My Top 12 Web Tools To Make Developers’ Life Easier

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Meng Taing
Better Programming
Published in
7 min readJun 18, 2021

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In this internet era, almost any free tools can be found online to solve common problems developers face every day. You name it, someone has already built it.

In this story, I’m going to share my top 12 favorite web tools that make your life as a developer easier. I focus on websites only because those are ready to use without installation. My preferences are the ones that:

  • Appear among the top of Google search results.
  • Have a clean and intuitive user interface.
  • Provide useful information.

1. Regex

https://regex101.com/

Regular Express (regex) is one of the best ways to validate user input, replace words or symbols, and extract information in a specific pattern. It’s not easy to write a complicated Regex correctly in one try without testing and validation. That’s where regular expressions 101 comes to help.

Even if you’re not familiar with regex, this tool gives you a clear explanation of every token, qualifier, and flag. Not only the tool shows which parts of the…

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