Stories by StackShare on Medium

#2: How Sqreen handles 50,000 requests every minute in a write-heavy environment

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Top Community Members (2019)

These rankings are brought to you, by YOU. The StackShare community makes all of this possible by sharing not only your stacks, but your reasoning behind why you chose your stack. For this year’s awards we wanted to recognize the community members that have gone above and beyond the call of duty to share best practices with other developers. The community members that have, in aggregate, taken hours to detail the important stack decisions they’ve made. While there’s far more than 10 developers that contributed in a major way to StackShare- these ten are quite special. Thank you to everyone who took the time to help hundreds of thousands of developers decide on the right tools! Click each community member’s link below to see all the Decisions they shared in 2019!

1. Sung Won Chung | 115

2. Daniel Quinn | Senior Developer, Workfinder | 99

3. Wesly Nouse | Owner, Absolum | 95

4. Tim Abbott | Founder, Zulip | 87

5. Abigail Watson | 85

6. Joshua Dean Küpper | CEO, Scrayos UG (haftungsbeschränkt)

7. Tim Nolet | Founder/Engineer & Dishwasher, Checkly | 81

8. Jack Graves | Head of Product Development, Automation Consultants | 78

9. Michael Mota | CEO & Founder, AlterEstate | 75

10. Julien DeFrance | Principal Software Engineer, Tophatter | 62

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Methodology:

For tool rankings, scores are calculated using a combination of # of stacks a tool was added to, number of votes for one-liners contributed by the community, # of follows, and pageviews for the year. New Tool rankings were chosen from tools that were created and added to StackShare in 2019 with follows weighing more than other metrics since new tools don’t just enter stacks overnight.

As usual, we removed Git from the rankings in the DevOps rankings since many developers don’t list in their stack (and instead only list git collaboration services like GitHub).

If you have any questions about the rankings, drop us a line at team@stackshare.io!

Introducing The StackShare API (Beta) — tech stack data for 1.5M+ companies

StackShare — Thu, 05 Dec 2019 08:54:26 GMT

🎊 Introducing The StackShare API (Beta) — tech stack data for 1.5M+ companies

📢 Today we’re excited to introduce The StackShare API — the best tech stack data set available. The StackShare API has over 10X the data available on stackshare.io 😱

We’ve analyzed and classified tons of publicly available sources from across the web and layered that on top of the self-reported data only available on StackShare. Imagine all the data on StackShare at your fingertips, plus over 1 million more companies. You can use the API for leads, enrichment, trends, and more.

With the StackShare API you can:

Automatically enrich your customer records and workflows with company technology data
Improve lead scoring by knowing which technologies your customers use at their company
Instantly build your sales pipeline with access to over 32 million data points from 1.5 million companies using over 7,000 technologies

During the Beta, API plans start at $99/month and get cheaper per API call with more usage, but you can try it for free (no credit card required).

👉 Check out The StackShare API on Product Hunt for 20% off any paid plan.

The API is in Beta, and we’ll be making lots of enhancements over the coming months, so we’d love your feedback!

Try the StackShare API for Free

- SS Team

Announcing Private StackShare For Teams (Beta)

StackShare — Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:53:48 GMT

Starting today, Private StackShare for Teams is in Private Beta — contact us at private@stackshare.io for an invitation

Today, we’re excited to announce the introduction of Private StackShare for Teams (Beta), the best way for your team to privately map out and share internal tech stacks and technology decisions!

Large companies typically have this data and knowledge spread out over wikis, spreadsheets, private version control, chat messages, closed unsearchable email accounts and listservs. It’s messy, inefficient, and often leads to organizational silos with multiple teams building the same solutions. Fortunately, StackShare was built exactly to address this burden, allowing your teams to maximize their potential.

With Private StackShare, you get all the features you see on stackshare.io — but, in your own private enterprise-grade environment that only your company has access to. Private StackShare helps you to:

Easily map out and share tech stacks and important technology decisions across internal teams to understand their tech capabilities and gaps
Reduce inefficiencies and duplication of technical efforts across engineering teams by developing a standard set of tools to solve common problems
Enable better planning and resourcing (CTO/CIO, Solutions Architects, Engineers, Project Managers, etc) through increased transparency
Shorten developer onboarding to new teams and projects by giving them an understanding of the stack they’ll be working on and the history behind it
Streamline the evaluation of technologies for projects through structured comparisons and Q&A discussions within teams
Reduce developer churn by giving visibility to projects using newer technologies
Compare company approaches with best practices across the industry by leveraging StackShare’s public data and content

The Problem

Recently, we received requests from StackShare community members at Fortune 500 companies- who explicitly voiced that they love StackShare, however,they’re unable to contribute publicly and requested a private version. Initially, we wondered “Why would they want StackShare without all the awesome public community content?” We learned that most large companies don’t know what technologies are being used in-house and why, let alone which ones they should choose on new projects.

Our mission at StackShare is to make developers more productive by helping them learn about technology through the people and companies they trust. Sometimes the developers you trust most are your co-workers, and collaborating with them on technology decisions has been a challenge- until now.

Private StackShare

Private StackShare is what you see on stackshare.io but it lives in your own private environment so that the data and content you contribute is only visible to the teammates you explicitly grant access.

