Every Web developer
needs to be armed with a set of tools that support and assist in building
better and more complex websites. From the wide range of Web development tools
available, we present a set of 10 that in the author’s opinion are a must for
any Web development tool kit.
This article lists
10 open source Web development tools that I feel every Web developer should be
aware of.
Node.js
Node.js is a server-side platform built on Google Chrome's JavaScript Engine (V8 Engine). Node.js was developed by Ryan Dahl in 2009 and its latest version is v0.10.36.
- Node.js is an open source server framework
- Node.js is free
- Node.js runs on various platforms (Windows, Linux, Unix, Mac OS X, etc.)
- Node.js uses JavaScript on the server
Bootstrap
Bootstrap is the most popular front end framework in the recent
time. It is sleek, intuitive, and powerful mobile first front-end framework for
faster and easier web development. It uses HTML, CSS and Java script. This
tutorial will teach you the basics of Bootstrap Framework using which you can
create web projects with ease. The tutorial is divided into sections such as
Bootstrap Basic Structure, Bootstrap CSS, Bootstrap Layout Components and
Bootstrap Plugins.
Angular.JS
Angular JS is a very powerful JavaScript Framework. It is used in Single Page Application (SPA) projects. It extends HTML DOM with additional attributes and makes it more responsive to user actions. Angular.JS is open source, completely free, and used by thousands of developers around the world. It is licensed under the Apache license version 2.0
- This tutorial is specially designed to help you learn Angular.JS as quickly and efficiently as possible.
- First, you will learn the basics of Angular.JS: directives, expressions, filters, modules, and controllers.
- Then you will learn everything else you need to know about AngularJS:
- Events, DOM, Forms, Input, Validation, Http.
Brackets
Brackets is an open source, lightweight and modern text
editor. It is a platform-independent editor with a focus on Web development. It
was designed by Adobe Systems, and is licensed under the MIT licence. It is
written in HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
Bower
Bower is an open source package manager for Web
applications. We need to install a lot of packages while building a website,
which Bower helps in automatically fetching and installing. The main objective
of Bower is not to minimise code, but to install the right version of the
packages and their dependencies required for a project.
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Gulp.js
Gulp is an open source, powerful and extensible JavaScript
automation library, which prefers code over configuration. It is a streaming
build tool built on Node.js. Gulp.js is used to automate Web development
workflows like bundling, CSS pre-processors, compilation, testing,
optimisation, etc.
MongoDB
MongoDB is an open-source document database and leading
NoSQL database. MongoDB is written in C++. This tutorial will give you great
understanding on MongoDB concepts needed to create and deploy a highly scalable
and performance-oriented database.
Syntactically Awesome Style Sheets (Sass)
Stands for "Syntactically Awesome Style Sheets." Sass is an extension of cascading style
sheets (CSS), the language used to define the layout and formatting
of HTML documents. It uses fully-compatible CSS syntax, but provides
additional features like CSS variables and nested rules that make CSS more
efficient and easier to edit.
GitLab
GitLab is an open source, Web based Git repository manager.
It provides features like code reviews, access controls, issue tracking,
activity feeds and wikis. GitLab has continuous integration and deployment
built in, to help you test, build and deploy code. GitLab was originally developed
by GitLab Inc. It was written by Dmitry Zaporozhets and Valery Sizov.
ReactJS
ReactJS is an open source, declarative and efficient
JavaScript library for designing user interfaces. React has a data binding
feature that makes it one of the most popular JavaScript libraries. ReactJS was
developed by Facebook and written by software engineer, Jordan Walke. It is
maintained by Facebook’s product infrastructure and Instagram’s user interface
teams.
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