Tools That Every Web Developer Must Try Once

Difficulty Level : Medium
Last Updated : 09 Jan, 2023

If you want to do any task easily, effectively, and efficiently then you should use some tools. Though there are lots of different software development tools available. You have to select the most useful tools depending on the requirement and technology that you are working on. 

A good programmer should know which tools are better than others and also should use the most powerful and advanced tools. Most of the companies recommended their own set of tools, but many new companies allow them to choose your own. 

1. LINUX

It delivers a powerful and fastest way to build & host custom back end applications & web services. It is nothing but a low code IDE and server. With the help of LINUX, we can build and automate back-end applications and web services. LINUX is an excellent tool to automate the collection of data from multiple sources, transform it, and deliver the results to multiple target systems. 

Features: 

1. Build Visually: Using drag-and-drop programming functions and services.
2. High Speed: Quick iterative development by combining large pieces of functionality in minutes
3. Host Anywhere: You can deploy and host your application
4. Instant Setup: Provides easy one-step installation and the small footprint lets you get to work right away.

2. Buddy

It is the fastest CI/CD tool for web developers for the most effective way to build better apps faster. It makes DevOps easy for developers, it is fast to set up and fast to run. With the help of parallelism, and all-around optimizations the most complicated CI/CD workflows take minutes to create using Buddy. 

Features:

1. Speed: Lightning-fast deployments (average deployment time: 12 sec).
2. Support: Buddy supports all popular languages, frameworks & task managers.
3. Instant results: Apps & websites are built, tested and deployed significantly fast.
4. Lower failure rate: It Recover from failures very easily.
5. Monitoring: Monitors Real-time progress and logs with maintaining the unlimited history.
6. First-class integrations: Integrates with Github, Bitbucket, Gitlab, AWS, Shopify, WordPress and many more.

3. NetBeans

NetBeans is a popular software development tool written in Java that develops world-class web, mobile, and desktop applications easily and quickly with Java, JavaScript, HTML5, PHP, C/C++ and more. It is free and open-source and is governed by the Apache Software Foundation. 

Features: 

• Helps in Fast & Smart Editing by highlighting source code syntactically and semantically.
• Lets you Smart refactor code, with a range of handy and powerful tools.
• Supports cross-platform(Write Once, Run Anywhere, applicable) and works on any OS like Linux, Mac or Windows, etc.
• Provides editors, wizards, and templates to help you create applications easily.
• Helps in easy and efficient project management process and quick user interface development.

4. Bootstrap

It is the most popular front-end open-source toolkit, an open-source and free framework for quick design, and customizes responsive and mobile website projects using CSS, HTML, and JS. 

Features: 

• Enables utilization of ready-made blocks of code.
• Responsive websites in a few seconds using built-in components by a smart drag and drop facility.
• You can customize it according to their project’s requirements.
• It has many useful open source SVG icon library to work.
• Offers an extensive list of components.
• Guarantees consistency among all the developers or users irrespective of who’s working on the project.

5. codeLobster

CodeLobster is a free, convenient, and cross-platform IDE used to develop fully-featured web applications. It streamlines and simplifies PHP/HTML/CSS/JavaScript development. 

Features: 

• It is a powerful PHP debugger.
• Using it you don’t need to remember the names of functions, arguments, tags or their attributes.
• It allows you to validate your code locally.
• Automatically detects the current server settings and configures corresponding files.
• Supports framework like Bootstrap, Nodejs, CodeIgniter, phalcon, etc.

6. Node.js

It is an open-source, cross-platform, and JavaScript run-time environment that is designed to build scalable network applications and a variety of web applications to create web servers and networking tools. 

Features: 

• It is cross platformed hence can run on any OS like Windows, Linux, Mac OS, Unix, etc.
• It is very efficient and super lightweight.
• lets developers write server-side applications using JavaScript.
• Provide rapid and well-organized solutions for developing back-end platforms.
• Optimize throughput and scalability in web applications with event-driven architecture