What are your favorite developer tools?

Happy Friday!

We're getting new laptops at work, which means I have a good opportunity to re-evaluate my development setup. What lesser-known tools should I check out?

Comments

[nalani5210]

Online JSON Formatter
jsonformatting.com/

[hunttom]

Funny I just posted this: dev.to/hunttom/setting-up-a-dev-en...

[Jacobi Petrucciani]

Docker - docker is love, docker is life
exa - ls replacement, written in rust
ripgrep - smarter+faster grep
entr - watch files, and run something when the files change
shellcheck - shell script linter
ngrok - tunnel your local ports out to the internet
bpython - amazing python REPL
blackbox - safely store secrets in version control
ranger - console file manager with some dope addons

tmux + tmuxp - terminal multiplexer, and a session manager
kitty - GPU accelerated terminal, supports ligatures
mailhog - modern mailcatcher
postman - API tester
metabase - Beautiful DB tool

if you use kubernetes a ton:
kubectx + kubens - easier management of many k8s clusters and namespaces
kubetail - stream logs from any number of pods in k8s

[Sajeetharan]

Fiddler - Web Debugging Proxy
Postman - Test, Document & Monitor APIs
JSON Formatter - Format and Beautify JSON data
Chrome Developer Tool - Web Debugging Tool
Clockify - Tracking the time you spend on various programming activities is vital
code.visualstudio.com/
json2csharp.com/
tableplus.io/
json2ts.com

[fzngagan]

Meld. It is a tool which shows you a visual comparsion of your text files, especially code files and directories. Super helpful.

also this one. not a native app but a web based tool to live edit serialized arrays. sciactive.com/phpserialeditor.php

supports yaml, php and json

[kevin]

Also if you have time to try different noting app, I think Notion is good

[Steven Jeanneret]

Vs code is maybe the best code editor but it's not an IDE and if you make a project you need an IDE.
For PHP just try PhpStorm. After loosing 2 hours on a laravel project I switched to jetbrains software and now Vscode is only for markdown or code reading.

[Nam Nguyen]

iterm2 + tmux + neovim is my basic setup, I also use Intellji IDE for java

[kevin]

Try lsd, a fast colorls alternative

[Maxime Simoncelli]

Most of my favourite tools have already been mentioned, so I’ll just add autojump for bash. The ability to jump from folder to folder that are not parents increased my QOL so much !