Developer Tools

We don't want access to developer tools preventing folks from having a positive experience contributing to our project! We try our best to provide helpful recommendations and give free licenses to paid tooling from organizations that so generously offer them for free to open source projects.

Free Tools We Recommend

Code Editors

• Visual Studio Code
• Atom

Terminals

• iTerm2 (For macOS)
• Oh My Zsh (Zsh configuration management)

Pair Programming

• atom-pair (Use in combination with communication tool like Google Hangouts)
• Visual Studio Code Live Share (Use in combination with communication tool like Google Hangouts)

Free Licenses to Tools

Please direct message @julia on our contributor Slack workspace for access!

• JetBrains (Various tools including IntelliJ)
• BrowserStack (Web and mobile testing platform)