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Productivity Boosters: My Top Five Developer Tools Worth The Money

Thomas Scott on April 25, 2022

They say the best things in life are free, but when it comes to software... well, it’s not always true. Don't get me wrong - there are plenty of e...
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Tabnine

Thanks for this comprehensive and useful article, Thomas!
Can you please DM us? We want to send you swag :)

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Thomas Scott

Thank you 😊

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Tabnine

Waiting for your DM :)

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Peter Witham

Many tools here that I have not heard of, will take a look at them, thanks for suggesting.

One that I have heard of and use is JetBrains, it's nice to have a suite of tools where I only have to learn something once and apply to the many. JetBrains get's my vote for sure.

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Blaise Pabon

JetBrains also has a monthly plan which works out well for me.

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Andrew Keats

I love it when companies have free plans so you can try the features before commiting to a paid plan.
What I applaud even more is when open-source projects get the paid version for free! 👌

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Adophilus

Yes exactly

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JoelBonetR 🥇

What about GitKraken? It's literally the only tool I pay for 😆 It's quite useful to me.

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Thomas Scott

Hey, GitKraken is definitely a good suggestion, but since I don’t really use it, didn’t want to include it here.

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JoelBonetR 🥇

Sorry just realised that it literaly sais "MY top five" 😆

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Ivan Zucchi dos Santos

I loved GitKraken to solve conflicts, but overall git integration from JetBrains IDEs are matching my needs nowadays.

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JoelBonetR 🥇

I was used to Jetbrains IDEs but I make an 2-week effort and see that VSCode was lighter, faster and more convenient, at least working with JS.
GitKraken is much cheaper than JetBrains IDEs so... 1+1 :laugh:

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Jack Wells

Thanks for an insightful article Thomas. I would definitely add Adadot to the list. It has metrics on work, collaboration and well-being so that developers can see their good/bad work patterns. It also has a recommendation engine that offers suggestions to improve. Really neat tool :)

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Adophilus

Tabnine 🔥🔥🔥

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Isaac Lyman

Have you tried GitHub Copilot? How does it compare to TabNine?

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Max Fahl

Copilot is better working with JS, I’m my opinion, can’t speak for other languages.