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Discover the best tools — every one personally tested before we recommend it.

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DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.9

Cursor

AI-first code editor
Free / $20/mo
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.9

VS Code

Most popular code editor
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.8

Vercel

Frontend cloud platform
Free / $20/mo
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.7

Warp

AI-powered terminal
Free / $18/mo
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.7

GitHub Copilot

AI pair programmer
Free / $10/mo
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.6

Postman

API development platform
Free / $14/mo
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.8

Supabase

Open source Firebase alternative
Free / $25/mo
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.7

Zed

High-performance code editor
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.8

Neovim

Hyperextensible Vim-based editor
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.6

Deno

Secure JavaScript runtime
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.7

Bun

All-in-one JS runtime & bundler
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.8

pnpm

Fast, disk-efficient package manager
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.6

Nx

Smart monorepo build system
Free / $20/mo
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.7

Turborepo

High-performance monorepo tool
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.8

Astro

Content-first web framework
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.9

Vite

Next-gen frontend build tool
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.7

ESLint

JavaScript linting standard
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.8

Prettier

Opinionated code formatter
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.8

SvelteKit

Full-stack Svelte framework
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.6

Remix

Full-stack web framework
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.7

tRPC

End-to-end typesafe APIs
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.7

Prisma

Next-gen Node.js ORM
Free / $0.10/query
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.8

Drizzle

Lightweight TypeScript ORM
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.8

Redis

In-memory data store
Free / $5/mo
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.9

PostgreSQL

Advanced open-source database
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.6

MongoDB

Document database platform
Free / $57/mo
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.8

Stripe

Payment infrastructure for internet
2.9% + 30¢
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.7

Windsurf

Agentic AI code editor
Free / $15/mo
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.8

Claude Code

Terminal AI coding agent
API usage
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.5

JetBrains Fleet

Next-gen JetBrains IDE
Free / $16.90/mo
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.6

Helix

Post-modern terminal editor
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.6

Biome

Fast formatter and linter
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.8

Playwright

Cross-browser E2E testing
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.7

Vitest

Vite-native unit testing
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.7

Storybook

UI component workshop
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.7

Hono

Ultrafast web framework any runtime
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.8

htmx

HTML-first interactivity
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.7

Drizzle ORM

TypeScript SQL that feels like SQL
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.6

Prisma Studio

Visual database browser
Free / $0+
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.7

Payload CMS

Code-first headless CMS
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.9

Next.js

React full-stack framework
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.7

Nuxt

Vue full-stack framework
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.8

Neon

Serverless PostgreSQL branching
Free / $19/mo
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.7

PlanetScale

MySQL serverless branching
$39/mo
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.7

Turso

SQLite at the edge globally
Free / $29/mo
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.6

Convex

Reactive backend platform
Free / $25/mo
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.7

Upstash

Serverless Redis and Kafka
Free / $10/mo
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.7

Railway

Deploy with zero config
$5/mo
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.7

Resend

Developer email API
Free / $20/mo
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.7

PostHog

Open source product analytics
Free / Custom
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.7

Mintlify

Beautiful API documentation
Free / $150/mo
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.9

Tailwind CSS

Utility-first CSS framework
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.7

Typesense

Open source instant search
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.7

Meilisearch

Lightning fast search engine
Free / Cloud
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.6

KeyDB

Multithreaded Redis fork
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.7

SST

Serverless framework for AWS
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.5

Encore

Backend with auto infrastructure
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.6

PocketBase

Backend in a single file
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.6

Directus

Open source headless CMS
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.5

Strapi

Open source Node.js CMS
Free / $29/mo
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.6

Sanity

Structured content platform
Free / $99/mo
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.5

Coder

Cloud development environments
Free / Custom
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.5

Gitpod

Cloud dev environments
Free / $25/mo
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.6

DevPod

Open source dev environments
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.6

Inngest

Serverless workflow engine
Free / $25/mo
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.7

Zoxide

Smarter cd command with history
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.8

Starship

Cross-shell customizable prompt
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.7

Fish Shell

User-friendly command line shell
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.5

Nushell

Data-driven cross-platform shell
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.7

Atuin

Shell history sync and search
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.8

Lazygit

Terminal UI for git commands
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.7

Delta

Syntax-highlighting git diff
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.5

Commitizen

Conventional commit messages
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.6