We’ll be offering Private StackShare for Teams in a few different ways:

Cloud (stackshare.io)

Multi-tenant hosted on stackshare.io
Data encryption at rest
SSO via SAML or OAuth (LDAP)
GitHub/Bitbucket integration to auto-create and update stacks
Team profiles with permissions management

Enterprise Cloud (yourcompany.stackshare.io)

Single-tenant data storage & encryption at rest
Data encryption at rest
SSO via SAML or OAuth (LDAP)
GitHub/Bitbucket integration to auto-create and update stacks
Team profiles with permissions management
Priority support
Invoice billing

Enterprise On-Prem (self-hosted)

Host your own instance on-premises or in your cloud
Data encryption at rest
SSO via SAML or OAuth (LDAP)
GitHub/Bitbucket integration to auto-create and update stacks
Team profiles with permissions management
Priority support
Invoice billing
Audit-logging
Airgapped installations
Multi-Host clustering
Snapshot and restore utilities

If you’re interested in learning more about Private StackShare for your company, send us an email at private@stackshare.io and we’ll be happy to tell you more.

-Yonas

The Hottest New Developer Tools from May 2018

StackShare — Fri, 01 Jun 2018 21:16:14 GMT

Every week we send out the the newest tools added to StackShare in our Newsletter. This month, the machine learning train didn’t slow down with a visual ML model builder, ML for mobile, and an ML-backed BI solution. These are the tools added in May 2018 that were the most favorited, commented on, and/or added to Stacks.

1. ReLaXed

Generating PDF documents can be tough. Years ago, the only way to do it was with massive, brittle files where you manually specified the exact coordinates of the information you wanted displayed. Thankfully, today we have tools like ReLaXed. You define the structure and content with HTML, CSS, JS, Markdown, and even LaTeX. Then ReLaXed handles the heavy lifting.

2. AskNed

If you’re sick of writing (or correcting) SQL queries for your marketing team, or you just hate SQL, AskNed is worth checking out. This tool allows you to get powerful data analytics by asking questions in plain English. It connects directly to your data sources and provides fast, interactive visualizations.

3. Infection Monkey

Infection Monkey is an open-source, automated penetration testing tool that operates the way a real attacker would. You “infect” a machine on your network with the tool and a scenario like stolen credentials, then sit back as Infection Monkey scans the network for vulnerabilities and generates a full report when it’s done.

4. Lobe

Built on top of TensorFlow and Keras, Lobe is a visual tool for building, training, and shipping custom deep learning models. Simply drag a folder of training examples into the app, and Lobe automatically builds the model. You can then refine the training and ship it to Tensorflow or CoreML. It’s now easier than ever to create your very own Not Hotdog app.

5. LayerJS

LayerJS is a new way to create interactive UI animations with pure HTML and CSS. It uses the concepts of Frames (HTML fragments) and Stages (viewports) to allow the creation of layered animation that you define with attributes in your HTML. It also plugs in directly to your current framework.

6. Cilium

Cilium is a new open-source tool for securing your containers. It uses BPF to let you define network-layer and application-layer security policies for your microservices. Cilium supports frameworks like Kubernetes and Docker and communication protocols like HTTP, gPRC, and Kafka.

7. Dimer

Most engineers don’t like writing documentation. This results in a lot of good tools with bad docs. Fortunately, Dimer provides an easy way to write beautiful documentation with extended Markdown. It offers a “slick” writing experience with some sensible Markdown extensions for docs like tips and YouTube links to give you no excuse not to write great documentation for your next project.

8. Skor

Skor is a delicious, chocolate-toffee bar manufactured by Hershey’s. It’s also an open-source library by the makers of Hasura for listening to PostgreSQL events and forwarding them to a webhook. Whenever INSERT, UPDATE, or DELETE is called on a table, Skor sends the row changes as JSON to your webhook.

9. ML Kit

Are you a mobile developer? Do you want to add machine learning to your app? Google has a solution for that. ML Kit provides out-of-the-box solutions for common ML features like face detection, text recognition, and image labeling. If the base functionality isn’t enough, you can also import TensorFlow Lite models, and ML Kit will handle hosting and serving them to your app.

10. Mapfit

Mapfit promises to be “better or equal to Google Maps in accuracy in every country”. That’s a bold statement, but this is a map platform that provides hyper-specific address data like secondary doorways, parking garage entrances, and freight docks. They also claim their load speed is “unrivaled”, so your app’s performance won’t suffer. Look out, Google.

Originally posted on the StackShare blog.

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Top 10 New Developer Tools of February

StackShare — Mon, 05 Mar 2018 20:56:47 GMT

Our favorite thing to do around here is find the hottest and most exciting new developer tools and share them with you. If you subscribe to our weekly newsletter, you’re getting the inside scoop every week! But let’s take a moment at the end of another month to celebrate the most popular new tools added in all of February.

These are the top 10 new tools added to the StackShare database in February 2018.

#1: Haiku

Build and design cross-platform UIs and Animations

“Haiku lets you design & build interactive, visually stunning UIs,” says creator Zack Brown. “Haiku has a lot in common with After Effects and Flash: it’s a timeline-powered animation tool that supports interactions through code — but unlike After Effects it’s intended for designing UIs, and unlike Flash, it’s built on open standards and an open source, hackable renderer & file format. Haiku is all about bringing design and code closer together.”

#2: Rekit

Toolkit for building scalable web applications with React, Redux and React-router

Nate Wang created Rekit because he felt creating a React Redux app required too much verbose boilerplate code. “Rekit helps to generate them automatically and refactor them easily,” he says. “It’s very important to keep a web app project readable, understandable and maintainable when it scales. Rekit suggests an opinionated pattern to organize files and folders in a scalable way and provides IDE/tools to help you always follow the approach. ”

How does Rekit compare to similar tools, and how is it better? Wang says “Rekit studio is an IDE that understands your web projects; it knows features, components, actions and routing rules so it can show and manage them in a meaningful way, while other IDEs are more like just code editors which only know folders, files.”

