What is the best, time-saving developer tool you use today?

Bonus points for including what slows you down during work and you wish you could speed up.
Drew ReynoldsSoftware Developer at Gramercy Tech · Asked

6 recommended

6
Dash

Instant offline access to 130+ API documentation sets.

Jens AlfkeMobile Architect, Couchbase · Written
Quick searchable access to documentation of every language/API I use.
CommentsTweet
2
Forest

Universal admin interface

Sandro MundaFounder at Forest · Written
Sandro Munda made this product
DISCLAIMER: I'm the founder of Forest As a developer, you have to build your product and the admin interface. You have to reinvent the wheel again and again: CRUD, search, filters, charts, actions, etc. Forest generates instantly a fully customizable admin interface of any web applications. The developers can focus on the product instead of wasting time of an unloved admin (and business teams are happy to be autonomous on a beautiful admin :D). Of course, we use Forest at Forest 😎
CommentsTweet
2
GitHub Desktop

Jevin SewRails / iOS developer · Written
I'm a command line guy, but the visual diff on GitHub Desktop is just super useful. Reminds me of Visual SVN's diff.
CommentsTweet
Nurkan Kırkanuser acquisition | digital marketing · Written
Good question indeed especially if we can consider “timing” issue for start-ups / smb's / enterprises etc. Essentially develop a analytics tool (backend - front end) though, i guess all of us agree on this matter. That’s why we have been working on an on-premise analytics platform rakam. It’s real-time and it can handle large volumes of data. You can install rakam on your servers, Heroku or AWS (or even your local environment) and send events directly to your servers. rakam supports funnel analysis, segmentation, retention analytics, user tracking (properties) similar to Mixpanel and you also have the ability to exec… See more
CommentsTweet
1
Cloud9

Your development environment, in the cloud

Justin MitchellDesigning Products at Sofriendly.com · Written
I don't know what I'd do without this tool. It's so simple to get a new project up and running or test out a framework on GitHub
CommentsTweet
1
Freeter 1.0

Switch between tasks and projects like a superhero

Alex KaulFreeter.io maker · Written
Alex Kaul made this product
I made Freeter to save time as a developer and maker. Here is a quick article on "how I hacked my workflow": https://medium.com/@alex_kaul/ho...
CommentsTweet