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Are you looking for killer free tools and ammunition to make your work efficient? Let\u2019s indulge you with some personally tried and tested tools that will boost your productivity and help you track your daily project tasks, collaborate, and seamlessly communicate with your team, all that from free tools.<\/p>\n
In this post, I have listed for you the ultimate list of tools and services for developers that are free, although a few of them also offer premium plans for the unique needs of large enterprises.<\/p>\n
These tools can assist you with everything you might face as a developer. From tracking tasks to having a handy text\/code editor, and from making collaborations simple to monitoring and tracking errors, these tools can really make a difference and greatly improve your productivity.<\/p>\n
Have you ever got overwhelmed with an excess of tasks, resulting in multiple roadblocks and bottlenecks? Do you keep missing deadlines and feel lost in organizing or tracking tasks? Oh, I know how frustrating it gets!<\/p>\n
I use Asana<\/a>, which lets you collaborate as well as track your project and every task from anywhere. Set your priorities and get organized with a user-friendly task tracking tool. This tool has helped my development team align with goals and deadlines.<\/p>\n The dashboard view allows you to monitor the project\u2019s progress and roadblocks, all in one place. It ideally works best for the development team to track tasks and handle bottlenecks and customize as needed, be it on-site or remote team tacking.<\/p>\n It\u2019s difficult for developers to track time precisely according to the task assigned and report it accurately. We\u2019ve all hit the roadblock many times. I remember when there were multiple projects on hand. The projects were time-sensitive and time was a difficult resource to manage, so I tried a hassle-free tool, Toggl, that immediately helped.<\/p>\n Toggl<\/a>, a free tool for developers, instantly boosts productivity by generating reports with real-time data and a dashboard view with accurate billable rates. Whether it\u2019s onboarding a remote team or a sizable on-site team, both become panic-free with this tool.<\/p>\n Trello<\/a> is a task management tool that is easy, visually appealing, and pretty flexible for creating boards. It manages projects and team collaboration<\/a> with simple drag-and-drop features. This tool has many benefits. You can also study this step-by-step guide<\/a> for a more in-depth look.<\/p>\n The Silver Searcher<\/a> is a unique open-source code-searching tool for programmers. At times, we would have revisions and would look for code for hours. Sometimes, my team kept getting stressed over the search for a specific part of the code. Many of us missed out on a portion of code and ended up with many bugs.<\/p>\n I needed a tool that would help me quickly spot the code portion to resolve the issue and move ahead. Having to debug the entire code would have delayed deadlines and deployments. This tool helped us spot specific code quickly and resolve the issues\/errors and debug faster.<\/p>\n Ever wonder if you could acquire hackable code ethically? Many developers hack the core and then customize it to build a completely new version of it. If you\u2019re one of them, this tool is for you.<\/p>\n Atom<\/a>, developed by GitHub, is a fully customizable modular tool easily downloadable with extensions. It is open-source and supports source code editors for Linux, Microsoft Windows, and macOS. It also supports plug-ins that are in Node.js and Git control.<\/p>\n Inevitably, while designing, web designers and front-end developers<\/a> may require a smart text editor. I know my team has gone through some frustrating errors. Many developers on my team have hit a dead end, with their creative process suffering, and it became challenging on many occasions.<\/p>\n Here is what I found: Brackets<\/a>, a smart visual tool that is a preprocessor, making it easy and fast to design in the browser. Brackets blends visual tools with the editor, making it an enjoyable process. It enables you to use Live Highlight with SCSS and LESS files, and as an open-source project, it\u2019s supported by a vibrant and active community.<\/p>\n I can definitely relate. That\u2019s why my team uses this smart and efficient tool, Microsoft Teams<\/a>. It helps developers to communicate, share, learn, work remotely, organize polls and votes, arrange meetings, and keep each other updated instantly with the project or task deadlines.<\/p>\n It is super easy to use and supports integrations and almost all platforms. Moreover, it offers impeccable security with the Microsoft brand name putting your mind at ease. For more information, you can also study this insightful beginners\u2019 guide<\/a>.<\/p>\n Another free tool developers on my team frequently use is Redmine<\/a>. It is a free, open-source, web-based project management tool for tracking errors and issues.