Awesome Developer Experience

A curated list of Developer Experience resources and tools.

Contents

• Awesome Developer Experience
  • Contents
  • Tools
    • Open-Source
    • Version control and releasing
    • Version management
    • Terminal
    • Local development
    • SaaS
    • Security
    • API platforms
    • Knowledge management
    • Monitoring
    • Automation
  • Documentation
  • Resources
    • Articles
    • Books
    • Newsletters
    • Reddit
    • Websites
  • See also

Tools

Open-Source

• github1s - Open every GitHub repository in VS Code in browser.
• ElasticMQ - In-memory message queue with an Amazon SQS-compatible interface.
• Prettier - Opinionated code formatter.
• ESLint - JavaScript linter.
• Backstage - Platform for building developer portals.
• OpenFaas - Serverless functions framework.
• MinIO - S3-compatible object storage.

Version control and releasing

• Semantic Versioning - Versioning specification.
• semantic-release - Fully automated package publishing.
• Conventional Commits - Lightweight specification for commit messages.
• gitmoji - Emoji-based commit message convention.

Version management

• NVM - Node Version Manager - POSIX-compliant bash script to manage multiple active Node.js versions.
• rbenv - Use rbenv to pick a Ruby version for your application and guarantee that your development environment matches production.
• asdf - Version management for multiple frameworks.

Terminal

• Oh My Zsh - Oh My Zsh is a delightful, open source, community-driven framework for managing your Zsh configuration. It comes bundled with thousands of helpful functions, helpers, plugins, themes, and a few things that make you shout.
• Fig - Auto-completion for terminal.

Local development

• LocalStack - Local emulator of AWS services.
• ngrok - Locally available reverse proxy.
• Tabnine - Tabnine's powerful Artificial Intelligence assistant works right where you are, in the comfort of your IDE.
• GitHub Copilot - AI code completion.

SaaS

• DX Scanner Dashboard - Measure, analyze, increase and validate your team's effectiveness with all detailed data in one place. Discover data that help you facilitate decision making.
• Fossa - The most complete open source management and policy engine for enterprise security and compliance.
• SonarQube - Static code quality analysis.
• deepsource - Static code analysis.
• Fly - Full stack apps and database hosting.
• LinearB - Software delivery intelligence.
• Pluralsight Flow - Project workflow dashboard.
• Gitpod - Instant IDE.
• AhoyConnect - Community Data Intelligence Platform.
• Moesif - API Analytics.
• Codesee - Automatic code diagrams.
• Retool - Platform for building internal tools.
• Apimatic - API development and documentation platform.
• Theneo - API documentation tool.

Security

• Snyk.io - Automatically find, prioritize and fix vulnerabilities in the open source dependencies used to build your cloud native applications.

API platforms

• Postman - API building platform.
• Hoppscotch - Open-source API development platform.
• Wombat - Cross-platform gRPC client.
• Apiary - API design and documentation platform.

Knowledge management

• Logseq - Markdown-based knowledge base.
• Obsidian - Markdown-based knowledge base.
• Notion - Team wiki-like workspace.

Monitoring

• Statuspage - Service status monitoring.
• PagerDuty - Service monitoring and incident resolution platform.

Automation

• Ansible - Automation platform.
• Salt Project - Deploy and configuration automation.
• Puppet - Infrastructure automation.
• Chef - Automation platform.
• WhiteSource Renovate - Save time and reduce risk by automating dependency updates in software projects.
• DX Scanner - CLI tool that allows you to measure quality of a team work and an app based on your source code.

Documentation

• The documentation system - The documentation system outlined here is a simple, comprehensive and nearly universally-applicable scheme.

Resources

• DX Manifesto - Basic Developer Experience principles.
• LinkedIn group about Developer Experience
• Heroku DX - Evolving the Developer Experience. Again.
• What is DX - An article introducing the meaning of Developer Experience.
• The Twelve-Factor App - Recommendations for designing apps.
• Command Line Interface Guidelines - Best practices for writing CLI apps.

Articles

• Creating a developer community - Article about community building.
• DX at DAZN - Interview with Head of DX at DAZN.
• Why Your API Needs a Dedicated Developer Experience Team - About usefulness of DX teams.

Books

• Developer Relations - Intro to developer relations and how to run them inside a company.

Newsletters

• DevRel Weekly - Developer relations newsletter.

Reddit

• Subreddit thread about Developer Experience

Websites

• DevRel - Blog about developer relations.
• DevRelX - Blog and newsletter about developer relations.
• DevRel.jobs - Developer relations jobs.
• APIs you won't hate - Blog about API design.
• daily.dev - News from developer-focused websites.

See also

• Awesome online IDEs - List of online development environments.
• Awesome software architecture - List of software architecture resources.