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9 Modern Developer Tools to Improve Your Coding Workflow 👨‍💻⚡

With the world being so fast-paced today, having the right tools can significantly improve your productivity and help you deliver high-quality projects faster.

The right developer tools make things easier, automate routine work, and provide you with deeper insights — all of which are required to get more done in less time.

In this article here, I've personally chosen 9 modern developer tools that help you implement auth, handle users, integrate payments, track performance, and catch bugs, and much more.

Whether you're building fintech apps, provisioning infrastructure, designing new apps or improving your codebases, these tools will save you time and make you more impactful.

Each tool has direct links, concise descriptions, image previews to get the impression on the go, and concise bulletpoints why you should include it in your toolkit. Let's get started!


1. FusionAuth – Secure authentication & user management

FusionAuth is a flexible identity & access management solution that's designed for developers to use so they can add secure login, registration, SSO, and MFA to their products without hassle.

It handles the authentication process, protects the user information, and improves complex user management flows, so you can focus on building your product, and not reinventing auth.

FusionAuth

Some of the most awesome features:

🔒 Modern authentication options: Implement password, passwordless, single sign-on (SSO), and multi-factor authentication (MFA) with support for OAuth2, OIDC, and SAML.

🛡️ Security & compliance built-in: SOC 2 Type 2 certified, with features like breached password detection, customizable rate limiting, and location-aware security.

⚙️ Fully customizable & deployed anywhere: API-first, single-tenant or hybrid hosting, and extensive integration options to meet any stack you are currently using.

👥 Advanced user & entity management: Fine-grained roles, complete control over permissions, and intuitive admin tools for easy user and support team workflows.

FusionAuth-wide

Ready to save months of development and keep your users secure? Try FusionAuth and accelerate your authentication workflow starting in your next project!

Thanks to the FusionAuth team for sponsoring this article.

🌎 Website Link: https://fusionauth.io


2. MakeSwift - Build websites & update content visually

MakeSwift

MakeSwift enables developers and designers to build responsive websites within a visual drag-and-drop interface, resulting in a quicker deployment and easier management afterward.

Key features & why to use it:

  • Intuitive WYSIWYG website builder with drag-and-drop simplicity

  • Responsive design for all device types from smartphones to desktops

  • Fast performance and out of the box support for ISR, SSG, and code-splitting

🌎 Website link: https://www.makeswift.com


3. BuildShip - Create powerful APIs & AI workflows

BuildShip

BuildShip allows devs to build complex APIs and advanced AI workflows using diagram-like workflow, with complete low-code flexibility to adjust logic to the requirements of your project.

Key features & why to use it:

  • Browse through a large set of ready-made nodes to get you started

  • Generate custom nodes and logic using natural language prompts

  • Instantly deploy scalable APIs, scheduled jobs, and automations to the cloud

🌎 Website link: https://buildship.com


4. LiveBlocks - Add real-time collaboration features

LiveBlocks

LiveBlocks offers developers APIs and SDKs to embed real-time collaboration functionality in your web apps, for example feature like live cursors, online presence, and notifications.

Key features & why to use it:

  • Real-time presence and cursor tracking to provide awareness of collaborators

  • Scalable infrastructure for concurrent users from small teams to large enterprises

  • Easy integration with popular frameworks such as React, NextJS, Vue, and more

🌎 Website link: https://liveblocks.io


5. FlowMapp - Create sitemaps & plan UX wireframes

FlowMapp

FlowMapp is a UX collaboration software for sitemap, user flow, wireframing, and content planning that helps developers and designers plan websites and applications.

Key features & why to use it:

  • Interactive sitemap and diagram-like user flow creation

  • Real-time team collaboration with the team and instant feedback

  • Built-in templates for various needs and project content management

🌎 Website link: https://www.flowmapp.com


6. Plaid - Integrate payments & manage transactions

Plaid

Plaid offers APIs to allow developers to connect applications with bank accounts to provide payment integrations in an easy way allowing rapid development in the fintech space.

Key features & why to use it:

  • Integration with financial institutions from banks to credit unions

  • Secure sensitive data encryption and regulatory compliance

  • User identity verification, real-time transaction data and balance reports

🌎 Website link: https://plaid.com


7. BetterStack - Monitor app uptime & manage logs

BetterStack

BetterStack offers developers real-time monitoring and observability tools to view the performance of applications and debug issues prior to them negatively impacting your users.

Key features & why to use it:

  • Real-time metrics and alerts to catch issues before they escalate

  • Distributed tracing and logs to diagnose performance bottlenecks & errors

  • Easy setup without impacting system performance or developer workflow

🌎 Website link: https://betterstack.com/


8. FeatureBase - Collect user feedback & plan features

FeatureBase

FeatureBase is a customer feedback & feature planning tool that helps developers to capture, prioritize, and organize user contributions towards building better products.

Key features & why to use it:

  • Collect feedback & bug reports directly from your app

  • Users can request, vote, and comment on feature requests or ideas

  • Allows teams to reduce support loads and announce product changes

🌎 Website link: https://www.featurebase.app/


9. BetterBugs - Capture code bugs & add markups

BetterBugs

BetterBugs is a bug tracking tool that helps developers capture and annotate software bugs as screenshots or screenrecordings, to help explain errors with the team.

Key features & why to use it:

  • Capture screens effortlessly, create markups, and share with others

  • Add real-time comments to your bug reports for quick feedback loops

  • Auto-attached developer logs, device info, and more, every time

🌎 Website link: https://www.betterbugs.io/


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Ndeye Fatou Diop

Thanks for sharing Madza! I wasn't familiar with any of these!

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Madza

Happy to hear they were useful!

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Nathan Tarbert

Always love stumbling on new tools like these- feels like every year gets a bit easier for devs willing to look around.

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Madza

Means a lot, thanks!

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Tahsin Abrar • Edited

This is an excellent resource. I truly appreciate the effort behind it, and I'm confident that product managers will find the insights incredibly valuable.

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Madza

Thanks a lot, happy to hear that!

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Valentin Iljaž

Great list! Also a must have: Webacus.dev - Platform for building your own toolset.

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Wagner Braga

All those have a pretty fine free tier!

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Federico R.

Very interesting, thanks!

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Moses-Morris

Thanks for sharing very great 👌 content.

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Madza

My pleasure to share them!

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Rajat Kanti Nandi

Nice. Betterbugs looks interesting to try out.

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Madza

Hopefully it's useful for you!

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Raz Devra

these are good....

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Federico R.

Much interesting, thanks!