Free developer tools
A big, curated directory of tools that cost nothing to use, open-source software, no-account web tools, and the genuinely-free tiers of great products. Curated by the Devpuff team.
Documentation & References
14 picks
The definitive reference for HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Bookmark it — you'll live here.
Fast, offline-friendly API documentation for dozens of languages in one place.
A thorough, beginner-friendly deep dive into JavaScript from the basics up.
The official Python language and standard-library reference.
Quick, example-first references and try-it editors for the whole web stack.
Check browser support for any HTML, CSS, or JS feature before you ship it.
Rico's terse cheat sheets for hundreds of tools, languages, and CLIs.
One page linking out to cheat sheets for every language and framework.
The official, free, and genuinely excellent guide to learning Rust.
Learn Go through annotated, runnable example programs.
The community reference for the C and C++ standard libraries.
The official PHP reference, famous for its user-contributed notes.
Google's guidance on building fast, modern, accessible websites.
Community skill-tree roadmaps for frontend, backend, DevOps, and more.
Learn to Code
16 picks
Thousands of hours of free, certification-track coding curriculum.
A complete, free full-stack curriculum built on real projects.
Harvard's legendary intro to computer science, free on the web.
University of Helsinki's deep, free modern React and Node course.
MIT's crash course in the dev tools every course assumes you know.
Practice 70+ languages with free exercises and human mentoring.
Free, approachable lessons in programming and computer science.
A structured, free path through the fundamentals of the web.
Wes Bos's 30 free builds in plain JavaScript — no frameworks.
Learn SQL through quick, interactive in-browser lessons.
A whirlwind tour of a language, entirely in annotated code.
Free, hands-on micro-courses in Python, ML, and data science.
Free learning paths for .NET, Azure, Python, and more.
Daniel Shiffman's joyful, free creative-coding video tutorials.
Interactive lessons across many languages, with a solid free tier.
Interactive screencasts you can pause and edit; generous free track.
Practice & Challenges
12 picks
The go-to bank of interview-style algorithm problems; big free tier.
Level up by solving community kata and comparing your solutions.
Practice problems and skill certifications across many domains.
Math-flavored programming challenges that reward clever thinking.
A beloved yearly December puzzle calendar for programmers.
Sharpen your skills by writing code to win games.
Bite-sized challenges that build momentum for beginners.
The heart of competitive programming, with frequent contests.
A curated, high-quality problem set for learning algorithms.
Real-world HTML/CSS/JS challenges from professional designs.
Practice building UIs from free Figma design files.
Learn regular expressions by solving crossword puzzles.
Code Editors & IDEs
12 picks
The free, extensible editor most of the industry now runs on.
Community VS Code builds with none of Microsoft's telemetry.
The hyper-extensible, keyboard-driven refork of Vim.
The ubiquitous modal editor that's on nearly every server.
The extensible, self-documenting editor that's also half an OS.
A blazing-fast, collaborative editor written in Rust; free and open.
Microsoft's full IDE, free for individuals and small teams.
JetBrains' powerful Java IDE, free in its Community edition.
A first-class Python IDE, free in its Community edition.
The long-standing open-source IDE for Java and much more.
The fast, lightweight Windows text and code editor.
Google's official, free IDE for building Android apps.
Playgrounds & Sandboxes
12 picks
The social front-end playground for HTML, CSS, and JS.
Spin up full web-app environments instantly in the browser.
Run Node and front-end projects in-browser with WebContainers.
The original quick-and-dirty web snippet playground.
Code in 50+ languages from the browser; generous free tier.
A fast JS and TypeScript playground with instant live preview.
Experiment with TypeScript and see the compiled JS instantly.
See exactly what assembly your C, C++, or Rust compiles to.
Test SQL against Postgres, MySQL, and SQLite in the browser.
Build, test, and learn regular expressions interactively.
An online compiler supporting many languages and versions.
Write and run small serverless functions from the browser; free tier.
