WEB front-end tech

In the following tests, we have measured the performance of several web application platforms, full-stack frameworks, and micro-frameworks.

With traceGL you can see all JavaScript codeflow, in a high performance webGL visualiser. Its like an oscilloscope, for code.

A curated collection of great CSS, Sass, LESS and Stylus libraries.

Customized to be awesome by default. It is improved to be used on Mac OS X and MacVim. (note: Linux version is on the todo list, I’ll work on it asap)

If used with MacVim you will get SublimeText-like features with the same shortcuts without installing or compiling any external library.

Sinatra based framework that lets you build beautiful dashboards.

entropy is a simple RESTful server in front of a MongoDB instance using node.js, Express and Mongoose.

Run arbitrary commands when files change.

E.g., recompile when a source file is changed

find . -name '*.[ch]' | entr make

or convert Markdown documents to HTML when they change

ls *.md | entr +notify &
while read F; do
markdown2html $F
done < notify

via onethingwell

EditorConfig helps developers define and maintain consistent coding styles between different editors and IDEs. The EditorConfig project consists of a file format for defining coding styles and a collection of text editor plugins that enable editors to read the file format and adhere to defined styles. EditorConfig files are easily readable and they work nicely with version control systems.

PAWK aims to bring the full power of Python to AWK-like line-processing.

(Source: onethingwell)

Vaurien is basically a Chaos Monkey for your TCP connections. Vaurien acts as a proxy between your application and any backend.

You can use it in your functional tests or even on a real deployment through the command-line.