Welcome to the Annual StackShare Awards! ๐ (Check out last year's awards here).
This year we analyzed well over 11 million data points shared by you- the StackShare community- to bring you these rankings ๐
As usual, you probably won't get through the entire list in one sitting, so bookmark it and come on back later ๐
ICYMI: in 2022 we announced that over 1,000 Engineering Teams have adopted StackShare Enterprise to defeat tech sprawl. To get started for free, head over to the GitHub Marketplace and install the StackShare GitHub App.
And now, the moment of truth... the categories for the winners of the StackShare Top Tools Awards 2022 are:
As usual, this is our biggest undertaking of the year- we comb through a massive data set to find the best tools that you should know about, try out, or should already be using. We aggregated usage from 800K+ tech stacks , over 9M+ follows , and tons more developer comments, reviews, and votes (more on methodology below) . Letโs dive in!
While ChatGPT dominated conversations ever since it was released in November, Astro came out on top for the year. The static site ecosystem has been gaining populaity for years, so it's not too surprising to see that developers took a liking to a new solution in the space. But unlike many tools in the Jamstack, this one is actually geared towards using less JavaScript. "In Astro, you compose your website using UI components from your favorite JavaScript web framework (React, Svelte, Vue, etc). Astro renders your entire site to static HTML during the build. The result is a fully static website with all JavaScript removed from the final page." The Astro team believes that "an HTML-first, JavaScript-only-as-needed approach is the best solution for the majority of content-based websites." Astro was created by Nate Moore, Fred Schott, and Matthew Phillips in 2021 but really took off and was added to StackShare in 2022. Astro has an MIT license and has over 26K stars on GitHub. Go to Astro's website to learn more.
ยป Follow Astro
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ยป Tell developers why you chose Astro
An application framework powered by Svelte for building extremely high-performance web apps
ยป SvelteKit's profile
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ยป SvelteKit's website
Optimizing Language Models for Dialogue
ยป ChatGPT's profile
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ยป ChatGPT's website
React components library with native dark theme support
ยป Mantine's profile
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ยป Mantine's website
High-performance build system for JavaScript & TypeScript codebases
ยป Turborepo's profile
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ยป Turborepo's website
Open Source realtime backend in one file
ยป PocketBase's profile
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ยป PocketBase's website
A Vite-native unit test framework. It's fast!
ยป Vitest's profile
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ยป Vitest's website
The ultimate cloud database for tomorrowโs applications
ยป SurrealDB's profile
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ยป SurrealDB's website
An open-source low-code platform for creating internal apps
ยป Budibase's profile
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ยป Budibase's website
A fancy self-hosted monitoring tool
ยป Uptime Kuma's profile
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ยป Uptime Kuma's website
A VSCode extension that allows you to use ChatGPT
ยป ChatGPT for VSCode's profile
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ยป ChatGPT for VSCode's website
Stripe's Markdown-based authoring framework
ยป Markdoc's profile
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ยป Markdoc's website
Open-source access management for Kubernetes
ยป Infra's profile
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ยป Infra's website
IDE for Internal Apps, APIs and Cron Jobs
ยป Superblocks's profile
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ยป Superblocks's website
A modern replacement for Redis and Memcached
ยป Dragonfly's profile
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ยป Dragonfly's website
File Upload Service for Developers
ยป Upload.io's profile
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ยป Upload.io's website
High-performance load testing tool
ยป Ddosify's profile
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ยป Ddosify's website
Run CLI tools without installation
ยป Dockerized's profile
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ยป Dockerized's website
Expose your services easily and securely
ยป Nginx Proxy Manager's profile
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ยป Nginx Proxy Manager's website
An enterprise-grade, high performance feature store (By LinkedIn)
ยป Feathr's profile
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ยป Feathr's website
A universal backend for making realtime React Apps
ยป Thin Backend's profile
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ยป Thin Backend's website
A CRUD framework for full-stack TypeScript
ยป Remult's profile
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ยป Remult's website
Real-time data processing platform
ยป Memphis's profile
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ยป Memphis's website
Ship your products 3-4x faster โ with low code
ยป Locofy's profile
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ยป Locofy's website
Simple machine learning with PostgreSQL
ยป PostgresML's profile
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ยป PostgresML's website
Display ChatGPT response alongside search engine results
ยป ChatGPT for Google's profile
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ยป ChatGPT for Google's website
ChatGPT desktop application for Mac, Windows and Linux
ยป ChatGPT Desktop's profile
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ยป ChatGPT Desktop's website
Next-gen web framework
ยป Fresh Framework's profile
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ยป Fresh Framework's website
The open-source Retool alternative
ยป Toola's profile
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ยป Toola's website
A modern UI framework for Kotlin that makes building performant and beautiful user interfaces easy (By JetBrains)
ยป Compose Multiplatform's profile
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ยป Compose Multiplatform's website