Changesets

Versioning and changelogs monorepo
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.4

Lerna

Original JavaScript monorepo tool
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.8

Esbuild

Extremely fast JavaScript bundler
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.7

SWC

Super-fast Rust-based compiler
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.5

Rspack

Rust-powered webpack replacement
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.5

Parcel

Zero-config web bundler
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.6

Rollup

ES module bundler
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.7

tsup

Bundle TypeScript libraries easily
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.6

Knip

Find unused files and exports
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.4

Madge

Circular dependency detector
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.4

Depcheck

Unused dependency checker
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.7

Husky

Git hooks made easy
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.7

Lint-Staged

Run linters on staged files
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.5

Oxlint

Rust-based fast JavaScript linter
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.5

TypeDoc

TypeScript API documentation
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.7

Docusaurus

Documentation site generator
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.6

Nextra

Next.js documentation framework
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.7

VitePress

Vite-powered documentation
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.6

Slidev

Developer presentation slides
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.6

React Native

Cross-platform mobile framework
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.7

Expo

React Native platform tools
Free / $99/mo
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.7

Flutter

Google cross-platform UI toolkit
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.7

Tauri

Lightweight desktop app framework
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.5

Electron

Cross-platform desktop with JS
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.5

Capacitor

Web apps to native mobile
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.5

Astro DB

Built-in database for Astro
Free / $7/mo
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.6

Lucia Auth

Simple authentication library
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.6

Auth.js

Authentication for JavaScript
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.8

Zustand

Lightweight React state management
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.7

Jotai

Primitive atomic state for React
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.8

TanStack Query

Server state management React
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.7

TanStack Router

Type-safe React router
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.9

Zod

TypeScript schema validation
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.5

Yup

JavaScript schema validation
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.7

Day.js

Lightweight date utility library
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.5

Luxon

Powerful immutable date library
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.6

date-fns

Modern date utility library
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.8

Sharp

High-performance image processing
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.6

Puppeteer

Chrome browser automation
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.6

Crawlee

Web scraping and crawling
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.6

Cheerio

Server-side HTML parsing
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.6

Socket.IO

Real-time bidirectional events
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.7

Fastify

Fast low-overhead Node framework
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.6

Express

Minimalist Node.js web framework
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.6

NestJS

Progressive Node.js framework
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.5

Adonis

Full-featured Node.js framework
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.5

RedwoodJS

Full-stack React framework
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.7

Solid.js

Reactive UI library no virtual DOM
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.5

Qwik

Resumable JavaScript framework
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.6

Alpine.js

Lightweight reactive framework
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.6

Livewire

Full-stack Laravel framework
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.6

Inertia.js

Monolith SPA bridge
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.5

HTMX Companion

HTMX extensions toolkit
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.6

Recharts

React composable charting
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.7

D3.js

Data-driven document visualization
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.7

Three.js

3D JavaScript library
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.7

Leaflet

Lightweight interactive maps
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.5

Storyblok

Visual headless CMS
Free / $99/mo
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.5

Contentful

Headless CMS platform
$300/mo
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.4

Hygraph

Federated content platform
Free / $299/mo
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.5

Builder.io

Visual headless CMS drag-drop
Free / Custom
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.5

Keystatic

Content management for code
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.5

Tina CMS

Git-backed headless CMS
Free / $29/mo
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.5

Appsmith

Open source internal tool builder
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.5

Retool

Internal tools platform
Free / $10/user
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.5

Windmill

Scripts workflows and UIs
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.4

Budibase

Open source low-code platform
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.6

Starlight

Astro documentation framework
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.5

Markdoc

Markdown for docs Stripe
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.5

Fumadocs

Next.js docs framework
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.6

Tinybird

Real-time analytics API
Free / Custom
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.7

ClickHouse

Fastest OLAP database
Free / Cloud
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.5

QuestDB

Time-series database fast
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.6

TimescaleDB

PostgreSQL for time-series
Free / Cloud
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.5

CockroachDB

Distributed SQL database
Free / $295/mo
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.4

SurrealDB

Multi-model database
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.5

EdgeDB

Graph-relational database
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.5

Highlight

Open source session replay
Free / $150/mo
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.6

Jam

Bug reporting for developers
Free / $10/user
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.4

Polar

Open source funding for devs
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.5

Buf

Protocol Buffers tooling
Free / $75/mo
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.5

