Himanshu Tiwari 🌼

Posted on Feb 5, 2021

Tools Every Developer Should Know and Use

#webdev #productivity #career #devjournal

SO FAR SO GOOD
I hope your Web Dev journey sounds like that.
Well if yes, then I have something that can make good to great and,
if no, then don't worry folks these tools will make that good.

I have some fantastic Chrome Extensions and Websites that can make your life way easier as a web developer. I use these tools and they are amazing, secure, and time-saving.

Note: I highly encourage you to learn basics(HTML, CSS, JS), then move towards using these tools.

Websites

Uxwing: For Free PNG and SVG icons for your projects.
Unsplash: For Wallpapers and Images of different sizes.
Jsonplaceholder : For JSON free API.
lighthouse: Lighthouse is an open-source, automated tool for improving the quality of web pages. You can run it against any web page, public, or requiring authentication. It has audits for performance, accessibility, progressive web apps, SEO, and more.
Css-tricks: Name suggests what it does :) fantastic css articles
css-box-shadow: Create box shadows in an instant, do check out front-end developers.
css-gradient: Create gradient real quick and easy.
Sharingbuttons.io: Super fast and easy Social Media Sharing Buttons. No JavaScript. No tracking. Super Helpful.
convert CSS to JS: Convert CSS to JS and VICE VERSA.

Extensions

Wappalyzer: Wappalyzer is a technology profiler that shows you what websites are built with. Find out what CMS a website is using, as well as any framework, eCommerce platform, JavaScript libraries, and many more.
Adblock: Enough of Cringy and attention deflecting ads.
WhatFont: The easiest way to identify fonts on web pages.
ColorZilla: Advanced Eyedropper, Color Picker, Gradient Generator, and other colorful goodies.
Imageye - Image downloader: Find and download all images on a web page. The best tool, I use while cloning any website for practice.

If you have any tool to share, then do write it in the comments
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Top comments (39)

Andrew Brown 🇨🇦 • Feb 5 '21

You forgot Vimium: (Vim for Chrome) 🙃

chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/...

Aspiiire • Feb 6 '21

Man this is a banger thank you so much i loved it never knew about it thanks again!! 🔥

𒎏Wii 🏳️‍⚧️ • Feb 6 '21

I personally prefer vb4c (a fork of cVim after that was abandoned) :D

Himanshu Tiwari 🌼 • Feb 5 '21

Ahaan, that's because I knew you will do comment that, lol
Thank you so much for
Telling me about this one dude

brandon_wallace • Feb 7 '21 • Edited

Add the VisBug Chrome extension to the list.
Visbug is an open source browser design tool built with JavaScript.

It's features are:

Point, click & tinker
Edit or style any page, in any state, like it's an artboard
Inspect styles, spacing, distance, accessibility and alignment
Nitpick layouts & content, in the real end environment, at any device size
Leverage adobe/sketch skills
Edit text, replace images
Design within the chaos: use production or prototypes and the odd states they produce, as artboards and design opportunities
Design while DevTools simulates latency, i18n, media queries, platform constraints, CPUs, screen size, etc
Make more decisions on the front end of your site/app (a11y, responsive, edge cases, etc)
No waiting for developers, just go direct and edit the end state (regardless of framework) and execute or test an idea

There are other great photo websites.

pixabay.com/
pexels.com

For PNG images with transparency
klipartz.com/en

Himanshu Tiwari 🌼 • Feb 8 '21

Great, definitely will try

Adrian Matei • Feb 5 '21

Bookmarks.dev to manage your dev bookmarks and code snippets...

Vinay • Mar 15 '21

Great tool, very nifty and useful.

Himanshu Tiwari 🌼 • Feb 5 '21

Niceee 😃😃

Winston Puckett • Feb 7 '21

neumorphism.io/ too :)

Himanshu Tiwari 🌼 • Feb 8 '21

What's that for

Winston Puckett • Feb 8 '21

It generates neumorphic css, so you don't have to mess around with box shadows yourself :)

Himanshu Tiwari 🌼 • Feb 8 '21

nice will try thanks

Petr Stříbný • Feb 6 '21

The title of the post absolutely doesn't correspond to the content. Also, writing an article where the title would be apt is almost impossible.

Himanshu Tiwari 🌼 • Feb 6 '21

What if you have to choose a title for the post? What will you choose?

Petr Stříbný • Feb 9 '21

You have made a post about "every developer", but those tools are front-end/web development only. What's more is that I don't consider them anything that everybody "has to know and use".

I suggest naming it according to what it really is, e.g. "Tools I like and use as a web developer".