Developer Resources
Curated list of tools, libraries, and services for every stage of your project.
Planning & Foundation
10 toolsProject management, diagramming & architecture
Jira
Agile issue tracking & Scrum/Kanban boards
Trello
Visual Kanban boards for task tracking
Notion
All-in-one workspace: docs, wikis, databases
Linear
Modern issue tracking built for dev teams
GitHub Projects
Integrated project boards inside GitHub repos
Miro
Online whiteboard for flowcharts & wireframes
draw.io
Free open-source diagramming tool
Lucidchart
Visual diagramming and flowchart tool
Confluence
Team wiki and documentation hub
Whimsical
Wireframes, flowcharts, and mind maps
Branding & Visual Direction
10 toolsColors, typography & brand identity tools
Coolors
Lightning-fast color palette generator
Color Hunt
Curated trendy color palettes for designers
Adobe Color
Color wheel, themes & harmony generator
Paletton
Interactive color scheme designer
Realtime Colors
Visualize color palettes on a real UI
Google Fonts
1,900+ open-source font families
Font Squirrel
Hand-picked free fonts for commercial use
Fontshare
Quality fonts, free for personal & commercial
Adobe Fonts
Premium font library in Creative Cloud
Canva Logo Maker
Easy logo and brand asset creation
UI Inspiration & Research
10 toolsDesign galleries, patterns & user research
Dribbble
Community showcases of UI/UX design work
Behance
Adobe's creative portfolio & showcase platform
Awwwards
Award-winning website designs
Mobbin
Hand-picked mobile app screenshots & flows
Collect UI
Daily curated UI design examples by category
UI Garage
Daily UI inspiration from real apps
One Page Love
Best landing page design inspiration
Godly
Most awarded websites of the internet
Hotjar
Heatmaps, session recordings & user feedback
Lapa Ninja
Handpicked landing page design gallery
UX Design & Prototyping
10 toolsWireframing, user flows & design collaboration
Figma
Collaborative web-based design & prototyping
Adobe XD
UI/UX design and prototyping tool
Sketch
Mac-native UI design and prototyping
Balsamiq
Low-fidelity rapid wireframing tool
Marvel App
Design to interactive prototype in minutes
InVision
Clickable mockups and design collaboration
Zeplin
Design handoff for developers
Penpot
Open-source design & prototype tool
Framer
Design and publish production-ready sites
Axure RP
Advanced interactive prototyping
Asset Collection
12 toolsIcons, images, illustrations, animations & 3D
Heroicons
Beautiful SVG icons by Tailwind team
Lucide Icons
Beautiful & consistent open-source icons
Phosphor Icons
Flexible icon family for interfaces
Iconify
100,000+ icons from all major sets unified
Font Awesome
Most popular icon library on the web
Unsplash
High-quality free stock photos
Pexels
Free stock photos and videos
unDraw
Open-source MIT illustrations
Storyset
Customizable free illustrations for projects
LottieFiles
Lightweight JSON animation library
Spline
3D design tool for the web
SVGRepo
500,000+ free SVG vectors & icons
UI Components & Libraries
10 toolsComponent libraries, CSS frameworks & design systems
Tailwind CSS
Utility-first CSS framework for rapid UI
shadcn/ui
Beautifully designed components for React
Material UI (MUI)
React components for Material Design
Chakra UI
Accessible component library for React
Ant Design
Enterprise-grade UI design system
Bootstrap
World's most popular CSS framework
Radix UI
Unstyled, accessible React primitives
DaisyUI
Tailwind CSS component library
Mantine
Full-featured React components library
Headless UI
Unstyled, accessible UI components
Frontend Development
10 toolsFrameworks, build tools & frontend utilities
React
JavaScript library for building UIs
Next.js
React framework for production apps
Vue.js
Progressive JavaScript framework
Nuxt.js
Vue framework for fullstack apps
Angular
Platform for building mobile & web apps
SvelteKit
Cybernetically enhanced web apps
Vite
Next-generation frontend build tool
Astro
Web framework for content-driven websites
TypeScript
Typed superset of JavaScript
Zustand
Small, fast state management for React
Backend Development
10 toolsServer frameworks, runtimes & APIs
Node.js
JavaScript runtime built on Chrome's V8
Express.js
Minimal web framework for Node.js
Fastify
Fast and low overhead Node.js framework
Django
High-level Python web framework
FastAPI
Modern, fast Python API framework
Laravel
PHP web application framework
NestJS
Progressive Node.js framework for TypeScript
Hono
Ultrafast web framework for the edge
tRPC
End-to-end typesafe APIs for TypeScript
Go (Gin/Fiber)
High-performance Go web frameworks
Database & Data Layer
10 toolsSQL, NoSQL, ORMs & data services
PostgreSQL
Advanced open-source relational database
MySQL
