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5 Developer Tools you need to check out!

Tomek Poniatowicz on April 12, 2019

One of the things that differentiate an average developer from a good one is the constant urge for learning and adopting new tools that can simplif...
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Jakub Sarnowski

Awesome article Tomek! :) Personally, I find Bundlephobia the most useful - I use it whenever I want to add a new dependency to a web project. This way I'm sure I'm not using any bloated libraries and force users to download unnecessary kilobytes on their devices :)

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Tomek Poniatowicz

Thanks :) Yeah, Bundlephobia is pretty neat!

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Eugene Karataev

Bunlephobia is great when you considering if it's worthwhile to add a package to your bundle.
But when you have an existing project bundled with webpack, then webpack bundle analyzer is an invaluable tool to analyze what packages are in your bundle and what is their size 📚

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Newfrontendweekly

hi,Tomek

Can I translate your article into English and share it with Chinese developers?

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Tomek Poniatowicz

Hi, sure :)

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Newfrontendweekly

thanks

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yucer

Very interesting. Thanks.

Do you know some opensource frameworks that allow to build modelling tools like CloudCraft ?

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Tomek Poniatowicz

Check if this is what you need:
github.com/slothking-online/diagram

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Vince Ramces Oliveros

I used flare for animations in flutter. Though there are occurence that prompt me some bugs. It's a handy tool for UX design with minimal amount of code.

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Tyler V. (he/him)

Haven't heard of Flare before now, but wow does it look cool! Thanks for the neat tools! 🔥

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Tomek Poniatowicz

You are welcome :)

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Geoff Stevens

Flare reminds me a bit of Figma, but for animations. Seems really useful.

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kateika

thanks for the article and especially for The Bundle Phobia :)

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Emmanuel Salomon

Cool tools! Thanks.
Flare is impressive, but their javascript bundle seems very large. Do you already use it in production ?

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Tomek Poniatowicz

Hey! Just played with it a little bit, but haven't used for production yet.

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young02

Those tools look really interesting, especially the BundlePhobia one! Its logo tells everything about the tool. Thanks for the post!