The dev and AI tooling reference,
opinionated and current.

Terminal-native AI pair programming: git-aware, model-agnostic, bring your own key.

Alpine.js

Frontend Frameworks

Minimal reactive behavior in markup, the modern replacement for jQuery sprinkles.

Angular

Frontend Frameworks

Google's batteries-included framework, now signals-first and zoneless.

ASP.NET Core

Backend Frameworks

Microsoft's cross-platform web framework: high-performance C# APIs, MVC, and Blazor on a free, open-source runtime.

Astro

Meta Frameworks

Content-first web framework with framework-agnostic islands and zero JS by default.

Free, self-hosted authentication for any JS framework, formerly NextAuth.js, now maintained under Better Auth.

Ergonomic, macro-free Rust web framework built on Tokio, Tower, and Hyper.

Better Auth

Auth

Framework-agnostic TypeScript auth, comprehensive, plugin-extensible, fully owned in your codebase.

Cline

AI Coding Agents

Open-source coding agent that lives in your existing VS Code, BYOK.

Codex

AI Coding Agents

OpenAI's agentic coding platform, cloud, CLI, IDE, desktop app, and Chrome extension.

Convex

Databases

Reactive TypeScript backend, schema, queries, mutations, and realtime sync with end-to-end type safety.

Cursor

AI Coding Agents

AI-native IDE that forked VS Code and made the agent the main feature.

Django

Backend Frameworks

Python's batteries-included framework for shipping apps fast and maintaining them forever.

High performance, extensible, minimalist Go web framework with a fuller built-in middleware set than Gin.

A zero-config JavaScript static site generator that ships plain HTML and no client runtime.

Bun-first TypeScript framework with end-to-end type safety, very high throughput, and an Eden typed RPC client.

Express

Backend Frameworks

The minimalist Node.js framework that powers more APIs than anything else.

FastAPI

Backend Frameworks

Modern Python framework built on type hints, async-native, OpenAPI-first, fast.

Fastify

Backend Frameworks

Fast, low-overhead Node.js framework with schema-based validation built in.

Fiber

Backend Frameworks

Express-inspired Go web framework built on fasthttp, familiar API with Go performance.

Flask

Backend Frameworks

The Python microframework that ships a router and templates, then gets out of your way.

Gatsby

Meta Frameworks

React static-site framework with a GraphQL data layer, now in maintenance mode after the Netlify acquisition.

The most popular Go web framework, a fast minimal HTTP router with a middleware ecosystem.

HTMX

Frontend Frameworks

High-power HTML attributes for hypermedia-driven applications.

The model hub and open-source commons for AI, with serving via Inference Endpoints and Inference Providers.

Lit

Frontend Frameworks

Google's tiny base class for building standards-based Web Components.

Llama

AI Models

Meta's open-weights frontier-adjacent family, run it anywhere, audit it fully.

MongoDB

Databases

The document database that defined NoSQL, Atlas, vector search, and a managed surface across every cloud.

MySQL

Databases

The open-source relational database that powered the web, LAMP heritage, managed everywhere, dual-licensed under Oracle.

Neon

Databases

Serverless Postgres with separated compute and storage, instant branching, scale-to-zero, AI agent ready.

NestJS

Backend Frameworks

Opinionated TypeScript framework that brings Angular-style architecture to Node.

Nuxt

Meta Frameworks

Vue's full-stack framework, Nitro under the hood, app/ directory on top.

Ollama

Inference

The simplest way to run open models locally: one command, OpenAI-compatible API, now with a hosted cloud option.

Phoenix

Backend Frameworks

The Elixir web framework for real-time, fault-tolerant apps on the BEAM, with LiveView for server-rendered UI.

Polar

Payments

Modern merchant-of-record for AI and dev products, token metering, seat-based, subscriptions, no monthly fee.

PostgreSQL

Databases

The world's most advanced open-source relational database, boring works.

A 3kB React-compatible alternative with the same modern API, built for size-sensitive apps.

Alibaba's model family: frontier-adjacent open weights under Apache-2, plus closed flagship tiers.

Qwik

Frontend Frameworks

Resumable framework that ships ~1KB and continues server execution on the client.

Ruby on Rails

Backend Frameworks

The original convention-over-configuration full-stack framework, now with queue, cache, cable, and deploys built in.

React Router

Meta Frameworks

The React routing library that absorbed Remix and became a full framework in v7.

Redis

Databases

The in-memory data store for caching, sessions, queues, pub/sub, and vector search, now AGPL again at version 8.

Remix

Meta Frameworks

The web-platform-native React framework, now merged into React Router 7.

Solid

Frontend Frameworks

Fine-grained reactivity framework that pioneered the signals paradigm.

Spring Boot

Backend Frameworks

Opinionated Spring for production Java: convention over config, embedded servers, vast enterprise ecosystem.

SQLite

Databases

The serverless, zero-config, single-file SQL database that ships inside almost every device on earth.

Svelte

Frontend Frameworks

Compiled UI framework that ships the smallest bundles without giving up DX.

