pierrerognion / best-tools

🛠 A curated list of the best tools for developers, designers, product managers, marketers, and sales

🖥 Command Line

• iTerm2
• Hyper

🛠 Source-Code Editors

• Visual Studio Code
• Sublime Text
• Atom

🔧 IDE

• XCode - https://developer.apple.com/xcode/

⛓ Online Code Editors

• Codepen - https://codepen.io/
• JSBin - https://jsbin.com/
• Code Sandbox - https://codesandbox.io/

🐱 Git-related

• Github - https://github.com/
• Gitlab - https://gitlab.com/
• Bitbucket - https://bitbucket.org/

🔗 API Management, Documentation, and Testing

• Postman - https://www.getpostman.com/
• Apigee - https://cloud.google.com/apigee-api-management/
• Swagger - https://swagger.io/

📂 CMS

• Contentful - https://www.contentful.com/
• Netlify CMS - https://www.netlifycms.org/
• Strapi - https://strapi.io/

Databases

• MongoDB - https://www.mongodb.com/
• Firebase - https://firebase.google.com/
• Postgres - https://postgresapp.com/

🚀 Deploy

• AWS - https://aws.amazon.com/
• Netlify - https://www.netlify.com/
• Heroku - https://heroku.com/
• Now - https://zeit.co/now
• Surge.sh - https://surge.sh/

📦 Container Management

• Docker - https://www.docker.com/
• Kubernetes - https://kubernetes.io/

Other Dev Tools

• Expo.io - https://expo.io/ Build, deploy, and iterate on React Native apps.
• Express - https://expressjs.com/
• Mocha - https://mochajs.org/
• Carbon - https://carbon.now.sh/ Create and share beautiful images of your source code.

📚 Courses

• CodeCademy - https://www.codecademy.com/
• freeCodeCamp - https://www.freecodecamp.org/
• Treehouse - https://teamtreehouse.com/
• Lynda - https://www.lynda.com/
• OpenClassrooms - https://openclassrooms.com/
• Flexbox Froggy - https://flexboxfroggy.com/#fr
• Salesforce Trailhead - https://trailhead.salesforce.com/
• Udemy - https://www.udemy.com/
• Pluralsight - https://www.pluralsight.com/
• Glitch - https://glitch.com/
• Google CodeLabs - https://codelabs.developers.google.com/
• Hackr.io - https://hackr.io/ Directory of courses and tutorials
• Github Learning Lab - https://lab.github.com/courses
• Coursera - coursera.org
• DesignCode - https://designcode.io/
• Watch and Code: Practical Javascript - https://watchandcode.com/p/practical-javascript

Search engine tech

• Algolia - https://www.algolia.com/
• ElasticSearch - https://www.elastic.co/

Coding Problems

• Daily Coding Problem - https://dailycodingproblem.com/
• Code Wars - https://codewars.com/

Learn How to Code on the Go

• CodeCademy Go - https://news.codecademy.com/codecademy-go-faq/
• Grasshopper - https://grasshopper.codes/
• MIMO - https://getmimo.com/
• Py - https://www.getpy.com/mobile
• OpenClassrooms - https://openclassrooms.com/

Error Tracking

• Sentry - https://sentry.io/welcome/

🤓 Dev Blogs

• Overreacted.io - https://overreacted.io/

🗺 APIs

• Programmable Web - https://www.programmableweb.com/ API Directory
• Mapbox - https://www.mapbox.com/
• Google Cloud Platform - https://console.cloud.google.com/

📸 Images

• Unsplash - https://unsplash.com
• Pexels - https://www.pexels.com/
• The Stocks 2 - http://thestocks.im/
• StockSnap.io - https://stocksnap.io/
• Zipplist - https://zipplist.co/