Version Control & Git
12 picks
The distributed version control system underneath everything.
Host repos and collaborate; free for public and private repos.
Git hosting with a full built-in CI/CD platform; free tier.
Community-run, nonprofit Git hosting powered by Forgejo.
Atlassian's Git hosting, free for small teams.
A friendly, free GUI for everyday Git workflows.
A free, polished Git desktop client for Mac and Windows.
A fast terminal UI for Git that makes staging a joy.
Master Git branching through a visual, interactive game.
Plain-English recipes for undoing common Git mistakes.
A lightweight, self-hostable Git service you fully own.
A simple spec for writing consistent, readable commit history.
Terminal & Command Line
16 picks
Microsoft's modern, tabbed, GPU-accelerated terminal.
The powerful terminal replacement for macOS.
A delightful framework for managing your Zsh configuration.
A fast, minimal, endlessly customizable cross-shell prompt.
Split, detach, and persist terminal sessions like a pro.
A blazing-fast general-purpose command-line fuzzy finder.
Search code recursively at ludicrous speed. Retires grep.
A cat clone with syntax highlighting and Git integration.
A modern, colorful, Git-aware replacement for ls.
A simple, fast, and friendly alternative to find.
A smarter cd that learns your most-used directories.
An interactive, colorful process viewer for the terminal.
Community cheat sheets with practical examples for CLI commands.
The command-line JSON processor you'll reach for constantly.
The universal command-line tool for transferring data with URLs.
A modern terminal with blocks and built-in AI; free tier.
API Development & Testing
12 picks
A fast, open-source, in-browser API client. Nothing to install.
The industry-standard API client, with a capable free tier.
A clean open-source REST, GraphQL, and gRPC client.
An offline-first, Git-friendly API client; fully open source.
Design and document OpenAPI specs right in the browser.
Instantly inspect and debug incoming webhooks and requests.
Mock REST APIs and inspect requests in seconds; free tier.
Design and run mock APIs locally in one open-source app.
A free fake REST API for prototyping and tutorials.
A hosted REST API returning real responses for your tests.
A simple HTTP request-and-response service for testing clients.
Like curl, but for gRPC — call and explore services from the shell.
Databases & Backend
16 picks
Open-source Firebase alternative: Postgres, auth, storage; free tier.
Serverless Postgres with branching and scale-to-zero; free tier.
One Go binary: database, auth, and realtime. Free and open source.
An open-source backend platform with a generous free tier.
Google's app backend with a free Spark plan to start.
Edge-hosted SQLite (libSQL) with a generous free tier.
Managed MongoDB with a free 512 MB shared cluster.
Serverless Redis and Kafka billed per request; free tier.
The world's most advanced open-source relational database.
The zero-config, embedded database that's quietly everywhere.
The open-source in-memory data store for caches and queues.
A community-developed, open-source fork of MySQL.
A type-safe, open-source ORM for Node and TypeScript.
A free, universal desktop client for virtually any database.
A modern, open-source SQL editor and database manager.
The full-featured open-source admin tool for PostgreSQL.
Free Hosting & Deployment
16 picks
Frontend cloud with instant deploys and previews; strong free tier.
Deploy static sites and functions from Git; generous free tier.
Static and full-stack hosting with unlimited free bandwidth.
Serverless functions at the edge; 100k requests a day free.
Host static sites straight from a GitHub repository, free.
Serve static sites from any GitLab repository, free.
Deploy web apps, static sites, and services; free tier.
Deploy JavaScript and TypeScript to the edge; free tier.
A serverless platform to deploy apps globally; free tier.
Publish static sites from the command line in seconds, free.
Fast, secure static hosting on the free Spark plan.
Always-Free Arm VMs and databases — surprisingly generous.
Deploy Python data apps straight from GitHub, free.
Host ML demos free with Gradio, Streamlit, or Docker.
Free static web hosting with a friendly, retro-web community.
Truly free PHP and MySQL web hosting with no forced ads.
