What Tools Does Every Web Developer Need To Have/Know?

Code Collaboration Git Software Development

Node.js Landing Page

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Node.js

Node.js is a platform built on Chrome's JavaScript runtime for easily building fast, scalable network applications

Node is a JavaScript runtime that works outside of the browser. It's primarily used to write back-end JS logic, but I'm including it here because it's an important dependency for...

#Runtime #JavaScript Runtime #JavaScript 789 social mentions
GitHub Landing Page
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GitHub

Originally founded as a project to simplify sharing code, GitHub has grown into an application used by over a million people to store over two million code repositories, making GitHub the largest code host in the world.
Pricing:
- Open Source
Modern software development would be impossible without version control solutions like Git, and online repository tools like GitHub. While it's necessary that you need to learn Git, you may wind up on a team that uses Bitbucket or Gitlab, but if you know any one of these, learning one of the others shouldn't be an issue.

#Code Collaboration #Git #Version Control 2043 social mentions
Chrome DevTools Landing Page

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Chrome DevTools

Get started with Google Chrome's built-in web developer tools.

I can see a very clear "before" and "after" in terms of my productivity to find and fix problems that's tied to my aptitude with the various Chrome Dev Tools. This suite of tools that comes with Chrome allows you to inspect code, view errors and warnings, debug problems, view network requests, and more. There are a wide array of features that could take you some time to learn, but the dev tools features that you can and should get up and running with relatively quickly are:.

#Automated Testing #Software Development #Testing 37 social mentions
Visual Studio Code Landing Page
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Visual Studio Code

Build and debug modern web and cloud applications, by Microsoft
Pricing:
- Open Source
We have an embarrassment of riches when it comes to helpful tooling, and code editors/IDEs are no exception. You'll have a lot to choose from here, but I would strongly recommend Visual Studio Code. Feature-rich, customizable, open-source: there's good reason that VSCode is currently the 800lb gorilla in web development editors.

#Text Editors #IDE #Software Development 1017 social mentions
BitBucket Landing Page

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BitBucket

Bitbucket is a free code hosting site for Mercurial and Git. Manage your development with a hosted wiki, issue tracker and source code.

Modern software development would be impossible without version control solutions like Git, and online repository tools like GitHub. While it's necessary that you need to learn Git, you may wind up on a team that uses Bitbucket or Gitlab, but if you know any one of these, learning one of the others shouldn't be an issue.

#Git #Code Collaboration #Project Management 73 social mentions
GitLab Landing Page

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GitLab

Create, review and deploy code together with GitLab open source git repo management software | GitLab

Modern software development would be impossible without version control solutions like Git, and online repository tools like GitHub. While it's necessary that you need to learn Git, you may wind up on a team that uses Bitbucket or Gitlab, but if you know any one of these, learning one of the others shouldn't be an issue.

#Code Collaboration #Git #Repo Management 112 social mentions