#3: Docusaurus

Easy to maintain open source documentation websites

Facebook engineer Joel Marcey says his team created Docusaurus for a number of reasons:

To put the focus on writing good documentation instead of worrying about the infrastructure of a website.
To provide features that many of our open source websites need like blog support, search and versioning.
To make it easy to push updates, new features, and bug fixes to everyone all at once.
And, finally, to provide a consistent look and feel across our all our open source projects.

“At Facebook,” says Marcey, “Docusaurus allows us to quickly get different projects up and running with documentation websites, especially for teams who don’t have much experience with web development or primarily want a basic site to showcase their project.”

#4: Proton Native

A React environment for cross platform native desktop app

Gustav Hansen initially created Proton Native “because I had to create a complex GUI for another project, and I didn’t understand why something so simple became so hard. I had close to a 1K lines of code for something that was repetitive and not too complex. I tried creating it in PyQt, but it became a mess.” Hansen had already used React a lot and loved the workflow, so “I decided to see if anyone had done something like that for desktop. I couldn’t find anything, so I made my own. It quickly morphed into a response to the bloat of Electron and the split in developing for desktop.”

#5: Apache OpenWhisk

A serverless, open-source cloud platform

Apache’s OpenWhisk homepage describes the tool this way: “As a developer there’s no need to manage the servers that run your code. Apache OpenWhisk operates and scales your application for you. Spend your time innovating, not configuring infrastructure. Plus, you only pay for what your app uses and needs at that moment.”

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#6: Maze

Create missions that testers will perform on your InVision prototype, and learn how your product’s design can be improved with zero lines of code.

“Too many businesses are wasting insane amounts of time and money building features just to realize that the design simply doesn’t work,” says Maze creator Jonathan Widawkski. “This leads to frustration as teams end up rebuilding features instead of implementing new ones.

“We realised that there was a way to collect data much earlier in the process: performing quantitative user testing at the prototype phase to iterate quickly and effectively until your design is proven. This is why we created Maze: an affordable analytics and testing solution built on top of your InVision’s prototype.”

Further, he says, “Maze is based on the tools designers already use (InVision) and doesn’t require testers to install anything.”

#7: Blazor

An experimental web UI framework using C#/Razor and HTML, running in the browser via WebAssembly

Blazor creator Steve Sanderson of Microsoft built Blazor as a web framework that utilizes Web Assembly to run .NET in any browser. “Blazor is currently an experimental project and in the early stages of development…there isn’t a download available at this time.” But “if you’re keen, you can clone the repo, build it, and run the tests.”

#8: dotmesh

Capture, organize, and share application states using a git-like CLI

Creator Luke Marsden says “We created dotmesh because data is missing from the circle of control: while managing code changes with version control, automated tests, and CI is obvious to modern developers, and managing cloud resources with declarative tools like Terraform is obvious to modern DevOps, the data in your app is left in the cold. With dotmesh, you can capture the state of multiple microservices’ data stores in a single commit and branch and push/pull them between stages of the software lifecycle such as dev, CI, staging and (soon) production.”

While intentionally similar to Git in terms of interaction patterns and command (to ensure it’s familiar to developers), Marsden says dotmesh is different in three important ways. “Firstly it supports efficiently snapshotting large databases (e.g. a Postgres database), which Git just isn’t set up to support; secondly it supports a feature called subdots, which enable more than one data store to be captured in a single commit so that you can capture the state of an entire app in one go, even if it’s a microservices app with polyglot persistence; and thirdly it supports clustering out of the box, meaning that it can operate either on a single docker host (e.g. Docker for Mac on your laptop) all the way up to your production Kubernetes cluster (e.g. on GKE).”

Find out more in dotmesh’s docs and “Please give us feedback on Slack; as a new startup we’re very keen to hear feedback from users!”

#9: PopcornNotify

Send simple emails and text messages from one API

“It’s common for developers to want to send notifications from their code,” says PopcornNotify creator Jason Strauss. “There are tools for sending emails and SMS, but they take a bit of configuration: buying phone numbers, verifying domains, etc.

“Those configurations are really important when communicating with your users, but unimportant for internal messages, like ‘The server is down’ or ‘Your long script has finished running.’ I built PopcornNotify because I have several small projects and internal tools, and I wanted a simple, automated way to send myself messages from them.”

#10: Airtap

Test your JavaScript in 800+ browsers

“Airtap is different than other cross browser test runners in its simplicity and ability to easily run your test suite in many browsers without having them installed locally. It lets you iterate quickly during development and provide good browser coverage before release without worrying about missing a supported browser.”

If you use and love any of these new tools, be sure to add them to your Stack and to your News feed! Now let’s gear up for another month of new tools!

Originally published at stackshare.io.

Top 10 New Developer Tools of February was originally published in HackerNoon.com on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

React Roundup: Top 10 Articles in February

StackShare — Wed, 28 Feb 2018 17:06:01 GMT

React was named our Top Developer Tool of 2017 in the Application & Data Category, and the buzz just keeps growing in 2018. At StackShare we keep our finger on the pulse of the hottest tools in the industry, and it seems like something new and exciting is happening in the React world every day!

Here are the top 10 February React articles from across the web, as hand-curated by the StackShare team using data from StackShare News.

Want to keep up? Just add React to your customized newsfeed and you’ll be as on top of it as we are.

#1: What’s new in React 16.3(.0-alpha)

Bartosz Szczeciński’s Medium post outlining all the “biggest, most interesting changes” in the newest alpha release of React has nearly 8k claps.

