Every developer has a personal set of tools they prefer, but most share the same basic setup. The core of any developer’s toolkit is a code editor. VS Code is the most popular choice today because it is free, fast, and has thousands of extensions for every language.
The terminal (or command line) is where developers run commands, manage files, and interact with Git. On macOS it is Terminal or iTerm2, on Windows it is PowerShell or Windows Terminal, and on Linux it is built right in.
Beyond the editor and terminal, developers use version control (Git) to track changes in their code, and browser developer tools (built into Chrome, Firefox, and Edge) to debug frontend code. Many also use tools like Postman for API testing, Docker for running services, and Figma for design collaboration.