World's most popular open-source database
MongoDB
Document-oriented NoSQL database
Redis
In-memory data structure store & cache
Supabase
Open-source Firebase alternative (Postgres)
Firebase Firestore
Google's BaaS with realtime NoSQL database
Prisma
Next-gen ORM for Node.js & TypeScript
Drizzle ORM
Lightweight TypeScript-first ORM
PlanetScale
Serverless MySQL platform
Neon
Serverless Postgres with branching
Integrations & Services
10 toolsAuth, payments, email, SMS & 3rd party APIs
Stripe
Payments infrastructure for the internet
Auth0
Universal authentication & authorization
Clerk
Developer-first authentication solution
Twilio
SMS, voice, email & video APIs
Resend
Email API built for developers
SendGrid
Cloud-based email delivery service
Cloudinary
Image & video optimization and CDN
Pusher
Realtime channels & WebSockets as a service
OpenAI API
AI models API for LLM integrations
Mapbox
Maps, geocoding & navigation APIs
Security & Compliance
8 toolsSecurity tools, guidelines & vulnerability scanning
OWASP
Open Web Application Security Project guides
Snyk
Find & fix vulnerabilities in code & deps
SonarQube
Continuous code quality & security analysis
Dependabot
Automated dependency security updates
Let's Encrypt
Free, automated TLS/SSL certificates
Cloudflare
CDN, WAF, DDoS protection & security
HashiCorp Vault
Secrets management and data encryption
1Password Secrets
Secrets management for developer workflows
Testing & QA
10 toolsUnit, integration, E2E & performance testing
Jest
Delightful JavaScript testing framework
Vitest
Vite-native unit testing framework
Playwright
End-to-end testing for modern web apps
Cypress
Fast, reliable E2E browser testing
Storybook
UI component explorer and visual testing
Testing Library
Simple and complete testing utilities
k6
Load testing tool for DevOps teams
BrowserStack
Real device cloud testing platform
Postman
API development and testing platform
Hoppscotch
Open-source API development ecosystem
Analytics & Monitoring
10 toolsError tracking, APM, user analytics & logging
Sentry
Real-time error & crash tracking
Google Analytics 4
User behavior & traffic analytics
Plausible
Privacy-friendly web analytics
PostHog
Open-source product analytics & feature flags
Datadog
APM, logging & infrastructure monitoring
LogRocket
Session replay & frontend monitoring
Firebase Analytics
Mobile & web analytics by Google
Uptime Robot
Website uptime monitoring
Grafana
Open-source observability and dashboards
Mixpanel
Product analytics for user events & cohorts
Deployment & DevOps
10 toolsHosting, CI/CD, containers & infrastructure
Vercel
Git-powered deploys with global CDN
Netlify
Instant web hosting with built-in CI/CD
GitHub Actions
Automate workflows with CI/CD pipelines
Docker
Build, ship & run containerized apps
Kubernetes
Container orchestration at scale
AWS
Amazon Web Services cloud platform
Google Cloud
Google's cloud computing services
Terraform
Infrastructure as code tool
Railway
Deploy infrastructure without DevOps knowledge
Fly.io
Deploy apps close to your users globally
Mobile Development
10 toolsCross-platform, native iOS/Android & mobile DevOps
React Native
Build native apps with React
Flutter
Google's UI toolkit for multi-platform apps
Expo
Platform for React Native development
Swift (Apple)
Apple's language for iOS/macOS/watchOS
Kotlin (Android)
Modern language for Android development
Capacitor
Build cross-platform apps with web tech
Firebase (Mobile)
BaaS: auth, database, crash reporting
Fastlane
Automate iOS/Android build & release
Apple HIG
Human Interface Guidelines for iOS/macOS
Material Design
Google's design system for Android
Documentation
8 toolsAPI docs, wikis & developer documentation sites
Swagger / OpenAPI
Define & visualize RESTful API schemas
Docusaurus
React-based static site generator for docs
GitBook
Beautiful technical documentation platform
MkDocs
Project documentation with Markdown & Python
Mintlify
Beautiful docs that convert users
Read the Docs
Free documentation hosting for open-source
Redocly
OpenAPI documentation with beautiful UI
Storybook (docs)
Live component docs and style guides
Maintenance & Scaling
8 toolsCaching, CDN, load balancing & infrastructure scaling
Redis
In-memory caching & session storage
Cloudflare CDN
Global CDN, WAF and DDoS protection
NGINX
Web server, reverse proxy & load balancer
Kubernetes
Auto-scaling container orchestration
Prometheus
Open-source systems monitoring & alerting
Terraform (IaC)
Manage infrastructure as code
ArgoCD
GitOps continuous delivery for Kubernetes
PagerDuty
Incident management & on-call alerting
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The right tool for every stage
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