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20 free developer tools we loved in 2020 😍

Budibase on December 03, 2020

My name is Joe, and I am the co-founder of Budibase. I have built many apps in the past, which, I guess is why I am building a platform that builds...
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Liyas Thomas • Edited

Since you mentioned API testing tools, I'd like to add Hoppscotch to the list. Hoppscotch is an open sourced, free, fast and beautiful API request builder used by 100k+ developers.

hoppscotch.io

GitHub logo hoppscotch / hoppscotch

👽 A free, fast and beautiful API request builder used by 150k+ developers. https://hoppscotch.io

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Pranav Baburaj

I have used hoppscotch and it's really good

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Liyas Thomas

Glad you liked the project ♥️

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Shashwat Mishra

I prefer Insomnia over postman for API testing. Insomnia is a great tool and they have an API design tool also.

insomnia.rest

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Budibase

I am so, so busy, but I just can't help try out new tools! Thanks!

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Budibase

This looks awesome! Also, the readme is a pleasure to read.

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Liyas Thomas

Thanks. 💚

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GW

Just checked out Figma, and I'm excited to try it out.

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Brayden W ⚡️

It’s awesome. I used to use Adobe XD, but Figma was 10x better IMO

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Veera Srivastava

Figma is Adobe XD + much more! You'll 💗 it! 😀

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Budibase

It's awesome. Inspiration to all of us creators!

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alakkadshaw

Hello Joe,

You have mentioned categories like Design, building website and building web apps. I would like to add a completely free tool

Tsocket: Create multiple HTTP and TCP tunnels and get Public URLS

It is project in public interest, there are no paid plans and there never will be one

You Can Tunnel SSH or RDP or VNC and they have the ability to create multiple tunnels all for free

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khush

Informative 👍

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Fery W

I believe it's worth to mention tableplus.io in the Database section of this article. It's fast, intuitive, and available for Mac, Windows and Linux, moreover it's free (with some limitations of course) 😉

Anyway, great article.

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Javed Shaikh

Great list.. thanks for sharing 👍🏽

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Budibase

Thank you!

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Bala Hantsi 🇳🇬

I love the last part of this post

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Budibase

Thank you!

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Michael Drury

Love Guake couldn't live without!

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CodersRank

Awesome list! We use most of these. Best of luck to Budibase :)

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Budibase

Thanks! It's great to hear you are using most of them!

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Leos1113

As a bundler there are esbuild, it's extremely fast written in go.

github.com/evanw/esbuild

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TY.

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Kartik Arora

I was looking for a tool something similar to Postico. Can't wait to use it.

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Budibase

It's incredible. Let me know how it goes.

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Full of Dev

Hi, I also make a list of developer tools with their free offer
freestuff.dev/