DEV Community

Discussion on: What do you prefer: general all-in-one tools or focused single domain tools?

Collapse
 
ben profile image
Ben Halpern

I have generally gravitated towards do it all tools. DEV is built on Rails which I felt made the roadmap from point A to B to C to D to E very clear, and can be mapped directly to other big successful app stories like Basecamp, GitHub, Shopify, etc. Other webdev tools had me going from A to B and then it's all on you from there.

I liked to think I was working on some kind of loose consensus on how the whole thing might look in the end, rather than disparate tools forcing me to have my own opinions at every single step.