My software stack

From time to time the question pops up: what's your software stack? I use cloud based tools like LucidChart, GitHub, Bitbucket and various other SDLC related tools (subject to a future post), but still quite a number of locally installed tools.

The essentials

Tools I use on, more or less, daily basis:

• NodeJS (unsurprisingly)
• Salesforce CLI
• Heroku CLI
• Visual Studio Code with a few plugins:
• SFDX Plugin
• PMD Plugin
• Mocha Sidebar
• Jest plugin
• Git Lens
• Prettier
• Live Share
• Tower GIT Gui (and of course GIT command line) - or SourceTree
• OpenSSL
• Eclipse - for Java development. Never warmed up to other Java IDEs (I tried)
• DiffMerge tool
• a current JVM and JDK
• The Welkin Suite - for Salesforce development
• Postman - the Swiss Army Knife for REST
• Pencil and Balsamiq for wire frames (The former when I need to share the raw file, the later when my counterpart has Balsamiq or images are sufficient)
• Sublime - Editor super fast

Occasional use

But there's more. Tools used occasionally or in bursts

• Oxygen XML Editor - brilliant debugging your XSLT stylesheets
• GIMP - for image editing
• CharlesProxy - for HTTP(S) debugging - mostly API work related
• pgAdmin - for connecting to PostgreSQL on Heroku
• WallabyJS - continuous testing of JavaScript
• Sketch - Graphic package for macOS
• SOQL Explorer - Working with Salesforce data with ease
• CouchDB

On my watch / try list

• Origami Studio Design prototypes
• Bee issue tracker Native connection to Jira, Github, Manuscript
• BoostNote Code snippet repository

To be continued