Awesome
Awesome Developer Tools
A curated list of in-browser bookmarklets, tools, and resources for modern full-stack software engineers.
Inspired by the awesome list thing.
Bookmarklets
- artoo.js - Client-side scraping utility for the currently loaded uri.
- DOM Monster - A cross-platform, cross-browser bookmarklet that will analyze the DOM & other features of the page you're on.
- Make Bookmarklets - Online tool to turn JavaScript into a bookmarklet.
- Rulers Guides - A JavaScript library which enables Photoshop-like rulers and guides interface on a web page.
- Viewport Resizer - A browser-based tool to test any website's responsiveness.
Web-based Tools
Debug JavaScript
- Babel Time Travel - Travel in time as babel transpiles.
- DebugJS - Debug your JavaScript in the browser (lol?)
- endpoints.dev - View realtime HTTP requests using a endpoints.dev generated URL.
- httpbin - HTTP Request & Response service.
- JavaScript Visualizer 9000 - Loupe-inspired JavaScript execution visualizer
- JSONBIN.io - Custom, mock JSON API
- Loupe - Similar in goal to SlowmoJS, a JavaScript call stack visualizer.
- SlowmoJS - Execute JavaScript in slow motion.
Postman Alternatives
- Hoppscotch - A lightweight, web-based API development suite.
- RecipeUI - Open source Postman alternative with type safety built in.
- Reqbin - REST & SOAP API Online Testing Tool
Diagramming & Scratch
- asciiflow - ASCIIFlow is a client-side only web based application for drawing ASCII diagrams.
- dbdiagram - Draw Entity-Relationship Diagrams, Painlessly.
- dot-to-ascii - Graphviz to ASCII converter using Graph::Easy.
- Excalidraw - Virtual whiteboard.
- JSON-to-Chart - Create beautiful charts from JSON data in your browser.
- JSONCrack - Visualize CSV/JSON/TOML/XML/YAML instantly into graphs.
- Knotend - A flowchart editor designed for speed through keyboard shortcuts and autolayout.
- Markmap - Visualize markdown as a feature-rich mindmaps.
- nomnoml - A tool for drawing UML diagrams based on a simple syntax.
- Sequence Diagram - An online tool / software for creating UML sequence diagrams.
Diffing
- Diff Text - Quickly highlight differences in plain text, code, or JSON files.
- JSONDiffPatch - Run a visual or non-visual diff on two JSON blobs.
Document & Editors
- README.so - A simple editor to quickly add and customize all the sections you need for your project's readme.
Generators
- JSONGenerator - Create random JSON data
- NGINXConfig - The easiest way to configure a performant, secure, and stable NGINX server.
- Readme - All in one tool to quickly generate a readme for your project or github profile.
- Mockium - Create test data
Image
- Clippy - CSS clip-path maker and editor.
- Favic-o-matic - Literally generates every favicon neccessary + markup.
- JPEG.rocks - Privacy-aware JPEG optimizer
- PicPerf - Boost web performance with image optimization. Analyze and improve
<img>
tags,<style>
tags, and inline CSS. - PNG-to-SVG - Free conversion from JPG or PNG images To vectorized SVG.
- Squoosh - Compress and optimize images in browser
- SVG-to-backgroundImage - Convert your SVG files into CSS url (data URIs) by encoding it.
- SVGOMG - Try SVGO (SVG Optimizer) in the browser!
Web-based Services
Copy/Paste Scripts & Styles
- crontab guru - The quick and simple editor for cron schedule expressions by Cronitor
- CSS Scan - Box Shadows - CSS, Ready to use, click to copy
- CSS Scan - Buttons - CSS, Ready to use, click to copy
- CSS Scan - Checkboxes - CSS, Ready to use, click to copy
- CSS Scan - Shapes - CSS, Ready to use, click to copy
- Devtools Tips - Copy-and-paste'able collection of useful cross-browser DevTools snippets.
- transition.css - Drop-in CSS transitions
File Sharing
- file.io - Ephemeral file sharing. Convenient, anonymous and secure.
- instant.io - Instant file transfer/sharing over WebTorrent
- pairdrop - Instant file transfer over your local network (P2P)
Performance
- Perflink - JS benchmarks
Playgrounds
- codepen - 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.
- CodeSandbox - Online code editor and sandbox
- Ellie - The Elm Live Editor
- ES.nextBin - Like RequireBin but ES2015
- ESM - A fast, smart, & global CDN for modern(es2015+) web development.