ConnectRPC

Simple gRPC-compatible RPC
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.5

GraphQL Yoga

GraphQL server modern
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.5

Hasura

Instant GraphQL APIs
Free / $99/mo
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.4

WunderGraph

API gateway and BFF
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.5

ArkType

TypeScript runtime validator
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.6

Replit

Browser IDE with AI and instant deploy
Free / $25/mo
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.7

StackBlitz

Instant dev environments in browser WebContainers
Free / $18/mo
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.5

Jira

Issue tracking for software teams
Free / $8.15/user
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.5

Supavisor

Postgres connection pooler for serverless
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.6

Val Town

Cloud scripting platform social
Free / $10/mo
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.6

Trigger.dev

Open source background jobs TypeScript
Free / $25/mo
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.6

Novu

Open source notification infrastructure
Free / $25/mo
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.5

Lago

Open source billing metering
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.5

Wasp

Full-stack React Node framework declarative
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.5

Grafbase

Federated GraphQL at the edge
Free / $29/mo
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.9

SQLite

Embedded serverless database
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.7

DuckDB

In-process analytical database
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.6

Dragonfly

Redis replacement multi-threaded
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.6

XState

State machines TypeScript
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.6

Socket.io

Real-time bidirectional events
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.5

Express.js

Minimal Node.js framework
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.6

Elysia

Ergonomic Bun web framework
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.5

Effect-TS

Type-safe TypeScript framework
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.5

Commitlint

Conventional commit linter
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.6

lint-staged

Lint only staged files
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.7

esbuild

Extremely fast bundler
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.5

Webpack

Module bundler ecosystem
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.5

Babel

JavaScript compiler
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.5

mdBook

Rust documentation tool
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.5

Unplugin

Universal plugin system
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.5

pkgroll

Zero-config TS pkg bundler
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.5

Farm

Rust-based Vite-compatible bundler
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.6

Nitro

Universal server engine
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.5

Vinxi

Full-stack JS server SDK
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.5

TanStack Start

Full-stack React framework
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.5

Solid Start

SolidJS meta-framework
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.7

SolidJS

Reactive UI no virtual DOM
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.5

Fresh

Deno web framework islands
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.6

Liveblocks

Real-time collaboration API
Free / $25/mo
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.5

PartyKit

Real-time multiplayer infra
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.6

Yjs

CRDT framework collaboration
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.5

Ably

Real-time messaging platform
Free / $25/mo
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.5

Pusher

Real-time channels API
Free / $49/mo
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.5

Neon Authorize

Row-level security Postgres
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.4

ToolJet

Open source low-code framework
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.5

Refine

React admin panel framework
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.4

AdminJS

Auto admin panel Node.js
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.5

KeystoneJS

Headless CMS Node GraphQL
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.6

Ghost

Professional publishing CMS
Free / $9/mo
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.5

WordPress

Most popular CMS
Free / Hosting
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.5

Docuseal

Open source document signing
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.4

Cal Video

Open source video conferencing
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.5

Rallly

Open source Doodle scheduling
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.6

Hoppscotch

Open source API development
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.5

Insomnia

REST GraphQL API client
Free / $5/mo
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.6

Bruno

Offline API client Git-friendly
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.6

HTTPie

Friendly HTTP client CLI
Free / $13/mo
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.5

Mockoon

Mock API server local
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.7

Ngrok

Secure tunnels to localhost
Free / $8/mo
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.4

LocalTunnel

Expose localhost public
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.6

Mailpit

Email testing SMTP local
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.5

MailHog

Email testing tool dev
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.5

Mailtrap

Email testing sandbox
Free / $15/mo
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.6

Swagger

API documentation standard
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.5

Redoc

OpenAPI documentation renderer
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.5

Scalar

Modern API reference docs
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.8

lazygit

Terminal UI for Git made simple
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.9

ripgrep

Fastest recursive search. Replaces grep
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.8

fd

Fast find alternative
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.8

bat

Cat with syntax highlighting and Git
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.7

eza

Modern ls with Git and icons
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.9

fzf

Fuzzy finder for command line
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.7

tmux

Terminal multiplexer persistent sessions
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.8

jq

Command-line JSON processor
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.7

mise

Tool version manager replacing asdf nvm
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.7

httpie

Human-friendly HTTP client
Free / $9/mo
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.6

