7 Tools Used by Every Web Developer

In the course of developing a Website, a web developer uses many tools in order to create the end product that is the Website. These tools help to make the lives of developers a little easier.

Here we will talk about few tools which Every Developer uses :

1. Code Editors

Code Editor helps in writing organized and structured code. It helps with the indentation in the code, auto suggestions and other code related utilities.

The most popular ones are:

1. Visual Studio Code
2. Sublime Text
3. Atom
4. Notepad ++

2. Local Development Environment

Xampp as a localhost can help in creating a hosting environment for the website you are building in your local computer. It is free and easy to install.

There are services in the Xampp control panel like the Apache Server module to run your website on the local server that is your local computer, MySQL services to connect to database and perform database related activities etc.

3. Version Control

Version control can be defined as the process of saving different files or versions throughout the various stages of a project you are building.

Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.

GitHub can be used for collaboration using git. It’s a platform that host repositories of code in cloud so that more than one developer can work on a single project and see each others’ updates and commits in real-time.

4. Create contents for Website

In order to design a beautiful website, you need beautiful contents which will make the website more appealing. Designing tools like Canva can help in creating attractive content for the website to attract the users.

5. Seek Help

Platforms like Stackoverflow can provide you relevant solutions whenever you get stuck. It is community-based space to find and contribute answers to technical challenges. You can seek answers for your problems and also contribute by solving others’ problems and challenges.

6. Identify technologies used by other Websites

Wappalyzer helps to find out the technology stack of any website. Create lists of websites that use certain technologies, with email addresses and phone numbers. You can use its tools for lead generation, market analysis and competitor research.

7. Learning Tools

With the advent of new technologies every other day, its important to keep ourselves updated. You can learn for free from websites like Youtube, Tutorialspoint etc or you can take up courses created by professionals from the following platforms:

1. Udemy
2. Coursera
3. Udacity

If you are looking for courses on web development check out the Udemy course below

Learn HTML,CSS,JAVASCRIPT

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