Ask HN: What kind of online tools are you using, missing or can be improved?

• RegExr

  579 9,573 0.0 JavaScript

  RegExr is a HTML/JS based tool for creating, testing, and learning about Regular Expressions.

Regext is one that I find quite helpful at times as well.

https://regexr.com/

• CyberChef

  286 25,733 9.3 JavaScript

  The Cyber Swiss Army Knife - a web app for encryption, encoding, compression and data analysis

  

I'm using CyberChef (https://gchq.github.io/CyberChef/) quite a lot for different tasks.

I love the simplicity of writing a program in mere minutes and distributing it with a single link.

• SurveyJS

  surveyjs.io featured

  Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App. With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.

  

• squoosh

  267 21,014 5.8 TypeScript

  Make images smaller using best-in-class codecs, right in the browser.

  

Not all of these are web based but they are “online”

Image tool by google - Squoosh (https://squoosh.app/)

• duckduckgo-locales

  2,081 94 0.0 Perl

  Translation files for <a href="https://duckduckgo.com"> </a>

  

• DevUtils-app

  36 4,017 1.8 Swift

  All-in-one Toolbox for Developers. Native macOS app.

  

You may want to check out https://devutils.app/

• Pluto.jl

  78 4,886 9.5 JavaScript

  🎈 Simple reactive notebooks for Julia

Julia ecosystem has an awesome tool called Pluto that solves this. https://github.com/fonsp/Pluto.jl it is still young but actively developed. I am especially looking forward to their upcoming 2D Grid layout option, which will essentially turn it into a code driven reactive dashboard.

Suggest a related project