These are a list of programs and websites to aid in the development of web apps or any type of programming in general. I try to avoid the obvious ones (I.E. VSCode, GitHub, Etc...) and find some interesting ones!!!
In no particular order...
Planning/Productivity
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Figma - A way to design a website also has collaborative capabilities.
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Bundle Phobia - Computes the size and load time of for your bundles, can either search or upload a JSON file of your bundles.
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Font Flipper - Helps you find fonts from the Google Fonts library in a convenient Tinder-esque way.
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Adobe Color Wheel - Helps you explore colors and find suitable 0nes for your next project
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Coolors - A slick site for generating pleasing pallets of color for your next project. Highly Recomend!!
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Trello - A way to keep track of tasks for any sort of personal or group project.
- Bubbl.us - Brain storm using mind-maps.
- JSONPlaceholder
- Draw.io - Flow chart and diagram maker.
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WakaTime - Track and analyze how you spend your time coding.
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Mockaroo -"Mockaroo lets you generate up to 1,000 rows of realistic test data in CSV, JSON, SQL, and Excel formats."
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Browser Shots - Test your website in a huge collection of different browsers.
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fake{JSON} - Quickly create fake JSON data for testing.
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Sizzy -"A tool for developing responsive websites crazy-fast, made by @thekitze
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unDraw - Open source illustrations for any project
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Build RegEx - A visual tool for generating RegEx expressions
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Regulex - A tool for visualizing RegEx expressions
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RegExr - A website for learning, building and testing RegEx expressions.
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HTTPie - "HTTPie—aitch-tee-tee-pie—is a command line HTTP client with an intuitive UI, JSON support, syntax highlighting, wget-like downloads, plugins, and more."
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VisBug - Edit Content of a webpage inside of Google Chrome.
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Insomnia - A pretty darn cool REST Client for debugging APIs
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Codeply - "Responsive Design Playground
& Frontend Editor."
Content Creation
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Flare - Easily create animations for your website in in browser
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Vectr -"Vectr is a free graphics software used to create vector graphics easily and intuitively. It's a simple yet powerful web and desktop cross-platform tool to bring your designs into reality."
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Canva - Free online graph and charts maker
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Photo Creator - Free Stock Image Generator
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Videvo - Free stock videos
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Pexels - Free stock videos
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XD - Website and app designer
Resources
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DevDocs.io - Many useful documentations all in one place
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WolframAlpha - "Computational Intelligence"
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Google Fonts - Large collection of free fonts you can use for your projects
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Up - Free assets for websites and mobile apps
Git
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GitKraken - Github GUI
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Sourcetree- Another Github GUI
API
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Postman - An environment for developing APIs
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Apify - Automated web scraping platform. "Turn any website into an api in minutes!"
OS Tools
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Spectacle - Control your windows via keyboard shortcuts.
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Oh My Zsh -
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Prettier - Make your code prettier
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Hyper - A better terminal
Miscellaneous
- CloudConvert - Convert anything to anything/cloud based converting/Runnable via api calls
- 10 Minute Mail - Exactly what it says it is
- IFTTT - Super awesome program!!!!
- Grammarly - Grammer correction program/extension
- Snapdrop - Send files easily across platforms
- JSON Parser - Parse your ugly json strings
- Carbon - Take pretty screen shots of your code
- GTmetrix - Analyze the resources and speed of your website
Top comments (3)
Thanks for sharing this! I'll definitely be referring to this when I need some good ideas for projects!
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Thanks for sharing. I loved the idea of this 10 minutes mail, best if you are worried about sharing your email due to privacy concerns and spams.