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50+ Awesome Tools for Web
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Welcome to the mega list of 50+ tools and resources that have helped me
throughout my web development learning. I have used these tools to create beautiful
websites. These tools will also help you in many ways such as productivity. Some
tools might you already know, but there are many tools that might be new to you. It
will help you in boosting your productivity and achieve a better website application
So let’s begin the list.
Learning
W3School
Well-organized and easy-to-understand Web building tutorials
with lots of examples of how to use HTML, CSS, JavaScript,
SQL, Python, PHP, Bootstrap, Java, XML, and more.
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A web developer definitely knows this website. If you search any HTML, CSS, and
JavaScript terms on Google, W3School’s web page will be among the top list. It’s a
great website to learn web development in a sequence. It can also serve as learning
different web development terms.
FreeCodeCamp
Learn to Code — For Free
FreeCodeCamp is one of the amazing platforms to learn a variety kind of stuff from
one platform. It has a blog platform and YouTube channels for video tutorials. Each
and every tutorial and blog is of high quality and created by amazing creators. I have
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learned React through freeCodeCamp’s YouTube tutorials. I highly recommend
using their’s YouTube channel to learn anything in tech.
CSS-Tricks
Daily articles about CSS, HTML, JavaScript, and all things
related to web design and development.
Tons of guides and tutorials on CSS. They have covered most of the topics in CSS
and keep on adding more posts to cover topics beyond CSS. Their guide is
awesome with code. They have snippets (cheatsheet kind of) with code and
diagrams to explain different complex CSS concepts such as flex in an easy way.
Scrimba
Scrimba is a fun and fast way of learning to code! Our interactive
courses and tutorials will teach you React, Vue, Angular,
JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and more.
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An interactive course site with paid and free courses. There are 20 free courses on
Web Development, Python, and more. Learn React for free is my favorite course
from their website to learn Modern React as a beginner. You can explore the course
with different paths to follow.
Devhints
A ridiculous collection of web development cheatsheets.
A wide variety of cheatsheets to explore. They are well organized into a component
style to understand it better. They have cheatsheets for HTML, CSS, JavaScript,
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React, Vue, ExpressJS, and many more. They have cheatsheets for more than 25
topics, which are further divided into sub-topics.
Code Editor ✍
VS Code
Visual Studio Code is a code editor redefined and optimized for
building and debugging modern web and cloud applications.
Visual Studio Code is free and available on your favorite platform
- Linux, macOS, and Windows.
VS code is highly customizable and supports a variety of extensions. I have been
using VS Code for more than 2 years and I love it. It has its own terminal so that you
don’t have to switch between code editor and terminal. I use their terminal quite a lot.
Sublime
Sublime Text is a sophisticated text editor for code, markup, and
prose. You'll love the slick user interface, extraordinary features,
and amazing performance.
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Sublime is a beautiful and minimal code editor. The design is minimal but you can
use it as your primary code editor. It can be also used for quick editing. It has paid
plan but you can use the unregistered version. The unregistered version is a full
version but after 40 saves it pops up for purchasing the plan.
CodePen
CodePen is a social development environment for front-end
designers and developers. Build and deploy a website, show off
your work, build test cases to learn and debug, and find
inspiration.
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CodePen is an online editor for web development. It has support for HTML, CSS,
and JavaScript. It supports most of the libraries of JavaScript and CSS. You can
easily share the codepen with other developers. It's come in handy in sharing
created websites.
CodeSandBox
CodeSandbox is an online code editor and prototyping tool that
makes creating and sharing web apps faster
An awesome online code editor that has support for various environments. You can
use their template for React, NodeJS, Gatsby, and others. The created sandbox is
easily shared with other developers and can work on it together. It can be easily
embedded into a web page. I use CodeSandBox to share the website along with
pages with other developers for my blog.
Brackets
Brackets - A modern, open source code editor that understands
web design.
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A minimalist code editor especially made for web developers. It has features such as
a live server pre-installed to provide you automatic refresh for your web page as you
edit. You can use the code editor for the minimalistic and live server features.
