What tools help you be productive as a software developer?

Published Jul 26, 2017Last updated Jan 21, 2018

Recently, our team had a good discussion about developer tools. Here are a few tools that help us be more productive:

Dash for its instant offline access to 150+ API documentation sets and snippet management
Paw “for its full-featured HTTP client that lets you test and describe the APIs you built or consumed”
Alfred for its ability to save countless hours and boost productivity by having hotkeys to anywhere
BetterTouchTool for its versatility and configurations of many different gestures/controls
Sublime and Vim tied in first place as their go-to text editor for coding

Are any of your favourite tools on the list? Which tools help you be a more productive developer?

Let us know in the comments below 👇 or in your own post.

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Anton Kulikalov

5 years ago

Everything is about focus and concentration. The fewer tools you have - the better.

Top Macbook Pro model with as few customizations as possible
minimal zsh setup for terminal
sublime text, because all those IDEs are not anywhere close in terms of performance
sublime merge, because it’s all you need to manage git
todo list in sublime text
google calendar, if you can’t afford to ignore the whole world while you code

Rajjeet Phull

5 years ago

iTerm2 is amazing terminal for macOS.

Ashok Mandal

5 years ago

I think you forgot one tool : VSCode

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