Ask HN: Must-have software/resources for Frontend Dev/Design?

#1

Post by aayush » Sat, Dec 29, 2012, 3:44 AM UTC

Hello people of HN!

What would you recommend as essential software, services, reference or resources for a Frontend Development and Design system?

P.S If I've duplicated an existing thread, apologies.

Thanks and Happy Holidays!

Re: Ask HN: Must-have software/resources for Frontend Dev/Design?

#2

Post by rman666 » Sat, Dec 29, 2012, 4:08 AM UTC

1. A good text editor

2. A sense of humor

Re: Ask HN: Must-have software/resources for Frontend Dev/Design?

#3

Post by primaryobjects » Sat, Dec 29, 2012, 4:45 AM UTC

Visual Studio 2012

Notepad++

Web Server (IIS, Apache, Node, etc)

Photoshop/Paint.NET

Chrome

Firefox

Internet Explorer

Safari

CDN links for jQuery http://jquery.com/download

CDN links for jQuery UI http://jqueryui.com (bottom of page)

jQuery Block UI http://www.malsup.com/jquery/block (modal popups)

Twitter Bootstrap http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap (base css)

Open Internet connection

Re: Ask HN: Must-have software/resources for Frontend Dev/Design?

#4

Post by aayush » Sat, Dec 29, 2012, 5:04 AM UTC

primaryobjects wrote: post #3

Visual Studio 2012 Notepad++ Web Server (IIS, Apache, Node, etc) Photoshop/Paint.NET Chrome Firefox Internet Explorer Safari CDN links for jQuery http://jquery.com/download CDN links for jQuery UI http://jqueryui.com (bottom of page) jQuery Block UI http://www.malsup.com/jquery/block (modal popups) Twitter Bootstrap http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap (base css) Open Internet connection

Thanks! Great start there.