦 Collaboration: Work on diagrams with teammates in real-time, with shared links and collaborative editing.

🔄 Export Options: Export your drawings in various formats, including PNG, SVG, and PDF, for easy sharing and integration.

🛠️ Open-Source: Excalidraw is open-source, with a community-driven development process and regular updates.

Excalidraw is free and available as a web app.

✅ Try It Now


DDEV - Docker based PHP development environments

DDEV

DDEV is a development environment solution that simplifies the use of Docker for PHP developers. It provides a modern stack supporting PHP, Node.js, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and popular CMS platforms like WordPress, Drupal, Magento, and Laravel.

DDEV allows developers to quickly set up identical, customizable environments on macOS, Windows, and Linux, while supporting multiple concurrent projects and custom domains with SSL.

It’s open-source, easy to extend, and integrates well with deployment pipelines.

🙂 Star and support DDEV on GitHub - ⭐ DDEV

📌 Official site: DDEV


Mockae - Fake API Tool

Mockae

Mockae is an open-source flexible tool for mocking REST APIs using Lua code. It allows developers to quickly generate custom API responses by personalizing headers, bodies, and HTTP status codes. You can define custom rules via Lua, enabling dynamic responses for testing and prototyping. Mockae offers a free and open-source service with a public API for testing various HTTP responses.

It’s ideal for creating mock(fake) APIs for development, debugging, or prototyping without modifying live data.

🙂 Star and support Mockae on GitHub - ⭐ Mockae

📌 Official site: Mockae

Thank You!!🙏

Thank you for reading this far. If you find this article useful, please like and share this article. Someone could find it useful too.💖

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Saurabh Rai • Edited

Can I add some tools that I know as well? (Thanks Kiran for allowing me to post)

Resume Matcher

Allows you to make ATS friendly resumes.
🔗: github.com/srbhr/Resume-Matcher

SWIRL AI

Full end-to-end AI Search, RAG, Summaries, and metasearch tool. (Python-Django)
🔗: github.com/swirlai/swirl-search

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Kiran Naragund

Sure Saurabh!

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Kiran Naragund

Thanks for sharing Saurabh!

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Anmol Baranwal

Great work! I didn’t know a lot of these.

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Kiran Naragund

Thanks Anmol!!

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Kiran Naragund

Let me know which tools you’re already using guys!

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Valentin Iljaž

I've been searching for a tool like RunJS—what a great find! I usually open a new tab in Chrome and use the DevTools Console, but having a dedicated tool just for experimenting with JS/TS is a nice change. I'll definitely give it a try.

For developers looking to streamline their workflow, Webacus.dev is another fantastic tool worth checking out. It combines multiple operations into a single interface, making it easier to handle various tasks efficiently.

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Kiran Naragund

Thanks Valentin!

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Wade Zimmerman • Edited

Traefik was mentally exhausting even after digging into the docs. Ddev and excalidraw were okay but I had to use AI to figure them out. Do any of these come with AI built-in?

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Kiran Naragund

Thanks for sharing your thoughts!
You can try out Qodo and Plus docs, these tools are AI-Powered.

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Wade Zimmerman • Edited

Great. How quick are any of these companies to steal my money and data? Is there a free trial?

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Martin Baun

Might I also add VideoFeedbackr, we created a screen and desktop recorder, specifically for devs, id love to know what you think of it.

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Kiran Naragund

Thanks for add-up Martin!
I will check it out.

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Martin Baun

Thank you! I'll appreciate your input! :)

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Pranesh Chowdhury

Nice work! exploring new AI technologies would be better for programmers.

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Kiran Naragund

Thanks Pranesh!

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Agasth

Thanks for these Resources, really helpful.

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Kiran Naragund

Thanks for reading!

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Mikkel lausen

I also just added a post about AI Tools I use on a Day-to-Day basis!

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John

Great

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Kiran Naragund

Thanks John!

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