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Useful Tools for Developers

Lucas Bittencourt on March 22, 2019

Useful Developer Tools More complete post: https://github.com/lucasgdb/useful-dev-tools and help contribute and grow! Some be...

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Erebos Manannán • Mar 24 '19

Insomnia is a better alternative to Postman insomnia.rest/

Edison Yap • Mar 24 '19

Download Insomnia, so you can finally GET some REST

That tagline though. 10/10

Lucas Bittencourt • Mar 24 '19

Thanks for your suggestion, Enberg! I've added it :)

Nick Taylor • Mar 22 '19

devdocs.io is great for API documentation and works offline.
MDN docs are great. If you're on a Mac and use Alfred there is a great workflow for it. That and more in My Mac Setup if you're interested.

My Mac Setup

Nick Taylor

#productivity#developertools#webdev

npx add-gitignore for adding a git ignore file to your project for a specific language

TejasQ / add-gitignore

An interactive CLI tool that adds a .gitignore to your projects.

add-gitignore

This tiny CLI script that generates a .gitignore file for your projects.

Usage

You'll want to make sure you have NodeJS installed on your computer. Then, setup is as simple as:

npx add-gitignore

If you've got an older version of node that doesn't yet have npx, here's a more traditional setup:

npm i -g add-gitignore
add-gitignore macOS Emacs node # or whatever you need

Alternatively, running just add-gitignore gives you a nice multi-select interface from which you can choose what to ignore, and using the --help flag helps you out.

Special Thanks

Joe Blau for gitignore.io.
Fabien Bernard for the suggestion of a tool like this.
Sindre Sorhus for the open source tools that this uses (ora, meow).

I hope this makes your life easier.

Made with ❤️.

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VS Code is great. If you use it, here's my setup, although it's a little out of date.

My Visual Studio Code Setup

Nick Taylor

#visualstudiocode#developertools#texteditor#vscode

Lucas Bittencourt • Mar 22 '19 • Edited

Thanks, Taylor! I've added your suggestions in this post. Thanks again, and have a nice day.

Maximilian Berkmann • Mar 27 '19

jbt.github.io/markdown-editor/ for those who work with Markdown and GitHub which helps in seeing how it will be rendered GH-style.

Lucas Bittencourt • Mar 28 '19

Thanks for your suggestion, Berkmann! This will help a lot of people, including me.

Maximilian Berkmann • Apr 2 '19

You're welcome.

Andy Gherna • Mar 24 '19

GitHub projects are a good substitute for Trello. Flexible enough and lets you organize where you are.

David Paine20 • Jul 17 '20

Thanks for sharing the list of useful web development tools as resources. I love your article. The best part of such articles is, that the writer spends a lot of time searching this stuff, and come up with the get that it has. Here is a website I would like to suggest
url-decode.com/
You must check it out. That website contains the tools related to decode and encode (URL, base64), to minify your HTML and CSS, number utilities, unit converter, developers, string utilities, converter, and IP tools as well under one domain. That will definitely help the users.

Camille Clifton • Mar 24 '19

So useful and straight to the point. Thank you!!

Lucas Bittencourt • Mar 24 '19

Thanks, Camille!! Enjoy the post.

Seth Corker • Mar 22 '19

Good picks. Zeit Now Looks cool, I’m pretty happy with Netlify for deploying static sites via github/gitlab etc.

Lucas Bittencourt • Mar 23 '19

Great, Corker! I've added your suggestion to the post, thank you very much. :)

Edwin Martinez • Mar 24 '19

I use TinyPNG online service to compress JPEG or PNG files, Digital Ocean for deploying my apps, Namecheap to register domains and I started using the Cloudflare service to manage DNS settings.

Lucas Bittencourt • Mar 24 '19

Thanks for your suggestions, Martinez! I've added it :)

nunete • Mar 24 '19

Two tools I use almost on a daily basis: tinypng.com and jakearchibald.github.io/svgomg/

Lucas Bittencourt • Mar 24 '19

Wow! svgomg is awesome. Thanks for the suggestions, i've added it to the post :)

Madhav Gupta • Mar 23 '19

PostMan for rest APIs , maybe?

Lucas Bittencourt • Mar 24 '19

Of course, Gupta! I've added it. Thanks for your suggestion!

Đào Tuấn • Mar 24 '19

If you are using Visual Studio Code then consider Polaroid, it is similiar to Carbon :)

Lucas Bittencourt • Mar 24 '19

Thanks, Tuấn! I've added it to VSCode Extensions.

Ankur Biswas • Mar 25 '19

Great list man, Very useful. Thanks for sharing 😁

Lucas Bittencourt • Apr 16 '19 • Edited

Follow this post on GitHub: github.com/LucasNaja/useful-dev-tools and help to contribute and grow!

Sandeep Yadav • Sep 15 '21

Please visit our JSON Beautifier tool

nalani5210 • May 28 '21

json formatter

Tekki Web Solutions Inc • Jun 19 '20

Thank you Lucas, I have found something similar for developers.

Adrian Matei • Oct 20 '20

WebTools - Bookmarks.dev to manage dev bookmarks and code snippets.

Thinh Trinh • Jul 19 '23

Thanks for the list!
I always use dotrand.com to generate fake data for testing.
Its functionality and its UI are so good, I love the phone numbers generator most