UI Desing ⚡
Figma
Build better products as a team. Design, prototype, and gather
feedback all in one place with Figma.
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Figma is one of the most popular tool for creating mockups and UI designs for web
and mobile. It is easy to use and has tons of tools. You can use it on your web or you
can download the software. The support of plugins makes it more powerful with a
variety of features. I use it to create mockups for my web pages in Figma. I also use
it to customize existing Figma designs according to my need.
Adobe XD
Adobe XD is a fast & powerful UI/UX design solution for
websites, apps & more. Design, wireframe, animate, prototype,
collaborate & share — all in one place.
Adobe XD is one of the alternatives for Figma. It has also a lot of features just like
Figma to create UI designs. When I started, I used to create mockups and designs in
Adobe XD.
Dribbble
Find Top Designers & Creative Professionals on Dribbble. We
are where designers gain inspiration, feedback, community, and
jobs. Your best resource to discover and connect with designers
worldwide.
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Dribbble is one of the most popular websites to get UI design inspiration. You can
find a variety of mockups and UI designs based on the web, mobile, print, and
animation. I have used the website to get inspiration for my designs. You can create
and upload your design to be seen by other developers. Many users have found
freelance work and got hired through the platform.
UI Design Daily
Free, Open-source UI design resources are updated daily.
I have used the UI design daily to get inspiration and find UI design for React
components. It has many mockups for components such as Card, Buttons, Forms,
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log-in, and others.
Figma Community
Explore thousands of templates, widgets, and plugins by the
Figma Community.
As you might know, Figma is a tool to design mockups and UI/UX. It has a
community that includes awesome mockups designed for web and mobile. This UI
design is free to use. You can easily duplicate into your Figma account and can also
make changes according to you. I definitely visit this website when I have to work on
a web project.
SiteInspire
A showcase of the best web design inspiration, featuring over
7,000 websites and profiles of the digital agencies, designers,
and developers who made them.
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A great list of website designs to get you inspired. You can choose a design from
different categories such as Styles, Types, Subjects, and Platforms. You can also
directly type your queries into the search box. Submit your web design to get
featured on the website.
Awwwards
Awwwards are the Website Awards that recognize and promote
the talent and effort of the best developers, designers, and web
agencies in the world.
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Awwwards features one of the best websites on the internet. It has the quality and a
variety of websites to look into to get the UI/UX inspiration. It also gives awards to
the best websites in the form of recognization and badges to display. You can also
submit your site too.
UI Component 🚀
Flaticon
Download Free Icons and Stickers for your projects. Resources
made by and for designers. PNG, SVG, EPS, PSD, and CSS
formats
FlatIcon has a huge library of icons that you can use in your design and build a web
page. They have over 8 Million vectors and stickers. I do use their platform to get
some icons for the web pages. They have a variety of icons in different sizes. Icons
are available in SVG, PSD, PNG, and EPS formats.
Blush Design
Blush makes it easy to add free illustrations to your designs. Play
with fully customizable graphics made by artists across the
globe.
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You can create customized illustrations from unDraw. You don’t have to draw an
illustration from scratch they already have elements and you can assemble them to
make an awesome illustration. They also have pre-created illustrations that you can
customize or directly download for your design and web pages. I like to get humans
kind of illustrations from the website to create landing pages for my website.
ColorHunt
Discover the newest hand-picked color palettes of Color Hunt.
Get color inspiration for your design and art projects.
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Tons of color pallets to use in your design. You can get a lot of inspiration and color
pallet to use in your next design. I regularly visit the website to get popular and
trendy color pallets. Along with using in design, I also used the color pallets in
creating thumbnails for my articles.
Google Fonts
Making the web more beautiful, fast, and open through great
typography
One of the best websites to integrate awesome fonts into your website. Google font
is easy to install with link and import. It is an open-source font library of more than
1,400 fonts. I have recently started using it to add better fonts to my web pages. In
addition to fonts, it also has a huge collection of icons.