#2: Some great React components, libraries, and tools for 2018

“A curated collection of useful and popular React.js UI components, tools and libraries for building your next amazing app in 2018.”

#3: Top 10 ReactJS Open Source Projects of February (by Mybridge)

This new monthly series by Mybridge AI ranks the top open source React projects on GitHub based on a variety of factors. Some of these projects were so cool we had to add them to the StackShare database (check out Docusaurus and React Easy State).

#4: React’s new Context API

Ken C. Dodds wrote this post about the new Context API in React, and why you shouldn’t (necessarily) be afraid to use it.

#5: Build a Progressive Web App using React

Aman Mittal’s guide walks you step by step through building a simple PWA with React.

#6: Introducing Rekit Studio: a real IDE for React and Redux development

Nate Wang announced the stable release of Rekit Studio, “a complete IDE for React, Redux, and React Router development.” And yes, of course it’s on StackShare! If you’ve used it, add it to your stack now!

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#7: Free Course — Learn React by building an app to help you find the best movie to watch

If you’re not already on the React train, this is a great program for those of us who learn by doing. Build a simple app with CodeCamp’s free tutorial.

#8: How I Shipped a Neural Network on iOS with CoreML, PyTorch, and React Native

From Stefano J. Attardi: “This is the story of how I trained a simple neural network to solve a well-defined yet novel challenge in a real iOS app.”

View Hacker News Discussion | View React News

#9: React patterns you should know

João Miguel Cunha reminds us: “React is just JavaScript!” This post goes through some common problems and gives examples of how you can use patterns to solve them.

View Reddit Discussion | View React News

#10: Developing Games with React, Redux, and SVG — Part 2

This blog post by Auth0 is the second in a series that walks you through developing a React game called Aliens, Go Home!

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React Tweet of the Month

Dan Abramov on Twitter

Service workers are opt-in in the next version of Create React App. They are an amazing technology but the pitfalls today are too significant to be a good default. Will revisit in a year or two!

More!

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React Roundup: Top 10 Articles in February was originally published in HackerNoon.com on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

Top 50 Developer Tools of 2017

StackShare — Thu, 01 Feb 2018 15:01:02 GMT

https://stackshare.io/posts/top-developer-tools-2017

Originally posted on StackShare

It’s the moment you’ve been waiting for! Well, it’s the one we’ve been waiting for, anyway. It’s the 4th annual StackShare Awards! 🎉

This is your one-stop resource for developer tools, with a wrap up of what was hot in 2017 and what to be on the lookout for in 2018. We’ve analyzed thousands of data points to bring you these rankings. More on methodology at the end of the post. But first! The awards.

Here are the categories:

New Tool of the Year
Application & Data Tool of the Year
Utility Tool of the Year
DevOps Tool of the Year
Business Tool of the Year
Top Stack Stories of the Year
Top Developers of the Year
Developer Newsletters You Should Be Reading

This is our biggest undertaking of every year, combing through our enormous piles of data to find the killer insights we know you want. This year we aggregated usage from 40K+ tech stacks, over 3 million unique visits, and thousands of developer comments, reviews, and votes across all of 2017 (more on methodology below). Let’s do this!

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New Tool of the Year

#1: Lottie

Our top new tool of the year is brought to us by the minds at Airbnb. Lottie is an open source mobile library for iOS, Android, and React Native that renders Adobe After Effects animations in real time, allowing apps to use animations as easily as they use static images. “Our goal is to support as many After Effects features as we possibly can, to allow for a lot more than simple icon animations,” says Lottie engineer Salih Abdul-Karim.

#2: Uppy

Uppy is a sleek, open source modular file uploader that integrates with any framework. “It’s fast, easy to use and lets you worry about more important problems than building a file uploader.” Uppy closed out the year as the #1 trending GitHub JavaScript project, so we think it’s only getting started.
» Learn more about Uppy

#3: LocalStack

LocalStack is a fully functional local AWS cloud stack by none other than the good folks over at Atlassian. Features include continuous integration, cost-effective testing, and speed and ease of use. One comment on Hacker News reads, “One of the biggest ‘drawbacks’ of using AWS as a production platform is that making your development environment look like production is hard. Having to deploy to test is cumbersome and having a cost associated with each test can definitely introduce some sort of ‘stress’ and encourage people to not test incrementally. I wonder if this changes that. Having services like S3, Lambda and SQS available locally sounds super interesting.”
» Learn more about LocalStack

#4: React Sketch.app

React Sketchapp is the only tool this year that appears in both the top 10 New Tools list and the top 10 of its own category (Business Tools); yet another brainchild of Airbnb engineers, React Sketchapp renders React components to Sketch in real time. “I’m trying my best to bring design & engineering closer together at Airbnb (and in the world),” says creator Jon Gold.
» Learn more about React Sketch.app

#5: Element

A Vue 2.0-based desktop UI library, Element was built by the engineers at Ele.me, “one of the biggest food delivery companies in China.” The team released Element 2.0 in October, and continue to grow their product on GitHub with the help of the open source community. With Vue.js entering the top tools list this year, it’s not surprising to see a library based on it making the top new tools list.
» Learn more about Element

#6: Standup

Standup integrates with all the tools you already use for source control and project management, including Jira, Trello, and GitHub, to deliver daily engineering progress reports, freeing up your engineers to do their work, rather than report on it. “We were doing some contract work for a customer that had stringent reporting requirements,” founder Kevin Coleman told us. “Compiling their reports was a manual, time-consuming process, but they were super high value for the customer. We decided to build a tool that would automate this report building process.
» Learn more about Standup

