A collection of useful tools for programmers

Although you can start creating code on your computer using only Notepad, it is not recommended to do so. The larger the contents of your file, the higher the chance of errors, and it can be quite difficult to detect and debug errors in a TXT file in Notepad. To make subsequent tasks easier, it is better to choose a code editor that has an interface designed to work without distractions and a number of features that make web development and programming easier.

Sublime Text and Notepad++

This popular code editor has a simple and clean interface that allows you to focus on your code and not get distracted by extraneous things. With multiple selections, you can make significant changes to your code. It also has a collapsible map that allows you to see a minimised view and discover and navigate through the file faster, as well as a code completion feature. There are also a number of extensions to increase the functionality of Sublime Text. Also, try Notepad++, which is a Windows-only code editor. It is developed in C++, which ensures faster execution time and minimal size. Like many other editors mentioned in this list, it is tab-based, so you can open a large number of files and work in a single window. This is a very useful feature when working on a single project that requires multiple files. It also has several options to customise the interface.

Atom and Visual Studio Code

Atom is another editor that you can customise to your liking. It is very flexible because it is open source. With CSS you can change the look of the editor, and with JavaScript and HTML you can add additional features so that you have a unique editor to suit your needs. In addition, Atom includes several pre-installed themes, and you can even install and use other themes created by the large community supporting this popular editor. But not only can you change the look and feel of the editor with themes, you can also extend its functionality by installing a number of Atom packages that can be downloaded for free. Now about Visual Studio Code. This editor supports many languages. It has an intuitive interface with a great design that you can customise both in terms of appearance and functionality by installing some of the extensions available from the Visual Studio Code community. You can search for and install extensions right in the programme interface.

Frameworks

A framework is a set of tools or components that are used to implement specific projects. While you can start developing a website with a code editor, you can also opt for a framework, which usually makes your work easier and speeds up certain stages of the development process by having useful components. It is ideal for working on complex projects, especially if you want to complete them in the shortest possible time. We couldn't start talking about frameworks without mentioning Bootstrap, one of the most popular frameworks for responsive design. It combines HTML, CSS, and JavaScript capabilities, so you can create your entire web project using only this tool. It includes many components, extensive documentation that makes it easy for anyone to learn this framework. The official website explains the entire process from downloading the framework to applying transitions and effects using JavaScript.

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Foundation and Pure.css

Foundation is another framework for developing responsive websites. Like Bootstrap, it works through components and you can use the ones that are useful in your project, thereby increasing the speed of the site. It has plugins for embedding JavaScript, basic styles for quick site creation, and libraries for animations and transitions. While it has some similarities to Bootstrap, it is a slightly more complex framework suitable for more experienced developers. There is also Pure.css. Pure.css includes a series of CSS modules that can be implemented into any web project. With this CSS framework, you can easily create buttons, menus, tables and other necessary elements on a website. Of course, all of them have responsive design. Since Pure.css, as the name suggests, is based only on CSS, but your project will probably have to use JavaScript as well, you can use it in combination with other tools such as Boostrap.

AngularJS and Laravel

Often referred to as a library, AngularJS is a JavaScript framework for building web applications. AngularJS adapts your application's HTML code to make it more responsive to dynamic content. The result is an expressive environment where you can program faster. AngularJS has a number of tools such as form validation, creating reusable components, adding HTML syntax specific to your application, and testing capabilities. Considered one of the best frameworks for PHP, Laravel is a fast and easy to use framework due to its interface that allows you to use expressive syntax so you can easily create code. It uses Symfony components, so it relies on Symfony to provide more functionality. Despite this disadvantage, it has great advantages such as a routing system, a local development environment called "Blade", support for MVC and caching, among others.

Symfony and Ruby on Rails

Symfony is a framework for PHP that offers several tools and automates tasks in a way that reduces the programming and development time of a web application. It is an easy to install and configure framework, ideal for complex web applications, that offers clean syntax and comments so that you can focus not only on building applications but also on maintaining them. Symfony is easily extensible and supports integration with third-party libraries. It also has standalone components that you can include in your projects. Ruby on Rails is a framework for Ruby that contains all the components you need to create web applications with database access. Since Ruby is a productivity-oriented language, Rails follows the same principle and offers you a number of reusable components as well as various plugins that you can use to automate and improve certain processes.

In conclusion

The web development community is large and diverse. There are a large number of languages that are updated year after year. Some of them have a long history and have been around for more than two decades, while some new languages are gaining popularity due to the new features they offer, partly borrowed from many other languages born before. As web programming is a vast topic, we cannot cover all the tools available to developers, so we have tried to offer you a brief overview of editors and frameworks for programmers.