Error 404
Make a unique journey through 404 error pages on your website
Use these illustrations that describe better than words
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It’s a fun web page to explore for 404-page error page illustrations. It has a lot of free
illustrations related to a 404(Not found) error page. You can download and use it in
your designs and web pages. There are also examples, you can look into for
inspiration.
Animation
Anime.js
Anime.js is a lightweight JavaScript animation library with a
simple, yet powerful API.
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Anime.js is one of my favorite libraries to add animation to my projects. You can
perform a variety of animations with a single library. It has more than 43K stars on its
GitHub repository. You will need the anime function to create the animation.
Framer Motion
Framer Motion is a production-ready React animation and
gesture library.
Frame motion is an animation library for React. It is easy to use and customize the
animation with just two attributes. You will select the HTML element with the
classname and perform the animation in your component. React blends nicely with
framer motion.
Three Dots
Three Dots is a set of CSS loading animations made with just a
single element
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It is an interesting library that has loading animation in CSS with just three dots
involved. The animation includes form basic to more advanced animation. You can
implement it in your application as an npm package or link to the external stylesheet.
Hover.CSS
Hover.css - A collection of CSS3 powered hover effects
An awesome collection of CSS3-powered hover animation/transition for links and
buttons. There are different categories for animation such as 2D Transitions, Icons,
Curls, and others. In total, there are 7 categories. Integrate the library in your
application with NPM, CDN script, or downloaded CSS file.
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Popmotion
Popmotion: The animator's JavaScript toolbox
A simple yet powerful library to integrate animation into your web application. The
library is quite stable and the components are small in size reducing the loading
speed of your site. It has more than 19K stars on GitHub.
Framework 🏢
React
A JavaScript library for building user interfaces.
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React is one of the most loved and powerful JavaScript framework for building
component-based websites. I have been using React for building most of the
websites using the React. It’s easy to learn and has a shorter learning path. You will
be able to build the website using React within 2-3 weeks.
NextJS
Production grade React applications that scale. The world’s
leading companies use Next.js by Vercel to build static and
dynamic websites and web applications.
NextJS is a framework for React. It has uplifted the quality of React by providing
more features. I have recently shifted from using just React to NextJS for building my
website. The routing system in NextJS is quite awesome as you have to put files
according to the route you want.
Astro
Pull content from anywhere and serve it fast with Astro's next-
gen island architecture. Astro is the web framework that you'll
enjoy using.
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Astro is a web development framework built on top of React. It is quite lightweight
when compared to React and NextJS. This gives it an edge over other frameworks
for performance. It has various features such as Zero JavaScript Runtime and Lazy-
Loading for increasing performance.
Tailwind CSS
Tailwind CSS - Rapidly build modern websites without ever
leaving your HTML.
It’s a utility-first CSS framework. With Tailwind CSS, you can directly add CSS to
your HTML/JSX components. Many developers have been using this framework for
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building their sites as it requires less time to write CSS code.
Bulma
Bulma is a free, open-source CSS framework based on Flexbox
and built with Sass. It's 100% responsive, fully modular, and
available for free.
Bulma is a CSS framework for writing the CSS in your HTML/JSX. You just need to
provide different classnames for the component to get the CSS code. You can
download files or use the package managers to install the library to your project. It’s
awesome and easy to implement in your project.
ExpressJS
Express - Node.js web application framework
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ExpressJS is a framework to develop your application’s backend. I have used the
library to build my backend for almost every project. It’s popular, easy to integrate,
and has less learning path.
Hosting ☁
Netlify
A powerful serverless platform with an intuitive git-based
workflow. Automated deployments, shareable previews, and
much more. Get started for free!
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Netlify is one of the most popular web application hosting service provider. Since my
initial days in web development, I am using Netlify to host my projects. My go-to
hosting platform for my all React projects. It is easy to create build, add environment
variables, and customize a domain. It has a free tier that will provide your domain
under the netlify.com subdomain. You can also purchase a domain through Netlify
Vercel
Deploy web projects with the best frontend developer experience
and highest end-user performance.
