Best of Tools2023

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    Avatar of joshwcomeauJosh W Comeau·3y

    The End of Front-End Development

    GPT-4 can take a hand-drawn sketch of a website, and turn it into a fully-functional website, including a bit of JS to wire up the “Reveal Punchline” button. This is remarkable, and I think it has a lot of potential when it comes to prototyping.

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    Avatar of bartwullemsThe Art of Simplicity·3y

    DevToys–A swiss army knife for developers

    DevToys is an offline windows app that tries to help you with small tasks. Instead of using different websites you get a fully offline experience offering help for a large list of tasks. One of the great features it has to offer is Smart Detection. If only one tool is detected, the clipboard content is automatically pasted.

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    Avatar of communityCommunity Picks·3y

    animation toolbox for the web

    Theatre.js is a javascript animation library with a professional motion design toolset. It helps you create any animation, from cinematic scenes in THREE.js, to delightful UI interactions. With official extensions, or tools of your own, it works with any stack.

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    Avatar of permitioPermit.io·3y

    6 Low-Code Tools That Will Make You a Better Frontend Developer

    A developer is measured by their ability to deliver product features in less time while maintaining high code quality. Striking this balance has become more achievable today, thanks to advancements in languages, platforms, CI/CD automation tools, and testing methodologies. We'll explore six low-code tools that can help you become a better frontend developer.

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    Avatar of medium_jsMedium·3y

    Doing much better than your .env file

    Tony: I argue again for why we should reduce the practice of storing all environment variables in a.env file and move to a more sophisticated approach for managing them in local development. He says this article is intended for software development teams and not security and devops teams that already have this figured out.

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    Avatar of shiftmagShiftMag - Insightful Engineering Content·3y

    New frontend framework, again?!

    Explore the pros and cons of front-end frameworks dynamism, the potential pitfalls of blindly following trends, and the importance of building a solid foundation in web development.

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    Avatar of freecodecampfreeCodeCamp·3y

    How to Learn React in 2023

    How to learn React in 2023? Get all the training you need to be a React pro with the React Bootcamp. Many JavaScript concepts can be learned at the same time you are learning React. You will encounter and learn more React concepts as you start building your own projects.

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    Avatar of phProduct Hunt·3y

    Dev Links - All links a developer would need

    Dev Links is not rated yet. This is Dev Links's first launch. Dev Links was hunted by Rolando Rio Garaboa in Chrome Extensions.

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    Avatar of freecodecampfreeCodeCamp·3y

    Full Stack Engineer – Career Guide

    Full Stack engineering roles have been growing in popularity over the last decade. But what exactly are full-stack engineers? What do they do on a day-to-day basis? And how can you become a full- Stack engineer yourself? In this article, I will go over the definition of full- stack engineering.

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    Avatar of phProduct Hunt·3y

    Airtest - Generate unit tests using AI

    Generate unit tests using AI for C#, C++, Go, Java, JavaScript, PHP, Python, R Lang, Ruby, and Swift code. This is Airtest's first launch. This is not rated yet.

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    Avatar of mlnewsMachine Learning News·3y

    16 AI Tools to Speed Up Your Work

    BeforeSunset AI provides personal analytics to enhance one’s capacity for planning. Users can review their weekly and daily calendars to learn more about their work habits and productivity. Notion AI streamlines workflows by automating tedious tasks, providing suggestions, and templates to users, ultimately simplifying and improving the user experience.

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    Avatar of freecodecampfreeCodeCamp·3y

    How to Get a Github Student Developer Pack

    GitHub Student Developer Pack provides students with access to a variety of top-notch developer tools. The pack is made up of a selection of benefits generously provided by GitHub's partners and collaborators. As a student, you will get access to six free months of 60+ courses covering in-demand topics.

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    Avatar of tshThe Software House·3y

    Web development stacks in 2023 – software trends

    Web development stack is a set of tools typically used in tandem to develop web apps. A highly specialized web stack can exist within the constraints of frontend or backend development. The most important choice is the one concerning your full development stack. Full web development stacks are abbreviated based on the technologies that comprise them.

