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If you had to live with only 5 dev tools, what would they be?

Peter Witham on June 10, 2019

So let's just say that tomorrow you were told you could only have 5 developer tools on your machine(s) to get your 'real work' done, what would the...
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Nicolas Bailly • Edited
  1. PHPStorm (which may be cheating since it includes a REST API testing tool, (S)FTP client, SQL Client and more)
  2. Vagrant
  3. Homestead
  4. WinSCP
  5. Postman

I'm a fan of Docker in production and CI/CD, but for local development I'm sticking with Vagrant/Homestead on Hyper-V which works flawlessly.

I'm also trying to switch from Postman to PHPStorm's http client which looks very powerful, but I'm not quite used to it yet.

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Peter Witham

I think PHPStorm is valid, I was very tempted to add WebStorm as I use that a lot for my Gatsby stuff I have been playing around with.

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Josh Brown

I'd be hugely interested to hear about how you get on with PHPStorm's HTTP client!

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Josh Brown
  1. PHPStorm
  2. iTerm
  3. TablePlus - A fantastic database tool. Has support for a large array of different databases, including NoSQL!
  4. Postman
  5. Spotify - Not exactly a developer tool I know, but without my favourite playlists I wouldn't be able to get any work done!

(And Docker, I love it but you told us not to include it!)

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Peter Witham

I see you sneaking Docker in there :)

TablePlus is a new one to me, thanks for sharing.

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Abhimanyu Babbar
  1. vim
  2. git
  3. make
  4. aws-cli
  5. docker
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Eugene Karataev
  1. PHPStorm
  2. Git
  3. Npm
  4. Browser dev tools
  5. Redmine/jira
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Peter Witham

I used Redmine for a while before we switched to Jira, I liked it's clean approach to things.

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Eugene Karataev

Yeah, Redmine is little bit outdated, but it's superfast. It loads in 1s while it takes 10s to open Jira in a browser.

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Emanuel Martinez
  1. Sublime Text
  2. Postman
  3. FileZilla
  4. Git
  5. Putty/Terminal
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Peter Witham

I probably would add Putty if I was on Windows as well.

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Nicolas Bailly

putty is a great tool, but now that ssh is available in the windows CLI or PowerShell, I find that I rarely use it anymore.

When the new windows Terminal ships I think I might uninstall it completely.

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Peter Witham

I am so glad to see that Windows has embraced the *nix sub-system, I probably use that more than anything else eventually on my Win box.

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Basel J. Hamadeh
  1. vim
  2. git
  3. tmux
  4. docker
  5. ansible
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Michael Caveney
  1. Git
  2. VSCode
  3. npm
  4. Chrome Dev Tools
  5. Insomnia
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Phil Ashby

Assuming I don't have to list 'non-dev tools' like a browser..

  1. vim
  2. gcc/gdb
  3. termshark
  4. git
  5. make

..look Mum, no GUIs :)

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Peter Witham

No GUI’s...love it! Now if we just got rewarded for all the keystrokes

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Mirko Lorusso

As a super-junior, mostly php-, dev I'll try to answer:

  • VS Code
  • Git
  • Git Extensions (I did say I'm a noob 😁)
  • FileZilla
  • Trello
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Peter Witham

It was a close call for me between VS Code and SublimeText.

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Vincent Grovestine
  1. VS Code
  2. Guake
  3. Git
  4. Meld
  5. Vagrant
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Peter Witham

You might be right about Meld, I overlooked that tool. I use it on Windows and *Nix, a nice and fast diff tool.

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Fulton Browne
  1. Android Studio
  2. Github
  3. VS code
  4. intellij
  5. Docker
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Offirmo

Front-end:

  1. Chrome or FireFox (dev tools)
  2. git
  3. iTerm2 or any terminal
  4. node, including npm
  5. Webstorm