Tools

A Free local WordPress development suite by Kinsta. Available for MAC and PC, it offers lots of convenience such as one-click site creation, database management, HTTPS, email testing and, error logging.

Ray is a lightweight desktop app that helps you debug your PHP app. You can get a free demo that can be unlocked with a license. You can use Ray in WordPress by manually cloning the repo or installing the plugin via the Plugins section on the WordPress admin UI.

A nice project that will speed up your snippets creation process.

Responsively is An open source tool that lets you inspect a web page on multiple screens. It comes with several very handy features such as the ability to inspect elements, a list of common devices screen size, coaching control, and more.

Local by Flywheel is THE BEST  way to set up a local wp installation. Very simple to use with lots of handy features.

A Q&A tool for finding answers to your coding questions. Comes also as a site you can browse in, or a handy chrome extension.

A very handy resource for WordPress development. A clear visual representation of the WordPress template hierarchy.

A list of recommended, mostly free font suitable for coding. Compiled the awesome guys from css-tricks.com

Laying the foundation so that you can get to work on building your next big thing.

By Joshua Comeau of www.joshwcomeau.com joshwcomeau.com. Joshua built this project because he was sick of forgetting what these blasted operators are called. Often he'll remember the operator's syntax, but not exactly how it works. One can't use search engines to find out more about them, since they ignore "special characters"!