What tools do you use when developing?

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Hi all, Just wanted to ask this out of curiousity, and maybe get some new tools out of this aswell: What tools do you use in your day-to-day work when developing with / for Mendix? I'll kick off myself: Sublime Text 3 - As a text-editor / JavaScript editor - Free to use with the every now and then 'Thanks for using, wanna buy this?' popup which you can cancel. Handy tool with support for plugins for XML / JSON formatting for example. NodeJS (mendix-generator with gulp) - Tool developed by Jelte which works awesomely when developing / scaffolding widgets from the Appstore boilerplate. used i.c.w. Windows PowerShell ( https://github.com/mendix/generator-mendix ) Github Desktop / SourceTree - For managing github repo's Xsemmel - For working with (complex) XML structures; has a handy 'view', similar to that of XMLSpy Eclipse - For the occasional sidestep to Java :-) TortoiseSVN - Resolving conflicts, it's a good thing that I don't need to use it that often.. :-) PgAdmin - For managing Postgres databases SoapUI - (Mocking) Soap requests ---------- Not Mendix specific for me, but didn't want to exclude this Ditto - Handy tool which allows you to go back in your CTRL-C activity so you can paste more items Greenshot / Jing - Tools which allow you to capture your screen / select an area of your screen and capture it and then do 'something with it' like uploading it, uploading it to Jira etc. Jing also allows you to capture short videos http://requestb.in - allows you to create an endpoint for your RESTcalls; will capture anything send to it, so you can inspect your calls uptimerobot.com - Checks whether sites are still reachable   Curious to hear about yours!   PS: I thought there already was a topic for this, but couldn't find it, and if it was it might've been outdated anyway so, here we go!
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Nice list, thanks!

In addition to resolving conflicts with Tortoise SVN, I also use the Revision graph tool of Tortoise quite often. When you right click on your project folder and select this option, it gives you a graphical overview of all branches, commits etc. Especially in projects with multiple branches this is very useful.

For troubleshooting REST services, I make use of Postman (https://www.getpostman.com/) a lot.

Curious to hear other recommendations as well!

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Here :)

https://forum.mendix.com/link/questions/16852

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I use Brackets for JavaScript and SASS/CSS editing, Koala to compile SCSS into CSS. 

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There is a list of developer tools at https://developers.mendix.com/community/

 

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XML Spy is also helpful when dealing with services and navigating a large schema

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My favorite developer tool is Codelobster

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My favorite developer tool is Codelobster

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if nodejs is already in your toolchain, why do you still use Mendix? Build your app entirely in javascript. you will be surprised by how faster it is compared to MX.

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