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    Avatar of daily_updatesdaily.dev Changelog·3y

    New action bar 🎛️

    The action bar appears on every article page. To access it, simply click on any post on the feed. With the ability to upvote, comment, and share, you'll have all the tools you need to engage with the community and build your professional network.

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    Avatar of devtoDEV·3y

    Bun hype. How we learned nothing from Yarn

    Yarn and Bun went off to create their own competing technology. Both sold themselves on being way faster. Both went in with the goal of splitting the ecosystem. Both announced that they were officially v1.0 and ready for production!...while not actually supporting Windows. In 2023, npm is still faster than Yarn.

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    Avatar of notedNoted·3y

    10 Self-Hosted Apps to Boost your Productivity

    These self-hosted apps have helped me become much more productive in both work and play time. Here's 10 apps that have boosted my own productivity. The Self Hosted To-Do App to Organize Your Life Vikunja is a self hosted to-do portal with a bunch of awesome features like email reminders, category tags, notes.

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    Avatar of communityCommunity Picks·3y

    Monorepo Explained

    There are many great monorepo tools, built by great teams, with different philosophies. We chose these tools because of their usage or recognition in the Web development community. The tools we'll focus on are: Bazel (by Google), Gradle Build Tool (by Gradle, Inc), Lage (by Microsoft), Lerna.

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    Avatar of asayerasayer·3y

    UX: best practices for developers

    User experience (UX) is a critical component of web development that can make or break the success of a website or application. UX refers to the user’s overall experience when interacting with a website, app, or product. A well-designed UX can increase user engagement, retention, and conversions, resulting in better commercial outcomes.

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    Avatar of developercomDeveloper.com·3y

    Best Flowchart Software for Developers

    Flowchart software allows developers to create visual representations of complex systems, workflows, or processes using various shapes, lines, symbols, etc. Creately Creately combines whiteboard simplicity with database power to allow developers to innovate, collaborate, and boost efficiency.

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    Avatar of phProduct Hunt·3y

    terminalGPT - Use OpenAi like chatGPT, on your terminal

    TerminalGPT is a chatbot for your terminal that can understand and respond to a wide range of topics and questions in real time. Launched in Growth Hacking, Developer Tools, Artificial Intelligence and Artificial Intelligence.

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    Avatar of amplicationAmplication·3y

    Why We Chose Node.js Over Deno?

    Node.js was the de-facto standard for writing server-side JavaScript apps in the 2010s. Ryan Dahl introduced Deno in 2018 in his controversial JSConf EU talk titled "10 Things I Regret About Node.JS" This article gives an overview of the platforms, history, performance, security, and all other critical features.

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    Avatar of smashingSmashing Magazine·3y

    Top Front-End Tools Of 2022 — Smashing Magazine

    Top Front-End Tools Of 2022 are the most popular tools in the developer community. Almost all of these tools are practical tools you can use in your projects today. Piling.js is a JavaScript library that allows you to build interfaces where large amounts of items can be dragged and dropped into “piles” It’s built on top of PixiJS.

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    Avatar of communityCommunity Picks·3y

    The Best Alternatives to GitHub Copilot in 2023

    GitHub Copilot is an AI-powered tool created by GitHub that helps developers write code faster and more efficiently. It uses machine learning to provide autocomplete-style suggestions and even complete code snippets to the developer as they work in their text editor. It can also suggest improvements to existing code and help with tasks like debugging and refactoring.

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    Avatar of pragmaticengineerThe Pragmatic Engineer·3y

    Github Copilot and ChatGPT alternatives

    There are a growing number of AI coding tools that are alternatives to Copilot. There are plenty of tools to choose from aside from Copilot and ChatGPT. Here are the most promising ones worth checking out, with an emphasis on those with self-hosting as an option.

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    Avatar of devtoDEV·3y

    Frontend Devs: What are the favorite tools from your daily workflow?

    Frontend Devs: What are the favorite tools from your daily workflow? I am curious to hear your answers. It could be anything a Chrome extension, VS Code Extension, maybe some AI Code writer, whatever you can't live without.