<\/p>\n It offers my team the flexibility to do cross-database and cross-platform work. It also enables users to manage multiple projects and their related sub-projects simultaneously. This tool includes a different viewer and a repository browser.<\/p>\n Visual Studio Code is a robust source code editor that runs on desktops such as Linux, Windows, and macOS. It has built-in support for TypeScript, JavaScript, and Node.js.<\/p>\n Visual Studio Code editor<\/a> by Microsoft has been pretty popular since its release. It has extensions for other runtimes and languages, and a rich ecosystem. My development team loves it because it works in real time. It\u2019s also known amongst tech geeks as \u201cLive Share\u201d for bi-directional collaboration.<\/p>\n PageSpeed Insights<\/a> (PSI) by Google enables developers to generate performance reports for both desktop and mobile devices, for free. I have been using Pagespeed for a few years now. PSI offers field data for a webpage and lab data.<\/p>\n Furthermore, PSI records and summarizes the performance score of the page. A score of 90 is considered satisfactory, and a score between 50 and 90 indicates the need for improvement, whereas a score below 50 indicates low performance. This helps developers address and resolve the performance bottlenecks.<\/p>\n Sublime<\/a> is an open-source tool that helps multiple developers to work together on the same project, at the very same time.<\/p>\n Occasionally, when I had developers joining us from other branch offices, this tool was a blessing. It can be easily installed with package control under remotecollab. It is available for customizing toolkits, and it\u2019s available on Linux, Mac, and Windows. This tool helped my team collaborate remotely and work simultaneously on the project without glitches.<\/p>\n Postman<\/a> is a collaboration platform for API development. When my team encountered a few unexpected errors, this tool helped us manage them. It has an effortless and straightforward stepwise feature to streamline collaboration to create better and faster APIs.<\/p>\n Postman offers automated testing and reveals any unexpected action for any API. Most developers prefer using Postman for their API development.<\/p>\n GitHub<\/a> is a development platform that enables developers to access thousands of ready-to-use samples of code from open-source in order to share, learn, and collaborate.<\/p>\n It has evolved into a vast, vibrant community of 50 million developers across the globe. The platform\u2019s background is supported by the world\u2019s leading software development platforms and many trending tech giants.<\/p>\n Backing up files that are gigantic in size, as well as code data, is a challenge for my team and, honestly, for all development teams. We tried out Dropbox, and it did wonders for my team.<\/p>\nUseful Features:<\/h3>\n
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Toggl, for Accurate Billable Hours<\/h2>\n
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Trello, Your Project Manager<\/h2>\n
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Ever felt like you need a task manager, a project tracker, a team collaborator, or a personal to-do list all in one, on a click? I know sometimes these fundamental problems are painful and frustrating. My team faced a similar problem that resulted in declining productivity and efficiency at work and took a toll on personal commitments. Then my manager opted for Trello.<\/p>\nUseful Features:<\/h3>\n
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The Silver Searcher, To Spot Code Instantly<\/h2>\n
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Atom: Hack Code Ethically<\/h2>\n
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Brackets: Smart Text Editor<\/h2>\n
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Microsoft Teams Makes Team Communication Seamless<\/h2>\n
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It is challenging to manage email communications, files, project status, task deadlines, group activities, and organizing meetings in one place.<\/p>\nUseful Features:<\/h3>\n
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Redmine for Error Handling<\/h2>\n
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Visual Studio Code: A Robust Code Editor<\/h2>\n
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Pagespeed Insights for Performance Reports<\/h2>\n
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Sublime, To Code and Collaborate Remotely<\/h2>\n
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Postman, for API development<\/h2>\n
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GitHub, the Open-Source Platform<\/h2>\n
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My team has been fascinated by GitHub, like many of us developers, for more than a decade.<\/p>\nUseful Features:<\/h3>\n
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Dropbox: Enormous Storage<\/h2>\n