Most Popular Frontend Web Development Tools
Web development moves fast, and staying current with the underlying technologies is part of the job. Frontend tools are what make that possible, they turn raw data into the graphical interface people actually see and interact with, built on HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
How do Frontend Web Development Tools Help?
There are plenty of reasons to reach for a frontend framework, but three stand out:
- Allows you to build prototypes
- Quickly jumpstart your web projects.
- Provides a great user-interface for web developers who lack designing skills.
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Frontend Web Development Tools
Here’s a shortlist of the front-end tools worth knowing about.
Tool Name | Description | Price | Get the tool |
GuideGuide | create grids and manipulate guides with a consistent UI in Photoshop, Illustrator, Sketch, and Adobe XD. | Starts from ₹ 3,093.00 / YR | |
CodePen | build, test, and discover front-end code | – Sign up for free | |
LivePage | Reloads website resources such as CSS, HTML and JavaScript as they update on the server. | Buy for ₹182 | |
Sublime Text | Text editor for code, markup and Prose | USD $80 | |
GitHub | A software development platform | – Basic Plan is free | |
Codekit | Codekit makes it easy to build websites faster and better | Starts from $34 | |
Unheap | A tidy repository of JavaScript plugins | Free | |
Foundation | Provides framework for HTML, CSS, & Javascript to create websites and HTML emails for all devices. | MIT licensed and free to use | |
FullPage Screen Capture | Open source Chrome extension to save screenshot of an entire webpage | Free | |
WhatFont | Allows to identify fonts on web pages | Free | |
NPM | A public collection of packages of open-source code for Node.js, front-end web apps, mobile apps, robots, routers, and countless other needs of the JavaScript community. | Free | |
Responsive Test | Check your website at different screen resolutions. | Free to use | |
Chrome Developer Tools | A set of web developer tools built directly into the Google Chrome | Free to use | |
Jquery | A JavaScript library that allows to manipulate, event handling, animation, and Ajax with an API that works across a multitude of browsers. | Free to use | |
Bootstrap from Twitter | Simple and flexible HTML, CSS, and Javascript for popular user interface components and interactions. | Free to use | |
Angular JS | A toolset for building the framework most suited to your application development | Free to use | |
Sass | A stylesheet language that allows to use variables, nested rules, mixins, functions, and more, all with a fully CSS-compatible syntax. | Free to use | |
Grunt | A javaScript Task Runner | Free to use | |
TypeScript | An open source superset of JavaScript, existing JavaScript programs | Free to use | |
HTML5 BOILERPLATE | A front-end template that allows you to build fast, robust, and adaptable web apps or sites. | Free to use | |
Backbone | A JavaScript library with a RESTful JSON interface and is based on the Model–view–presenter (MVP) application design paradigm | Free to use |
Over to you
Which of these are already in your stack?
Give a few of the new ones a try and see what sticks.
Questions or suggestions? Get in touch, we’re happy to help.
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