Vercel is the best hosting service provider for the NextJS application. NextJS is
created by the team of Vercel. So, it makes sense to use Vercel for performance.
The UI is clean and easy to understand. It has the option to choose a framework
while deploying. It customizes the server according to the framework to create a
build and increases the performance. It has support for most of the fronted tech
stacks such as React, NuxtJS, Svelte, Vue, Gatsby, and many others.
Heroku
Heroku is a platform as a service (PaaS) that enables developers
to build, run, and operate applications entirely in the cloud.
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Heroku is the best platform for deploying the backend of your project. I deploy my
frontend on either Netlify or Vercel and the backend on Heroku. You can import
projects through GitHub or with their CLI. I use CLI to only push the backend code to
Heroku and the overall project’s code to GitHub.
Railway
Railway is an infrastructure platform where you can provision
infrastructure, develop with that infrastructure locally, and then
deploy it to the cloud.
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As of November 2022, Heroku is ending its free tier and Railway is one of the best
alternatives for Heroku to deploy your backend. It supports Node Js, Django,
Laravel, Kotlin spring, ruby, and others. It also has pre-defined templates that you
can use while deploying the backend.
Render
Render is a unified cloud to build and run all your apps and
websites with free TLS certificates, global CDN, private networks
and auto deploy from Git.
Deploy a variety of applications such as Web servers, static web pages, docker
containers, and others. It’s one of the free alternatives to Heroku.
Google Chrome Extension 🔗
ColorZilla
Advanced Eyedropper, Color Picker, Gradient Generator, and
more
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I have used this extension since the beginning of my web development. This
extension picks colors from the website.
WhatFont
The easiest way to identify fonts on web pages.
One of the best extension to know the font from any website is by just hovering over
the font. It will display the name of the font and size.
JSONVue
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Validate and view JSON documents
It’s one of the most recommended extensions for the prettier versions of JSON data.
Whenever I am dealing with public APIs for getting data such as weather data. The
API data is in form of JSON. By default, our web page displays all the data in inline
format. This extension converts the data into a prettier format to understand the
structure of JSON easily.
Wappalyzer
Find out the technology stack of any website. Create lists of
websites and contacts by the technologies they use.
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Wappalyzer is an awesome tool to find the tech stack of a website. You can do it
through various mediums such as browser extensions and APIs. It has a browser
extension that will provide the tech stack of the visited website. It has provided an
API and using that you can create your Wappalyzer kind of website.
GitPod
Gitpod is an open-source development platform for remote
development. Accelerate your team's developer experience,
remote collaboration, and security - to ship new products faster
and more securely.
I use this extension only on GitHub. It provides me with the online editor in the form
of VS Code. I use this extension to review code with changes. It has the full support
of VS Code such as extension and theme.
Coding Practice 🧭
HackerRank
Join over 18 million developers, practice coding skills, prepare
for Interviews, and get hired.
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You can practice more than 40 languages in HackerRank. They have great
challenges from the basic levels to a more advanced level to test your skill. They
also provide challenges for several different domains such as Algorithms,
Mathematics, SQL, functional programming, AI, and more.
LeetCode
Level up your coding skills and quickly land a job. This is the best
place to expand your knowledge and get prepared for your next
interview.
Leetcode is a popular online platform that provides a list of various challenges. It can
help you to prepare for technical job interviews. They have support for more than 14
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popular languages.
CodeChef
Learn competitive programming with the help of CodeChef's
coding competitions. Take part in these online coding contests to
level up your skills
In CodeChef, you can practice different programming languages through different
challenges. You can compete in their competition to earn a reward. As an absolute
beginner, you can start their “Get Started At CodeChef With Your Coding
Journey” to learn coding along with practicing.
Flexbox Defence
Your job is to stop the incoming enemies from getting past your
defenses. Unlike other tower defense games, you must position
your towers using CSS!
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It’s an online game to play while learning CSS flexbox. It is simple, as you write
code, your defense will be placed on the map. Your defense should be in the path of
the enemy to defend you. For positioning your defense, you are going to use CSS
flex and its properties. It’s fun and you can learn CSS flexbox’s properties.