SvelteKit

Meta Frameworks

Svelte's full-stack framework, routing, SSR, and form actions in one shape.

Symfony

Backend Frameworks

The enterprise PHP framework: reusable components, predictable LTS releases, and the engine under Laravel and Drupal.

Full-stack React (and Solid) framework on TanStack Router and Vite: type-safe routing, streaming SSR, server functions.

Turso

Databases

SQLite at the edge, embedded replicas, libSQL, and a Rust rewrite headed for general availability.

Vue

Frontend Frameworks

Progressive component framework with the cleanest ergonomics of the modern web.

Laravel

Backend Frameworks

PHP's full-stack framework, batteries-included from request to deployment.

SolidStart

Meta Frameworks

The Solid app framework: SSR, streaming, and server functions on fine-grained reactivity, powered by Vinxi.

Amazon Web Services

Hosting

The default hyperscaler: the broadest catalog of managed cloud services, pay-as-you-go, enterprise-grade.

Microsoft Azure

Hosting

Microsoft's hyperscale cloud: the default for enterprises already living in Entra, Office 365, and .NET.

StackBlitz's in-browser AI app builder: prompt to a running full-stack app, no local setup.

Cognition's autonomous AI software engineer: delegate well-scoped tickets, review the PRs it opens.

DigitalOcean

Hosting

Developer cloud with flat, predictable pricing: Droplets, App Platform, managed databases, Kubernetes, and GPUs.

Fully managed serverless NoSQL key-value and document store with single-digit-millisecond latency at any scale.

Firebase

Databases

Google's backend-as-a-service: Firestore, Auth, Hosting, and Cloud Functions behind one client SDK.

Google Cloud

Hosting

Google's hyperscaler: BigQuery analytics, GKE Kubernetes, Vertex AI, TPUs, and Gemini models at planet scale.

Prompt-to-app builder that turns plain English into a full-stack React and Supabase web app.

Open-weight Apache-2 models plus a proprietary API, built as Europe's frontier-lab option.

The enterprise identity incumbent, Workforce Identity for employee SSO and Customer Identity (Auth0) for app login.

The checkout button consumers already trust, plus Braintree as the full developer gateway.

Serverless MySQL on Vitess for huge scale, now with managed Postgres, schema branching, and NVMe-backed Metal.

Vercel's prompt-to-app builder: generates React, Next.js, Tailwind, and shadcn/ui code you can ship.

Auth0

Auth

The enterprise-grade identity platform, Okta-owned, protocol-heavy, compliance-ready.

Cloudflare

Hosting

Workers + Pages on the largest edge network, zero egress, lowest TTFB, acquired Astro.

DeepSeek

AI Models

Frontier-adjacent at a fraction of the price, with MIT-licensed open weights.

Fireworks AI

Inference

High-performance serverless inference for OSS LLMs, fine-tuning, fast endpoints, fast time-to-production.

Fly.io

Hosting

Run Docker containers on globally distributed VMs, per-second billing, no plans.

Gemini

AI Models

Google's multimodal model family with the biggest context window in the frontier.

GitHub Copilot

AI Coding Agents

The default in-IDE AI for teams already living on GitHub.

GPT

AI Models

OpenAI's flagship model line, the largest consumer footprint in AI.

Grok

AI Models

xAI's model line, fast iteration, X-native, real-time data access.

Groq

Inference

Custom LPU silicon for LLM inference, speed records on Llama, Qwen, and Whisper at predictable per-token pricing.

Kinde

Auth

Auth + billing for product teams, affordable MAU-based pricing with B2B orgs and feature flags built in.

Kiro

AI Coding Agents

AWS's spec-driven AI IDE, write the spec first, let the agent implement.

Lemon Squeezy

Payments

The merchant-of-record for digital products, Stripe-owned, indie-friendly, tax handled.

Modal

Inference

Serverless GPU + CPU for Python, pay per second, deploy custom inference, run anything.

Netlify

Hosting

The original Jamstack host, flat-fee pricing, deep adapter ecosystem, AI Agent Runners.

OpenRouter

Inference

One API across 400+ models from 60+ providers, Anthropic, OpenAI, OSS, all behind a unified endpoint.

Paddle

Payments

Merchant of record for SaaS, global tax, dunning, and subscription infrastructure at scale.

Railway

Hosting

Docker-first PaaS with template deploys and developer-grade DX.

Render

Hosting

Full-stack PaaS with managed Postgres, workers, cron, and autoscaling, no seat fees.

Replicate

Inference

Run any open-source model with a single API, per-second GPU billing across LLM, image, video, voice.

RevenueCat

Payments

In-app subscriptions across iOS, Android, and web, abstracts the App Store / Play Store mess.

Square

Payments

In-person + online payments with a hardware ecosystem, Block-owned, retail and restaurant deep.

Windsurf

AI Coding Agents

VS Code fork turned Devin's local cockpit after the Cognition acquisition.

WorkOS

Auth

Enterprise-readiness as a service, SSO, SCIM, audit logs, AuthKit, and MCP Auth for agentic SaaS.