- JSBin - JS/Coffee/Babel/Babel/Live/JSX/HTML/Markdown/Pug/CSS/Stylus/LESS/Sass
- JSFiddle - JS/ES3/Coffee/HTML/CSS/Sass
- playcode.io - JS/Typescript/Coffee/LiveScript/Babel/CSS/Sass/LESS/Stylus/HTML/Pug
Regex
- Debuggex - PCRE/Python/JavaScript regex matching.
- ExtendsClass - PHP/Python/Ruby/JavaScript regex matching.
- RegExplained - JavaScript regex matching.
- Regexr - JavaScript regex matching.
- Regulex - JavaScript Regular Expression Visualizer.
Transformation
- AST Explorer - Parse JS to an explorable AST tree via acorn, babel, babylon, espree, esprima, recast, shift, and typescript.
- Babel REPL - The compiler for next generation JavaScript
- Compiler Explorer - Run compilers interactively from your web browser and interact with the assembly
- fixmyjs - Automatically fix your JS, driven by JSHint.
- JavaScript Deobfuscator - A simple but powerful deobfuscator to remove common JavaScript obfuscation techniques.
- JSNice - Statistical renaming, type inference and deobfuscation.
- JSON ABC - Sorts JSON alphabetically
- Markdown to HTML - Paste or type your markdown and see it rendered as HTML. Download or copy the resulting HTML.
- Markdown Tools - Tools to convert Markdown to/from a number of formats. E.g. Html to Markdown, or a CSV to a Markdown table.
- Sucrase - Super-fast Babel alternative
- SWC - compile JS/TS files using modern JS features and outputs valid code that is supported by all major browsers.
- Terser - JavaScript parser, mangler and compressor toolkit for ES6+
- Web2Img - A tool to bundle your web files into a single image, and extract them via Service Worker at runtime.
- WebAssembly Explorer - translate C/C++ to WebAssembly, and then see the machine code generated by the browser.
Presentation
- Ray.so - Create beautiful images of code snippets.
- snapify - Snappify enables you to create stunning presentations, with first-class support for code snippets.
Resources
APIs
- FillText - Generate JSON datasets for testing or demonstration purposes
- JSONPlaceholder - Free fake API for testing and prototyping.
- Zippopotamus - Zipcode to Geo
Browser Information
CDN
- JSDelivr - A free CDN for open source projects.
- Skypack - Load optimized npm packages with no install and no build tools.
- unpkg - Fast, global content delivery network for everything on npm.
Cheat Sheets
- OWASP Cheat Sheet Series - A concise collection of high value information on specific application security topics.
CSS Inliners
Documentation
- DevDocs - Basically Dash but a web application and FREE.
- ECMAScript Proposal Stages
- ExplainShell - A better way to read MAN pages.
Easings & Animations
Glyphs & Icons
- Copy/Paste Character - Copy & Paste emojis and unicode symbols
- CSS Icons - Copy & Paste icons in CSS + transition animations!
- Entity Lookup - Enter any character(s) and find its corresponding HTML entity code.
- heroicons - Beautiful hand-crafted SVG icons, by the makers of Tailwind CSS.
- Icon Finder - Millions of graphics for your design projects. Created by independent designers.
- Icon Monstr - Discover 4000+ free icons in 300+ collections.
- Icônes - Over 150,000 open source vector icons.
- Tabler Icons - 4000+ Open source free SVG icons. Highly customizable. No attribution required. For commercial use.
Proxy as a Service
- CORS Anywhere - Proxies any HTTP request through a CORS enabled environment.
Responsiveness
Validation & Parsers
- numverify - Validate phone numbers from over 200 countries.
- CSP Evaluator - Evaluate CSP rules
- Ada URL Parser - WHATWG-compliant and fast URL parser written in modern C++, online.
- Pythonium - Validate Python code.
Security
SSL
- Self-Signed Certificate Generator - A self-signed certificate generator.
- Mozilla SSL Configuration Generator - SSL configuration generator for various server software and platforms.
Test
- HSTS Preload - Check HSTS preload status and elibility.
- Mozilla Observatory - A set of tools to analyze your website and inform you if you are utilizing the many available methods to secure it.
- Security Headers by Probely - An easy to use tool designed to help you better deploy and understand modern security features that are available for your website.
- Web Check - All-in-one OSINT tool for analysing any website.
Notable Mentions
- ASCII Silhouettify - Convert images into ANSI-escaped color ASCII art.
- Octopus - Lightning-fast visual sitemap builder & website planner.
- Type Fluidity - Fluid typography
clamp
value generator - TypeScriptToLua - TypeScript to Lua