Can't be stressed enough, time spent invested into improving their environment. Helps developers build applications/websites faster and automate tedious processes. Just makes life a bit easier.
Atom - modern hackable text editor
- 10 essential Atom add ons
- 12 Favorite Atom Tips and Shortcuts to Improve Your Workflow
- Handy Atom Shortcuts
- Atom Snippets
Useful if you want something quick and easy to get off the ground.
Express Authentication Starter
What if every everyone released the new version of their modules at the same time, and everyone updated the moment after. Simply put it, never gonna happen.
Node Version Manager (NVM) [Mac OSX and Linux] Seemlessly manage the version of node, npm, npx.
# install homebrew
$ brew install nvm
# set where to install
$ mkdir ~/.nvm
# go to your root directory
$ cd ~/
# create bash profile
$ touch .bash_profile
# open in your editor
$ code .
# paste this into the .bash_profile file and save
export NVM_DIR="$HOME/.nvm"
. "$(brew --prefix nvm)/nvm.sh"# installs the latest version of node
$ nvm install node
# sets default node version for any new shell
$ nvm alias default nodeNode Package Manager (NPM) - Every other languages are jealous cause of this elegant dependency management help. Keeps tracks of all the modules/packages you download
Github Desktop - The official UI from Github, built with Electron
Gitkraken - UI friendly git for Git novices and professionals alike. Git is a software industry standard, so it's a must!
When you have merged and deleted a branch on github this command will delete the local branches that dont exist remotely.
$ git branch -vv | grep 'origin/.*: gone]' | awk '{print $1}' | xargs git branch -dRefreshes the tracking of your files. Super useful for adding new things to your .gitignore file.
$ git rm -r --cached .- Task Runners - used to automate, enable faster and efficient builds; enhances developer workflow, with plugins.
- Bundlers - are task runners, and with asset loading optimisation.
Gulp - simple, easy to learn task runner, producing efficient builds, automate task
- Gulp Basics with LevelUpTuts
- Express, Browsersync, Nodemon and Sass config - Full-Stack config starter back for gulp users
Webpack - Builds a graph of dependencies makes loading dependencies faster and enables more modular code
Parceljs - Blazing fast, zero configuration web application bundler