DevOps & Containers
16 picks
Package and run apps in containers; free Desktop for personal use.
A daemonless, open-source container engine and Docker alternative.
Automate builds, tests, and deploys with generous free minutes.
The open-source system for orchestrating containers at scale.
Define and provision infrastructure as code, open source.
Automate configuration and deployment with simple YAML.
A friendly web UI for Docker and Kubernetes; free Community edition.
A lightweight, certified Kubernetes for edge and local dev.
Run a local single-node Kubernetes cluster for learning.
Beautiful open-source dashboards for metrics and logs.
The open-source standard for metrics and alerting.
The high-performance open-source web server and reverse proxy.
A web server with automatic HTTPS out of the box.
Run your GitHub Actions locally before you push.
A self-hosted, open-source uptime monitor with a slick UI.
Automated dependency updates, free and built into GitHub.
AI Coding Assistants
12 picks
AI completions and chat in your editor, with a free monthly tier.
Free, unlimited AI autocomplete and chat for every major IDE.
An open-source AI assistant you can point at any model.
An AI-first editor built on VS Code, with a usable hobby tier.
AWS's AI coding companion, free for individual use.
Codebase-aware AI chat and autocomplete; free tier.
Google's AI coding assistant with a free individual tier.
Run open LLMs like Llama and Qwen locally — free and offline.
Discover, download, and run local LLMs with a friendly GUI.
Pair-program with an LLM directly in your terminal; open source.
An open-source autonomous coding agent for VS Code.
A self-hosted, open-source AI coding assistant you control.
Design & Prototyping
14 picks
The collaborative interface design tool; a strong free tier.
The open-source design and prototyping tool for teams.
Sketch clean, hand-drawn-style diagrams and wireframes, free.
A tiny, delightful, open-source infinite whiteboard.
Free, no-limits diagramming that saves wherever you like.
Drag-and-drop graphics for social, slides, and more; free tier.
A free, full-featured design app with built-in assets.
A free, browser-based Photoshop clone that opens PSD files.
The venerable open-source image editor for photo work.
A powerful open-source vector graphics editor.
A pro-grade open-source painting and illustration studio.
Generate and explore color palettes in seconds.
Preview a full palette live on a real UI before you commit.
Flowcharts, wireframes, and mind maps; free tier.
Icons, Fonts & Illustrations
16 picks
Hundreds of open-source font families, free for anything.
The web's most popular icon set, with a big free library.
A clean, consistent, open-source icon set (a Feather fork).
Crisp, MIT-licensed SVG icons from the Tailwind team.
Over 5,000 free, open-source SVG icons.
A flexible icon family with multiple weights, free to use.
One framework to use 200,000+ icons from every popular set.
Free SVG brand and logo icons for popular companies.
Search 500,000+ free, optimizable vector icons.
Open-source illustrations you can recolor to your brand.
Free, customizable, animatable illustrations by Freepik.
Hand-picked fonts that are truly free for commercial use.
Self-host open-source fonts via npm, with no external requests.
A huge archive of free display and novelty fonts.
Simple, free icons in one clean, consistent style.
A vast icon library, free to use with attribution.
Stock Media & Image Tools
13 picks
Beautiful, high-resolution photos, free with no attribution.
Free stock photos and videos under a permissive license.
Free photos, vectors, illustrations, and music.
Free stock video footage for your sites and projects.
Free video clips, music tracks, and sound effects.
A giant collaborative library of Creative Commons audio.
Easy placeholder images by URL for mockups.
Generate fun, free avatar images from any seed string.
Compress and convert images in the browser, by Google.
Shrink PNG and JPEG files with smart lossy compression.
Optimize and clean up SVG files with a live preview.
Erase image backgrounds automatically; free with limits.
Generate free SVG blobs, waves, and gradient backgrounds.
CSS & Frontend Utilities
15 picks
The utility-first CSS framework, open source and everywhere.
