The Top 50 100+ Developer Tools 2019

It’s that time of the year again! 🥁 The 6th Annual StackShare Awards have arrived! 🎉

Check out the 2018 awards if you missed it

This year, we did things a bit differently. First, we lied. This isn't the Top 50 Developer Tools. We've actually outlined the Top 140 tools of 2019 😱 We analyzed over four million data points shared by you- the StackShare community- to bring you these rankings 🤯

Based on your feedback from last year, this time we decided to extend the list of new tools and we've highlighted the top 50 tools that were released in 2019.

We also decided to break down the four major categories we usually divide the rankings by, into 18 smaller categories so you can get a better sense for where similar tools rank relative to competitors.

If this is your first time seeing the StackShare Awards, buckle up because you're in for a ride! 🎢

ICYMI: we announced two new major products in 2019:

• The StackShare API - the tech stacks behind 1.5M+ companies and counting all available via API, and
• StackShare Enterprise - the best way for your team to privately map out and share internal tech stacks and technology decisions!

With no further ado, here are the categories for the winners of the StackShare Top Tools Awards 2019:

• New Tool of the Year
• Analytics Tool of the Year
• Application Hosting Tool of the Year
• Web Server of the Year
• Application Utility of the Year
• Assets & Media Tool of the Year
• Back Office Tool of the Year
• Build, Test, & Deploy Tool of the Year
• Collaboration Tool of the Year
• Communications Tool of the Year
• Data Store of the Year
• Design Tool of the Year
• Language of the Year
• Front-end Framework of the Year
• Backend/Full Stack Framework of the Year
• Mobile Tool of the Year
• Monitoring Tool of the Year
• Payments Tool of the Year
• Support, Sales, and Marketing Tool of the Year
• Top Stack Stories of the Year
• Top Community Members of the Year

As always, this is our biggest undertaking of every year- we comb through our enormous data set to find the good stuff- the best tools that you should know about that could transform your workflow. This year we aggregated usage from 300K+ tech stacks , over 1.6M follows , and millions more developer comments, reviews, and votes throughout 2019 (more on methodology below) . Let’s dive in!

New Tool of the Year (2019)

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The Verdict:

In 2019, Square, Facebook, Uber, Microsoft, and plenty of independent developers released some amazing open source tools. This year's top new tools list was again dominated by free OSS. Two clear trends emerged: Kubernetes has officially taken over- with 2 of the top 3 new tools of the year being projects built for Kubernetes. Another trend was the No Code takeover. With two services built on top of Google Sheets and another no-code tool by Uber all in the top 10, it's clear that we're all getting tired of coding 😜

New Tool of the Year: Runner-Up (2019)

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Analytics Tool of the Year (2019)

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Application Hosting Tool of the Year (2019)

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Web Server of the Year (2019)

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Application Utility of the Year (2019)

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Assets & Media Tool of the Year (2019)

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Back Office Tool of the Year (2019)

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Build, Test, & Deploy Tool of the Year (2019)

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Collaboration Tool of the Year (2019)

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Communications Tool of the Year (2019)

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Data Store/Tool of the Year (2019)

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Design Tool of the Year (2019)

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Language of the Year (2019)

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Front-end Framework of the Year (2019)

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Backend/Full Stack Framework of the Year (2019)

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Mobile Tool of the Year (2019)

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Monitoring Tool of the Year (2019)

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Payments Tool of the Year (2019)

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Support, Sales, and Marketing Tool of the Year (2019)

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Top Stack Stories (2019)

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Gather around the 🔥, it's story time! 2019 was another year full of heroic tales of scaling from nothing to billions of calls and flags. This year's top spot went to our friends over at LaunchDarkly. Not bad timing either- LaunchDarkly recently announced a new $54M round of financing to grow their feature flags platform. Similar to last year's top story from Stream, large tech companies like Facebook (Instagram), Twitter, and LinkedIn build their own feature flag management systems. But startups (like us) don't have time for that. Check out all the companies using LaunchDarkly. The other top stories came from some more awesome developer tool makers, including: Sqreen , Segment , CircleCI and RayGun .

Top Community Members (2019)

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These rankings are brought to you, by YOU. The StackShare community makes all of this possible by sharing not only your stacks, but your reasoning behind why you chose your stack. For this year's awards we wanted to recognize the community members that have gone above and beyond the call of duty to share best practices with other developers. The community members that have, in aggregate, taken hours to detail the important stack decisions they've made. While there's far more than 10 developers that contributed in a major way to StackShare- these ten are quite special. Thank you to everyone who took the time to help hundreds of thousands of developers decide on the right tools! Click each community member's link below to see all the Decisions they shared in 2019!

Methodology:

For tool rankings, scores are calculated using a combination of # of stacks a tool was added to, number of votes for one-liners contributed by the community, # of follows, and pageviews for the year. New Tool rankings were chosen from tools that were created and added to StackShare in 2019 with follows weighing more than other metrics since new tools don’t just enter stacks overnight.

As usual, we removed Git from the rankings in the DevOps rankings since many developers don't list in their stack (and instead only list git collaboration services like GitHub).

If you have any questions about the rankings, drop us a line at team@stackshare.io!