TL;DR
Every day we use different technological tools, already on automatism, although we have not heard about them before.
With the knowledge of the new, we gain that competitiveness in the market that will provide us with what we want, be it an online store or a simple calculator.
In this article, I have collected some tools, knowledge of which will help you become the ultimate developer.
Let's get started! 🏎️
1. 🐜 HMPL.js - Server-oriented customizable templating for JavaScript
Let's start with a small template language that allows you to get components from the server and display them on the client. Due to its syntax, applications are quite small.
The language is syntactically block-based and integrated with JSON5 and DOMPurify. Reduce the size of your javascript files and display the same UI as if it was written in a modern framework!
2. 🗒 Readme.so - An online drag-and-drop editor to easily build READMEs
The second tool will be a small but very useful visual editor for your Readme files.
Readme.so is an online editor to help developers make readmes for their project.
3. 🧠 GitHub Copilot - Your AI pair programmer
Recently, with the development of ChatGPT and other artificial intelligence, Copilot has become an indispensable assistant in VS Code, as it comes with Microsoft's AI.
GitHub Copilot adapts to your unique needs allowing you to select the best model for your project, customize chat responses with custom instructions, and utilize agent mode for AI-powered, seamlessly integrated peer programming sessions.
Previously, it didn't make much sense, but now it's so well integrated with the environment that it can already be considered part of VS Code. It only requires a registered account to work properly, but I think that's not a problem for such a benefit.
By the way, another advantage of this artificial intelligence is that it is based on GitHub repositories, so the code it produces is simply excellent.
4. 🐈⬛ Nest.js - A progressive Node.js framework for building efficient, scalable, and enterprise-grade server-side applications
If you’ve ever wished Express had a bit more structure, Nest.js is the upgrade you’ve been looking for. It brings TypeScript, OOP, and a modular architecture to Node.js development.
Nest is a framework for building efficient, scalable Node.js server-side applications. It uses modern JavaScript, is built with TypeScript (preserves compatibility with pure JavaScript) and combines elements of OOP (Object Oriented Programming), FP (Functional Programming), and FRP (Functional Reactive Programming).
5. 🪨 Medusa - The world's most flexible commerce platform
If you are familiar with WordPress, when you did something on a freelance platform for a couple of hundred dollars, say, a vacuum cleaner store and used WooCommerce, then this platform will seem familiar to you. Only, with one condition - it is all tricked out and with modern capabilities of the SaaS platform.
Medusa is an ecommerce platform with a built-in framework for customization that allows you to build custom commerce applications without reinventing core commerce logic. The framework and modules can be used to build advanced B2B or DTC ecommerce stores, marketplaces, PoS systems, service businesses, or any product that needs foundational commerce primitives. All commerce modules are open-source and freely available on npm.
6. 📗 Storybook - The industry standard workshop for building, documenting, and testing UI components in isolation
Not a single serious project can be done without first making a component in StoryBook, and only then implementing it into the project.
Storybook comes with a lot of addons for component design, documentation, testing, interactivity, and so on. Storybook's API makes it possible to configure and extend in various ways. It has even been extended to support React Native, Android, iOS, and Flutter development for mobile.
7. 🦙 Ollama - Get up and running with large language models
Since we started talking about artificial intelligence, it is also worth remembering a project like Ollama.
ollama run example This is a large, unique collection of popular AI models for downloading.
8. 🐇 Bun - Incredibly fast JavaScript runtime, bundler, test runner, and package manager – all in one
If you think that Node.js is slow today, then yes, you are right. I once said about Deno that it is one of the fastest environments, but probably Bun is the fastest today or was at least a couple of years ago.
Bun is an all-in-one toolkit for JavaScript and TypeScript apps. It ships as a single executable called bun.
9. ⚙️ MLX - An array framework for Apple silicon
If you are just starting to study machine learning, or have been doing it for a long time, then it will be useful for you and not only for you to know this framework from Apple.
MLX is designed by machine learning researchers for machine learning researchers. The framework is intended to be user-friendly, but still efficient to train and deploy models. The design of the framework itself is also conceptually simple.
10. 🦕 Deno - modern runtime for JavaScript and TypeScript
Deno is what Node.js might look like if it were built today. It has better defaults, built-in TypeScript support, and a strong focus on security. Your files can be executed in other environments. As an example: $ deno test server_test.ts
Deno is a JavaScript, TypeScript, and WebAssembly runtime with secure defaults and a great developer experience. It's built on V8, Rust, and Tokio.
✅ Conclusion
Knowing all these tools and using them at the right time, you can pump yourself up and become a real ultimate developer! And, regardless of what language you program in.
Thank you very much for reading this article ❤️!
What other open source tools do you use? It would be interesting to know!
P.S. Also, don't forget to help me and star HMPL!
Top comments (15)
Tools won't make you "ultimate".
Like driving an F1 car won't make you the best driver.
Be critical of information that tells you the opposite.
Well, it's a matter of time. Compare a simple junior with Cursor and Senior with Notepad++, the code of the former is worse, but more tasks are done.
How did you measure that? And why even bother giving a senior a PC? Let him write on paper to show that your tool matters.
I haven't measured it. It's an empirical assumption. I want to write code on paper too 🕶
With no assumptions, if you compare apples to apples, there is still no evidence that productivity increases with assistance in the form of code generation.
Therefore, it's not even certain whether the same junior will experience an increase in real-world productivity (which includes code support/bug fixing time, or incident cost) with the cursor.
None of these tools will make you an "ultimate" developer. This is just the author's stack. The only way to become better is by learning.
Well, with such tools it will definitely be easier
None of these tools are a real gateway to "learn programming"
Great list!
I think too
Tools can help making us ultimate but only if polish core skills in parallel to take best of both.
I made a small list. I hope it will be interesting to learn something new.
Maybe
Important detail: Deno is not npm compatible in same way as Bun is. That makes transition from Nodejs to Bun easier (in many cases without any code changes).
Also, Buns' standard library has several useful features built in (worth checking out; it could save you from extra dependencies).
Bun is less stable than Nodejs, I encountered some bugs (it was a year ago, but obviously it's less mature then Nodejs).
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