Free Development & DevOps Software
Beekeeper Studio
Beekeeper Studio is a well-designed and easy to use SQL client for MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, SQL Server, and a variety of other relational database management systems. The software allows you to connect to databases normally or encrypted with SSL, or tunnel through SSH to ensure maximum security while still providing choices. With Beekeeper Studio, you can manage multiple tabs and multitask across operations, while providing auto-complete suggestions for tables and queries. Commonly used queries can be saved and orginized into workspaces, that can be used across connections and projects. Beekeeper Studio is both free and open source and released under the MIT License.
Sandboxie
Sandboxie is a free open-source sandboxing program for Windows. Sandboxie allows you to create isolated operating environment in which applications can be run and installed without permanently modifying the local system. This virtual environment allows for controlled testing of untrusted programs and web surfing.
GitKraken
Unleash the power of Git with GitKraken, the free Git GUI for Windows, Mac & Linux. With GitKraken you can easily work with repositories hosted on any of these sites. Clone, add remotes, and create/open pull requests without ever leaving the application. GitKraken is an open-source project released as two versions, GitKraken Free and GitKraken Pro. The free version works with major platforms like GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket while providing extra features in the pro version to work with GitHub Enterprise, GitLab Self-Managed, Bitbucket Server, and Azure DevOps (VSTS).
Janet
Janet is a functional and imperative programming language that runs on Windows, Linux, macOS, and BSDs. Janet makes for a good system scripting language, or a language that can be embed in other programs. The entire language (core library, interpreter, compiler, assembler, PEG) is less than 1MB.
Notepad++
Notepad++ is a free and open source text editor that support a wide range of programming languages. Notepad++ is written in C++ and uses pure Win32 API and STL which ensures a higher execution speed and smaller program size. By optimizing as many routines as possible without losing user friendliness, Notepad++ is trying to reduce the world carbon dioxide emissions. When using less CPU power, the PC can throttle down and reduce power consumption, resulting in a greener environment.
Egg.js
Egg.js is a free and open-source JavaScript and Node.js framework for building better enterprise applications.
Flask
Flask is a micro framework framework written in Python that can be used to build APIs, web services and web applications. Flask is designed from the bottom up to be extremely minimal and easy to use, where your whole application can fit into one single Python file. The framework includes no database abstraction layer, form validation, or any other components, by design. However pre-existing third-party libraries provide common functionality needed to build production ready applications and services.
PostCSS
PostCSS is a software development tool that uses JavaScript-based plugins to automate routine CSS operations. The free and open-source library was designed and written by Andrey Sitnik and the community. PostCSS is used in a multitude of web-based application across the web where it helps developer to optimize CSS and bring a better experience to end-users.
Laravel
Laravel is an extremely popular, free and open source web application framework with expressive, elegant syntax. The framework is written in PHP and provides a developer experience that rival most web application frameworks on the market today. The structure and built-in features of Laravel allows developers to build web applications faster. Instead of setting up tooling and configuring settings, developers can focus on the important task at hand, making their ideas into reality.
Momentum Framework
Momentum is an open-source framework for building enterprise server-side Deno applications in TypeScript. It provides the paradigms and design patterns to guide developers to create robust, scalable, and enterprise-grade applications. By focusing on a batteries-optional approach, Momentum provides a strong core that is easily extendable into a rich developer experience via dependency injection modules. While the framework is opinionated by design, this modular system aims to be unobtrusive and to allow developers to create abstraction layers over any codebase or third-party modules.