Deep articles and the famous Complete Guide to Flexbox.
Learn CSS Flexbox by helping frogs to their lily pads.
Learn CSS Grid by growing a little carrot garden.
Craft and preview CSS easing curves visually.
Browse and generate ready-to-use CSS animations.
Design CSS gradients with a live, copyable preview.
Generate SVG wave shapes for section dividers.
Build smooth, layered CSS box-shadows visually.
Play with organic blob shapes via border-radius.
Generate CSS clip-path shapes visually.
Preview and export a harmonious modular type scale.
System-font stacks that load instantly with no downloads.
A set of drop-in CSS custom properties (design tokens).
Paste CSS and get the right vendor prefixes added for you.
Testing, Performance & A11y
14 picks
Reliable end-to-end browser testing from Microsoft; open source.
Developer-friendly end-to-end testing; open-source core.
A blazing-fast unit-test runner for Vite projects.
The batteries-included JavaScript testing framework.
Test UIs the way your users actually use them.
The long-standing standard for browser automation.
Build, document, and test UI components in isolation.
Audit performance, accessibility, and SEO inside Chrome.
Google's free real-world and lab web-performance report.
Deep, waterfall-level web performance testing, free.
Visual accessibility evaluation for any web page.
Catch accessibility issues right in your browser.
Developer-centric load testing written as code; open source.
Preview your site on many device sizes at once; open source.
Security & Privacy
13 picks
The world's most popular free web-app security scanner.
Check whether your accounts appear in known data breaches.
The de facto standard network protocol analyzer.
The classic open-source network and port scanner.
The go-to web security testing proxy; free Community edition.
Open-source password manager with a genuinely free tier.
A fully offline, open-source password vault you own.
Scan your site's security headers and get fixes.
Grade any site's TLS/SSL configuration in depth.
A quick grade of your HTTP response security headers.
Scan repositories for hard-coded secrets and API keys.
Scan files and URLs against dozens of engines, free.
Scan containers and code for vulnerabilities; open source.
Developer Utilities
16 picks
Build and debug regular expressions with live explanations. Indispensable.
A Swiss-army knife of offline dev utilities for your desktop.
100+ handy, ad-free online tools in one open-source site.
Turn any JSON into an explorable node graph.
Write and understand cron schedules in plain English.
Decode, verify, and inspect JSON Web Tokens.
Convert between JSON, TS, YAML, GraphQL, and dozens more.
The cyber Swiss-army knife for encoding and data operations.
Create beautiful images of your source code to share.
Generate elegant code screenshots in seconds.
Spot the differences between two texts or files.
Generate realistic fake test data in many formats.
See the real cost of adding any npm package.
Convert Unix timestamps to and from human dates.
Generate the crisp status badges you see on every README.
Build a polished project README with a visual editor.
Free APIs & Data
12 picks
A massive, categorized directory of free APIs for any project.
The definitive list of free tiers across developer services.
The index of curated awesome lists on nearly every topic.
Free data about every country: flags, currencies, borders.
A free, no-key weather API for hobby projects.
All the Pokemon data you could want, free and keyless.
A free API of trivia questions for building quiz apps.
Free access to NASA imagery and space data.
A free, no-key currency exchange-rate API.
Free geocoding powered by OpenStreetMap.
Hundreds of thousands of free U.S. government datasets.
A huge community trove of free datasets to build on.
Frameworks & Libraries
23 picks
The library for building user interfaces, component by component.
An approachable, performant framework for building web UIs.
Google's full-featured TypeScript framework for large web apps.
A compiler-first framework that ships little to no runtime.
Fine-grained reactive UI with a familiar, React-like API.
A tiny 3kB alternative to React with the same modern API.
Sprinkle interactivity into your HTML with a tiny framework.
Access AJAX and WebSockets straight from HTML attributes.
A simple library for building fast, lightweight web components.
A resumable framework built for instant-loading web apps.
The React framework for production, from Vercel; open source.