Zellij

Modern terminal workspace floating panes
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.8

Ghostty

Native GPU-accelerated terminal by Mitchell Hashimoto
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.6

Alacritty

GPU-accelerated terminal emulator
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.7

Kitty

GPU-based terminal with graphics protocol
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.7

chezmoi

Manage dotfiles across machines
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.7

direnv

Load env variables per directory
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.8

Homebrew

Package manager for macOS and Linux
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.6

Taskfile

Task runner alternative to Make
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.7

Just

Command runner alternative to Make
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.5

Connect

Simple Protobuf RPC framework
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.4

Pkl

Configuration language by Apple
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.5

CUE

Validate define and use dynamic configuration
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.8

Ruff

Extremely fast Python linter and formatter
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.8

uv

Extremely fast Python package manager
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.7

Polars

Blazingly fast DataFrame library
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.6

Fish

User-friendly interactive shell
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.6

Giscus

Comments powered by GitHub Discussions
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.4

Waline

Lightweight serverless comment system
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.4

Flox

Dev environment manager with Nix
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.5

Pixi

Fast package manager for any language with conda
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.5

Evidence

Business intelligence as code
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.7

Metabase

Open source business intelligence
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.6

Apache Superset

Modern data exploration and visualization
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.5

Hatchet

Distributed task queue and workflow engine
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.5

Tolgee

Open source localization platform
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.5

Weblate

Open source web-based translation tool
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.6

Crowdin

Localization management platform
$40/mo
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.6

Medusa

Open source headless commerce platform
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.5

Saleor

Open source headless commerce GraphQL
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.6

DragonflyDB

Modern in-memory datastore Redis alternative
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.6

Valkey

Open source Redis fork by Linux Foundation
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.7

mkcert

Make locally-trusted development certificates
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.5

Verdaccio

Lightweight private npm registry
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.5

Gitness

Open source code hosting with CI/CD by Harness
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.6

Pocketbase v2

Backend in single Go file. Auth DB realtime
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.6

Buf CLI

Protobuf tooling linting and breaking detection
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.6

Devbox

Instant portable dev environments Nix
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.6

Codespaces

GitHub cloud dev environments
Free / $0.18/hr
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.5

CodeSandbox

Instant cloud development environments
Free / $9/mo
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.4

Lapce

Lightning fast open source code editor
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.6

Sublime Text

Sophisticated text editor for code
$99
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.4

Nova

Mac-native code editor by Panic
$99
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.7

Dash

API documentation browser Mac
$29.99
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.7

DevDocs

Free API documentation browser web
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.7

Proxyman

Modern HTTP debugging proxy for Mac
$49.99
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.6

Hurl

Command line HTTP requests with assertions
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.5

Speedscope

Fast flamegraph visualizer for profiling
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.4

Briefcase

Build Python native apps for iOS Android etc
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.4

Micro

Modern intuitive terminal text editor
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.4

Theia

Cloud and desktop IDE framework
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.3

TextMate

Classic Mac text editor
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.5

Zeal

Offline API documentation browser Linux
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.5

DevUtils

All-in-one developer Swiss Army knife Mac
$9.99
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.4

Boop

Scriptable scratchpad for developers Mac
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.5

Charles

HTTP proxy for debugging and testing
$50
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.5

Requestly

HTTP intercept modify mock requests browser
Free / $12/mo
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.5

Kaleidoscope

File and image diff tool Mac
$69.99
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.4

Lite XL

Lightweight extensible text editor
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.6

Sublime Merge

Git client by Sublime HQ
$99
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.4

BBEdit

Professional text editor for Mac since 1992
$49.99
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.3

Eclipse Che

K8s-native cloud IDE
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.6

DevContainer

Development containers standard
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.5

Oxc

Oxidation compiler for JavaScript. Rust toolchain
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.5

Turbopack

Rust-powered bundler by Vercel
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.6

Lightning CSS

Extremely fast CSS parser transformer minifier
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.7

nx

Smart monorepo build system
Free / $50/mo
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.4

Rush

Scalable monorepo manager by Microsoft
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.7

MSW

Mock Service Worker for API mocking
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.5

Maestro

Mobile UI testing framework simple
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.5

WebdriverIO

Browser and mobile automation framework
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.5

Happy DOM

Fast browser implementation for testing
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.4

