The top 15 coding tools and resources for web designers and developers
Love it or hate it, code is a key ingredient to any and all website projects in one way or another. Here's our curated collection of the very best coding tools and resources for web designers and developers.
new.css
Write modern websites using only HTML. new.css is a classless CSS framework to write modern websites using only HTML. It's ~4.5kb.
XP.css
A design system for building faithful recreations of old UIs.
Website Launch Checklist
Launch your next web project with complete confidence!
Open Source Builders
Find open-source alternatives for your favourite apps.
Polypane
Develop, debug and test websites and apps twice as fast. Know for sure your sites and apps work everywhere and for everyone.
Bootswatch
Free themes for Bootstrap.
Blobmaker
Blobmaker is a free generative design tool made with đź’• by z creative labs, to help you quickly create random, unique, and organic-looking SVG shapes.
API list
A collective list of APIs.
Open Source Guide
Open source software is made by people just like you. Learn how to launch and grow your project.
GitHub
GitHub is a development platform inspired by the way you work. From open source to business, you can host and review code, manage projects, and build software...
CSS Gradient Animator
Animate CSS gradients.
Gradient Magic
A gallery of fantastic and unique CSS gradients.
CSS Duotone
Generate duotone images from your photos with CSS.
Every Layout
If you find yourself wrestling with CSS layout, it’s likely you’re making decisions for browsers they should be making themselves. Through a series of...
CSSeffectsSnippets
Click on the animation to copy.
Sass News
Sass News is a curated publication full of interesting, relevant links for all things Sass. Subscribe now and never miss an issue.
Frontend Focus
A once–weekly roundup of the best front-end news, articles and tutorials. HTML, CSS, WebGL, Canvas, browser tech, and more.
Javascript Air
The live broadcast podcast all about JavaScript.
Pintsize
A simple and customisable Flexbox grid system.
Composer
A dependency manager for PHP.
GitLab
With GitLab, you get a complete CI/CD toolchain out-of-the-box. One interface. One conversation. One permission model. Thousands of features. You'll be amazed...
Hamburgers
Tasty CSS-animated hamburgers.
Flexbox Froggy
Welcome to Flexbox Froggy, a game where you help Froggy and friends by writing CSS code!
Grid Garden
Welcome to Grid Garden, where you write CSS code to grow your carrot garden! Water only the areas that have carrots by using the grid-column-start property.
CSS Grid Generator
You can set the numbers, and units of your columns and rows, and I'll generate a CSS grid for you! Drag within the boxes to create divs placed within the grid.
Fancy Border Radius
When you use eight values specifying border-radius in CSS, you can build organic looking shapes.
CSS clip-path maker
Does what it says on the tin. The clip-path property allows you to make complex shapes in CSS by clipping an element to a basic shape (circle, ellipse,...
MDN Web Docs
Mozilla Developer Network. Resources for developers, by developers.
News API
Search worldwide news with code. Get breaking news headlines, and search for articles from over 30,000 news sources and blogs with our news API.
Modern JavaScript
How it's done now. From the basics to advanced topics with simple, but detailed explanations.
CodeFactor
Automated code review for Git.
CodePen Challenges
Challenges are fun opportunities for leveling up your skills by building things. Each week, you’ll get a new prompt surrounding a monthly theme to riff on....
Matomo Self-hosted Analytics
Change the way you do web analytics forever with Matomo On-Premise! Get maximum flexibility to do whatever you want and gain powerful insights to grow your...
CSS Gradient
CSS gradient generator and swatches.
100 Days CSS Challenge
100 days CSS coding challenge.
Hylia
Hylia is a lightweight Eleventy starter kit with Netlify CMS pre-configured, so that you can one-click install a progressive, accessible blog in minutes. It...
Code[ish]
A podcast from the team at Heroku, exploring code, technology, tools, tips, and the life of the developer.
Google Fonts
Making the web more beautiful, fast, and open through great typography.
Typeplate
Typeplate is a “typographic starter kit”. We don’t make aesthetic design choices, but define proper markup with extensible styling for common typographic...
Animate.css
Just-add-water CSS animations.
JavaScript 30
Build 30 things in 30 days using vanilla JavaScript with this free course from Wes Bos. Designed for beginner to Intermediate developers and designers who want...
Carbon
Carbon lets you create and share beautiful images of your source code.
PHP: The Right Way
PHP: The Right Way is an easy-to-read, quick reference for PHP popular coding standards, links to authoritative tutorials around the web and what the...
What The Flexbox?!
A simple, free 20 video course that will help you master CSS Flexbox! Created by Wes Bos.
CodePen
CodePen is a social front-end development environment. Write code in the browser, and see the results of it as you build. Browse the community to find...
Glitch
Glitch is a friendly community for for developers of all skill levels to create, share and experiment and with tools and code using an intuitive cloud IDE.
Piccalilli
A pickle jar full of curated CSS links to slick websites, animations, illustrations, and algorithms, brought to you by Andy Bell.