The intuitive Vue framework for full-stack web apps.
Build fast, content-focused sites that ship zero JS by default.
A full-stack React framework focused on web standards.
The official application framework for building with Svelte.
The Python web framework for perfectionists with deadlines.
The batteries-included framework that made web dev productive.
The PHP framework for web artisans, with a huge ecosystem.
The minimal, unopinionated web framework for Node.js.
A modern, fast Python framework for building APIs.
A progressive Node.js framework for scalable server apps.
A lightweight Python micro-framework for the web.
The most widely used framework for building Java applications.
Static Sites & CMS
16 picks
The world's fastest static site generator, written in Go.
The blog-aware static site generator behind GitHub Pages.
A simpler, zero-config static site generator for any template.
Build documentation sites fast, powered by React and Markdown.
A React-based framework for fast, data-driven static sites.
A fast static site generator in a single Rust binary.
A fast, simple blog framework powered by Node.js.
Build docs and blogs with Next.js and Markdown.
The open-source CMS that powers a huge share of the web.
An open-source platform for publishing and newsletters.
The leading open-source headless CMS for any frontend.
An open-source headless CMS that wraps any SQL database.
A Git-based, open-source CMS for static sites.
A code-first, open-source headless CMS and app framework.
A flexible headless CMS with a generous free tier.
An API-first headless CMS with a free community tier.
Mobile & Cross-Platform
14 picks
Google's toolkit for building apps for mobile, web, and desktop.
Build native mobile apps using React and JavaScript.
A framework that makes React Native painless; free tier.
Build cross-platform apps with web tech and one codebase.
Wrap any web app into a native iOS, Android, or desktop app.
Build truly native apps with JavaScript, Angular, or Vue.
Build tiny, fast desktop and mobile apps with a web frontend.
Build cross-platform desktop apps with JavaScript and HTML.
Microsoft's framework for cross-platform native apps in C#.
Share code across Android, iOS, and more with Kotlin.
An open-source Python framework for cross-platform apps.
Build iOS and Android apps with HTML, CSS, and JS.
Package web apps as mobile apps with a plugin ecosystem.
Apple's free IDE for building iOS and macOS apps.
Game Development
14 picks
A fully free, open-source engine for 2D and 3D games.
The popular game engine, free on its Personal plan.
A AAA-grade engine, free until you earn serious revenue.
A fast, free HTML5 framework for 2D browser games.
A delightful open-source framework for 2D games in Lua.
A refreshingly simple, open-source game engine in Rust.
A simple, open-source C library for game programming.
A free, cross-platform engine for 2D games.
The classic Python library for writing games.
The go-to open-source library for 3D graphics on the web.
A powerful, open-source 3D engine for the browser.
An open-source 3D engine with a collaborative web editor.
A free engine for 2D and 3D games across platforms.
A fun, beginner-friendly JavaScript library for making games.
Data Science & ML
20 picks
Interactive notebooks for code, data, and visualization.
Free hosted Jupyter notebooks with GPUs, from Google.
The popular Python and R distribution for data science.
The essential Python library for data analysis.
The foundation for numerical computing in Python.
Simple, efficient tools for machine learning in Python.
The open-source deep-learning framework researchers love.
Google's end-to-end open-source machine-learning platform.
A high-level, friendly API for building neural networks.
The foundational plotting library for Python.
Interactive, open-source graphing for Python and beyond.
The free language and environment for statistical computing.
The premier IDE for R, free in its open-source edition.
The open-source engine for large-scale data processing.
Build data-science workflows visually, free and open.
Open-source visual programming for data mining.
Industrial-strength natural language processing in Python.
The open-source library for computer vision.
Build and share ML demos with a few lines of Python.
Git-like version control for datasets and ML models.
AI & LLM Tools
15 picks
OpenAI's conversational assistant, with a capable free tier.
Anthropic's helpful AI assistant, free to use with limits.
Google's multimodal AI assistant, free to start.
