15 Top Must Have JavaScript Tools Developers [2025]

Sachin Sharma

Posted On: January 30, 2025

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JavaScript is one of the most widely used scripting languages by the developers and website testers worldwide. Powerful, resourceful, and intuitive, JavaScript comes into action when we require our website to be a little different. The true beauty of JavaScript is not the language itself, but the ecosystem of thousands of tools and libraries developed by resourceful developers around the world.

So if you are a new JavaScript developer looking for a easy list of tools to get you started, below I have listed some tools including frameworks, debuggers, text editors etc. that will help you code efficiently using JavaScript.

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Sublime Text

Sublime Text is a proprietary cross-platform text editor with Python API.It natively supports multiple languages and markup languages. And Plugins can also be installed for new functions.

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Gulp

Gulp is basically a task automation tool. The file that you create in this tool, is a plain JavaScript file that you can run to automate you menial tasks. It comes under the category of package manager. Gulp is very developer friendly and easy to learn.

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NPM

NPM is known as NodeJs Package Manager, which is an online repository for publishing projects created on NodeJS. If you are JS developer, you should know NPM.

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Webpack

Webpack helps you in loading your modules with some dependencies like .js,.css,.html etc. Webpack works as a bundler which bundles your similar kind of files into a single precise file. Great for DevOps peeps looking for a easy way to organize and pack their deployment files.

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ESlint

ESlint is a tool which is used for finding errors. It is a pluggable JavaScript linting tool. This tool will help you find programming errors and is a must have for newbies JavaScript testers. It also comes under NPM.

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Jasmine

Jasmine is a test suite which comes into action when your JavaScript is installed into your browser.Its a fully automated behavior-based test suite.It provides a testing environment for all kinds of Node.js projects.

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Browserify

Browserify can only be used with the Node.js projects and to make them live into the browser. It works well on small modules.

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Mocha

Mocha is a simple and flexible testing framework based on the JavaScript. It also offers asynchronous testing and also you can use any assertion library with it.

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QUnit

QUnit must be was first installed on NPM, which is a JavaScript testing framework. It’s a JavaScript based unit testing framework.

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Code Orchestra

Code Orchestra is also known as COLT(Code orchestra Live Coding tool). It can be used by any IDE which is beneficial for the user/coder to use that tool with any IDE, he is comfortable with.

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CircleCI

CircleCI is a Continuous Integration (CI) tool which allows developers to integrate their code in a shared repository.

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Travis CI

Travis CI, you can easily synchronize your GitHub projects. It offers more language support than circleCI and also you can run test on Linux and macOS at the same time.

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Codeship

Codeship is a Continuous Integration tool helps in error finding. The service offers a variety of powerful setup options.

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AppVeyor

AppVeyor is an open source project builder. It works good for Github repositories. The user can login to the actual virtual machine.

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Jenkins

Jenkins is a continuous integration server or tool which is written in java. It is considered to be a standalone CI tool with a lots of plugins by which you can do anything.

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These are the tools that makes the life of a javaScript developer easier. If you use some other tools, don’t forget to let us know in the comments below.

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Sachin Sharma

I am an Automation Enthusiast | RPA | I enjoy working with data in every step of the process, from ingestion to visualization, with an emphasis on machine learning.

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