A tool to seed your dev database with real data
ยป Replibyte's profile
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ยป Replibyte's website
Engineering productivity software to gain visibility, remove blockers, and ship 10x faster
ยป Swarmia's profile
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ยป Swarmia's website
An advanced component library for SaaS products
ยป Saas UI's profile
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ยป Saas UI's website
A portable devkit for CI/CD pipelines
ยป Dagger.io's profile
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ยป Dagger.io's website
A drop-in javascript spreadsheet library that provides rich features like Excel and Google Sheets
ยป FortuneSheet's profile
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ยป FortuneSheet's website
Open-source tool to deploy infrastructure in any cloud
ยป Multy's profile
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ยป Multy's website
The fastest way to build Flutter apps in Python
ยป Flet's profile
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ยป Flet's website
PyTorch framework for high-performance AI research
ยป Pytorch Lightning's profile
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ยป Pytorch Lightning's website
The Open-Source design & prototyping platform
ยป Penpot's profile
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ยป Penpot's website
Quickly scaffold a postman collection for any GraphQL API
ยป Graphman's profile
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ยป Graphman's website
The best of Auth0 and Keycloak combined
ยป Zitadel's profile
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ยป Zitadel's website
Use Tailwind CSS to design HTML emails
ยป Mailwind's profile
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ยป Mailwind's website
Fast Django REST framework for building APIs
ยป Django Ninja's profile
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ยป Django Ninja's website
Manage Podman and other container engines from a single UI and tray
ยป Podman Desktop's profile
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ยป Podman Desktop's website
A microservice orchestration platform which enables developers to build scalable applications
ยป Temporal's profile
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ยป Temporal's website
A task runner / simpler Make alternative written in Go
ยป Task's profile
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ยป Task's website
Enterprise-class web analytics.
ยป Follow Google Analytics
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ยป See recent tech decisions about Google Analytics
Quickly and easily update tags and code snippets on your website or mobile app
ยป Follow Google Tag Manager
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ยป See recent tech decisions about Google Tag Manager
Powerful, self-serve product analytics to help you convert, engage, and retain more users
ยป Follow Mixpanel
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ยป See recent tech decisions about Mixpanel
A single hub to collect, translate and send your data with the flip of a switch.
ยป Follow Segment
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ยป See recent tech decisions about Segment
User analytics to fuel explosive user growth
ยป Follow Amplitude
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ยป See recent tech decisions about Amplitude
The Realtime App Platform
ยป Follow Firebase
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ยป See recent tech decisions about Firebase
Scalable, pay-as-you-go compute capacity in the cloud
ยป Follow Amazon EC2
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ยป See recent tech decisions about Amazon EC2
A suite of cloud computing services
ยป Follow Google Cloud Platform
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ยป See recent tech decisions about Google Cloud Platform
Automatically run code in response to modifications to objects in Amazon S3 buckets, messages in Kinesis streams, or updates in DynamoDB
ยป Follow AWS Lambda
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ยป See recent tech decisions about AWS Lambda
Build, deliver, monitor and scale web apps and APIs with a trail blazing developer experience.
ยป Follow Heroku
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ยป See recent tech decisions about Heroku
A high performance free open source web server powering busiest sites on the Internet.
ยป Follow NGINX
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ยป See recent tech decisions about NGINX
Open-source HTTP server for modern operating systems including UNIX and Windows
ยป Follow Apache HTTP Server
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ยป See recent tech decisions about Apache HTTP Server
An open source software implementation of the Java Servlet and JavaServer Pages technologies
ยป Follow Apache Tomcat
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ยป See recent tech decisions about Apache Tomcat
A web server for Microsoft Windows
ยป Follow Microsoft IIS
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ยป See recent tech decisions about Microsoft IIS
A Python WSGI HTTP Server for UNIX
ยป Follow Gunicorn
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ยป See recent tech decisions about Gunicorn
Only complete API development environment
ยป Follow Postman
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ยป See recent tech decisions about Postman
Build highly customisable maps with your own content and imagery
ยป Follow Google Maps
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ยป See recent tech decisions about Google Maps
Open Source, Distributed, RESTful Search Engine
ยป Follow Elasticsearch
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ยป See recent tech decisions about Elasticsearch
Public webpages freely hosted and easily published.
ยป Follow GitHub Pages
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ยป See recent tech decisions about GitHub Pages
Quickly and easily create a beautiful online store with Shopify.
ยป Follow Shopify
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ยป See recent tech decisions about Shopify
A safe place for all your files
ยป Follow Google Drive
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ยป See recent tech decisions about Google Drive
The Web Performance & Security Company.