Microsoft's free AI assistant, powered by GPT models.
An AI answer engine that cites its sources; free tier.
Prototype with Gemini models in the browser, free to start.
A strong open-weight AI chat model, free to use.
A fast AI assistant from Mistral, free to use.
Run open models at very high speed; free playground.
Chat with many AI models in one place; free tier.
Turn your sources into an AI research assistant, free.
A powerful, node-based open-source UI for image generation.
OpenAI's open-source speech-to-text model.
An open-source, offline ChatGPT alternative you run locally.
One API for many LLMs, with free models available.
Monitoring & Analytics
14 picks
Error and performance monitoring with a free developer tier.
Open-source product analytics with a generous free tier.
Lightweight, privacy-friendly analytics; open source to self-host.
A simple, open-source, privacy-focused analytics tool.
The open-source, self-hostable Google Analytics alternative.
Real-time infrastructure monitoring; open source and free.
A real-time web log analyzer that runs in your terminal.
The open standard for traces, metrics, and logs.
An open-source, Sentry-compatible error tracker.
A cost-effective, open-source log aggregation system.
Uptime monitoring and log management with a free tier.
A self-hosted, privacy-focused analytics tool.
Product analytics with an open-source community edition.
Cron-job and background-task monitoring; free tier.
Networking & Tunnels
12 picks
Expose your localhost to the internet with a public URL; free tier.
Securely expose local services without opening ports, free.
Share your local server with a public URL; open source.
Instantly tunnel localhost to a public URL, no install.
A zero-config mesh VPN for your devices; free personal plan.
A fast, modern, open-source VPN protocol.
Make locally-trusted HTTPS certificates with one command.
An interactive, open-source HTTPS proxy for inspecting traffic.
A terminal UI for analyzing packet captures like Wireshark.
The established open-source VPN solution.
A tiny, modern, open-source TCP tunnel written in Rust.
Get a public URL for localhost with one SSH command; free tier.
No-Code & Automation
12 picks
A fair-code workflow automation tool you can self-host free.
Wire together devices and APIs with a visual flow editor.
Build internal tools fast; open source and self-hostable.
Build internal apps and workflows; open source.
An open-source low-code platform for internal tools.
An open-source Zapier alternative you fully control.
Open-source, no-code automation and AI workflows.
Turn scripts into workflows and internal UIs; open source.
Build agents that monitor and act on your behalf.
Connect thousands of apps into automations; free tier.
A visual platform for automating work; free tier.
Simple 'if this then that' automations; free tier.
Documentation & Diagrams
14 picks
Generate diagrams and charts from text, right in Markdown.
Create UML and other diagrams from a simple text language.
A fast static site generator geared toward project docs.
Host and version your project documentation for free.
Generate a docs site on the fly with no build step.
Presentation slides for developers, written in Markdown.
Create slide decks from Markdown; open source.
Draw database ER diagrams quickly from simple code.
Design and share database diagrams; free tier.
The powerful documentation generator behind Python's docs.
Generate documentation from annotated C++ and other sources.
Docs that live in your codebase and stay current; free tier.
Beautiful docs from Markdown; free for open source.
Render OpenAPI specs as clean, three-panel API docs.
CSS Frameworks & UI Kits
18 picks
The world's most popular CSS framework for responsive sites.
A modern, Flexbox-based CSS framework with no JavaScript.
Elegant styles for semantic HTML with minimal classes.
A responsive front-end framework for any device.
A lightweight, modular front-end framework.
A CSS framework based on Google's Material Design.
A drop-in, class-less stylesheet for plain HTML.
A class-less framework to make plain HTML look good.
Tailwind CSS components you can drop straight in.
Open-source UI components built on Tailwind CSS.
Copy-paste, accessible React components you own the code for.
React components implementing Material Design; free core.
A simple, modular, accessible React component library.
An enterprise-grade React UI design language and components.
Unstyled, accessible primitives for building design systems.
