Imagine how difficult it would had been to develop a website if there were no web development tools. Programming would have been more complex & developers would have faced situation to write codes more often than reuse existing codes for new development. Fortunately with these 7 web development coding tools programmers can develop websites with more ease & flexibility.
Here are the best 7 amazing free web development tools in 2020
Angular.JS
AngularJS is a structural framework for dynamic web apps. It lets you use HTML as your template language and lets you extend HTML's syntax to express your application's components clearly and succinctly. AngularJS's data binding and dependency injection eliminate much of the code you would otherwise have to write. And it all happens within the browser, making it an ideal partner with any server technology. AngularJS offers development across all platforms, speed & performance with its incredible tooling functionality.
Chrome DevTools
Chrome DevTools is a set of web developer tools built directly into the Google Chrome browser. DevTools can help you edit pages on-the-fly and diagnose problems quickly, which ultimately helps you build better websites, faster. It has the functionality to view and change the DOM and a Page’s Style.It has various functionalities for Security panels like understanding Security Issues and for Application panel, Memory panel, Network panel, Sources panel, Console panel, Elements panel, and the Device mode.
Sass
Sass (which stands for 'Syntactically awesome style sheets) is an extension of CSS that enables you to use things like variables, nested rules, inline imports and more. It also helps to keep things organised and allows you to create style sheets faster.
Sass is compatible with all versions of CSS. The only requirement for using it is that you must have Ruby installed. Sass is CSS compatible & with Sass you can - organize large Stylesheets, use its features such as Nesting, Variables, Loops, Arguments, etc.
Grunt
Grunt is a JavaScript task runner, a tool used to automatically perform frequent tasks such as minification, compilation, unit testing, and linting. It uses a command-line interface to run custom tasks defined in a file. Grunt was created by Ben Alman and is written in Node.js. It is distributed via NPM.
The benefits of using Grunt is - Grunt can perform repetitive tasks very easily, such as compilation, unit testing, minifying files, running tests, etc.
Grunt includes built-in tasks that extend the functionality of your plugins and scripts.
The ecosystem of Grunt is huge; you can automate anything with very less effort.
Typescript
TypeScript is a strongly typed, object oriented, compiled language. It was designed by Anders Hejlsberg (designer of C#) at Microsoft. TypeScript is both a language and a set of tools. TypeScript is a typed superset of JavaScript compiled to JavaScript. In other words, TypeScript is JavaScript plus some additional features.
JQuery
jQuery is a JavaScript library designed to simplify HTML DOM tree traversal and manipulation, as well as event handling, CSS animation, and Ajax. It is free, open-source software using the permissive MIT License. As of May 2019, jQuery is used by 73% of the 10 million most popular website is a lightweight, "write less, do more", JavaScript library. The purpose of jQuery is to make it much easier to use JavaScript on your website. jQuery takes a lot of common tasks that require many lines of JavaScript code to accomplish, and wraps them into methods that you can call with a single line of code.
Bootstrap
Bootstrap is a free and open-source CSS framework directed at responsive, mobile-first front-end web development. It contains CSS- and JavaScript-based design templates for typography, forms, buttons, navigation, and other interface components. Bootstrap's responsive CSS adjusts to phones, tablets, and desktops.Mobile-first styles are part of the framework of Bootstrap. Bootstrap is compatible with all modern browsers making it most used web development tool by developers.