If you are one of those developer who is looking for some handy tools then you are at right place, in this month’s edition (August 2016) we’ve included lots of productivity apps, frameworks, plugins, best practices guides, educational resources, testing tools, and much more.
If we’ve missed something that you think should have been on the list, let us know in the comments.
And if you know of a new app or resource that should be featured next month, tweet it to @codegeekz to be considered!
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Fresh Resources for Designers & Developers – July 2016
20 Fresh Tools for Web Developers – June 2016
1. Rocket.Chat
Rocket.Chat is a Web Chat Server, developed in JavaScript, using the Meteor full stack framework. It is a great solution for communities and companies wanting to privately host their own chat service or for developers looking forward to build and evolve their own chat platforms. You can access from anywhere: web browser, desktop and mobile applications. You can set up your system exactly how you want it. Rebrand as needed. The code is 100% Open Source under the MIT license.
2. Social Media Sharing Buttons
Social Media Sharing Buttons generator outputs social media sharing buttons that do not use JavaScript, which means they load incredibly fast (they only use a single HTTP request), don’t block your website from rendering, are accessible and don’t track the user. (Also, they look nice). Using these buttons is as easy as copying the HTML code into your .html files, and the CSS code into your .css file.
3. LightGallery.js
Lightgallery is a lightweight modular responsive light box gallery, which allows you to create beautiful image & video galleries. Lightgallery allows you to create animated thumbnails for your gallery with the help of thumbnail plugin. It supports touch swipe navigation on touchscreen devices as well as mouse drag for desktops. It also allows users to navigate between thumbnails via swipe of their fingers or mouse drag
4. Pusher
Pusher is a mobile push notifications API. It lets you build cross platform apps and send programmable push notifications to iOS and Android devices. It’s free, and you can sign up with your GitHub or Google account.
5. Weex
Weex is a framework from Alibaba to build mobile apps with just HTML, CSS and JavaScript. It comes with Modules, UI components, its own DevTools and CLI that is designed towards mobile environment and to speed up development.
6. The Hand
The Hand is a serialized rules engine. It aims to be able to define rules in a human-readable manner, while also being able to serialize those rules into a human-readable string (for storage) and back into strongly-typed objects.
7. RapidPro
RapidPro simplifies creating scalable, interactive messaging apps by allowing them to be built visually. It includes contact and message management tools, a visual interface for building messaging “flows”, and more.
8. Compressor.io
Compressor.io is a powerful online tool for reducing drastically the size of your images and photos whilst maintaining a high quality with almost no difference before and after compression. It supports JPG, GIF, PNG, and SVG as well. This app is free.
9. LaunchKit
LaunchKit is a set of web-based tools for mobile app developers that has just open sourced all of their code. It’s set up to easily get started Vagrant and Ansible.
10. Spoon
Spoon aims to make Android testing easier as the number of devices out there grows. It distributes instrumentation test execution and displays the results in a meaningful way. Once all tests have completed, a static HTML summary is generated with detailed information about each device and test.
11. Microsoft Site Scan
This is a handy tool from Microsoft to analyze your website for issues like browser compatibility and accessibility. The tool will list a report telling you if anything is not right about your website and how you can proceed to address the issue.
12. Redbeard
Redbeard makes it faster and easier to create native apps without a boilerplate. It’s a complete framework with tons of components. Redbeard is fully 100% native development framework that works with Objective-C and Swift across the whole iOS suite. There’s a whole variety of ready to use components for some of the most commonly needed functionality. Every component is fully themable via our awesome theming engine.
13. BlazeCSS
BlazeCSS is a modular CSS framework for building well-structured websites quickly. It’s halfway between monolithic frameworks like Bootstrap and microframeworks like Milligram. You can use any part of Blaze in isolation to make your payload small and focused; it might only be 8Kb but its complete and easy to use.
14. Teradata Covalent
Teradata Covalent is a UI platform that’s built on Material Design and Angular 2.0. It will give you a jumpstart for building a modern web application UI and ensuring consistency across Teradata products.
15. Oryoki
Oryoki is a small, experimental web browser built with Electron on top of Chromium. It includes video recording, screen grabs, a mini console, and more.
16. Flipping Typical
FlippingTypical allows you to view all the fonts installed on your system. I find this app to be more convenient than using the FontBook app in macOS.
17. Laverna
Laverna is an open source, private notetaking app that uses Markdown. There’s no registration required and there is a self-hosted version available.
You can export your notes from Laverna and import them back anytime. You are not tied to using it forever. Every line of code can be reviewed on Github and is available under MPL-2.0 license.
18. Howler.js
howler.js is an audio library for the modern web. It makes working with audio in JavaScript easy and reliable across all platforms. howler.js is as light as 7KB gzipped and is 100% JavaScript with no outside dependencies or plugins. Supports all browser-ready files: MP3, MPEG, OPUS, OGG, OGA, WAV, AAC, CAF, M4A, MP4, WEBA, WEBM, DOLBY.