Rolldown

Rust bundler for Vite. Rollup compatible
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.4

Rspress

Rspack-powered static site generator
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.5

unbuild

Unified JavaScript build system
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.5

publint

Lint npm packages for publishing best practices
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.6

Airbyte

Open source data integration ELT
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.8

dbt

Analytics engineering SQL transforms
Free / $100/mo
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.5

Cube

Semantic layer for data apps
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.5

Lightdash

Open source BI for dbt users
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.5

Great Expectations

Data quality and validation Python
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.5

LakeFS

Git for data. Data version control
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.5

Xata

Serverless database with search and AI
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.6

PostgREST

REST API for any Postgres database
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.5

Detox

End-to-end testing for React Native
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.4

Appium

Cross-platform mobile automation
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.5

Nock

HTTP server mocking for Node.js
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.6

Faker.js

Generate massive amounts of fake data
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.6

Sourcegraph

Code intelligence platform
Free / $5/user
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.7

Godot

Open source game engine
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.7

pgvector

Open source vector extension for Postgres
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.6

pgbouncer

Lightweight Postgres connection pooler
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.5

Apache Druid

Real-time analytics database
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.5

StarRocks

Sub-second analytics database
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.4

Meltano

Open source ELT platform Singer-based
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.6

Fivetran

Automated data integration platform
Custom
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.6

Databricks

Unified analytics and AI platform
Custom
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.6

Snowflake

Cloud data platform
Custom
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.6

BigQuery

Google serverless data warehouse
Free / Pay
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.4

Buck2

Fast build system by Meta
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.4

Pants

Fast scalable build system Python Go etc
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.4

TestCafe

End-to-end web testing no WebDriver
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.3

Nightwatch

End-to-end testing framework Node.js
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.6

Delta Lake

Open table format for lakehouse
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.6

Apache Iceberg

Open table format for analytics
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.4

Elementary

Data observability for dbt
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.4

Fig

Terminal autocomplete visual
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.4

Datafold

Data diff and regression testing
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.4

Interval

TypeScript internal tool framework
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.4

Airplane

Internal tools workflows platform
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.4

Superblocks

Enterprise internal tools builder
Free / $25/user
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.5

Supertest

HTTP assertion testing Node.js
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.4

syncpack

Sync package versions across monorepo
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.5

Apache Hudi

Incremental processing on data lakes
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.7

Streamlit

Python web apps for data science
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.7

Subnet Calculator

Calculate subnets CIDR ranges and IP addresses
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.8

JSON Formatter Online

Format validate and beautify JSON instantly
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.6

Base64 Encode Decode

Encode and decode Base64 strings instantly
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.7

Regex Tester

Test and debug regular expressions with live matching
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.6

UUID Generator

Generate UUIDs v1 v4 v7 instantly
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.7

Cron Expression Generator

Build cron expressions visually
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.6

Unix Timestamp Converter

Convert Unix timestamps to human dates and back
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.6

DNS Lookup Tool

Query DNS records for any domain
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.6

Chmod Calculator

Calculate Unix file permissions visually
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.6

SQL Formatter

Format and beautify SQL queries online
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.6

YAML to JSON Converter

Convert between YAML and JSON formats
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.6

CSV to JSON Converter

Convert CSV data to JSON format instantly
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.5

URL Encoder Decoder

Encode and decode URLs and URI components
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.5

HTML Entity Encoder

Encode decode HTML entities and special characters
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.6

Markdown Preview

Write Markdown and see rendered preview live
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.6

Diff Checker Online

Compare two texts and see differences
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.5

Whois Lookup

Look up domain registration and ownership info
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.5

HTTP Headers Checker

Inspect HTTP response headers for any URL
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.5

TTFB Checker

Measure Time to First Byte from multiple locations
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.5

CDN Latency Tester

Compare CDN performance from your location
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.5

API Latency Tester

Measure API response times with retries
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.5

TOML Validator

Validate and format TOML configuration files
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.5

XML to JSON Converter

Convert XML to JSON format online
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.8

Crontab Guru

Interactive cron schedule expression editor
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.6

Cheat Sheet Collection

Developer cheat sheets for every language and tool
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.7

Can I Use Search

Check browser compatibility for web features
Free
DEVELOPMENT
★ 4.5

Code Snippet Manager

Save organize and share code snippets
Free
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