56 Experts reveal 3 beloved front-end development tools

CREATED BY @BROESINK OCTOBER 3, 2014

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A front-end developer develops the front-end of the website. The front-end is the part of your website which is visible for your visitors. The front-end developer, also known as the client side developer, works in close cooperation with designers and developers. He or she in facts operates in between them, so in between creativity and technique. The front end developer position is a rather new position in the development and design world. In the past front end tasks like HTML, CSS and JS were often executed by a webmaster or a programmer. Throughout the years though the front-end developer tasks have become so diverse, programmers and webmasters just can’t keep up with all front-end developer aspects and a dedicated front-end developer is often appealed to. A front-end developer should not only take into account the technical website aspects but should also consider accessibility, user-friendliness and performance. Altogether a front-end developer converts the design of a website to a fully-functional website which is properly displayed in all browsers, inclusive the corresponding interactions.

Front-end development tools Front-end developers can experience serious obstacles while writing HTML, CSS and

Javascript. To tackle most of these obstacles front-end developers should make use of well-designed and well-developed front-end development tools. Front-end development tools are applications and tools which fasten the front-end development, which ease the development process and which can clearly show the developer what has gone wrong.

Which front-end development tools are used by experts?No matter if you are a multi-year experienced front-end developer or a newbie who has just started to develop front ends, finding the appropriate tools might be a difficult and tricky task. There are many top 5, 10 & 20 lists or pages focusing on specific development tools. Nevertheless by consulting these pages and lists it is still not always clear which one is most recommended. Therefore we decided to consult our own experts, because thanks to their personal experience this is in fact the only way to get a clear picture of the best and most user-friendly tools.

To get a clear idea of the best front-end development tools we asked the following question to 56 front-end development experts:

“If you could only use 3 front-end development tools, which 3 tools would you choose?”

We’ve asked 56 experts which 3 development tools they use

The expert insightsA total of 56 front-end development experts gave their insight about which front-end develpoment tools they use most.

All the insights are listed on https://psdtowordpress.com/frontend-development-tools.html (in the order of delivery).

The next slide will show a top 5 of the most used front-end development tools.

The results#1 - Sublime Text - 19 votes

#2 - Sass - 16 votes

#3 - Chrome Developer Tools - 15 votes

#4 - jQuery - 10 votes

#5 - Git(Hub) - 7 votes