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Useful Tools for Web Devs

Leira Sánchez on February 11, 2020

There are hundreds of tools for developers, both paid and free. It can be overwhelming to pick out which ones will actually benefit you. You also d...
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Nathan Minchow

Great list of resources!

For design and wireframing, I'd recommend Adobe XD and Figma in addition to Sketch. They all have similar functionality, but XD and Figma have free plans which may be more accessible to those who are just getting into development and/or design.

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Kamil Pawlak

Plus they also work on Windows

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Leira Sánchez

I was looking for free alternatives. Thank you for suggesting these. I'll check them out!

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Antonio Savage

Instead of the bloated postman, for more simple api work flows and testing apis, check out Postwoman. It's an open source kind of clone to Postman in the browser. Works amazingly and has all the features that you'd need for web dev. postwoman.io/

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Leira Sánchez

Why hadn't I heard of this?! It's amazing! Thanks for sharing :)

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Antonio Savage

No problem! I just found out about it like last week and was blown away by it so I am trying to share with everyone. Oh, its also mobile friendly and installs just like any other PWA on your phone in Chrome.

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Nick Taylor

Congrats on your first post!

How do you find the Pomodoro method? I’ve tried it before several times, but In the end I just found I get into grooves and capping it at 25min kills my creativity.

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Leira Sánchez

I find the Pomodoro method useful in two cases. One case is when I have to do something I don't want to do. The Pomodoro makes it easier to stop procrastinating. The second case is when I'm trying to make something a habit. When I start getting into "the zone" and I'm not eager for the timer to go off, I know I've reached the point I wanted.

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Munkh-Od

hi , what would ur advice be for people who are just starting out in web development #JuniorDev , should they learn css frameworks first? or focus on flex box and css grid of css3 native features :?

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Nathan Minchow

I agree with the other comments to avoid frameworks and get a good understanding of base CSS first.

MDN has a great learning CSS guide in their Learning Web Development series that does a good job of breaking everything down.

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Leira Sánchez

I would definitely get comfortable with CSS before starting a framework. You don't want to become dependent on a framework and unable to do CSS without it.

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Sem

Nice, thank you

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Mauro Rementeria

Thanks for share!

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Nick Parsons

Don't forget about Stream for your Feed and Chat needs!

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Leira Sánchez

Is Stream like Slack?