Resources for Web Developers, Designers, and Startups

A list of useful resources for web developers and designers. Use CMD + F to search for things like color, payments, etc. I’ve tagged different sections with keywords to make searching easier. Feel free to send me more resources to add by emailing me (kash@pairso.com) or by making a pull request.

Web Development Apps
^{Tags: website, apps, IDE, editor}

Expressions - App to play with regular expressions ($3.99).
Setapp - Dozens of useful apps ($9.99/mo).
Numi - Simple, beautiful calculator app.
WebStorm - Powerful JavaScript IDE ($129/yr. Free for students).
Visual Studio - Smart and customizeable IDE.
Atom - Text editor made by GitHub.
Sublime Text - Popular text editor (Free, but popups unless you pay $70).
Electron - Build desktop apps with JavaScript, HTML, and CSS.
Slack - Team communication tool.
Postman - Make GET, POST, etc. requests to a site. Makes creating APIs easier.
Bear - Markdown notes on Mac, iPhone, and iPad.
Notion - Team note-taking app.
Hyper - Hackable JS/HTML/CSS Terminal.
GitKraken - Git GUI for Mac, Windows and Linux.
Vim - Extremely popular unix command line text editor.
CodeKit - Build websites faster and better. Automatic browser refresh.
ExtendsClass - Toolbox for developers: clients (REST, SOAP), testers (Regex, XPath, JSONPath), code checkers (PHP, Python, JS), SQLite browser, compare tools (XML, JSON, CSV) and converters (JSON, CSV, XML, Excel).

Design and Color
^{Tags: Illustrator, Photoshop, logo, color}

Sketch - Popular design tool. Great tool for mockup up app and designing logos ($99).
Affinity Designer - Illustrator alternative ($39.99).
Affinity Photo - Photoshop alternative ($39.99).
Free SVG Maps - SVG of all the countries and their cities.
AllTheFreeStock - Free images, video, music and icons. All in one place.
CodeMyUI - Handpicked code snippets you can use in your web projects.
Unsplash - Free, high-quality images.
Wesaturate - Free RAW and JPG images.
InVision - Design prototyping tool
Colorful - List of resources for everything color related
coolHue - Handpicked gradients.
Figma - Collaborative interface design tool.
Iconfinder - 1.7 million+ icons (free and paid).
Sip - Color picker app for Mac.
Paletton - Color pallette and picker.

Open Source
^{Tags: JavaScript, NPM, Node, libraries, frameworks}

Airbnb Engineering - Open source projects by Airbnb for developers
Enzyme - Testing utility for React by Airbnb.
Mocha - JavaScript testing framework.
React - JavaScript library for building user interfaces by Facebook.
Redux - State management for JavaScript apps.
JavaScript Style Guide - A reasonable approach to JavaScript’by Airbnb
Google Open Source - Over 2,000 open source projects by Google
ESLint - Pluggable linting utility for JavaScript. Create rules for JavaScript formatting.
Natural - Natural language processing in JavaScript.
Redis - In-memory data structure store.
MongoDB - Relational database.
Jest - JavaScript testing made by Facebook.
GraphQL - Query language for APIs.
Hypernova - Server side rending for your JavaScript views by Airbnb
Prerender.IO - Allows your JavaScript website to be crawled by search engines.
Awesome Public Datasets - A huge list of databases that you can use right now.

Services
^{Tags: money, euro, dollar, process, payments}

Stripe - Secure online transaction. 2.9% + 30¢ per transaction.
Plasso - Plasso is built on Stripe. All transactions are subject to Stripe’s additional transaction fee.
PayPal - Transaction fees vary. See their page.
Stackshare - See what technology different companies use.
Digital Ocean - Web hosting.
Heroku - Simple solution for web hosting.
Sentry - Log events and errors.
imgix - Caches images for you so that your site can load them quickly.
Zendesk - Customer Relations software used by Slack and Uber.
UVdesk - Customer Relations software.
MailChimp - Email automation software (They also own Mandrill).
Twilio - Use their API to send text messages.
Braintree - Accept payments online. Owned by PayPal.
Trello - Team task-management app using boards, lists, and cards.
Data Dog - Event logging.
Pingdom - Website performance monitoring.
SendGrid - Send transactional and marketing emails.
Buffer - Social media management software
Mailgun - Email service for sending automated emails, has an easy to use http api.

Technologies and Educational
^{Tags: Learn, how to, teach, db, database}

Github Open Source - Learn about and contribute to open source projects.
Github Education - Discounts/resources for students.
What is REST? - Learn about REST
Sass - CSS on steroids
What is GraphQL?
JetBrains for Students - Free apps!
400+ Free Resources for your business
Discounts for Students
Best SEO Tools - A handpicked list of SEO and Marketing tools.
Google Search Cheat Sheet - Handpicked collection of advance search operators and URL modifiers from Google.

Clean Sites

These are just some sites that look really nice. Great for getting design inspiration from.

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Useful resources for web developers, designers, and startups.