10 Useful Developer Tools that You Probably Need to Use

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As developers, we always have a lot of tasks to do daily when we develop. Hence, we need some tools to make our life easier and help us boost our productivity. There are many tools created specifically for developers and have a lot of benefits for us.

This article will give you a list of some highly useful developer tools that you probably don’t know. Let’s get right into it.

Can I Use?

Can I use?” is a website that provides up-to-date browser support tables for support of front-end web technologies on mobile and desktop web browsers.

If you want to check for any feature if it’s supported by all browsers, “Can I Use?” is the best choice for you. You can also test your website for compatibility across 2,000+ real browsers and devices.

Can I Use?

RegEx 101

RegEx 101 is a free PCRE-based regular expression debugger with real-time explanation, error detection, and highlighting. This is available for PHP, JavaScript, Python, and Go-Lang.

RegEx 101

Prettier

Prettier is an opinionated code format, supports many languages, integrates with most editors, and has few options. This is an extremely useful tool to make your code well-formatted.

Prettier

Log Rocket

LogRocket allows you to replay what users do on your website, helping you reproduce bugs and fix issues faster.

CSS Scan

CSS Scan assists you to check the CSS of any element when you hover over without using “inspect element” in dev tools.

In addition, you can copy the entire CSS rules of an element with a single click.

CSS Scan

Axe

Axe is the Standard in accessibility testing. Chosen by Microsoft, Google, development, and testing teams everywhere, axe is the World’s leading digital accessibility toolkit.

Axe

Responsively App

Responsively app helps you develop responsive web apps 5x faster. It’s a must-have Dev Tool for all Front-End developers because it will make your job easier.

Responsively App

gitignore.io

gitignore.io is a great tool to easily create useful “.gitignore” files for your projects.

gitignore.io

Sentry

The Sentry’s application monitoring platform helps every developer diagnose, fix, and optimize the performance of their code. It’s a really useful one.

Sentry

WhatRuns

WhatRuns is a free browser extension that helps you identify technologies used on any website at the click of a button. It is a good alternative to Wappalyzer if you know that.

Conclusion

All these tools are great and helpful to achieve a task that makes things easier for you as a developer.

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