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In the modern age of development, having an efficient developer workflow plays a huge role in shipping quality software as fast as possible.
\ Open source is a valuable resource with tons of projects that are supported by the community and allows us to better tailor the solutions for our particular needs.
\ In this article, I decided to manually handpick 16 of my favorite open-source projects that can boost your development workflow and allow you to save time.
\ From testing environments, and auth solutions to robust analytics, database managers, and deployment solutions, I hope that these tools will improve your craft.
\ I also added direct links, descriptions, and previews of each project so that you can get an idea about them right away while reading the article.
1. Firecamp
Firecamp is a cross-platform API development tool. It puts REST, GraphQL, and WebSocket API testing into one interface.
\ This allows you to test and debug in a single application, reducing wasted time on context switches between different tools.
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2. Budibase
Budibase is an open-source, low-code platform for building powerful and effective internal tools and business apps.
\ It enables rapid application development, reduces manual coding, and can be integrated with many popular databases/services.
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3. Hanko
Hanko is an open-source auth solution for creating passwordless logins with passkeys and passcodes.
\ It produces a secure yet easy-to-implement system for authentication, reducing complexity and time spent managing user authentications.
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4. Cerbos
Cerbos is a policy-based access control system that makes it easy for developers to manage user permissions.
\ It decouples the access control logic from the application code, which provides flexibility in managing authorization rules.
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5. Primo
Primo is a visual CMS for static sites that allows developers to edit the content of the sites you are building on the go.
\ It is also integrated with an intuitive visual editor to give the best developer experience with an instant preview.
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6. Typebot
Typebot is a platform to create chatbots in a no-code interface.
\ You can further embed them anywhere on your web/mobile apps, and collect results in real-time to help in user support.
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7. Mermaid
Mermaid is a diagramming tool using JavaScript that takes the textual definition of diagrams and charts and draws them.
\ It allows users to visually create flowcharts, sequence diagrams, and classes, among others, in a dynamic way in either a browser or markdown files.
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8. Flipt
Flipt is an enterprise-ready, GitOps-enabled, CloudNative system for managing the feature roadmap of your applications.
\ It allows gradual rollout, A/B testing, and experimentation to follow DevOps best practices and separate releases from deployments.
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9. SigNoz
SigNoz is a free-to-use observability platform with out-of-the-box metrics, logs, and traces for troubleshooting.
\ This provides an easy-to-use interface and detailed overview for real-time diagnosis of performance issues and application optimization.
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10. Plausible
Plausible Analytics is an open-source web analytics tool that extensively focuses on privacy and is considered easier to use than Google Analytics.
\ It provides clear and actionable insights without unnecessary bloat and clutter, making it easier for the developers to monitor performance on the website.
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11. Supabase
Supabase is an open-source alternative to Firebase. It can also serve as a backend-as-a-service, providing real-time databases, authentication, and storage.
\ It allows developers to quickly develop and scale their applications with minimal setup while utilizing tools they already know.
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12. Prisma
Prisma is an open-source object-relational mapping tool that provides easier database access for Node.js and TypeScript applications.
\ It provides type-safe database queries, automated migrations, and a rich data model, leading to more efficient and error-free database management.
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13. Beekeeper
Beekeeper Studio is a modern, open-source SQL editor and DB manager.
\ It provides an interface to write queries, manage the databases, and visualize your data for MySQL, Postgres, SQLite, SQL Server, and more.
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14. Coolify
Coolify is an open-source, self-hosted Heroku / Netlify / Vercel alternative for the deployment and management of web apps and databases.
\ It helps you manage your servers, applications, and databases on your own hardware; you only need an SSH connection.
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15. Jest
Jest is a fast and safe JavaScript testing framework with a focus on simplicity.
\ It comes with an easy-to-use test environment with lots of features to enhance performance, like snapshot testing or parallelization.
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16. Oh My Zsh
Oh My Zsh is a community-driven framework for managing your Zsh configuration.
\ It is equipped with a number of helpful plugins and themes, which extend the terminal with customizability with little effort.
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This content originally appeared on HackerNoon and was authored by Madza
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