Web Developer Tools & Resources
Monsta FTP is a cloud-based FTP client written in PHP and Ajax. It’s open source, has a compact installation, and even includes on-screen file editing.
Promin is a simple jQuery plugin that lets you break your forms into smaller chunks so they consume less space. It’s also a unique way of presenting forms.
Daux.io is a simple to use documentation generator that uses Markdown files to create custom documentation in a developer-friendly way. It’s responsive, automatically creates a homepage/landing page, auto generates your navigation, and comes with 4 built-in themes.
Revel is a high-productivity web framework for the Go language that compiles your code and templates for you. It provides parameter parsing, validation, routing, templating, caching, and more.
Wish you had tools like Firebug or Web Inspector for iOS apps? Reveal gives you those tools, with advanced 2D and 3D visualizations, the ability to see changes live, and more.
Lita is a Ruby chat bot with consistent storage from Redis. It works with any chat service (as long as there’s an adapter available), and can be managed with regular RubyGems and Bundler.
Phalcon is implemented as a C extension, and offers high performance with low resource consumption. It includes a template engine, encryption, pagination, assets management, and much more.
Pickadate.js is a responsive, mobile-friendly jQuery date & time input picker. Just insert one line of code and get a date picker with a popup calendar.
Firechat is a real-time, open-source chat client built on Firebase. It includes full documentation and an annotated source code.
localtunnel is an easy way to share localhost web servers with the world. Just install the gem and share, and that’s it.
Twittstrap is a sleek, intuitive front-end framework to make web development faster and easier. It’s built with Twitter Bootstrap Version 2.3.2, and includes thorough documentation to get you started.
Proty lets you create quick, interactive wireframes that are fully customizable. It includes built-in responsive design (with small, medium, and large breakpoints), controls for showing or hiding elements or regions based on those breakpoints, a library of basic website components, and much more.
SkelJS is a framework for building responsive apps and sites. It includes four components: a CSS grid system, responsive handler, CSS shortcuts, and a plugin system, all in just a single 17kb file.
Aristochart is a sophisticated but simple library for flexible line charting with canvas. It takes care of managing the data, while you can focus on the aesthetics.
Chrome Logger, formerly known as ChromePHP, is a Chrome extension for debugging your server-side applications in the Chrome console. Setup is quick and easy, with language libraries for Python, PHP, Ruby, Node.js, .NET, and ColdFusion.
Cardinal is a mobile-first CSS framework that comes with some useful default styles, reusable modules, scalable typography, and a responsive grid system. It’s great for developers who want a simpler way to build responsive web apps.
Pop Easy is a lightweight jQuery plugin for creating modal windows quickly and easily. It’s only 2KB, can be used with videos or Iframes, and works with most modern browsers, all the way back to IE7.
Tracking.js lets you create interactions with your browser using your computer’s webcam. It’s fairly simple to use, considering the powerful uses that it makes possible.
Date for Humans lets your users input dates in a human-friendly format (ie, the way people actually think about dates and times), and converts them automatically to a computer-readable format, which can then be used to output them to a calendar, countdown, or whatever you need.
HTML5 Drag & Swap Zepto Plugin lets you sort lists, grids, and more, swapping one item for another. It’s built using the native HTML5 drag and drop API, can include CSS3 drop animations, and works in most modern browsers.
ALighter is a jQuery plugin for creating a CSS3 animated highlighter. You can customize the animation (speed and easing), the effect (color, opacity, circle size, and blur), and the timer (set a custom duration or disable it entirely).
jQuery TourBus is another tour/walkthrough jQuery plugin, written in CoffeeScript. It’s simpler than many other plugins that do the same kind of thing, and can be used with LESS or CSS.
YARD allows you to preview your code as you write your documentation for your Ruby app. It has easy-to-customize templates, supports your own DSL, and already has a number of great extensions, with more added each day.
ql.io is a declarative, data-retrieval and aggregation gateway for quickly consuming HTTP APIs. It’s fully documented, with tons of examples you can study or use to get up and running more quickly.
Ack 2.04 is a grep-like tool created for programmers who have to work with large heterogeneous trees of source code. Ack is written in Perl 5, and offers excellent code search capabilities, is highly portable, and is blazing fast.
Pinba is a MySQL plugin and storage engine that acts as a real-time monitoring and statistics server for PHP. Its main goal is to let developers monitor their PHP scripts, locate bottlenecks, and direct attention to the code that most needs it.
Chanko offers a simple framework for rapidly and safely prototyping features in a production Rails app. You can expose those changes and new features to specific segments of your user base, and if Chanko produces any errors, it’ll be automatically removed without impacting your site.
If you code HTML emails, then Premailer is a must-have tool. It will take care of things like appending query strings to links, removing classes and unused IDs, and more.
Cinderblock is a stripped down HTML and CSS boilerplate for starting any project. It includes CSS and JavaScript starting points, but is incredibly flexible so it will fit your needs.
Mason.js fixes a common problem with masonry-style layouts: gaps and ragged edges. It calculates where the holes in your layout will be and fills them in, creating a grid with no gaps.
Flippant.js is a mini JavaScript and CSS library that lets you flip things over. It has zero dependencies, is easily customized, and exports a single function: flip.