Every web developers need to be aware of a set of tools that help and assists in building better and more complex websites. Today, wide range of Web development tools available, we present a set of tools that are a must for any Web development toolkit
This article present ten open source web development tools that every Web developer should be aware of
Node.JS:
Node is an open source, cross-platform, event- driven server side javascript runtime built around a chrome V8 engine for developing a variety of web application. Node.js was initially written by Ryan dhal in 2009
Website: https://nodejs.org/en/
Version: 7.3.0
GitHub repository: https://github.com/nodejs/node
Bootstrap:
Bootstrap is a most popular front-end framework for developing and designing websites and web applications. Bootstrap makes front end web development faster and easier. Bootstrap was first developed by Mark Otto and Jacob Thornton in 2011
Website: http://getbootstrap.com/
Version: 3.3.7
GitHub repository: https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap
Angular JS:
Angular JS is an open source javascript framework for designing the dynamic web application, single page application (SPA) projects. Angular is designed to work well with data-driven applications for which you need to keep updating your site. AngularJS was originally designed by Misko Hevery in 2009
Website: https://angularjs.org/
Version: 1.6.1
GitHub repository: https://github.com/angular/angular.js
Brackets:
Brackets is an open source text editor for HTML, CSS, and javascript that’s built in HTML, CSS and JavaScript. It was designed by Adobe system
Website: http://brackets.io/
Version: 1.8
GitHub repository: https://github.com/adobe/brackets
Bower:
Bower is an open source front end package for web applications. We need lots of things while building a website. Bower manage all thing automatically fetching and installing packages from all over
Website: https://bower.io/
Version: 1.8.0
GitHub repository: https://github.com/bower/bower
Gulp.JS
Gulp.Js is an open source powerful and extensible JavaScript toolkit. It is a streaming build tool built on node.js. gulp.js is used as the streaming build system in front-end web development.
Website: http://gulpjs.com/
Version: 4.0.0
GitHub repository: https://github.com/gulpjs/gulp
Mongo DB
MongoDB is a free open source document based database, cross-platform. It is one of the leading NO SQL databases and uses JSON-like documents with schemas. MongoDB was designed by 10gen in 2007
Website: https://www.mongodb.com/
Version: 3.4.1
GitHub repository: https://github.com/mongodb/mongo
Syntactically Awesome Style Sheets (Sass):
Saas is a scripting ( style sheet) language, Saas is an extension of CSS that helps in writing reusable, extensible and maintainable code. Saas script providing nested rules, variable, mixin selector inheritance and more. It is an open source style sheet language initially designed by Hampton Catlin
Website: http://sass-lang.com/
Version: 3.4.22
GitHub repository: https://github.com/sass/sass
Git Lab:
Git lab is an open source web-based git repository manager. It provides a feature like code reviews, issue tracking, access controls, activity feeds and wiki. Gitlab was originally developed by get lab inc. the software was written by Dmitry Zaporozhets and Valery Sizov
Website: https://about.gitlab.com/
Version: 8.15.2
React.JS
React.js is an open source front end javaScript library for designing user interfaces developed by facebook. React js has a data binding feature that makes it the most popular written by Jordan Walke
Website: https://facebook.github.io/react/
Version: 15.4.0
GitHub repository: https://github.com/facebook/react