Unstyled, accessible UI components for React and Vue.
A rich set of open-source UI components for React.
A full-featured React components and hooks library.
Color & Gradient Tools
12 picks
Build color schemes and extract palettes from images.
A curated feed of beautiful, ready-to-use color palettes.
Design color schemes using color-theory relationships.
Generate palettes with a deep-learning color model.
An AI tool that learns which colors you like.
Palette inspiration shown in a real UI context.
A handpicked collection of beautiful CSS gradients.
A gallery of unusual, generated CSS gradients.
Check color contrast against accessibility standards.
Test text and background color pairs for contrast.
Generate matching palettes and gradients from one color.
Build palettes, gradients, and shades from any color.
Fonts & Typography
12 picks
Quality fonts, free for personal and commercial use.
A privacy-first, drop-in replacement for Google Fonts.
Generate font pairings with deep learning.
See how popular typefaces are used in the wild.
Beautiful Google Font pairings, ready to use.
Well-made, open-source typefaces.
A collective releasing experimental, libre fonts.
Download and self-host any Google Font easily.
Drop in a font file and see everything it can do.
Convert and generate @font-face web-font kits.
Inspect a font file's glyphs and features in the browser.
A catalog of variable fonts to explore and test.
Package Managers & Registries
15 picks
The default package registry and manager for Node.js.
A fast, reliable package manager for JavaScript.
A fast, disk-efficient package manager for Node.
A fast all-in-one JavaScript runtime and package manager.
The missing package manager for macOS and Linux.
The package manager for Windows, with a free tier.
A command-line installer for Windows software.
Microsoft's official package manager for Windows.
The Python Package Index — where pip installs from.
The Rust community's package registry.
The package registry and manager for Ruby.
The main Composer package repository for PHP.
The package manager and gallery for .NET.
Install and switch between Node.js versions easily.
One CLI to manage versions of many languages and tools.
Communities & Q&A
10 picks
The Q&A site where most coding answers already live.
A friendly, open community for developers to write and share.
Start a developer blog on your own domain, free.
The daily pulse of startups and tech, from Y Combinator.
A focused, computing-oriented link-sharing community.
Reddit's long-running hub for programming discussion.
A supportive community for people learning to code.
A browser feed of the best developer news and articles.
A network of Q&A sites spanning far beyond programming.
A large, welcoming forum for learners and mentors.
Browser DevTools & Extensions
12 picks
Inspect React component trees and props in your browser.
Time-travel debug your Redux state changes.
Inspect and debug Vue apps in the browser.
Reveal the technologies any website is built with.
Pretty-print and browse JSON responses in your browser.
Identify the fonts on any web page by hovering.
An eyedropper, color picker, and gradient generator extension.
Google's open-source browser design-debug toolbar.
Outline every element to debug your CSS layout.
Inspect a site's colors, fonts, and assets visually.
A classic toolbar of web-developer utilities.
Highlight React components that render too often.
Email for Developers
10 picks
A developer-first email API with a free tier.
Capture and inspect test emails safely; free tier.
A tiny, self-hosted SMTP tester with a web UI.
An open-source email-testing tool for developers.
A free, fake SMTP service for capturing test emails.
Send transactional email and more; 300 a day free.
A powerful email API for developers; free tier.
A transactional email service with a free hobby tier.
Reliable transactional email with a free developer plan.
A local SMTP server that traps mail for testing.
Data Formats & Converters
12 picks
Generate types and models in any language from JSON.
Validate JSON against a JSON Schema online.
Convert between CSV and JSON in the browser.
Turn a curl command into code in many languages.
Inspect the abstract syntax tree of your code.
See how Babel transpiles your modern JavaScript.
View, edit, and format JSON in a split-pane editor.
Format and beautify messy SQL queries.
Format and beautify JavaScript, HTML, and CSS.
Convert YAML to JSON and back, instantly online.
Convert images to Base64 data URIs online.
A full-featured, in-browser Markdown editor.
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