Discussion on: Useful Tools for Developers

[Nick Taylor]

• devdocs.io is great for API documentation and works offline.
• MDN docs are great. If you're on a Mac and use Alfred there is a great workflow for it. That and more in My Mac Setup if you're interested.

My Mac Setup

Nick Taylor

#productivity#developertools#webdev

• npx add-gitignore for adding a git ignore file to your project for a specific language

TejasQ / add-gitignore

An interactive CLI tool that adds a .gitignore to your projects.

add-gitignore

This tiny CLI script that generates a .gitignore file for your projects.

Usage

You'll want to make sure you have NodeJS installed on your computer. Then, setup is as simple as:

• npx add-gitignore

If you've got an older version of node that doesn't yet have npx, here's a more traditional setup:

• npm i -g add-gitignore
• add-gitignore macOS Emacs node # or whatever you need

Alternatively, running just add-gitignore gives you a nice multi-select interface from which you can choose what to ignore, and using the --help flag helps you out.

Special Thanks

• Joe Blau for gitignore.io.
• Fabien Bernard for the suggestion of a tool like this.
• Sindre Sorhus for the open source tools that this uses (ora, meow).

I hope this makes your life easier.

Made with ❤️.

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• VS Code is great. If you use it, here's my setup, although it's a little out of date.

My Visual Studio Code Setup

Nick Taylor

#visualstudiocode#developertools#texteditor#vscode

[Lucas Bittencourt]

Thanks, Taylor! I've added your suggestions in this post. Thanks again, and have a nice day.