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Looking for developer tools to improve your workflow? We have some in this article. Let’s dive in.

It’s as good a time as any for some serious shopping at this, your one-stop resource for developer’s tools – the best of the bunch for 2019.

Choosing a tool or service that perfectly fits a need is seldom easy. However, the fact that more and more products and services come on the market every year doesn’t make it easier.

Of course, it helps that many of these newcomers are pretty effective. They are helping you meet the challenges you face in your everyday work environment. App developers have constantly been trying to bridge the gap between development and operations. They help you speed up product delivery, perform system tweaks, and incorporate new functionalities in the process.

There are certain factors to consider when looking for a development tool or resource. Regardless of the nature of the project, the tools presented here consider those factors.

Top developer tools to check out

Elementor

Since Elementor is such a favorite with web designers, it’s easy to forget it was created with developers in mind. Although its web design features are indeed impressive, the features offered to developers like you are even more so. Elementor offers a full stack of solutions you can apply to create solutions to the development challenges you face.

They include:

CSS Optimization and Custom CSS – CSS files are compiled, minified, and loaded externally to optimize load times; and you can easily incorporate custom CSS into any page, section, or widget
CLI Integration – makes it easy for you to trigger tasks via the Command Line
Request Parameters – allow you to track data across multiple pages or throughout a site
Rollback – simplifies version control by permitting you to switch between versions or go back to an earlier version.

The Elementor team also invites you to access Beta versions and assist in finding and eliminating bugs and fixing other issues. You can also visit the GitHub repository, contribute code, and submit your ideas.

And Co

If you’re spending too much time working on your invoices and not enough on your core development responsibilities, this would be a good time to let AND.CO help you out of your predicament. AND.CO is a smart invoicing app that automatically creates invoices for you (based on time tracking information), sends them out, and keeps you aware of their status.

You’ll know when invoices have been paid, and if a payment is overdue AND.CO will send the client a reminder.

AND.CO’s mobile app easily syncs with all your devices, so you can view status, keep track of your billings and cash flow, or submit an invoice wherever you are.

You can create proposals on AND.CO and use the information as the basis for invoicing.

Atom

As a developer, you fully appreciate the importance of having flexible and extensible open-source tools close at hand. Atom is an open-source desktop tool that runs on the Electron framework. Consequently, you can use Atom on Windows, OS X, and Linux as you build your cross-platform apps.

Atom works with JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and Node.js integrations as well. Atom is super-extensible in that you’re given access to thousands of open-source packages to work with, and if you prefer, you can build your own packages from scratch.

Atom also promotes collaboration. It’s a given that when developers are able to work together wonderful things can happen. Collaborating with other developers on code is no more difficult that coding on your own.

InvoiceBerry

Sending out invoices can and should be effortless. Select one of the InvoiceBerry’s professionally designed templates, add your logo and content, enter your customer’s email address, and Invoice Berry will do the rest.

Customers can pay directly via Stripe, PayPal, or WePay. And, since unpaid invoices will appear on your dashboard, you’ll always know who’s delinquent. Try InvoiceBerry for free for 30 days.

Testim

Testim uses AI to speed up test authoring, execution, and automated testing maintenance. All browsers are supported, and you can have thousands of tests run on multiple browsers and get test results in a matter of minutes.

This is a great service to take advantage of if you have multiple products to test, multiple tests to run on different browsers, or both. Get in touch with Testim for a free trial and see how it works.

TMS Outsource

TMS Outsource is a medium size-development agency that has served multiple customers from a variety of countries. TMS uses Agile SCRUM development methodologies. This excellent service can save you money you would otherwise spend on HR, developers, training, and equipment.

TMS Outsource lets you focus more on your core business and guarantees on-time delivery. They will save you even more if you allow them to take on project management tasks as well.

What makes a good developer tool?

A good developer is a hard worker and often seen as a miracle worker by a client. “Miracle workers” naturally have to have access to the right tools. But, one of the issues they face is understanding which of the many on the market are good.

Their tools can take the form of linkers, editors, compilers, GUI designers, debuggers, and on and on. They are used for:

Project management, source control, and issue tracking
Skill development and IDE
Data science, prototyping, and cloud data management, and
UML and notifications

For optimum performance in any of these areas, a tool must be useful, integrable with other tools, and have a reasonable learning curve.

They also must be extensible, have a large (satisfied) user base, and easy to use for beginners, yet powerful for experienced users.

Given the right tool for the job you can maintain or improve project workflows and produce the desired outcomes.

Ending thoughts on these developer tools

You don’t have to sort through hundreds of tools and services to find something that will make work much easier for you. Streamline your project workflows, and keep you humming right along doing what you do best.

One or two of the 6 products/services described above can really make your day. It can also keep your development efforts “humming along” through the remainder of 2019 and beyond.

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