A directory of tools commonly used by web developers

At the moment, this is just a jumble of .json files. But the idea is that this will be imported into a database and an application will be written to search through it. The end result is one where if a developer is confused about what something (anything - libraries, tools, programs) is, they can just do a search and be provided with a description and use cases.

Collection Schema

Tools

• _id String - A unique name amongst all the documents - usually the lowercaseCamelCase, space-removed version of the name will do. E.g. express
• name String - The human-readable name of the tool
• tags Array of Strings - An array of relevant tags for search and categorisation purposes
• dependencies Array of Strings - An array of strings with the strings being valid id of another document. E.g. ["express", "nodejs"]
• language String - Which language is this tool primarily being written in? Must be a valid id value from the Languages collection
• environments Array of Strings - Which environment is this tool used in? (valid values below)
• audience Array of Strings - Who would use this tool? (valid values below)
• description String - A short description of the tool, aim to keep it within 20 words or 120 characters
• summary String - An optional, more exhaustive description of the tool
• features Array of Strings - An array listing out features of the tool
• scenario Array of Strings - An array listing out the use cases or scenarios where a person would use this tool
• website String - The URL to the official site, without the protocol
• repository String - URL to the repository
• demo String - URL to a demo, if any
• similar Array of Objects - Each object shall represent a similar tool, and have the properties id and relationship, where id is the name of { id: "grunt", relationship: "Gulp has a simpler syntax to Grunt" }
• used by Array of Strings - An array of the organization ids, as specified in the Organizations collection (below) }

Organizations

• _id String - A unique name amongst all the organizations - usually the lowercaseCamelCase, space-removed version of the name will do. E.g. joyent

• name String - The official and human-readable name of the organization. e.g. "Joyent, Inc."

• social Object - Has the structure:

  { twitter: "handle", facebook: "username", github: "username" }

• website String - A link to the official website

Languages

• _id String - A unique name amongst all the languages - usually the lowercaseCamelCase, space-removed version of the name will do. E.g. cnet
• name String - The official and human-readable name of the language - e.g. "C#.NET"

Valid Values

Audience

• sysadmin
• backend
• frontend
• designer
• manager
• qa

Environments

• browser
• server
• client
• android
• ios
• mobile
• windows
• linux
• osx

Notes

Languages

The primary language the platform or tool is written in. If there are more than one, pick the one which is used most often. For example, for Git, 43.8% of the code base is written in C, while 34.0% in Shell. So you'd classify git's 'language' property as 'c'.

If you are unsure, leave it blank ("").