Tools That Make Web Developers' Lives Easy

Today, the world has grown so much and has been so friendly for developers, thousands of tools are floating in the market for free, but we need to realize this and have them in our bucket whenever required.

I will be discussing a few important tools which are handy and work out for every developer.

This is the best tool for the developer which can be installed on FireFox (add-on). This helps monitor the structure of your HTML, CSS, and also JavaScript. To add the Firebug and get it going add now!

Add FireBug


It's a web development tool which will help any developer track issues with the client side and also track the response time for the requests in the network tab.

The tool tab looks like below:

This is a very important tool, which is a restful API client, which helps developers not waste time debugging and every time running Visual Studio to check the result set and how the API behaves. We now just need to call the url of the API from Postman and it gives us the result, even the status code as well.

Get POSTMAN for Chrome

This will allow developers to request any API, may it be GET, PUT, POST or DELETE.

I made a get request to an exposed github API to show how the POSTMAN reacts and shows us the Json result also the response time and the Status(200 Ok, 404 Not found, 403 Forbidden).

This is such a powerful tool for any developer developing any web application, which without any fondness to anyone, ruthlessly shows how good your web app is and how well it will behave. The below image says it all:

The above web site has been given a Grade 'D' by Yslow. This also gives a description of why the grade is low, what can be modified or implemented to improve your grade. Here, it also lets developers know for bundling and minification for Javascript and the style sheets. So use it and improve the performance of your web app.

Install the Yslow now:

Add Yslow

Sprites is a collection of images put together into a single image. So instead of adding multiple images and heavy-ing the web page, we can prefer sprites with images and using css to generate and display on web page.

Css sprite generator add on tool helps you create Sprites. Sprite Cow also helps you generate sprites and also the css to use on your web page.