CodinGame
CodinGame is a challenge-based training platform for
programmers where you can play with the hottest programming
topics. Solve games, code AI bots, learn from your peers, and
have fun.
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Play games and learn code at the same time with CodinGame. You will write code to
control the character in the game. You can write code in most of the popular
programming languages like JavaScript, Java, Python, C, C++, Dart, and others.
Productivity ⌛
Notion
We’re more than a doc. Or a table. Customize Notion to work the
way you do.
The one place for managing most of the work. I have templates for my blogging
topics, reading list, hackathon participation, and interesting Gumroad ebooks. There
are lots of free and paid templates for the notion that make it easy to use it.
Whenever I need to add new pages for instance Personal Finance, I search for
templates online. I get pretty good templates at zero cost.
Habitica
Habitica is a free habit and productivity app that treats your real
life like a game. Habitica can help you achieve your goals to
become healthy and happy.
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Habits are one of the building blocks for achieving bigger goals. I have been using
Habiticas for managing my to-do list along with building habits. It’s a gamified version
of a to-do list with a variety of stuff to do. I like how Habitica manages recurring tasks
and habits.
Trello
Trello is the ultimate project management tool. Start up a board
in seconds, automate tedious tasks, and collaborate anywhere,
even on mobile.
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You can manage your task that has a progress timeline with Trello. I used Trello to
manage my client blogging project with sections such as Writing, Draft, Send, and
Published. It is flexible and can be used for a variety of purposes to manage
projects. You can also use it for managing your development projects, adding
features, and all.
musicForProgramming()
Datassette presents a series of mixes intended for listening while
programming to focus the brain and inspire the mind.
If you are a fan of listening to music while coding then musicForProgramming has
got you a lot of options. You can listen to this music to focus while writing code.
Miscellaneous Tool 🔎
Postman
Postman is an API platform for building and using APIs. Postman
simplifies each step of the API lifecycle and streamlines
collaboration so you can create better APIs—faster.
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Postman is an API testing tool that has a desktop application and web-based
environment. I prefer using the desktop application for testing my backend APIs. You
can easily navigate between different Workspaces. Adding environment variables
with various scopes is possible.
Rapid API
Use RapidAPI to Find, Connect, & Share 1000s of APIs using
our Multi-cloud platform. Improve Developer Experience with API
Design, Testing, Monitoring, & More!
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A place to find almost most of the major APIs available on the internet. It has well
categorized the APIs into more than 20 categories. Whenever I need any API for my
project, I visit Rapid API. You can search API according to your need.
Site-Shot
Site-Shot: Online webpage screenshot service that takes a full
page snapshot. The simplest way to take a full page screenshot,
we support up to 20000 pixels
You can capture screenshots of any website using site-shot. You can manually
adjust the resolution to various Desktop, Android Devices, and iOS devices. It
provides API to build a site like site-shot on your own.
PageSpeed Insights
Make your web pages fast on all devices
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PageSpeed provides useful insights regarding the loading speed of a website. You
can improve your web page's speed by working on these parameters. It has support
and provides separate insights for desktop and mobile.
Sass
Sass is the most mature, stable, and powerful professional-
grade CSS extension language in the world.
Sass is a preprocessor that extends the capabilities of CSS. It comes with a variety
of powers such as
Using variable
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Nesting selectors
Functions
Chrome Dev Tools
Chrome DevTools is a set of web developer tools built directly
into the Google Chrome browser.
The best dev tools for web developers come with your browser. The dev tools
provided by chrome are awesome. You can test your site’s responsiveness, see all
code, get network details, and much more.
MongoDB Atlas
The multi-cloud database service at the heart of our developer
data platform accelerates and simplifies how you build with data.
Try MongoDB Atlas today!
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One of the best databases for Web developers that takes data in JSON format. Atlas
is an extension to MongoDB which is available on the cloud. You do not need to set
up a database locally, you can directly connect your application to the online server
with Atlas. I prefer using this database for my React projects.
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