Mac web developer apps
This gist's comment stream is a collection of webdev apps for OS X. Feel free to add links to apps you like, just make sure you add some context to what it does — either from the creator's website or your own thoughts.
— Erik
This gist's comment stream is a collection of webdev apps for OS X. Feel free to add links to apps you like, just make sure you add some context to what it does — either from the creator's website or your own thoughts.
— Erik
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I echo Greg's suggestion for Alfred. Make sure you get the Power Pack from them directly though. Not the Mac App Store. It's such an awesome app. |
I also use RESTed for quick and painless REST api tests. It's a really young app but has a lot of potential. |
Hope no-one minds me adding to this :) I use launchbar rather than alfred, it's very powerful - www.obdev.at/launchbar/ Also, for other text based jobs that sublime doesn't do, i like to have textwrangler by my side - http://www.barebones.com/products/TextWrangler/ I use Appcleaner for completely removing apps i don't want - http://www.freemacsoft.net/appcleaner/ This is another favourite app of mine - ColorSchemer Studio.app - http://www.colorschemer.com/osx_info.php As i often work in windoze environments, it's nice to have a solid RDP client - http://cord.sourceforge.net/ Also, Cyberduck is a really nice, solid and free ftp/sftp/etc client alternative to transmit - http://cyberduck.ch/ Sourcetree is a really nice & powerful (and free) alternative to Tower.app - http://www.sourcetreeapp.com/ Also, this is a great unarchiving app (also free) - http://wakaba.c3.cx/s/apps/unarchiver.html I think that's it for apps that might be useful to you :) |
I use the Unarchiver too. Just don't get the appstore version, its busted. |
Oh, i totally forgot to mention one of my very very favourite apps! Codebox, is a brilliant code snippet manager, worth it's weight in gold for me :) - http://www.codeboxapp.com/ |
Tower App as a good git gui http://www.git-tower.com/ |
+1 to @gregferrell, who's post is perfect :D Other notes:
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This is an amazing compilation so far.
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Awesome contributions. Thanks Eric, Chris, Steven & John! |
Here's our @newism mac dev setup. Not so much an single app but a bunch of low level tools for web development: http://github.com/anthonyshort/laptop |
An excellent list so far. I use a few alternative tools to accomplish the same goals: Acorn MacVim PHP Function Reference Dashboard Widget Vagrant ZipCleaner And finally, plus ones for: |
We also use a lot of the tools mentioned here, but found a few things to check out. Thanks for starting the list, Erik. I am a long-time user of Meerkat for managing SSH tunnels, which I mainly use for connecting to remote databases with Navicat. I love Navicats ability to copy data and/or structure across databases (does Sequel Pro do that?). Anyway, even though Meerkat hasn't been updated in a while, it works beautifully (even on Mountain Lion). |
I use and love CodeBox, LiveReload, MAMP, and Sequel Pro. Here are some other apps that nobody mentioned yet: Espresso Hidden Files (dashboard widget) Kaleidoscope Mountee Soulver |
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Plus one for Transmit, MAMP Pro, Codekit, Kaleidoscope, Sublime Text 2, Soulver, Alfred, and VirtualBox. |
Some have been mentioned already, but here's my list of choice: Coda (http://panic.com/coda/) - Love it or hate it, I think it's a fantastic IDE for development. Editor, preview, MySQL manager, books, all built-in. I'm keen to hear thoughts on the above list. :) |
Great list, but not even a mention of a clipboard manager! I've been using Flycut (https://github.com/TermiT/Flycut) One of those tools that gradually becomes an essential part of your workflow to the point where you miss it within a couple of minutes of using a machine without it. |
Pretty extensive list! Some I haven't heard of and will have to checkout. I wanted to add some specific Alfred extensions (power pack) that I use often and are very handy:
I noticed a number of EE community members comments–thought these would be useful, custom searches:
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I'm not sure there is something like this already listed or not though, this might come in handy: http://alicedev.com/go2shell (you can add a button to Finder which will open current location in Terminal) |
found this gist by accident... here are my additions of two apps that came out recently and are just amazing: http://codebugapp.com/ http://echoapp.net/ also, old but many people don't know about it: http://grabbox.devsoft.no/ http://www.ergonis.com/products/keycue/ http://timingapp.com/ http://kapeli.com/dockview/ http://www.macbartender.com/ |
Similar to the above references, Alfred, Sublime Text 2 (with an array of packages), Codekit (compiling LESS projects), iTerm, Homebrew and Chrome are always open. There are also several other apps we use for misc tasks: Textsoap - Great for cleaning text/copy sent by clients. LittleIpsum - Handy little dummy text generator (also use placeholder text in Sublime Text 2 while coding but this works well outside of the editor (ie.) Adobe Edge Inspect CSS Image Encoder RegExRX Integrity xScope - Lots of different tools in this app but pretty much use only a couple, most importantly the ruler for quick on screen measurements. OmniGraffle Pro - flow charts, UML diagrams and idea organization Mindnode Pro - High-level organization and mindmapping I know this thread is about OSX apps but with the above, the following Chrome extensions/bookmarklets round out our dev environment so I figured I would go ahead and mention them. Pendule - Easy, one click viewing/de-minifying js and quick page validation are what I use this extension for. JavaScript Errors Notifier - love notification in the address bar of js errors... WhatFont - Bookmarklet to quickly display font info. Used this for years... Speed Tracer - great little optimization tool to tweak script/page performance. |
Great list! kudos to you all! I'd like to add the awesome poweline-bash to help keeping track on git status and Bitbuckets sourceTree app for mercurial and git repos (works against github too) I'm using FileZilla for ftp. I've tried many of the more mac-stylish apps but I still find FileZilla to rule them all ;) |
Xtrafinder is a great alternative to TotalFinder for more awesome features for "finding" stuff (gets along nicely with mountain lion!) I hope this must-have list keeps on getting updated, love all the recommendations |
I try to keep a minimalist dev environment, so I can setup a new dev machine quickly. This are some of the tools that I use everyday.
