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Top 10 Free Tools Every Web Developer Should Know

Emmanuel Mumba on August 19, 2025

Web development has never been more exciting or more overwhelming. With new frameworks, libraries, and platforms launching every month, developers ...
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Helena Figueiredo Costa

Great list, Emmanuel!

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Emmanuel Mumba

You're welcome

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Gary Svenson • Edited

OK, it's generally a good list. However, it can be a bit more specific. Like, I guess most of us already have a workflow that we are satisfied with, how do these tools improve what we have?

It's great for beginner devs to check up, however. Nice job on that.

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Emmanuel Mumba

Thanks! The list is aimed at beginners, but tools like Apidog can also help experienced devs streamline workflows and save time by unifying API design, testing, and docs in one place.

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Ayama

Nice work!

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Kristen

Nice to know these tools, great work OP!

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Emmanuel Mumba

Happy you found the list helpful.

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Sébastien Conejo

Thank you for the list. Some of them are quite obvious and already very known on the market. Why not to mention new ones, less famous ?

  1. Manifest - An open source and portable backend to ship Prototypes and MVPs in a breeze.
  2. Traceroot - Open source AI agents automatically fix your production bugs
  3. Hyprnote - Open-source AI notetaker for enterprises
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krisha sharma

I really liked the list! 😄 If you have any other tools or tips you swear by, I'd love to hear them. Web development is always evolving, and it's great to keep learning new tricks.

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Legend Mark

Nice one

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Parag Nandy Roy

Free + powerful is the sweet spot...

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Mahfuzh Arsya

Good list, this is help me so muchhhh . . .

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Mario Herreros

Really interesting post, thank you!

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ak0047

Thank you for sharing a nice list!

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Adam Gardner • Edited

I’d add two tools to this list:

1) The OpenTelemetry collector to this. It’s a powerhouse for your metrics, logs and traces.

2) RunMe - it makes your markdown executable

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Ash R.

This is a great list! I noted a few. Thanks for this

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Bash ux

W post

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Roshan Sharma

This is helpful
I was aware of some of these, but I’m glad you shared others I hadn’t encountered yet.
Appreciate the post