Awesome Developer-First

A curated list of awesome developer-first tools, products and resources.

The definition of developer-first for this repo is:

• Developers as the target audience.
• "Headless", "API-First", "SaaS" are frequently used keywords.
• Usually this means that the front page has some code examples :)

Contents

• Analytics
• Authentication & Identity
• CMS - (headless)
• Code Quality
• Databases & Spreadsheets
• Deployment Hosting
• Discussions
• CI/CD
• Documentation
• GEO
• IDE
• Localization
• Mail
• Media
• Messaging
• Misc
• Monitoring
• Natural Language Processing
• Payments
• Repo
• Search
• Shipping
• Testing

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Analytics

Track web/app visitors

• Mixpanel - Product analytics and dashboards.
• Baremetrics - Subscription analytics for Stripe.
• Segment - Collect user data and send to your other products.
• Heap - Product analytics API for web and mobile, captures all events.

Authentication & Identity

Products that handle authentication and user identity for you.

• Auth0 - Authentication & authorization as a service.
• AWS cognito - AWS's authenttication as a service.
• Okta - Embeddable authentication with SSO.
• LoginRadius - Managed user authentication service with SSO.
• Firebase Auth - Google Firebase's take on authentication.
• Magic.link - Passwordless (email based) login as a service.

CMS - (headless)

Back-end only Content Management System, you decide on frontend and consume content via API

• Contentful - CMS as API.
• Tipe - Open source headless CMS.
• ElegantCMS - Headless CMS builder.
• Ghost - Blog platform, can be used as headless CMS (ex. with Hexo).

Code Quality

Check your code*

• sonarsource - Lint and code quality checks.
• Codacy - Automatic code quality checks.

Databases & Spreadsheets

Storing data and processing it

• Airtable - DB/Spreadsheet hybrid with an API.

Deployment Hosting

Products that help you deploy your app/website

• Render - Deploy from git, to CDN with SSL.
• Vercel - Deploy JAMStack (mainly next.js) via CLI.
• Netlify - Deploy JAMStack (mainly Gatsby) via CLI.
• Heroku - Deploy via CLI to scalable servers.
• Digital Ocean App Platform - Deploy and don't care about infrastructure works with all major frameworks.
• Platform.sh - Continuously deploy fullstack apps.

Discussions

Comments & forums

• Commento - Privacy centric emmbeddable comment system.
• MuutIo - Tools to create a community driven app.
• TurnTo - Ratings, community Q&A, reviews and comments as a service.
• Bazaarvoice - Ratings, reviews as a service.
• Yotpo - Reviews ratings and Q&A as a service.
• Gitter - Chat and networking platform for developers.

CI/CD

Continious Integration / Delivery

• CircleCI - YML to configure your builds, parallel jobs, jobs marketplace.
• Gitlab - Open source CI and hosted solution (kind of similar to circleci).

Documentation

Documentation solutions

• readme - Personalized and dynamic developer docs.

GEO

Location services

• Radar - Geofencing and geo APIs.
• mapbox - Maps and locations products for devs.

IDE

Products that extend your IDE and help development

• Codota - AI code completions for your IDE.
  • TabNine - Deep learning completion (also codota).
• Kite - AI assistant in your IDE (python/js).

Localization

Translating your product (also denoted i18n

• Localazy - App translation built for developers.

Mail

Sending emails as a Service

• Mailgun - Send, track and recieve emails.
• Sendgrid - Email API.
• Lob - Email and address verification.
• FormSpree - Receive form submissions by Email.

Media

Media APIs (optimization, CDN)

• Cloudinary - Optimize create, manage, and deliver images and videos.
• imgix - Transforms, optimizes, and cache images.
• ImageKit - Automate image optimization, transformation, and delivery.
• Mux - APIs to upload, manage and stream video.

Messaging

Messaging APIs - SMS, notifications, chats and VoIP

• Twilio - SMS, push notifications and VoIP APIs.
• Vonage - Video, SMS, chat and voice APIs.
• stream - Feed & chat as a service.
• Applozic - Chat SDKs, realtime messaging.

Misc

Different products that probably don't have a catetgory

• Actyx - Developer first factory building.

Monitoring

Monitoring your production application

• Sentry - Application monitoring, bugs and performance.
• KeenIO - Event streaming Platform.
• Rollbar - Reports errors in production.
• LogRocket - Replay bugs users have.

Natural Language Processing

Interactions with natural language

• Wit.ai - Voice / text chatbot framework by Facebook.
• DialogFlow - Voice / text chatbot framework by Google.

Payments

Handling payments, credit card processing and invoices

• Stripe Payments - Accept payments and move money globally with APIs.
• Braintree - Paypal's take on api-first payments.
• Plaid - Accept, send ACH (~bank transfers) and get bank information.

Repo

Repository management

• Artifactory - Create your own package repository.
• cloudsmith - Cloud native private package management.

Search

Index and search your content as a service api

• Algolia - Search as a service and full suite of search APIs.
• Swiftype - Search as a service (crawlers and React ready).
• Websolr - Open-source and hosted search with Solr.

Shipping

Creating and handling shipment of goods

• easypost - Shipping APIs for ecommerce.

Testing

Testing tools

• Testim - Frontend testing.
• Applitools - Automated visual testing.
• Percy - Continuous visual testing.
• Backfire.io - Performance testing.
• Chromatic - Visual UI testing for storybook.

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Contributing

See here: CONTRIBUTING.md