🔥 Icons

• Feathericons - https://feathericons.com/
• Font Awesome - https://fontawesome.com/
• Orion - https://orioniconlibrary.com/ Icon library
• Nucleo - https://nucleoapp.com/ Icon Organizer & icon library
• Flaticon - https://www.flaticon.com/
• Icon Store - https://iconstore.co/
• The Noun Project - https://thenounproject.com/
• Iconmonstr - https://iconmonstr.com/
• IonIcons - https://ionicons.com/
• Octicons - https://octicons.github.com/

🖋 Fonts

• Google Fonts - https://fonts.google.com/

😉 Illustrations

• Undraw - https://undraw.co/
• DrawKit - https://www.drawkit.io
• Icons8 - https://icons8.com/
• Humaaans - https://www.humaaans.com/

Design Resources

• Figma Freebies - https://www.figmafreebies.com/
• Figma Finder - https://www.figmafinder.com/
• Freebie Supply (Figma) - https://freebiesupply.com/free-figma/
• Figma Resources - https://www.figmaresources.com/
• Figma Crush - https://www.figmacrush.com/
• Sketch App Sources - https://www.sketchappsources.com/
• Sketch Repo - https://sketchrepo.com/
• Freebie Supply - https://freebiesupply.com/
• Bottts - https://bottts.com/ Bots for Sketch
• UI8 - https://ui8.net/
• Adele - https://adele.uxpin.com/ Repository of publicly available design systems and pattern libraries
• Cruip - https://cruip.com/ Free landing page templates for startups.
• One Page Love - https://onepagelove.com/ One Page websites, templates and resources
• Design resources - https://trydesignlab.com/resources/
• Shape - https://shape.so/

UI Kits

• UI Kit Le Wagon - https://uikit.lewagon.com/

Mockups

• Sketch Sheets Templates - https://sketchsheets.com/
• Sneakpeekit - https://sneakpeekit.com/
• Mockup World - https://www.mockupworld.co/
• Clean Mock https://cleanmock.com/

👍 Design Inspiration

• Muzli - https://medium.muz.li/
• Muzli Search - https://search.muz.li/
• Dribbble - https://dribbble.com/
• Behance - https://www.behance.net/
• Pages.xyz - https://www.pages.xyz/
• Bootstrap Expo - https://expo.getbootstrap.com/
• Webframe - https://webframe.xyz/
• Awwwards - https://www.awwwards.com/

Design Guidelines

• Apple Human Interface Guidelines - https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guidelines/ios/visual-design/adaptivity-and-layout/
• IBM Design Language - https://www.ibm.com/design/language/
• Google Material Design - https://material.io/

UI Patterns

• UI Patterns - http://ui-patterns.com/
• UI Garage - https://uigarage.net/

🖼 UI Components Management

• Storybook - https://storybook.js.org/
• Bit.dev - https://bit.dev/

Design Portfolios

• Zach Krasner - http://design.zachkrasner.com/
• Andrealikes Portfolio - http://andrealikes.to/

🎨 Color palette

• Coolors - https://coolors.co/
• Color Hunt - https://colorhunt.co/
• Colorable - https://colorable.jxnblk.com/

🖌 Wireframing, Prototyping and Design-Dev Collaboration Tools

• Figma - https://www.figma.com/
• Sketch - https://www.sketch.com/
• Invision - https://www.invisionapp.com/
• Invision Studio - https://www.invisionapp.com/studio
• Marvel - https://marvelapp.com/
• Framer - https://www.framer.com/
• Zeplin - https://zeplin.io/
• Adobe XD - https://www.adobe.com/products/xd.html
• Proto.io - https://proto.io/
• Balsamiq - https://balsamiq.com/
• Axure - https://www.axure.com/
• Flinto - https://www.flinto.com/
• Principle - https://principleformac.com/

Design Thinking and UX

• Design Thinking Make Break Repeat - http://designthinkmakebreakrepeat.com/ Design Thinking mathodologies
• User Experience Guide - https://www.userexperience.guide/ Free UX resources

