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15 Developer Tools to Make You Super Productive

Prosper Otemuyiwa on September 28, 2021

The best software developers arm themselves with superior knowledge of specific tools that get the job done. Pairing with experienced developers l...
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Peter Brown

Vim, Grep, Curl, Perl. Simple, time-tested and ubiquitous.

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Nishu Murmu

Emacs too

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Prosper Otemuyiwa

I agree!

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Justin Punzalan

It looks like the link you provided for "Retool" is incorrect. It takes me to Nelify right now.

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Prosper Otemuyiwa

Thanks Justin. Just fixed it now.

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sleepm

sentry, for error report
dbeaver, manage databases
mockoon, mock api

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Alliestrasza

thanks, like it very much.

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Prosper Otemuyiwa

This is great!

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Barun Ghosh

List is pretty good !

but I think , most of these are Web based services not tools 🤔

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Jon Edvald

Appreciate the Garden nod! We in turn are big Sourcegraph fans. The stack graph and the source graph get along nicely .)

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Prosper Otemuyiwa

Oh wow, that's great to hear Jon!

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Caleb David

The genius has spoken 🤓. Awesome list @unicodeveloper

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Prosper Otemuyiwa

Thanks Chief!

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Bob Bass

This is actually a great list. It's not often that I find a listicle on dev.to that puts together things more than 1 or 2 services or products that I'm not already very familiar with.

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Prosper Otemuyiwa

I'm glad you loved it Bob.

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Prosper Otemuyiwa

Thanks Dani

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Benjamin Delespierre

Awesome list 😎

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Prosper Otemuyiwa

Thanks Benjamin. I’m glad you loved it!

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kamal ganwani

amazing article, great work and information

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Prosper Otemuyiwa

Thanks Kamal

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Adrian Matei • Edited

I developed and use Codever on an hourly basis to manage my dev bookmarks and code snippets... It's free and open source

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sebagudelo

Hey Prosper, thanks for this list.

Check out: nhost.io/

Serverless backend for web and mobile apps. Gives you GraphQL API, Postgres, Auth and Storage to get your project started.

It is also portable and open source so you can make changes and move your data whenever you need to.

Thanks!

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Cloudinary

Thanks for including Cloudinary!

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jcfrane

Laravel Expose an alternative to NgRok.

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Prosper Otemuyiwa

You are absolutely right @jcfrane . Beyondcode did something nice with that one.

I also love the fact that Laravel Valet ships with Ngrok under the hood.

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Full of Dev

Nice list.
I also try to list of developer tools I found useful and make it public, so people can contribute to.

Here's the site finddev.tools/

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Alex Kaul

Also check Freeter: github.com/FreeterApp/Freeter
Story on how I boosted my productivity with it: dev.to/alexk/how-i-boosted-my-prod...

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Erika Heidi

That's a really great list, thanks for sharing :)