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12 Open Source tools that Developers would give up Pizza forπŸ‘‹πŸ•

Shivam Chhuneja on June 24, 2024

It's Open Source tool time! There is more to open source tools than the top 3 that everyone knows about. Heck, you might actually know all the 12...
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Tony Childs

I'd recommend Bruno over Postman any day. Postman was a handy tool when it first came out a decade ago, but as it has moved to a paid platform the free version has been crippled. Aside from being an innovative and easy-to-use tool, Bruno is truly free and doesn't limit you.

usebruno.com/manifesto
usebruno.com/compare/bruno-vs-postman

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Shivam Chhuneja

Don't know this one, will have a look for sure

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Jayant Bhawal

Oh yeah! Bruno is pretty cool!
Does bruno have something equivalent to how postman can save a request and response for a given saved request?

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Alex Kaul

Thanks for sharing the FOSS tools!
One more FOSS tool to improve dev productivity: Freeter. It allows to organize web apps, files & folders, urls, etc by projects and workflows and stay focused on what matters at any given moment.
Here is a post on how I boosted my productivity with it: dev.to/alexk/how-i-boosted-my-prod...

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Shivam Chhuneja

Thanks for the suggestion, will definitely look at it.

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Jayant Bhawal

Freeter is pretty damn cool! Thanks!

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Emil Ksenzovski • Edited

AI made article, the author didn't even bother to check if the content is correct.

  1. Everyone who knows Postman knows that its not FOSS except chatgpt.
  2. Hopscotch site is dead and GitHub repo archived since 2021.
  3. Warp is not only not an open source but it is designed to communicate with remote proprietary server, the company claims that the UI and the client will eventually be open sourced but not the server.

I didn't bother to continue reading the other tools.

Articles like this only mislead and lower the level for us, and sure it not add credibility neither to the author nor to the dev.to site.

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Shivam Chhuneja

Yes, I used Grammarly, but it is not AI-generated.

I'm learning the differences between Source-available and FOSS. I got to know a few tools from my colleagues and dropped the links.
My bad; I did not double-check. I'm continuously learning and improving.

However, I used Postman, Ollama, cURL, and VSCode.

I updated the article with your suggestions and highlighted the comments.

Our co-founders have written genuine opinions on dev.to. Please consider taking a look. Happy to get on a call if you have more questions!

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Antonio | CEO at Litlyx.com

I would love if in your next post on FOSS you can show Litlyx we are an Open Source alternative to Google Analytics, but with steroids.
I've found your list highly informative. thanks for sharing.

Sharing love from italy!

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Shivam Chhuneja

Noted Antonio - will have a look for sure :)

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Tony Childs

Also note that your Sol links are dead.

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Shivam Chhuneja

appreciate this - will see what happened here

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Dave Parr

Bodhi and lm studio kinks are also dead

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Shivam Chhuneja

Hey, I have updated and made corrections in the article.

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scottgoettepnc

Ollama is great for experimenting with local LLMs. Doesn't seem to match the description in your article though.

Might you have meant to highlight prometheus? Jaeger? Or another free monitoring/observability framework/platform?

Am interested/curious which one

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Steven Stanton

Yea this one lost me when recommending Postman. I would highly recommend Bruno for a true open source alternative to Postman.

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Shivam Chhuneja

Another reader, Tony also mentioned Bruno in the comments earlier, will check it out for sure :)

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Robert Myers

Are the Warp links correct? Those appear to be an AI assisted terminal, not a deployment tool.

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Shivam Chhuneja

I realized after your comment that Warp wasn't technically OpenSource, which I was under the impression of from their GH repo.

I've now updated Warp to Waveterm which they themselves seem to recommend as well.

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leob

Eh 12 tools? 13 tools? First thing I noticed about this article (nobody else is mentioning it) :D

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Shivam Chhuneja

Oops, point taken, thanks for pointing this out

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Nick McAvoy

There's also oh-my-bash for bash, but I much prefer oh-my-posh because it works on bash, zsh, fish, and even powershell. So your native windows cli can get in the fancy terminal experience

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Shivam Chhuneja

appreciate the input - will check these out too!

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Rathod Ketan

I think Jenkins is open source and best for creating CI CD pipeline

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Samad Yar Khan

VS Code FTW

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Shivam Chhuneja

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Isabella Stanton

ESLint is fantastic for improving JavaScript and TypeScript code quality with customizable rules. Combining it with tools like Prettier is a game-changer. Just like MyMathLab Help has streamlined my study routine, ESLint ensures clean and efficient coding. Thanks for sharing its key features!

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Enoch Osarenren

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click2install

Another list in the long list of waste of time lists.

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Shivam Chhuneja

Thank you for your comment, just want to blog about what me and our team find useful in our own dev productivity journeys.

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David Hill

I would remove Postman from this list,
It is no longer free (or open source), it's unusable without an account, which is a PITA.
I have switched over to Insomnia

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Esteban Rocha

Pfff who the hell will give away pizza for this. L

I'm utterly disappointed with the click bait on the title.

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biruks

Where is commander cmd tool?

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Jayant Bhawal

Insane list dude! Thanks!
Like many others, Postman might not belong in this list.
They have some open source projects, but the main tool isn't it as of now.

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Dr. James Rutherford

Appreciate this!