Latest Open Source Tools for Web Developers

Latest Open Source Tools for Web Developers

Angular/Angular JS:

Current Version:  Angular 2

JavaScript-based open Source Web Application framework for dynamic mobile and desktop Web app development. It is mainly developed to address challenges encountered in single page web applications.

Key features: Data-Binding, extensible HTML, speed, mobile oriented, supports server side pre rendering, animation

Node.js:

It’s an open source, cross-platform JavaScript runtime environment for developing a diverse variety of tools and applications. Node.js uses an event-driven, non-blocking I/0 model.

SASS - Syntactically awesome style sheets

Helps to reduce repetitive work and maintainability challenges of traditional CSS.  It’s the most powerful CSS extension in the world.

Bootstrap:

Fast development of responsive design. It has a set of its own classes and grids, button, forms, navigation, containers, media queries and JavaScript extensions.

GitLab:

Its used by developers to create and manage code bases collaboratively.

Ex: Code review t issue tracking.

Elasticsearch:

It’s based on Lucene. It provides a distributed, multi-tenant-capable full-text search engine with an HTTP Web Interface and schema –free JSON documents.  Zit used RESTful APIs and JSON.

XAMPP

X-cross platform, Apache, MariaDB, PHP and PERL.  It’s the simplest way to set up a local Web Server.

Notepad++”

Provides tabbed editin,syntax highlighting and code folding for more than 50 programming , scripting and markup languages.

Grunt :

Grunt is a JavaScript task runner built on Node.js. When we are working on a JavaScript project, there are some task that you will do regularly, like minifying your scripts compilation, unit testing, running JSHint on your code. You can define this set of tasks in Grunt file and run a single command from a command line interface to do these tasks.

ReactJS:

JS library for building user interfaces. It allows us to create reusable UI components.