30 tools every web developer must have

Must have tools for developers

At a networking event a few months ago, a web developer was bragging about his prowess, and to bow down to his intelligence, I asked what language he used, and he said, “what do you mean?” And I asked if he was more into PHP or Rails, and he said, “I develop WordPress sites.” Okay. It highlighted the fact that not all web developers are as advanced as we tend to assume they are, so in that spirit, we are featuring Placester.com’s top 30 favorite tools for web developing.

The tools range from hosting solutions to productivity tools, and all stand to improve any web developer’s toolbox, be they veterans or budding talents.

30 must have web developer tools

Links to each tool mentioned are below the graphic.

1. Evernote
2. Dropbox
3. Google Drive
4. Basecamp
5. Trello
6. Asana
7. Textmate
8. Sublime Text 2
9. Notepad++
10. MAMP Pro
11. VMware Fusion
12. Parallels
13. ITerm2
14. Git
15. Mercurial
16. Subversion
17. CyberDuck
18. Filezilla
19. ForkLift
20. Eclipse
21. Netbeans
22. Cloud 9
23. Bootstrap
24. Foundation 5
25. Skeleton
26. Initializr
27. Amazon Web Services
28. DreamHost
29. Rackspace
30. Media Temple