#7: Autotrack

Google Analytics naturally appears in our list of top 10 Utility Tools this year, and it’s bringing along its new(ish) buddy Autotrack. Built by Google, Autotrack is a nifty little tool that automates some of the most common interactions most of us care about on our web pages. “Since most website owners care about a lot of the same types of user interactions, web developers end up writing the same code over and over again for every new site they build,” reads Autotrack’s README.
» Learn more about Autotrack

#8: Kur

Kur was profiled in TechCrunch at the top of 2017, and it continued to impress throughout the year. Kur “was designed to appeal to the entire machine learning community, from novices to veterans,” say its creators at Deepgram.
» Learn more about Kur

#9: Postal

An open source email delivery platform, Postal is keeping up with larger competitors like SendGrid and Mailgun with 7.5K GitHub stars — and a spot in our Top 10 New Tools — just since its launch in June.
» Learn more about Postal

#10: Docker Secrets

Introduced in February, Docker Secrets integrates secret distribution directly into the container platform. Docker has said it now considers security one of its main selling points.
» Learn more about Docker Secrets

The Verdict:

There are always new tools, but not all of them battle their way out of obscurity to find widespread usage. These newcomers are still gaining traction but we’ve seen former top new tools find their ways into mainstream usage the following year, so may the odds be ever in their favor. This year’s top new tools are a mix of fresh startups and tools backed by established companies including Google, Atlassian, and two by Airbnb. And 8 of our 10 Top New Tools are open source this year; open source continues to offer opportunities for developers across the world to collaborate, build skills, and share knowledge.

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New Tool of the Year (Runner-Up)

2017 was yet another great year for dev tools. Along with the help of the community, we added 361 new tools to the StackShare database, all of them unique and useful in their own ways. If there’s one thing we’ve learned, it’s that developers will always find ways to make their jobs and the jobs of others easier, and the result is hundreds of incredible tools. Here are the 10 new tool runners-up.

#11: React Navigation

React has made a strong showing this year in our top tools, and here’s one more React tool on the list. A flexible navigation library for React Native and web, React Navigation debuted on Hacker News last January to comments like “Awesome! A better navigator is the #2 feature request for React Native — this solves a huge pain point” and “Definitely going to try this out. Having a consistent navigation library seems to be the last missing puzzle when building cross platform apps.” Hackernoon said in November that “the React-Native community is finally settling for React-Navigation as the default navigation solution.”
» Learn more about React Navigation

#12: Britecharts

Britecharts is a reusable charting library built by the team at Eventbrite as an open source project. It’s grown into one of the most popular D3.js-based libraries on GitHub; you can read an interview with two of the Eventbrite engineers behind the creation of Britecharts here..
» Learn more about Britecharts

#13: Create React Native App

Create React Native App allows you to do just that: create a React Native app on any OS with no build config. A collaboration between engineers at Facebook and Expo, you can develop for iOS devices using Linux or Windows.
» Learn more about Create React Native App

#14: Castor

Castor is a simple, live data dashboard tool. It allows you to present your data on any screen, from an iPad to a TV, formatted with their simple drag-and-drop widget interface; keep data updated in real time with webhooks. A commenter on ProductHunt had this to say: “Woah — just tried it out and I was definitely surprised about how great of an experience I had. The user interface, controls, and design is beautifully done — the graph is excellent.”
» Learn more about Castor

#15: Prepack

Prepack is a tool by the team at Facebook that simplifies your JavaScript code to make it run faster. It rewrites a JavaScript bundle to produce new code that executes more efficiently. It’s similar to Closure Compiler, but not the same: Closure Compiler optimizes for file size, while Prepack optimizes for performance and minimizing computations.
» Learn more about Prepack

#16: awless

Awless is a small but powerful command line interface (CLI) for managing [Amazon Web Services]. Released in 2017, the open source CLI written in Go “got praise from AWS superstar Jeff Barr and attracted more than 2.5k stars on GitHub in just a few months,” according to creator Henri Binsztok.
» Learn more about awless

#17: NanoNets

NanoNets is a machine learning API that uses less data. Founded in December 2016, NanoNets made its way to #17 in our list by the end of 2017 due to its easy setup and ease of use; it allows developers to train a model with no machine learning experience.
» Learn more about NanoNets

#18: Beehive

Joining the ranks of automation tools like IFTTT and Zapier, Beehive allows you to create agents that perform automated tasks triggered by events and filters.
» Learn more about Beehive

#19: Semantic UI React

The official React integration for Semantic UI, Semantic UI React is free of JQuery and animation dependencies and was called “the best UI framework for React” by Vladimir Metnew on Hackernoon.
» Learn more about Semantic UI React

#20: Prophet

One more Facebook project makes the list with Prophet, a tool for producing high quality forecasts for time series data. Implemented in R and Python, Prophet is used in many applications across Facebook for producing reliable forecasts for planning and goal setting.
» Learn more about Prophet

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Application & Data Tool of the Year

#1: React

That’s right, React kicked JavaScript out of the top spot this year for the first time; last year it appeared as #10 on our list, and we predicted its rise had only begun. Sure enough, it takes our number one spot in 2017. Of course, if you’re using React, you’re also using JavaScript, so it’s tough to say React “beat” JavaScript in the rankings. But the fact that its popularity has outstripped not just every other JavaScript library but JavaScript itself shows how dramatically React has taken over the front-end world. In 2017 React was in the news because of licensing concerns that peaked with WordPress announcing that they would not use React moving forward, which then sparked a lively discussion on GitHub about which library to replace React with- top contenders included Preactand Vue.js. Apparently the Facebook team was listening (and perhaps doing the math on missing out on powering 25% of the entire web?) and shipped React 16 with a brand spanking new MIT license. Legal departments all over the software world can now sleep well at night.

