The Top 100+ Developer Tools 2020

Welcome to The 7th Annual StackShare Awards! 🎉 (Check out the 2019 awards if you missed them).

This year we analyzed over eight million data points shared by you- the StackShare community- to bring you these rankings 🔥

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And now, what you've all been waiting for... here are the categories for the winners of the StackShare Top Tools Awards 2020:

• 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 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, try out, or already be using. We aggregated usage from 300K+ tech stacks , over 3.2M follows , and millions more developer comments, reviews, and votes (more on methodology below) . Let’s dive in!

New Tool of the Year (2020)

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New Tool of the Year: Runner-Up (2020)

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Analytics Tool of the Year (2020)

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Application Hosting Tool of the Year (2020)

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Web Server of the Year (2020)

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Application Utility of the Year (2020)

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Assets & Media Tool of the Year (2020)

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Back Office Tool of the Year (2020)

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Build, Test, & Deploy Tool of the Year (2020)

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Collaboration Tool of the Year (2020)

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Communications Tool of the Year (2020)

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Data Store/Tool of the Year (2020)

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Design Tool of the Year (2020)

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Language of the Year (2020)

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Front-end Framework of the Year (2020)

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Backend/Full Stack Framework of the Year (2020)

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Mobile Tool of the Year (2020)

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Monitoring Tool of the Year (2020)

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Payments Tool of the Year (2020)

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Support, Sales, and Marketing Tool of the Year (2020)

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Top Community Members (2020)

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As we say every year, these rankings are brought to you, by YOU. The StackShare community makes these awards possible by sharing not only what you're using, but more importantly, why you chose your stack. This year we launched our most exciting collaboration feature yet: Stack Advice , an easy way to get and give advice on specific tech stack decisions. Stack Advice is a new way for you to connect with a growing community of well over half a million developers to get help making important technology decisions.

So for this year's awards we wanted to recognize the community members that chose to give their fellow developers advice in their time of need, on all sorts of important tech stack decisions. In just 6 months, you and the rest of the community have participated in over 3,000 discussions via Stack Advice 🎉

While there are thousands of developers that contributed in a major way to all this awesome stack advising- the 15 below deserve special recognition for being willing to take so much time out of their days, just to help someone out.

Thank you to everyone who asked for advice and to everyone who chimed in with their recommendations! You can click each developer's link below to see all the Decisions and advice they shared!

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 profile views for the year. New Tool rankings were chosen from tools that were created and added to StackShare in 2020 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 it in their stack (and instead only list Git collaboration platforms like GitHub).

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