7 Must have softwares for a web developer

7 Must have softwares for a web developer

1. Browser: Mozilla Firefox

  Web Developer tool of Mozilla Firefox is very good. Another advantage is Firefox is fully open source. You will find many plugins and addons for Firefox than any other browser.

The Web Console of Firefox:

1. logs information associated with a web page: any network requests, JavaScript, CSS, and security errors and warnings, as well as error, warning, and informational messages explicitly logged by JavaScript code running in the page context
2. enables you to interact with a web page by executing JavaScript expressions in the context of the page.

GreaseMonkey addon:

Customize the way a web page displays or behaves, by using small bits of JavaScript.

2. Server : xampp server

XAMPP  is a free and open source cross-platform web server solution stack package, consisting mainly of the Apache HTTP Server, MySQL database, and interpreters for scripts written in the PHP and Perl programming languages.

 wamp server:-

LAMP is an acronym for an archetypal model of web service solution stacks, originally consisting of largely interchangeable components: Linux, the Apache HTTP Server, the MySQL relational database management system, and the PHP programming language. As a solution stack, LAMP is suitable for building dynamic web sites and web applications. Installation on a Microsoft Windows operating system is known as WAMP.

3. JAVA :

Java allows you to play online games, chat with people around the world, calculate your mortgage interest, and view images in 3D, just to name a few.It allows you to run java enabled apps and javascript in your browser. 

4. IDE:-

     

NETBEANS IDE:-

NetBeans IDE

The Smarter and Faster Way to Code

Quickly and easily develop desktop, mobile and web applications
with Java, HTML5, PHP, C/C++ and more.

NetBeans IDE is FREE, open source, and has a worldwide community
of users and developer.

ECLIPSE :- Eclipse is an integrated development environment (IDE). It contains a base workspace and an extensible plug-in system for customizing the environment. Written mostly in Java, Eclipse can be used to develop applications. By means of various plug-ins, Eclipse may also be used to develop applications in other programming languages: Ada, ABAP,C, C++, COBOL, Fortran, Haskell, JavaScript, Lasso, Natural, Perl, PHP, Prolog, Python, R, Ruby (including Ruby on Railsframework), Scala, Clojure, Groovy, Scheme, and Erlang. It can also be used to develop packages for the softwareMathematica. Development environments include the Eclipse Java development tools (JDT) for Java and Scala, Eclipse CDT for C/C++ and Eclipse PDT for PHP, among others.

5. EDITOR:- NOTEPAD ++

Notepad++: a free source code editor which supports several programming languages running under the MS Windows environment.

6. BOOTSTRAP:- 
    Bootstrap, a sleek, intuitive, and powerful mobile first front-end framework for faster and easier web development.

7. ADOBE DREAMWEAVER:-

Adobe's Dreamweaver is a full-featured WYSIWYG editor that allows developers to design visually as well as directly within the code. It supports PHP-based CMSes such as Drupal, WordPress and Joomla, and enables developers to create websites using HTML 5. It also features CSS Starter Layouts to get you started, and is integrated with Adobe BrowserLab, which allows developers to preview dynamic web pages and local content using multiple views and diagnostic and comparison tools.