Required reading: The React Story: How Facebook’s Instagram Acquisition Led To The Open Sourcing of React.js.
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#2: JavaScript

React may have rocketed to the top of the list, but it’s riding on the back of JavaScript all the way up. For the second year in a row JavaScript is our top language, further proven by the high proportion of JavaScript tools, libraries, and frameworks in the top 10.
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#3: nginx

Bumping up one spot since last year, nginx continues to speed past the competition to be the first-choice web serving solution in the StackShare community. They launched two new major products in 2017: NGINX Unit (check out their StackShare profile here) and NGINX Amplify, a performance monitoring solution you install directly to your nginx host through an API key.
» Keep up with the latest nginx news

#4: Bootstrap

Coming in at #4 (down two spots from last year), the beloved front-end framework continues to show dominance in its class. Years after its first alpha release in August 2015, we waited patiently for the Bootstrap 4 beta and 2017 delivered with betas 1–3 (Bootstrap 4 was released in its production-ready final form just last week). Also in 2017 they launched a jobs board, and we predict even more growth in 2018 thanks to Bootstrap 4.
» Keep up with the latest Bootstrap news

#5: PHP

Jumping up a spot since last year, PHP continues to hang onto its base and its popularity. No matter how fierce the competition from alternatives like Python and Rails, PHP isn’t giving up the throne. 2017 saw lots of chatter in the dev community around the topic of “Why won’t PHP die?,” and mostly the answer is “because it’s already everywhere.” Given that it’s moved up a spot, and its chief competitors Python and Ruby on Rails aren’t even in the top 10 this year, we’re going to guess it’s not disappearing any time soon. If you’re a PHP developer, your job is probably safe. » Keep up with the latest PHP news

#6: AngularJS

The React competitor continues to hold strong, though it’s down a spot from last year (it switched places with PHP). Last year we predicted React would continue its high-speed rise to the top, and it has, outstripping AngularJS on this year’s list. AngularJS remains a strong contender, though, at #6 on our list, and they released version 4.0 in March, quickly followed by 4.1, 4.2, and 4.3, activity that could point to more growth in 2018.
» Keep up with the latest AngularJS news

#7: Redis

No databases appeared on our top 10 list last year, but this year in-memory, key-value store Redis has broken the barrier. “The Fastest Growing Enterprise Software Company” credits its loyal community with making it the most-deployed database on Docker, and now it’s also the top database on StackShare.
» Keep up with the latest Redis news

#8: Vue.js

Another newcomer to the Application & Data Tools top 10, Vue.js joins fellow JavaScript libraries/frameworks React and AngularJS to complete JavaScript’s domination of the list. Medium moved from Angular 2 to Vue in 2017, choosing it over React, citing speed and superb documentation as deciding factors.
» Keep up with the latest Vue.js news

#9: Java

The third language in our top 10 is Java. Java knocked its top competitor, Node.js, off the list altogether (Node.js was #3 last year). Known for its commitment to requiring as few implementation dependencies as possible, Java appears in the stacks of giants like LinkedIn, Pinterest, and Groupon. Java has announced the upcoming releases of Java 10 and Java 11 in 2018, so keep an eye out for Java news this year.
» Keep up with the latest Java news

#10: HTML5

Flash is dead Long live HTML!.
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The Verdict:

2017 continued to be dominated by front-end technologies, with 6 of our top 10 Application & Data tools falling under that umbrella. Of those, 4 were JavaScript tools. Data is on the rise, with Redis earning the title of our first database to crack the top 10. And just beyond the top 10 sit MySQL, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB — #13, #14, and #16, respectively. Maybe they’ll move up the list in 2018?

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Utility Tool of the Year

#1: Postman

What? That’s right. Google Analytics was knocked off the top of the heap by API tester Postman. The Postman team spent 2017 making small but impactful changes to their product, including their Mock service, an API Network, an Enterprise Beta, and the release of Postman 5.0.
» Don’t miss the latest Postman news

#2: Elasticsearch

The search solution stays in the top ten for the second year in a row, this time joined by Algolia at #5. Elasticsearch engineers kept busy in 2017, releasing 6.0 along with a slew of other product updates. Elasticsearch is used by teams at Stack Overflow, Kickstarter, Mozilla, and Asana.
» Keep up with the latest Elasticsearch news

#3: Google Analytics

The #1 Utility Tool of last year, the analytics giant fell to #3 this year. That doesn’t mean it’s not still popular, though. GA remains everybody’s favorite free analytics tool, and one of the first things you install on nearly every project. The data giant announced a partnership with Salesforce in November; GA isn’t going anywhere for now.
» Keep up with the latest Google Analytics news

#4: CloudFlare

Coming out of nowhere, content delivery network CloudFlare takes the #4 spot for top Utility Tools. Its 1.36K fans on StackShare cite its easy setup and simplicity as things to love about CloudFlare, and it’s known for its security features including DDoS protection and free SSL certificates. The team at CloudFlare released updates and add-ons all year, including Warp, Argo, CloudFlare Workers, and CloudFlare Stream.
» Keep up with the latest CloudFlare news

#5: Algolia

Joining Elasticsearch on the top 10 is its close competitor Algolia, the search engine service used by Birchbox, Docker, Stripe, and us. With Google sunsettingtheir site search service beginning in April, the door was wide open, and Algolia was there to pick up the slack. Algolia made headlines in 2017 as the startup going head-to-head with Google, and announced a $53 million Series B in June. Required reading: How Algolia Reduces Latency for 21B Searches Per Month.
» Keep up with the latest Algolia news

