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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

Insomnia is a better alternative to Postman insomnia.rest/

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Edison Yap

Download Insomnia, so you can finally GET some REST

That tagline though. 10/10

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Lucas Bittencourt

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

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Nick Taylor
  • 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.
  • 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.

add-gitignore demo

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

I hope this makes your life easier.

Made with ❤️.


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 If you use it, here's my setup, although it's a little out of date.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

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

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Maximilian Berkmann

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

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Lucas Bittencourt

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

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Maximilian Berkmann

You're welcome.

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Andy Gherna

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

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David Paine20

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.

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Camille Clifton

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

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Lucas Bittencourt

Thanks, Camille!! Enjoy the post.

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Đào Tuấn

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

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Lucas Bittencourt

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

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Madhav Gupta

PostMan for rest APIs , maybe?

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Lucas Bittencourt

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

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Ankur Biswas

Great list man, Very useful. Thanks for sharing 😁

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Seth Corker

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

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Lucas Bittencourt

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

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Edwin Martinez

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.

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Lucas Bittencourt

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

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Juan Federico • Edited

Thanks, i've been using some of these online tools on my daily activities. I also recommend another website with many useful Online Web Tools for developers and tech users.

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nunete

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

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Lucas Bittencourt

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

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Lucas Bittencourt • Edited

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

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Sandeep Yadav

Please visit our JSON Beautifier tool

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Tekki Web Solutions Inc

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

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Adrian Matei

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

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Thinh Trinh

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