Software development tools for working smarter.
Working as a software developer no longer coding all day. also require lots of time to architect, design, test, deployment.
As a new or experienced developer in both case the most important work ethic should be, “work smarter not harder”.
It take large amount of time in various development tasks, top on that, simple mislead/mistake can lead to astronomical amount of loss in production. Previous time, there were only some small amount library, but now a days amount of library/technologies are getting enormous due to open source and dev acceptance.
In this jungle of dev tools, a developer have to be really careful about time he/she spent, quality of task and purpose of task.
It is crucial to know available tools that can help in this process and help developers work smarter. Today I am going to demonstrate some of this tools I am using day to task for saving time and risk for my projects.
Bundlephobia
Modern node base development are every where now this days. After nodeJs, Javascript getting really interesting and modern day by day. Any web development project need some npm package to save time and hassle on long go. Bundlephobia simply analyze the npm package and give useful information about package.
Which is really useful and recommended before include any npm package inside project. It is 100% free.
CloudCraft
This is a special tools for project architect and planning. More focused on AWS but also provide azure and other report too. I have used this tools for analyze budget for any server/hosting situation. And big plus is the simplest drag and drop UI with smooth UX. Really an useful tool for cloud architecture, budgeting, and presentation.
Figma
This tools belong with design team. Adobe illustrator user can find this tools quit friendly and most awesome part is it has a web based platform which will help a lot. Collaborate with dev team will also easy, Figma will give any css rules directly accessible for developers. It is also a free tools which have extra feature for subscription. I personally like simplicity and pretty fast web based solution.
Fontflipper
Choosing a right font for design is really important. It is a tough designing job too choose a purposeful and correct font for application or website. Usually for manual work it take a long time choose correct font and sometime font do not look good when whole template have done. In that case Fontflipper can really help. User can choose different font and see the exact implementation output. Then based on positive user rating, user can directly download fonts from google. It also has tinder like swipe feature for like or dislike a font.
Visbug
Visbug is a chrome extension for analyze web application/website. Really useful tools for testing and analyzing. It is basically work as devtool available in chrome, but it has lots more usability and used cases. This tool have a short learning curve, but I am going to assure that, this is 100% worth of time if you are a webdev.
https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/ProjectVisBug
Insomnia
Insomnia will let backend developer sleep more peacefully. It is an API debugging tools with amazing linear workflow and modern UI.
Either creating and REST api or GraphQL api this tools will save a tons of time, developer can save reusable values and use them all over project.
Synk
Synk basically a npm module analyzer, which extensively focus on security and vulnerability of packages. It can be use as another global npm package or their online tools. I use this tools specially before production deploy to make sure any security issue is there or not.
