![]() If you find yourself in that camp, then this will be right up your alley. TouchCursor - Programmers of all sorts are notorious for wanting to use the mouse as little as possible.With the Ditto clipboard manager, you can copy-paste your way to victory. Ditto - You know when you’re trying to copy four separate answers from Stack Overflow and you have to keep switching back and forth from your browser to your IDE? Worry no more.Never again will you have to flip back and forth through entire windows just to look at your different error messages. ConEmu - If you are on Windows and you would like to have multiple terminal tabs, this is an easy, free solution to your tab-related woes.However, if you are the creator of Magnet and you wish to pay me, please get in touch). (They are not paying me for this recommendation, sadly. This tool allows you to easily snap different windows to separate areas of your screen so you can run multiple terminals at once and tell your mom you are a hacker. If you can afford to dish up the 99 cents, however, I think it is worth it for those tough times when you don’t have access to a second monitor. I can’t help but wish that this would be integrated with Paw somehow, for pun-related purposes. Bear - Not directly coding related, but a neat piece of software for taking notes if that is something you do in your day-to-day.Dash - With over 200 documentation sets to search through, Dash is an offline goldmine of documentation for the developer who loves to read documentation so much that they do it even when the internet is out.If you love that Mac feel, this might be the API tool for you. Paw - A competitor to both Postman and Insomnia above, Paw is a similar piece of software that feels more like a native Mac application than the others.Not as good as getting time away from the screen, certainly, but it’s better than nothing! Flux is a program that turns the blue light down on your screen as the sun sets, with the hopes of mimicking the day/night cycle and helping you sleep better. ![]() Flux - If you’re reading this, chances are you probably spend a ton of time on your computer. ![]() Personal preference seems to be the main deciding factor between the two, though both can greatly increase your debugging/troubleshooting capabilities. Fiddler - Basically the same tool as Charles.It basically turns you into a hacker, allowing you to check your website for security vulnerabilities and such. Charles - This is a sweet web debugging proxy that allows you to view all of the information you could possibly want to see about the requests being made between your machine and the internet.It even allows the importing of Postman tests and several other formats. Restlet - If you don’t want to download either of the above, this is an API testing client that is available as a Chrome extension.Don’t stay up all night making a decision between the two (I had to, forgive me). Between this and Postman, the choice seems to mostly be personal preference for the UX. It appears to have a lot of the same functionality with a slightly lower price tag for their premium packages. Insomnia - This is an open-source alternative to Postman.Once you dive deeper into it, you will find it is also incredibly useful for writing up test suites and much more. Postman - At its most basic, this is an application that allows you to test the different endpoints of an API.Operating System Agnostic Photo courtesy of I considered including the usernames of the Redditors that made the recommendations, but since I am not sure if they appreciate being called out, I will assume all responsibility for any tool you find sub-par.įeel free to jump around. Now, before the Linux folks get all up in arms, there are versions of most of these available for you, too. Since the last article proved useful to at least a few of you, I went ahead and organized the suggestions from that thread for those that are operating-system agnostic, Mac specific, and Windows specific. I thought that post might get banned for self-promotion, but what followed instead was a flood of tool recommendations. ![]() With the intent of spreading that article as far and wide as I could, I posted it to r/learnprogramming thinking that some of the aspiring programmers there might find it helpful. The response from the community has been overwhelming, humbling, and inspiring. By Mario Hoyos Tools I wish I had known about when I started coding: Revisited Photo courtesy of Ī few days ago, I wrote this article for freeCodeCamp which has since gone on to be read more times than I could have ever imagined.
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