πŸ› οΈ Free Tools Every Developer Should Bookmark in 2025

πŸ“… June 19, 2025

πŸ’¬ Why pay when you can code smarter for free? πŸ‘‰ These tools will save you time, help you debug, and make your workflow feel smoother than a fresh VS Code theme.


πŸ”— 1. Carbon.now.sh
🎯 Create beautiful code snippets with syntax highlighting for your blogs, social posts, or portfolio.
πŸ’‘ Great for: Social sharing, tutorials, dev aesthetic

πŸ”— 2. Regex101.com
🎯 Test, debug, and understand regular expressions in real time.
πŸ’‘ Great for: Backend devs, form validation, anyone who fears regex (πŸ‘€)

πŸ”— 3. Excalidraw
🎯 A collaborative, hand-drawn-style whiteboard for ideating and explaining concepts.
πŸ’‘ Great for: Team brainstorms, portfolio visuals, diagrams

πŸ”— 4. Ray.so
🎯 Quickly turn code into gorgeous images. Minimal, clean, and export-ready.
πŸ’‘ Great for: Social media, pitch decks, aesthetic posts

πŸ”— 5. CodePen / JSFiddle
🎯 Instant online editors for front-end code – perfect for prototyping.
πŸ’‘ Great for: Testing snippets, learning by doing, frontend experiments

πŸ”— 6. DevDocs.io
🎯 Fast, offline-friendly API docs in one place.
πŸ’‘ Great for: Quick lookup of HTML, CSS, JS, Python, and more

πŸ”— 7. JSON Formatter by JSONLint
🎯 Paste, validate, and format JSON without stress.
πŸ’‘ Great for: APIs, debugging, structuring responses


🧒 Bonus Tip: Organise these into a Notion or bookmark folder called "Dev Arsenal πŸ”§"

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