Sketch Extensions

• Craft - https://www.invisionapp.com/craft
• Sketch Material - https://material.io/tools/theme-editor/
• Angle - https://designcode.io/angle
• Map Generator - https://github.com/eddiesigner/sketch-map-generator
• Symbol Organizer - https://github.com/sonburn/symbol-organizer
• Sketch Isometric - https://github.com/sureskumar/sketch-isometric
• Paddy - https://github.com/DWilliames/paddy-sketch-plugin
• Unsplash - https://unsplash.com/

📩 Email

• Mailchimp - https://mailchimp.com/
• Mailjet - https://www.mailjet.com/
• Front - https://frontapp.com/ Shared inbox for teams
• Email Regex - http://emailregex.com/
• Postmark - https://postmarkapp.com/

📊 CRM & Marketing Automation

• Salesforce - https://www.salesforce.com/
• Intercom - https://www.intercom.com/
• Hubspot - https://www.hubspot.com
• Pipedrive - https://www.pipedrive.com/

Livechat

• Intercom - https://www.intercom.com/
• Live Chat - https://www.zendesk.com/chat/ Conversational marketing tool from Zendesk.
• Drift - https://www.drift.com/ Conversational marketing platform.

Leads & Data Enrichment

• Clearbit - https://clearbit.com/
• Lusha - https://www.lusha.co/
• Hunter.io - https://hunter.io/
• LinkedIn Sales Navigator - https://business.linkedin.com/fr-fr/sales-solutions/sales-navigator

Client Support

• Zendesk - https://www.zendesk.com/

Forms

• Typeform - https://www.typeform.com/
• Google Forms - https://www.google.com/intl/en/forms/about/
• Airtable - https://airtable.com/

📈 Web and Product Analytics/Customer Data Infrastructure

• Google Analytics - https://analytics.google.com/
• Google Data Studio - https://datastudio.google.com/
• Segment - https://segment.com/
• Lookback - https://lookback.io/
• Amplitude - https://amplitude.com/
• Kissmetrics - https://www.kissmetricshq.com/
• Mixpanel - https://mixpanel.com/
• Optimizely - https://www.optimizely.com/
• Hotjar - https://www.hotjar.com/
• Tableau - https://www.tableau.com/

🗣 Social

• Slack - https://slack.com/
• Discord - https://discordapp.com/
• Twitter - https://twitter.com/
• Reddit - https://www.reddit.com/

Video Meetings

• Zoom.us - https://zoom.us/
• Google Hangout - https://hangouts.google.com/
• Appear.in - https://appear.in/
• Skype - https://www.skype.com/
• WebEx - https://www.webex.com/

🔎 Internal wiki

• Docusaurus - https://docusaurus.io/
• Notion - https://www.notion.so/
• Confluence - https://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence

Cartoon animations

• Vyond - https://www.vyond.com/
• Powtoon - https://www.powtoon.com/home/

😎 One-for-all apps

• Notion - https://www.notion.so/
• Airtable - https://airtable.com/
• Basecamp - https://basecamp.com/

📕 Project Management

• Trello - https://trello.com/
• Asana - https://asana.com/
• JIRA - atlassian.com/software/jira
• Basecamp - https://basecamp.com/

Product Management

• Productboard https://www.productboard.com/

🧪 Magic Boards

• MIRO - https://miro.com/
• Whimsical - https://whimsical.com/

✅ Todo

• Things - https://culturedcode.com/things/
• Todoist - https://todoist.com/

🔐 Security

• 1Password - https://1password.com/
• Lastpass

Roadmaps

• Productboard https://www.productboard.com/
• Miro
• Roadmunk - https://roadmunk.com/
• Monday - https://monday.com/
• Aha - https://www.aha.io/
• Asana - https://asana.com/
• Product Plan - https://www.productplan.com/

🗞 Tech News

• Medium - https://medium.com/
• Hacker News - https://news.ycombinator.com/
• Product Hunt - https://www.producthunt.com/
• The Verge - https://www.theverge.com/
• Techcrunch - https://techcrunch.com/
• Re/Code - https://www.vox.com/recode
• The Next Web - https://thenextweb.com/
• CSS Tricks - https://css-tricks.com/
• DEV.to - https://dev.to/
• freeCodeCamp - https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/
• IndieHackers - https://www.indiehackers.com/

