The first step to improving your productivity is discovering and mastering the fundamentals of computer programming, learning how and why things work in a real-world context. websites are embedded with our everyday lives we use them for everything we buy things on internet we post things on the internet but to develop that we need web development.

So, In this article, we'll be looking into the tools which are essential for web development. 


The top seven tools which are helpful for web developers: 


1. Visual studio code : visual studio code or vs code is one of the most popular and one of the best tools for web development it is mostly said as one of the best ideas for web development so there are a lot of reasons why it is the best first reason is that it is available for all the major operating systems like windows mac and Linux also it has a wide set of extensions for example it already has an inbuilt extension for node.js as well as it has extensions for other languages like c sharp for PHP or for java okay now let's see the top features which vs code provides to start off vs code inbuilt intelligence that is basically when you type in a keyword it automatically completes this and also highlights the keywords and the other variable and data types and then comes a debugger so it has an inbuilt debugger which you can connect with your running application or your created application and you can set up breakpoints to test the application and then debug it and then correct it once that is done it has another feature basically i already addressed it extensions it has a complete marketplace full of various extensions which you can install in your vs code and finally it has inbuilt git connection if you're using any other git client you can directly connect it with vs code and you're good to go you can commit you can stage and you can also push your files directly from vs code itself to your repository which is located in a remote place so these are the features of vs code .


NOTE: Some similar tools like Visual studio code is the atom, sublime text, and notepad++.


2. Django: Django is a python based web framework that is used to do a quick development of APIs and web applications so it provides an amazing capability of creating back-end web applications with minimal coding because it uses python as we know python is one of the most used and one of the most popular programming languages in the world so there are other reasons why Django is popular as well the first reason is security so Django takes security very seriously that it already provides capabilities to avoid SQL injection clickjacking and cross side scripting next comes the scalable ability so it provides a lot of scalabilities that is it you can scale up the site automatically using Django so how does it happen one of the busiest sites in the world YouTube uses Django for their backend and you very well know how much traffic that YouTube takes every single day and Django handles it perfectly that is why Django is one of the best web application frameworks.


NOTE: Some similar tools like Django are there are other web application frameworks is spring which is using java and asp.net using c-sharp and also ruby on rails.


3. React : React which is a JavaScript framework so first of all it is gaining popularity in the year 2020 in the front end development world it was created by Facebook and once it was created it gained popularity in a short period of time one of the reason it got popular is react native which is a mobile application platform so what it does is it combines the capabilities of react as native computing capabilities so basically you can create an application for android iOS and web using react native so now the main reason why it got popular is the virtual Dom so it basically acts like one way so virtual Dom or you might have heard of data object model so it exactly acts like that so what exactly happens here is let's say you have hosted a website online using react so now we are trying to make some changes in the website so here you have made some modifications so once you have made some modifications the entire website will re-render and you'll get a new version of the website and the older version of the website so now both of these versions are compared and only the modifications which have been made or changed in the website itself which reduces the time because sometimes using other JavaScript frameworks the entire website will render if it does that there will be a lot of time wasted and a lot of memory wasted and react will save that for us so these are the reasons react is popular and gaining popularity so according to google trends in the last five years under programming and java script frameworks so react is gaining a lot of popularity over the other JavaScript frameworks.


NOTE: Some similar tools like react there is a view there is angular and there is ember.js.


4. Bootstrap: Bootstrap is one of the most popular and it is one of the most used CSS frameworks so bootstrap was created by Twitter and bootstrap comprises of HTML CSS jQuery and JavaScript and you can use it to make dynamic websites out of nothing so they already have pre-built codes you can directly use them to create your website even a beginner in web development can start with bootstrap if they want to develop dynamic websites with various cool features so there are other features as well so as I told you there are inbuilt components for example if you want to add a form to your website it already has an inbuilt code which you can directly integrate with your HTML which gives you a form. if you want any changes you can make the changes to the code automatically and that is pretty easy to start with creating websites so there are similar tools there is a foundation and there is material UI you can check those tools out so the most popular tool is bootstrap if you are going to start with creating websites dynamically you can start with bootstrap.


NOTE: Some similar tools like Bootstrap are a foundation and material UI.


5. Yarn: Yarn is one of the newest package managers. the yarn was created by Facebook and once it got created it got really popular and got love from the community because of its superior speed and reliability compared to the other package managers so it made npm lose a lot of popularity and right now yarn is the most popular in the industry so, first of all, let me give you a few examples why yarn is really popular the first is workspaces so yarn provides workspaces which is a feature where you can split a project into multiple sub-components within a repository itself the second one is reading from multiple registries it is also compatible with npm as told it is compatible with npm also you can upload your package also you can connect your GitHub repository to upload packages from there as well so that's why it is gaining a lot of popularity the first one is workspaces the second one is multiple registries.


NOTE: Some similar tools like Yarn is NPM, JSPM, pip, and so on.


6. GitHub: GitHub is the most popular and it is used for collaborating with development teams within your company or you can collaborate with open source project makers so apart from source code hosting there are other features to GitHub as well so the first one is GitHub actions which can be used to create ci cd pipelines which are continuous integration and continuous deployment for building testing and hosting or deploying your application on a server second comes to a small website hosting for example if you want to host a small blog you can host it directly from GitHub itself you can create a repository you can upload your code and you can directly do that via GitHub also GitHub comes with a web-based graphical user interface if you don't want to use that you can download the desktop application and also start using that so this is GitHub.


NOTE: Some similar tools like GitHub are Bitbucket and Sourcetree.


7. Adobe Dreamweaver: Dreamweaver so adobe Dreamweaver is one of the most popular web design tools available so first of all it provides you two different kinds of editors the visual editor and the HTML editor so you can build websites without having to know much about programming itself for example if you do not even know HTML you can go with the visual editor to create your website which will have a source code automatically if you know HTML you can also input using HTML so finally you also have other abilities so first of all it has git enabled in it so that you can upload your source code directly from Dreamweaver into the remote repository so you can upload it directly to the remote repository and also push the content into Dreamweaver from other repositories it's not a free software it is a private software if you want to make a career in web designing it is a good bet to invest in Dreamweaver.


NOTE: Some similar tools like Adobe Dreamweaver are webflow , RapidWeaver, WordPress.


Conclusion


There you have it! In summary, web development is the field where technology changes every day as much over the past few years. so always keep learning new tools and technology.