ยป Follow CloudFlare
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ยป See recent tech decisions about CloudFlare
Build the power of Dropbox into your apps
ยป Follow Dropbox
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ยป See recent tech decisions about Dropbox
Content delivery with low latency and high data transfer speeds
ยป Follow Amazon CloudFront
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ยป See recent tech decisions about Amazon CloudFront
Optimize, manage, and deliver images and videos for faster pages, better visual quality, and a simpler workflow.
ยป Follow imgix
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ยป See recent tech decisions about imgix
A free web-based e-mail service
ยป Follow Gmail
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ยป See recent tech decisions about Gmail
Create and edit spreadsheets online, for free
ยป Follow Google Sheets
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ยป See recent tech decisions about Google Sheets
A spreadsheet program included in the Microsoft Office suite of applications
ยป Follow Microsoft Excel
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ยป See recent tech decisions about Microsoft Excel
HR and finance apps built for the future
ยป Workday's profile
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ยป Workday's website
Open Source Mail Server Solution
ยป iRedMail's profile
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ยป iRedMail's website
Powerful collaboration, review, and code management for open source and private development projects
ยป Follow GitHub
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ยป See recent tech decisions about GitHub
Build and debug modern web and cloud applications, by Microsoft
ยป Follow Visual Studio Code
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ยป See recent tech decisions about Visual Studio Code
Enterprise Container Platform for High-Velocity Innovation.
ยป Follow Docker
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ยป See recent tech decisions about Docker
The package manager for JavaScript.
ยป Follow npm
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ยป See recent tech decisions about npm
Manage a cluster of Linux containers as a single system to accelerate Dev and simplify Ops
ยป Follow Kubernetes
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ยป See recent tech decisions about Kubernetes
Bring all your communication together in one place
ยป Follow Slack
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ยป See recent tech decisions about Slack
The #1 software development tool used by agile teams to plan, track, and release great software.
ยป Follow Jira
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ยป See recent tech decisions about Jira
Your entire project, in a single glance
ยป Follow Trello
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ยป See recent tech decisions about Trello
One place to share, find, and collaborate on information
ยป Follow Confluence
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ยป See recent tech decisions about Confluence
Collaboration and productivity apps for Business
ยป Follow G Suite
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ยป See recent tech decisions about G Suite
Bring voice and messaging to your web and mobile applications.
ยป Follow Twilio
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ยป See recent tech decisions about Twilio
Bulk and transactional email-sending service.
ยป Follow Amazon SES
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ยป See recent tech decisions about Amazon SES
Email Delivery. Simplified.
ยป Follow Twilio SendGrid
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ยป See recent tech decisions about Twilio SendGrid
The Email Service for Developers.
ยป Follow Mailgun
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ยป See recent tech decisions about Mailgun
Fully managed push messaging service
ยป Follow Amazon SNS
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ยป See recent tech decisions about Amazon SNS
The world's most popular open source database
ยป Follow MySQL
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ยป See recent tech decisions about MySQL
A powerful, open source object-relational database system
ยป Follow PostgreSQL
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ยป See recent tech decisions about PostgreSQL
The database for giant ideas
ยป Follow MongoDB
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ยป See recent tech decisions about MongoDB
Open source (BSD licensed), in-memory data structure store
ยป Follow Redis
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ยป See recent tech decisions about Redis
Store and retrieve any amount of data, at any time, from anywhere on the web
ยป Follow Amazon S3
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ยป See recent tech decisions about Amazon S3
The collaborative interface design tool.
ยป Follow Figma
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ยป See recent tech decisions about Figma
Prototyping & Collaboration For Design Teams
ยป Follow InVision
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ยป See recent tech decisions about InVision
The industry standard in design, photography, video editing & more
ยป Follow Adobe Photoshop
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ยป See recent tech decisions about Adobe Photoshop
Render React components to Sketch โ๏ธ๐
ยป React Sketch.app's profile
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ยป React Sketch.app's website
UX/UI design and collaboration tool
ยป Follow Adobe XD
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ยป See recent tech decisions about Adobe XD
Lightweight, interpreted, object-oriented language with first-class functions
ยป Follow JavaScript
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ยป See recent tech decisions about JavaScript
A clear and powerful object-oriented programming language, comparable to Perl, Ruby, Scheme, or Java.
ยป Follow Python
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ยป See recent tech decisions about Python
A platform built on Chrome's JavaScript runtime for easily building fast, scalable network applications
ยป Follow Node.js
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ยป See recent tech decisions about Node.js
A concurrent, class-based, object-oriented, language specifically designed to have as few implementation dependencies as possible
ยป Follow Java
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ยป See recent tech decisions about Java
A superset of JavaScript that compiles to clean JavaScript output
ยป Follow TypeScript
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ยป See recent tech decisions about TypeScript
A JavaScript library for building user interfaces
ยป Follow React
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ยป See recent tech decisions about React
The Write Less, Do More, JavaScript Library.
