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10 Best Developer Tools to Make Backend Development Easier 👩‍💻 🚀

Anmol Baranwal on November 28, 2024

Backend development can feel very tough with so many tools, libraries and packages to choose from. But having the right tools can make a huge diff...
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Rohan Sharma •

I know most of them!!!!

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Anmol Baranwal •

Developers who keep up with tech might know most of these, but I'm confident everyone will find at least a couple of new ones.

For example, seed and copycat are not very popular but are super useful when working on the backend.

Thanks for reading Rohan :)

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Rohan Sharma •

For example, seed and copycat are not very popular but are super useful when working on the backend.

You're right!

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𝚂𝚊𝚞𝚛𝚊𝚋𝚑 𝚁𝚊𝚒 •

These are some nice tools. I like Copycat. :)
Though the Faker.js reminder makes me sad. 😢

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Anmol Baranwal •

Thanks for reading Saurabh 🔥

I thought faker.js was still functional (never went to github repo), but I just searched after reading your comment... I didn't even realized it.

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Debojyoti Chatterjee •

We do have the fakerjs.dev/
The OG was discontinued with a weird story we all know

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𝚂𝚊𝚞𝚛𝚊𝚋𝚑 𝚁𝚊𝚒 •

Yeah, I mean that's the sad reality of open source. Do you know @anmolbaranwal and @debojyotichatterjee9 about this story?

YC Backed Company that copied another AI OSS Product.
techcrunch.com/2024/09/30/y-combin...

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Anmol Baranwal •

Will read the full story about Fakerjs...

Yes, I know about PearAI and it's not something new.

You will often see similar startups in different YCombinator batches (as per my observation). Each has its own value proposition, but cloning a startup (due to the wide popularity of Cursor) just made things worse imo.

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Akshay bondre •

Great list! I use cursor!

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Anmol Baranwal •

Thanks for reading Akshay. I also switched from VSCode to Cursor a couple of months ago. It's very useful :)

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Ibrahim Sifat •

great

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Ajika Angelo • • Edited

Impressive write up here,
@anmolbaranwal btw which tools did you use to create the blog banner

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Steven •

Thanks for sharing the valuable article.

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Boopathi •

Thanks for sharing :)

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Ali Nour Al Din •

Hooks not for backend :v but great post ♥