Tools for Developers - Curated List

Hello Coders! This article presents a curated list with tools actively supported and versioned by AppSeed.  The list starts with the free ones and continues with the closed-source projects, available for free to PRO users. Thanks for reading!

FREE Tools (MIT license)

• 👉 Database Introspection Tool: open-source, MIT License
• 👉 Data Converter: open-source, MIT License
• 👉 Full-Stack OpenApi Generator: open-source, MIT License

Closed-Source Tools - Free for PRO Users

• 🚀 OpenAPI Editor: In-Browser editor (built with Vue.js)
• 🚀 OpenAPI Parser: Python tool that extracts OpenAPI definitions
• 🚀 DevTool UI Tester: Test the compilation across multiple environments
• 🚀 Django Dynamic API: code secure APIs using DRF with a minimum effort
• 🚀 Django Dynamic DataTables: server-side paginated data, search, export
• 🚀 Flask Dynamic API: secure APIs using Flask-RestX
• 🚀 Flask Dynamic DataTables: server-side paginated data, search, export

✨ DB Introspection Tool free tool

Open-Source developers tool that provides simple helpers for legacy databases introspection. Crafted on top of Python and Peewee.

• Peewee DB Reflection
• Supported DB: SQLite, MySql, PostgreSQL
• DbWrapper Class:
• print_all_models() - returns all tables
• print_db_model - print table definition
• dump_tables() - Dump SQL definitions (all tables)
• dump_tables_data() - Dump database content (all tables)

✨ Data Converter free tool

A tool that provides simple helpers for data management:

• UI managed by Flask
• CSV Files Print
• Columns: Remove, Update
• Add New Column with random values:
• timestamp, random_int and random string (via Faker)
• CSV to JSON conversion

✨ Full-Stack OpenAPI Generator free tool

Starter project that uses OpenAPI specifications to bind a NodeJs Express backend and a React frontend, using an API-first approach. Generated codebase features and options:

Backend

• Express is the most popular NodeJs web framework; the following commonly used plugins have been included:
• helmet is a utility for setting HTTP headers
• morgan is a logging utility
• cors is a utility for configuring cross-origin request security
• express-openapi-validator is a utility for validating API requests against the OpenAPI specification
• TypeORM is an ORM that supports the DataMapper pattern, which makes is more attractive in combination with the "API first" approach
• Express JWT and JWKS-RSA are two utilities for verifying a JWT token authenticity, in an OAuth2 / OpenID connect context

React Frontend

• Create React App is the most popular way to start with React; the Seed provides three UI alternatives:
• Material UI
• Chakra UI
• React Bootstrap
• Ant Design
• React Redux is a state container using the immutable state/action/reducer pattern
• Recharts is a charts library built with React and D3
• React I18Next is a popular internationalization framework for React
• OpenID AppAuth-Js is an OAuth2 / OpenID connect flow library

🚀 OpenAPI Editor

In-Browser Developers Tool - Edit your OpenAPI definition directly in the browser and download the generated JSON file. For newcomers, OpenAPI is an open-source format for designing RESTful APIs and web services that serves as a single source of truth for all parties involved in the software development process: developers, and testers.

This free service/tool can be used to edit and generate unlimited OpenAPI definitions. The editor supports editing the global API information (Title, API version, description), adding/removing entities, and fields for each OpenAPI entity:

• ✔️ string
• ✔️ timestamp
• ✔️ UUID
• ✔️ binary
• ✔️ boolean
• ✔️ number
• ✔️ array
• ✔️ object (all entities previously defined)

🚀 OpenAPI Parser

Tool to extract relevant information from an OpenAPI descriptor. The information can be used to generate code (helpers, business logic, or a database schema).

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🚀 DevTool UI Tester

This tool provides a simple way to ensure the compatibility of a React project across different Node environments and tools (NPM, Yarn).

How it Works

• The target React Projects are added to repositories.json file
• Tool Configuration
• Supported Compilers: NPM, Yarn
• Supported environments: Ubuntu, macOS (All provided by GH Actions)
• Node Versions: 10.x, 12.x, 14.x, 16.x, 18.x
• Once the changes are submitted, the automatized tests are executed via Github actions
• For each build, a screen-shot is taken at the end

🚀 Django Dynamic API

This tool aims to provide a secure, production-ready API via DRF (Django REST Framework) using the developer's minimum amount of code.

How it works

• Define a new model in the project (an old one can be also used)
• Execute the database migration to create/update the associated tables
• Update the configuration to enable the Dynamic API over the model
• Start the app
• Access the Dynamic API Service

🚀 Django Dynamic DataTables

The tool aims to provide a powerful data table interface using the developer's minimum amount of code.

How it works

• Define a new model in the project (an old one can be also used)
• Execute the database migration to create/update the associated tables
• Update the configuration to enable the Dynamic Data Table service over the model
• Start the app
• Access the Dynamic DataTable provided on op of the model

🚀 Flask Dynamic API

This tool aims to provide a secure, production-ready API via Flask-RestX using the developer's minimum amount of code.

Tool Specs & Status

• Define a new model in the project (an old one can be also used)
• Execute the database migration to create/update the associated tables
• Update the configuration to enable the Dynamic API over the model
• Start the app
• Access the Dynamic API Service

🚀 Flask Dynamic DataTables

The tool aims to provide a powerful data table interface using the developer's minimum amount of code.

How it works

• Define a new model in the project (an old one can be also used)
• Execute the database migration to create/update the associated tables
• Update the configuration to enable the Dynamic Data Table service over the model
• Start the app
• Access the Dynamic DataTable provided on op of the model

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