ยป Follow jQuery
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ยป See recent tech decisions about jQuery
A progressive framework for building user interfaces
ยป Follow Vue.js
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ยป See recent tech decisions about Vue.js
Superheroic JavaScript MVW Framework
ยป Follow AngularJS
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ยป See recent tech decisions about AngularJS
Predictable state container for JavaScript apps
ยป Follow Redux
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ยป See recent tech decisions about Redux
The Web framework for perfectionists with deadlines
ยป Follow Django
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ยป See recent tech decisions about Django
Create Spring-powered, production-grade applications and services with absolute minimum fuss
ยป Follow Spring Boot
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ยป See recent tech decisions about Spring Boot
A PHP Framework For Web Artisans
ยป Follow Laravel
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ยป See recent tech decisions about Laravel
Web development that doesn't hurt
ยป Follow Rails
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ยป See recent tech decisions about Rails
A small framework for server-rendered universal JavaScript apps
ยป Follow Next.js
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ยป See recent tech decisions about Next.js
A framework for building native apps with React
ยป Follow React Native
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ยป See recent tech decisions about React Native
Cross-platform mobile framework from Google
ยป Follow Flutter
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ยป See recent tech decisions about Flutter
An SDK that provides you the API libraries and developer tools necessary to build, test, and debug apps for Android.
ยป Follow Android SDK
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ยป See recent tech decisions about Android SDK
Statically typed Programming Language targeting JVM and JavaScript
ยป Follow Kotlin
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ยป See recent tech decisions about Kotlin
An innovative new programming language for Cocoa and Cocoa Touch.
ยป Follow Swift
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ยป See recent tech decisions about Swift
Open source Graphite & InfluxDB Dashboard and Graph Editor
ยป Follow Grafana
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ยป See recent tech decisions about Grafana
Visualize your Elasticsearch data and navigate the Elastic Stack
ยป Follow Kibana
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ยป See recent tech decisions about Kibana
Unify logs, metrics, and traces from across your distributed infrastructure.
ยป Follow Datadog
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ยป See recent tech decisions about Datadog
See performance issues, fix errors faster, and optimize code health.
ยป Follow Sentry
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ยป See recent tech decisions about Sentry
Monitor AWS resources and custom metrics generated by your applications and services
ยป Follow Amazon CloudWatch
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ยป See recent tech decisions about Amazon CloudWatch
Send Money, Pay Online or Set Up a Merchant Account
ยป Follow PayPal
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ยป See recent tech decisions about PayPal
Payments for developers
ยป Follow Stripe
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ยป See recent tech decisions about Stripe
Accept payments in your app or website today
ยป Follow Braintree
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ยป See recent tech decisions about Braintree
Neobanking for Businesses
ยป Razorpay's profile
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ยป Razorpay's website
Integrate bitcoin payments into your website or application
ยป Coinbase's profile
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ยป Coinbase's website
A semantic personal publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability.
ยป Follow WordPress
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ยป See recent tech decisions about WordPress
Easy email newsletters
ยป Follow Mailchimp
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ยป See recent tech decisions about Mailchimp
A program that allows bloggers and website owners to make money by displaying Google ads
ยป Google AdSense's profile
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ยป Google AdSense's website
All the software you need to do inbound marketing.
ยป Follow HubSpot
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ยป See recent tech decisions about HubSpot
The leading cloud-based customer service software solution.
ยป Follow Zendesk
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ยป See recent tech decisions about Zendesk
These rankings are brought to you, by the entire StackShare community of over one million developers. You make these awards possible by sharing not only what you're using, but more importantly, why you chose your stack. If you aren't familiar, Stack Advice is an easy way to get and give advice on specific tech stack decisions.
So we'd like to thank and 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.
While there are thousands of developers that help each other every year on StackShare- the 20 developers below went above and beyond the call of duty to give their peers advice over and over again.
We'd like to thank everyone who asked the community for advice and everyone who chimed in with their recommendations ๐ See all the Stack Decisions and Stack Advice these special developers shared by checking out their stack decision feeds below!
Methodology:
For tool rankings, scores are calculated using a combination of number of stacks a tool was added to, number of votes, number of Stack Decisions shared, number of one-liners, number of follows, and number of profile views for the year. New Tool rankings were calculated from tools that were created and added to StackShare in 2022 with follows and views being weighted more heavily than other metrics since new tools donโt 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).
If you have any questions about the rankings, drop us a line at team@stackshare.io!