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Everything that a web developer needs to ace his work and be more productive!

Here I will share everything you will need to ace your web development work and be more productive. Everthing at one place!

Code Editors:

  • Visual Studio Code: This is the best editor for web development in my opinion. I have been using VS Code since a long time. What makes VS Code special is the extension marketplace. You can make this editor as your own with different themes, fonts and wide variety of extension.
  • Sublime Text: Sublime, a very light-weight text editor, great for beginners and intermediate web developers, it too has a wide variety of extensions and themes. It can be used for quick fixes in your code.
  • Atom: Atom is also a good text editor if you are starting out.
  • Vim: Vim is code editor mainly focused on using keyboard. It has many shortcuts that can help you to code fast, but its not well recommended for web development.

Web Design Tools

  • Figma: Figma is a very useful tool for web designs. Many UI/UX designers use it and its my top choice.
  • Sketch 3: Another great web designing tool.
  • Adobe XD: (free and paid) Adobe XD is another great tool for web design.

Logo Design

  • Adobe Illustrator: (paid) Adobe Illustrator might be the best logo desgning tool, helps you create high quality SVG logos.
  • Tailor brands: (free and paid): Enables you to create high quality logo, free version is good to get started.
  • Wix Logo Maker: (free and paid) Wix Logo Maker helps you create logos, it has a very inexpensive premium membership, but the free version is also good to get started.
  • Logo Maker: (paid) If your main priority is to create a logo quickly and make it look good, then Logo Maker is the place to go.

Colors

  • Coolors: Coolors is the best website to choose colors in my opinion. You can create your own color palletes or discover the popular ones. Its easy!
  • Social Colors: Social Colors provide the primary colors of all social media sites.
  • Flat UI Colors: Discover different color palletes and choose the best color for your website.
  • 0to255: This website provides a lots of color and their shades.
  • UI Gradients: UI Gradients provides you the coolest gradients, allows you to customize them and more!

VS Code Extensions

  • Live Server: Live Server reloads the browser everytime you save any file, making you more productive and saves a ton of time.
  • HTML CSS Support: Enables you to write faster HTML CSS code using snippets.
  • Bracket Pair Colorizer: If you work in web development, chances are you will spend a lot of time finding the pair for a brackets. Bracket Pair Colorizer colorizes each pair of brackets making it easier to distinguish them.
  • Prettier: Prettier is a code formatter that formats your code, making it readable. You can change its settings to make the code look the way you want!

Learning resources

  • Udemy: (free and paid) Udemy is my favorite learning platform. Top courses, by top instructors, at low cost right on any device!
  • Youtube: (free) YouTube is the largest video uploading platform on The Internet, you can take courses for anything on youtube!
  • Coursera: (free and paid) Coursera is another website where there are tons of courses!
  • w3schools: (free) w3school provide articles for almost anything in web development and beyond!
  • freecodecamp: (free) Offers high quality courses to enhance your skills!

Chrome Extensions

  • Color Picker Eye Dropper: With this tool, you can pick color from any website, pixel by pixel!
  • What Font: This tool allows you to see what font a specific website is using just by hovering over the text!
  • JSON Formatter: We mostly get data from API in JSON format. This tool parses the JSON code making it easier to read.
  • CSS Viewer: CSS Viewer allows you view the styles for any element in a website just by hovering over it! Its simple and powerful!
  • React Dev Tools: If you are learning react, or are a react developer, this extension will help you. This extension brings two new menus to the 'Chrome Dev Tools', 'Components' and 'Profiler' to help you do react development easily!
  • Kontrast: This tool enables you to check the contrast of the foreground and background, and tells if its suitable and is good for the eyes.

Icons and SVGs

  • Font Awesome: 100000+ icons and svgs! Everything you ever need!
  • Icon Works: A large collection of FREE icons!
  • Flaticon: A huge collection of over 3 Million icons and SVGs!

Design And Inspiration

  • SiteInspire: A site that will inspire you to create your own site!
  • Dribbble: A ton of designs to choose from!