Tools every developer should know

Command lines and websites, all free or open source.

Bookmarks

1. jq

   5/5

   The Swiss army knife of JSON on the command line.

   jq

2. regex101

   5/5

   Explains every group of the expression while you type it.

   regex101

3. fzf

   5/5

   Interactive filter — wire it to your history, files and branches.

   fzf

4. ripgrep

   5/5

   Recursive grep that honours .gitignore and is absurdly fast.

   ripgrep

5. Dive

   4/5

   Inspect a Docker image layer by layer.

   Dive

6. Excalidraw

   4/5

   Hand-drawn diagrams, perfect for throwaway architecture.

   Excalidraw

7. Caniuse

   4/5

   What browsers can do, and since when.

   Caniuse

8. httpie

   4/5

   Readable curl, with colour and JSON by default.

   httpie