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21 Platforms That Serve As A Lifeline To Web Developers

nikhiltyagi04 on February 08, 2019

Web development is constantly evolving at an astounding pace every single day. It poses a huge challenge to keep a track of new tools, libraries, f...
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Theofanis Despoudis

Don't forget Dev.to

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ADONIS SIMO

He replaced it with hashnode.com :( ... Seriously @nikhiltyagi04 ?

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nikhiltyagi04

Dev.to is also helping alot. :) Will surely add it in my next blog. :)

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Max Ong Zong Bao • Edited

Well there is freecodecamp medium, Canva a design tool for your pictures and poster needs and lastly Figma a design tool similar to Sketch that you can design in either mac, windows or linux for free.

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Palash Bauri 👻

Adobe Spark Post is good alternative to Canva

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Daragh Byrne

I also love Evernote for note taking!

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Anna Su**

I love Brackets. It's more of a text than a code editor. It's very fast and search/replace works fine - that's pretty much all I need to code.

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Oziel Perez

It's excellent for beginner front end developers, but once you move on to back end and you need to rely on build tools (think Java/Gradle, ASP.NET Core, Node.js/NPM), you will outgrow brackets and need to use VS Code or a top level IDE where you can keep track of build scripts, use integrated debuggers and terminals, and jump from file to file by class/function definitons.

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ADONIS SIMO

I didn't know about renderforest.com it is what i was looking for ... thanks

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Al Romano

Nice collection! Never even heard of Freepic and Vecteezy - will check these out for sure.

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nikhiltyagi04

go to freepik. Search for landing page and you can get hundreds of premium quality vector illustrations for free. You can download .eps file and tweak it in illustrator or convert them to svg. freepik.com/search?format=search&p...

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Neville Franks

For Note taking, Web clipping and Knowledge building try our app Clibu clibu.com Any and all feedback appreciated.
Neville

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Christian Ransom

Great article. This will be extremely helpful for me as I'm just starting to dive deeper into full stack development. There are so many tools here I didn't even think to look for. Thank you!

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Janoš Guljaš

Super useful list @nikhiltyagi04 , thanks. I would add NewReleases for release tracking. Disclaimer: I made it, for my own needs, and expanded it a bit based on user feedback.