Tools I use from design to deployment, testing and setting up analytics

In the previous blog, we came to know the flow of building a full-stack application. Throughout building an application we use so many tools that makes our life easy. So in this blog, I will share all the tools I use from setting up the stage to submitting your site to search engines.

Let's get started

Note: I will keep updating this article.

Setting up

Setting up includes IDE, planning the project, management app.

IDEs

• All rounder VSCode
• Webstorm for backend or plain javascript projects.(Please don't use for frontend)
• Notepad++ for quick editing.

Planning the project

• ClickUp is amazingly useful for project management. It has lots of features and a great UI.

Operating systems

• I am not yet into Linux, so for now I use Windows for development.

Design

• As I am not into UI/UX I use UI kits or simply take inspiration from dribbble, Behance etc.

• Then I use Figma to customize those designs according to my needs.

Branding

Branding includes deciding a colour palette, font family, logo etc.

• Colorhunt for colour inspiration.
• Google fonts for fonts.

Development

• Git - version control tool.
• GitKraken for everything git.
• npm to manage node packages.
• StackOverFlow to find solutions for common issues.

Browsers

I primarily use two browsers.

• Chrome
• Firefox developer edition - This is amazing.

Frontend

• Responsively for responsive design.
• Devicons for coloured icons and React-icons for normal icons.
• Frontend checklist for everything frontend.

• React dev tools to test react components.

• Debug CSS to test alignment of elements

Backend and database

• Sendgrid + Nodemailer to send emails.
• MongoDB Compass to test MongoDB data locally.
• DB Browser to view sqlite data locally.

Testing

• Postman for API testing.
• ngrok to expose localhost.
• LambdaTest to test website on different browsers.

DevOps

• Github actions for CI/CD.
• More coming soon...

Deployment

• Netlify or Firebase to host frontend.
• Heroku to host backend.

Rank up

• Google search console to get indexed on google search and also to track performance, find issues etc.
• Bing webmaster tools to get indexed on bing search
• Google page speed insights to test how fast my website is.
• Lighthouse to test page quality.

Analytics

• Google Analytics to track details like the number of website visitors, which pages are getting popular, how far my website reached.
• Microsoft Clarity - this thing has even more features like heatmaps where you can see where the users are clicking.

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