🤳 Screencast & GIF

• Loom - https://www.loom.com/
• Snagit - https://www.techsmith.com/screen-capture.html

❓ Need Help & Documentation

• Stack Overflow - https://stackoverflow.com/
• Mozilla Developer Network - https://developer.mozilla.org/

🤖 Slack related

• Statsbot - Insights from various databases (including Google Analytics)
• Mailchimp - Online email marketing and contact management
• Donut - Onboarding bot
• Heytaco - Build stronger happier teams
• Github
• Arc - Google Analytics summarized
• Simple Poll - Create native polls in Slack
• Zoom
• Appear.in
• Google Calendar
• Twitter
• Asana
• Google+ Hangout
• RSS
• Slofile - https://slofile.com/ Discover Slack Communities

⚡️ Automation

• Zapier - https://zapier.com/
• IFTTT - https://ifttt.com/
• Parabola - https://parabola.io/
• Integromat - https://www.integromat.com/

Online Signature

• HelloSign - https://www.hellosign.com/
• Pandadoc - https://www.pandadoc.com/
• Docusign - https://www.docusign.com/

Authentication & Single Sign-On

• OKTA - https://developer.okta.com/
• Auth0 - https://auth0.com/

Youtube Channels - UI

• Caler Edwards https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfzOLBT7jyHFcaTgwmnttog

Chrome Extensions

• Spider - https://spider.amie-chen.com/ Web scrapping tool
• Notion - https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/notion-web-clipper/knheggckgoiihginacbkhaalnibhilkk
• React Developer Tools - https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/react-developer-tools/fmkadmapgofadopljbjfkapdkoienihi
• Pocket - https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/save-to-pocket/niloccemoadcdkdjlinkgdfekeahmflj
• Color Zilla - https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/colorzilla/bhlhnicpbhignbdhedgjhgdocnmhomnp
• FontFace Ninja - https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/fontface-ninja/eljapbgkmlngdpckoiiibecpemleclhh
• Loom - https://www.loom.com/
• JSON Viewer - https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/json-viewer/gbmdgpbipfallnflgajpaliibnhdgobh
• Momentum - https://momentumdash.com/
• Whatruns - https://www.whatruns.com/
• Wappalyzer - https://www.wappalyzer.com/
• Octotree - https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/octotree/bkhaagjahfmjljalopjnoealnfndnagc

Business Intelligence tools

• Tableau - https://www.tableau.com/
• Looker - https://looker.com/

Social Media Campaigns

• Sprinklr - https://www.sprinklr.com/
• Hootsuite - https://hootsuite.com/
• Buffer - https://buffer.com/

Link shortener

• Rebrandly - https://app.rebrandly.com/links
• Bit.ly - https://bitly.com/

Job boards, Relocation & Remote Work Resources

• NomadList - https://nomadlist.com/
• Remote OK - https://remoteok.io/
• Relocate.me - https://relocate.me/
• Epic Jobs - https://epicjobs.co/

