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What are your favorite free tools or resources?

Nočnica Mellifera on October 05, 2020

For me it's Github and Visual Studio Code, but what are your favorite free tools and resources?

Heiker • Oct 5 '20

My favorites tools are the ones I use every day.

Nočnica Mellifera • Oct 5 '20

complete with links? Thanks!

Loïck Virot • Oct 6 '20

To me :

OS: Ubuntu
Editor: Visual Studio Code
Git: Gitlab for Gitlab CI/CD 😍
API development: Postman
Favorite technos :
- JS: NodeJS, React, Vue
- PHP: Symfony

Other:

Docker
Zsh and Oh My Zsh

yaythomas • Oct 6 '20 • Edited

some great suggestions here! I'll just list ones not seen already:

fish shell - out of box you already get what you have to spend more time configuring w oh my zsh
homebrew - package manager for MacOS
pypyr - for automating & running and consolidating ad hoc scripts. (I might be biased on this one, I wrote it 😂)
GitHub Actions - you mention GitHub already, but special mention to the relatively new GitHub Actions for the awesome free CI/CD capabilities. Oh, also GitHub Pages!
hugo - static web-site generation
zopfli compression - great for PNG compression. Although, that's prob just about been supplanted by Brotli today.
arch linux

[edit:] oh, and curl, definitely

Eljay-Adobe • Oct 5 '20

I've a few:

Linux
Vim
Git
Xcode
Visual Studio (community edition)
PyCharm (community edition)
Google Test, or Boost Test, or Catch2, or Doctest

Naman Gupta • Oct 5 '20

Being a web dev, I ♥️ nextjs as framework , VS Code as editor (with Night Owl Theme), FaunaDB, Cloud Functions (Any platform), dev.to for sharing knowledge and Some services that help me in building side project - dev.to/insanenaman/15-easy-peasy-s.... Let's cover more some other day 😂