A Useful List of Web Development Tools. How many do you know?

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Scott Ge just posted a list of tools for Web Development, two weeks after his ‘Windows Development Tool list’.   

Here are some of the 200 great tools in his long list. 

  • Browser screenshots by Microsoft – See how your site renders across a selection of common browsers and devices. Powered by BrowserStack.
  • iMacros – Whatever you do with a web browser, iMacros can automate it from web automation/web scripting, to data extraction, to web testing, and much, much more.
  • WebStorm – WebStorm provides facilities for running JavaScript unit tests against a local or remote test server. You can run test cases, methods, or entire test files.
  • QUnit – QUnit is a powerful, easy-to-use JavaScript unit testing framework. It’s used by the jQuery, jQuery UI and jQuery Mobile projects and is capable of testing any generic JavaScript code, including itself!
  • Node.js Tools for Visual Studio – Turn Visual Studio into a powerful Node.js development environment.
  • PHP Tools for Visual Studio – Provides full featured support for editing and debugging PHP programs.
  • BrowserStack – an amazing cloud of virtual machines running dozens of browsers on as many operating system. A fantastic cross-browser testing tool that has optional Visual Studio integration.
  • MITE by keynote –  A free desktop-based tool for testing and verification of mobile Web content.
  • jQuery’s TestSwarm – provides distributed continuous integration testing for JavaScript.
  • Google JS Test (gjstest) – a fast javascript unit testing framework that runs on the V8 engine, without needing to launch a full browser.
  • Chirpy – VS addin to mash, minify, and validate your javascript, stylesheet, and dotless files.   Behind the scene, it uses Google Closure Tools, YUI Compressor for .Net, Ajax Minifier, or Uglify.js to minify and mash all of your precious assets.
  • YUICompressor – The Yahoo! JavaScript and CSS Compressor
  • Bing Webmaster Tools – ask bing to index your website
  • SEO Browser – see your website like a search engine sees it.