#6: SendGrid

At number 6, email service SendGrid has built a loyal base of developer and marketer customers who love it for its easy setup, affordability, and reliability. Easy integrations with Heroku and Azure also get high marks. SendGrid went public in November with a hugely successful IPO, shares surging nearly 13% on the first day
» Keep up with the latest SendGrid news

#7: SendBird

Not to be confused with its top-10 neighbor SendGrid, SendBird is a messaging SDK and chat API. Appreciated for its ease of use, scalability, and stellar support team, SendBird provides in-app messaging on mobile apps and websites. It was our #1 New Tool of 2016, and it’s good to see it hold its own a year later against older, more established tools in this category. The Y Combinator alum raised $16 million in funding in 2017.
» Keep up with the latest SendBird news

#8: Stripe

The beloved developer-friendly payment service is on our top 10 for the second time. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. In June Stripe launched custom analytics tool Sigma to help businesses track payment data, and in August they quietly began partnering with Amazon.
» Keep up with the latest Stripe news

#9: Google Drive

Who doesn’t use Google Drive? Like Google Analytics, Drive is a staple in the workflow of teams across every industry, and it continues to score high in our rankings year after year. Despite a rather confusing announcement that sent people into a panic in September, Google Drive is still going strong.
» Keep up with the latest Google Drive news

#10: Amazon Route 53

Another repeat performer rounds out the Utility Tools list, with Amazon’s popular DNS service. It’s fast, cheap, easy to use, and backed by Amazon. What more can you ask for? Developer-friendly updates like an Auto-Naming API announced in December continue to keep Route 53 in a lot of our tool boxes.
» Keep up with the latest Amazon Route 53 news

The Verdict:

Last year we saw Postman take the #2 spot, and this year it’s overtaken Google Analytics at the top of the heap. Mailgun and Mandrill didn’t make the list at all this year, and SendGrid dropped from #4 to #6, so email is still hot, but Postman is moving ahead of the pack. Replacing some of the transactional email tools we saw last year are search solutions Algolia (on the list for the first time) and Elasticsearch (moving from #3 last year to #2 this year). And in the payment-processing world, Stripe has knocked PayPal off the list, securing its spot as the developer-favorite payment service.

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DevOps Tool of the Year

#1: GitHub

GitHub remains at the top of the list, and they spent 2017 iterating and improving their offerings at every turn. In January they introduced Topics, allowing you to tag your repos by type or technology. In March they announced the ability to restrict review dismissals with protected branches. Code owners were introduced in July, allowing you to define exactly who needs to review which projects. GitHub Desktop 1.0 was a complete redesign of the GUI app on Electron, released in September. And the GitHub Community Forum, a place for developers from around the world to gather and connect, was born in November. GitHub continues to dominate the DevOps world and serve as the glue for much of the tooling you’re using today.

#2: Docker

The hugely popular container platform turned 4 last year, and it’s not losing any steam with age. 2017 saw the launch of Docker Enterprise Edition in March, and Docker 17.06 Community Edition — the first version of Docker built entirely on the Moby Project — in June. In October, Docker announced native Kubernetes supportfor the first time (if you can’t beat ’em, join ‘em?).
» Keep up with the latest Docker news

#3: Jenkins

Continuous integration and continuous deployment continue to grow in popularity, and Jenkins is leading the pack. The free, open-source tool is used by teams at Instacart, Intel, eBay, and Pandora. The Jenkins teams continues to iterate (continuous iteration?) on their popular Blue Ocean plugin.
» Keep up with the latest Jenkins news

#4: GitLab

Git continues to dominate the version control space, and GitHub alternative GitLab has carved itself a nice niche, beating out BitBucket this year for the #4 spot (BitBucket appears below at #10). The free, self-hosted platform wins fans with its easy setup, nice UI, and continuous integration features. GitLab announced a $20 million Series C round in October, setting themselves up nicely to continue their climb to the top.
» Keep up with the latest GitLab news

#5: Webpack

A newcomer to the top 10 list, Webpack calls itself “a bundler for JavaScript and friends.” Fans call it the most powerful bundler out there, and celebrate its ability to easily handle all types of assets and easy configuration. Webpack v2 was released in January. Webpack scored a major win in April when Rails shipped 5.1 with webpack as an optional compiler.
» Keep up with the latest Webpack news

#6: Atom

Last year’s #3 DevOps tool comes in at #6 this year, and it’s still the only text editor in the top 10. It continues to gain fans who rave about its beautiful UI, modular design, hackability, and you can’t beat the price at free. It’s also open source, which people love. Atom is the brainchild of the team at GitHub, who also released Teletype for Atom this year, adding real-time collaboration to this fan-favorite text editor
» Keep up with the latest Atom news

#7: New Relic

Performance monitoring service New Relic did a lot of interesting work in AI in 2017. They also announced some new Infrastructure integrations in 2017, including Apache and Redis, and can now say 50% of Fortune 100 companies use New Relic. That’s not a bad way to wrap up the year!
» Keep up with the latest New Relic news

#8: npm

npm stayed pretty strong, down just one spot from #7 last year. It’s clear from our Application & Data top 10 that JavaScript is still king, and we still need somebody to manage our dependencies. npm remains the tool of choice; version 5.5.0 was released in October.
» Keep up with the latest npm news

