Monday, September 26, 2011

Top 100 open source Web Development Tools and applications

Web development tools which are open source have great benefits, including free to use and modify code. Thus lately I have been rigorously mapping all the free and open source apps & tools that are useful and easy to use for web developers. Many I have used or come across during my routines.  So presented below you can find the 100 Best tools and applications oriented towards the efficient web developer..
Note I will possibly have missed some notable web development tools in this list of open source apps but feel free to comment on any tools or applications you would like added to this list..

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1. Aptana

The Aptana IDE is a free, open-source, cross-platform, JavaScript-focused development environment for building Ajax applications. It features code assist on JavaScript, HTML, and CSS languages, FTP/SFTP support and a JavaScript debugger to troubleshoot your code.
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2. Eclipse

Eclipse is an open-source software framework written primarily in Java. In its default form it is a Java IDE, consisting of the Java Development Tools (JDT) and compiler (ECJ). Users can extend its capabilities by installing plug-ins written for the Eclipse software framework, such as development toolkits for other programming languages, and can write and contribute their own plug-in modules. Language packs are available for over a dozen languages. (Source Wikipedia)
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3. jEdit