🤡 Other

• Reset CSS - https://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/css/reset/
• Excuses For Lazy Coders - http://programmingexcuses.com/
• Scotch.io - https://scotch.io/
• Datadog - https://www.datadoghq.com/
• Cash.app - https://cash.app/bitcoin
• HTML Characters Reference - https://dev.w3.org/html5/html-author/charref
• List of CSS properties - https://webplatform.github.io/docs/css/
• Bootstrap - https://getbootstrap.com/
• CSS Animations - https://daneden.github.io/animate.css/
• When to use which UX Research Method - https://www.nngroup.com/articles/which-ux-research-methods/
• User Centered Design Canvas - https://ucdc.therectangles.com/#what
• Canva - https://www.canva.com/
• The Sweet Setup - https://thesweetsetup.com/
• Jupyter - https://jupyter.org/
• Web.dev - https://web.dev/measure
• Fraola - https://www.froala.com/wysiwyg-editor
• Checklist Design - https://www.checklist.design/
• Bulma - https://bulma.io/documentation/components/
• HTML Reference - https://htmlreference.io/ All HTML elements and attributes
• CSS Reference - https://cssreference.io/ The most popular CSS properties
• Snazzy Maps - https://snazzymaps.com/
• Light Widget - https://lightwidget.com/ Responsive Instagram widgets
• Emojipedia - https://emojipedia.org/
• UI Names - https://uinames.com/ Fake UI names generator
• Namecheap - https://www.namecheap.com/
• Mega Proxy - https://www.megaproxy.com/freesurf/
• TempMail - https://temp-mail.org/fr/ Disposable email address
• Strikingly - https://www.strikingly.com/ Instant Website Builder
• Google Trends - https://trends.google.com/trends
• Google Finance - https://www.google.com/finance
• Calendly - https://calendly.com/
• Can I Use - https://caniuse.com/
• Learn Enough Command Line to Be Dangerous - https://www.learnenough.com/command-line-tutorial/basics
• RubyGems - https://rubygems.org/
• Coda.io - https://coda.io/ Smart spreadsheets
• Pablo - https://pablo.buffer.com/
• Draw.io - https://www.draw.io/ Diagrams and flowcharts maker
• Twilio - https://www.twilio.com/ Communication APIs for SMS, Voice, Video, and Authentication
• CloudApp - https://www.getcloudapp.com/
• Upmostly - https://upmostly.com/tutorials/ React Tutorials
• Get Sandbox - https://getsandbox.com/
• JSON Generator - https://www.json-generator.com/ Tool for generating random JSON data
• Carrd - https://carrd.co/ Simple, free, fully responsive one-page sites.
• Blobmaker - https://www.blobmaker.app/ The easiest way to create SVG blobs.
• Docz - https://www.docz.site/ Documentation generator for projects, design systems, etc.
• Twilio - https://www.twilio.com/
• SendGrid - https://sendgrid.com/ Email delivery service: notifications, promotional, password reset, etc.
• Squatch - https://www.referralsaasquatch.com/ Run referral programs
• Jupyter - https://jupyter.org/
• CSS Grid Generator - https://cssgrid-generator.netlify.com/
• Gifski - https://gif.ski/ Create high-quality GIFs.
• Screenflow - http://www.telestream.net/screenflow/ Video editing
• Cubase - https://new.steinberg.net/cubase/ Sound Design
• Makerpad - https://www.makerpad.co/ Makerpad is a no-code platform for professionals & creators
• Plaid - https://plaid.com/
• Reflector - https://www.airsquirrels.com/reflector Wireless screen-mirroring application
• Statuspage - https://www.statuspage.io/
• Dev Hints - https://devhints.io/ Cheatsheets for devs
• Prisma - https://www.prisma.io/

Resume Builders

• FlowCV - https://flowcv.io/
• Standard Resume - https://app.standardresume.co/
• Canva - https://www.canva.com/

Other Curated Lists

• Awesome Ruby - https://github.com/markets/awesome-ruby
• Neede Design Resources - https://neede.co/#/
• Awesome Design Tools - https://github.com/LisaDziuba/Awesome-Design-Tools
• Awesome Hacking - https://github.com/carpedm20/awesome-hacking
• Awesome React Native - https://github.com/jondot/awesome-react-native
• The Book of Secret Knowledge - https://github.com/trimstray/the-book-of-secret-knowledge
• Spark Joy - https://github.com/sw-yx/spark-joy Various design resources to spark joy in your apps and websites
• Awesome React Framer X - https://github.com/davo/awesome-react-framer-x
• DesignCode.io resources - https://designcode.io/learn
• Prototypr - https://www.prototypr.io/home
• Undesign - https://undesign.learn.uno/
• Fouderpad - https://www.founderpad.co/

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