#9: Bitbucket

Atlassian’s entry into the Git management game, BitBucket isn’t being left behind; once again it joins GitHub and GitLab on our list of top DevOps tools. Atlassian released BitBucket 5.0 in May, and in December introduced BitBucket Deployments, calling it “the first deployment solution that sits next to your source code and can be configured with a single line of code.”
» Keep up with the latest Bitbucket news

#10: Kubernetes

The container movement continued to gain steam throughout 2017, Docker hanging onto its spot at the top but making room for Kubernetes to make its own mark. In November Amazon AWS announced long-awaited support for Kubernetes on top of ECS in the form of EKS, and even Docker found a way to play nicely together, announcing native Kubernetes support in October (“Kubernetes and Swarm, side by side”). In December Kubernetes announced Kubeflow, an open source project to make machine learning stacks easier to use on the Kubernetes platform.
» Keep up with the latest Kubernetes news

The Verdict:

DevOps this year is still a Git game with GitHub, BitBucket, and GitLab all making the list once more, and the rise of containerization we predicted last year has come to pass with Docker and Kubernetes staying strong. Atom wiped out Sublime to take the only text editor spot, and conspicuously absent are both Gulp and Grunt; both were dethroned in the JS task runners space by Webpack.

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Business Tool of the Year

#1: Slack

No surprise here. Slack has steadily overtaken the workplace chat industry, and it’s not difficult to understand why. The huge number of integrations, mobile-friendliness, and clean UI make it a joy to use. In January 2017 Slack unveiled its Enterprise Grid product, bringing the platform squarely into the enterprise space for once and for all. In October Slack rolled out an update to its screen-sharing feature that allows participants to interact with the shared screen.

#2: Trello

Another widely-used tool across all types of industries, Trello slides into the number 2 slot. The kanban-inspired organization tool is beautiful, flexible, and intuitive. September saw Trello release a set of desktop apps for Mac and PC. Prior to that in June, the creators of Trello at Fog Creek sold the company to Atlassian for $425 million, so they must be doing something right!
» Keep up with the latest Trello news

#3: Passbolt

The sole password manager on our top 10, Passbolt stands apart from the crowd because it’s free and open source, and because of its laser-sharp focus on securely storing and sharing passwords for teams. Passbolt was #3 on last year’s list of Top New Tools, and this year it’s taking that spot in its own category. We love seeing one of our hot “new” tools become a top “all-around” tool.
» Keep up with the latest Passbolt news

#4: JIRA

Atlassian’s flagship product remains enormously popular among agile development teams who call it flexible, powerful, and customizable. Fans also cite its REST API, easy separation of projects, and the fact that it runs in the cloud as benefits. In May they released JIRA Cloud for iPad, and November saw Atlassian make this exciting announcement: “After 13+ years and over 2,500 votes, we’re closing the #1 customer voted feature request in our public issue tracker: Global Admins can now add priority schemes to the configuration options in Jira Software.”
» Keep up with the latest JIRA news

#5: InVision

Jumping up 3 spots from #8 last year, InVision continues to set the bar high for prototyping software. Gone are the days designers and developers wasted hours building something nobody wanted; now InVision allows teams to quickly create interactive, clickable prototypes that can be iterated and refined before anybody builds anything. InVision teased an upcoming release (codename: V7) at the end of 2017, so expect to see some exciting things out of Invision in 2018.
» Keep up with the latest InVision news

#6: WordPress

It’s still the leading CMS on the Internets, and shows no signs of giving up the crown any time soon. WordPress added social scheduling in June, giving content creators everywhere one more reason to never leave.
» Keep up with the latest WordPress news

#7: G Suite

This catch-all encompasses Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Drive. In other words — if you’re using a computer in 2018, you’re probably using some piece of Google’s G-Suite. The StackShare community calls it simply a “no-brainer,” and the G-Suite team steadily rolled out new updates and features throughout 2017, working hard to stay at the head of the pack.
» Keep up with the latest G Suite news

#8: Asana

Asana joins fellow task-management tools Trello and Jira on 2017’s top 10. The three tools overlap in a lot of ways, but each has managed to carve out its own space on the market. Fans of Asana love its speed, flexibility, and integration options — in 2017 Asana announced new integration with Gmail, Salesforce, and JotForm.
» Keep up with the latest Asana news

#9: Intercom

By now, you’ve probably heard the familiar ping when you land on a SaaS marketing site. Intercom continues to be a favorite among product teams this year. People love its auto-messaging and usage tracking features, and that it offers both in-app messaging and email functions. The Intercom team shipped a lot of features in 2017, so if you haven’t checked it out in awhile you might want to take another look.
» Keep up with the latest Intercom news

#10: React Sketch.app

The only tool to appear on both our Top 10 New Tools list and the Top 10 list for its individual category, React Sketchapp is a simple little tool from the Airbnb team that renders React components to Sketch in real time. Why? Direct from the teambehind it: “Managing the assets of design systems in Sketch is complex, error-prone and time consuming. Sketch is scriptable, but the API often changes. React provides the perfect wrapper to build reusable documents in a way already familiar to JavaScript developers.”
» Keep up with the latest React Sketch.app news

The Verdict:

Communication and task management are still top priorities here, with Slack and Trello holding the top spots a second year in a row, joined by Asana, JIRA, and Intercom. Gone from the top 10 are old favorites like MailChimp, Skype, and Confluence, replaced by newcomers: Passbolt was a top new tool last year and has held onto its momentum, rising to the top above its more established competition this year. React Sketchapp is the rare tool that’s both new this year and in the top 10 for its category, indicating a real interest in bridging the gap between engineering and design (also represented by InVision).

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