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Came across this list in a Google search and found a boatload of really awesome stuff. I wanted to contribute so here's one I didn't see: FoldingText — "Plain text productivity for geeks. As you type, FoldingText auto-formats your document into sections, lists, and paragraphs. Fold sections to see the big picture. Focus to see the details." Since I found the Mou app in this gist, I've been using that, but FoldingText is still pretty super. Worth checking out. |
Koala is also awesome! and it's open source. Koala is a GUI application for Less, Sass, Compass and CoffeeScript compilation, to help web developers to use them more efficient.Koala can run in windows, linux and mac. |
Nide is a beautiful ide for nodejs. |
keyremap4macbook (https://pqrs.org/macosx/keyremap4macbook/) and pckeyboardhack (https://pqrs.org/macosx/keyremap4macbook/pckeyboardhack.html.en) are nice applications for changing the behaviour of the keyboard... altough keyremap4macbook and pckeyboardhack have a flaw, after you use them, you will miss it when using other computers for the rest of your life |
Nice list, just a few more additions I didn't see already listed. Triplety Nice HTML/CSS/JS editor for small projects and keeping all your dependencies easily accessible. |
Yummy FTP - http://www.yummysoftware.com |
Atom A hackable text editor for the 21st Century |
This list is perfect! Here are some other apps I used, not being mentioned.
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Mock SMTP - "MockSMTP is a native Mac application that embeds its own SMTP server. It also features an e-mail client browser, enabling instant viewing of both raw content and HTML rendering, so you can see how your mail looks when delivered." Setting up MockSMTP on OSX 10.7(Lion) for local PHP development |
zsh (http://www.zsh.org/) + Oh my Zsh (http://ohmyz.sh/) to peed up terminal workflow |
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This is a great list. A few of you mentioned Coderunner, which I absolutely love except for one major issue...no support for vim-mode. Or is there? |
I still prefer Quicksilver to Alfred. http://qsapp.com/ |
My biggest productivity boost came when I started using AppCode by Jetbrains. There is less of a learning curve if you use the Xcode key bindings. It does pretty much everything that Xcode does, plus the inspections and refactoring take it to a whole new level. It's really cool to be told about a bug before you even compile your code. This works best with Objective-C, but they have basic support for Swift working. |
I used to have RESTed but the lack of updates (especially OAuth 2) made me witch to Paw. Worth every $. |
Tools/Apps i have installed to increase my productivity for web-development.
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More awesome tools:
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Why did not anybody writing fish shell?
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Mackdown: Free Markdown editor |
Freeter: productivity app that lets you gather everything you need to work in one place and access them quickly and easily. |
Quiver |
cakebrew basically GUI for HomeBrew Any GUI for npm alexk111 thank you for suggesting freeter app |
After all these great suggestions, I still have more to add! gitkraken is my git app of choice. Check that one out. |
Cerberus has replaces alfred for me |
Nice growing list, thx for sharing. Here's a few I use at this point of time:
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CodeKit
At Focus we use CodeKit primarily to compile and minify SASS / stylesheets / javascript files so we no longer need to do those things on the server.
CodeRunner
I love running procedural ideas through CodeRunner. You just pick the language, write some code and run it. No need for a server running, a vhost setup or command line fu. Simple to use and easy to save tests too. I think Rob Sanchez has even rigged up an EE bootstrap to test EE code in this app. Never tried that myself though.
Dash
I only use this for documentation (I don't use the snippet management). It's a great, quick resource for docs of all sorts though. I rarely pull up Google or official websites for PHP, jQuery docs etc.
MAMP (pro)
MAMP is free and Pro is cheap. The only thing the Pro version gives you is a GUI for things you could have already done yourself via command-line fu. I use Pro for its convenience.
Patterns
I've played with a few tools that make testing Regex easy. This is the best I've found. Very simple and powerful.
Sequel Pro
I've tried a few MySQL apps for OSX is this is my favorite. And it's free!
Sublime Text 2