13 Free and Open-source Webdev Apps for macOS (Intel and Apple Silicon)
1- Curlie
The power of curl, the ease of use of httpie.
Curlie is a lightweight command-line API testing tool, written in Go language, and uses curl in the backend. It is heavily inspired by httpie. You can install it on macOS using Homebrew, or Mac ports. You can also install it using Go package manager.
If you like the interface of HTTPie but miss the features of curl, curlie is what you are searching for. Curlie is a frontend to curl that adds the ease of use of httpie, without compromising on features and performance. All curl options are exposed with syntax sugar and output formatting inspired from httpie.
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2- HTTPie
HTTPie for Terminal; human-friendly CLI HTTP client for the API era
HTTPie (pronounced aitch-tee-tee-pie) is a command-line HTTP client. Its goal is to make CLI interaction with web services as human-friendly as possible. HTTPie is designed for testing, debugging, and generally interacting with APIs & HTTP servers. The http & https commands allow for creating and sending arbitrary HTTP requests. They use simple and natural syntax and provide formatted and colorized output.
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3- Zerocode
Automated API, Kafka and Micro-services testing has never been so easy
Zerocode is a community-developed, free, open source, microservices API automation and load testing framework built using JUnit core runners for Http REST, SOAP, Security, Database, Kafka and much more. Zerocode Open Source enables you to create, change, orchestrate and maintain your automated test cases declaratively with absolute ease.
Zerocode makes it easy to create and maintain automated tests with absolute minimum overhead for REST,SOAP, Kafka Real Time Data Streams and much more. It has the best of best ideas and practices from the community to keep it super simple, and the adoption is rapidly growing among the developer/tester community.
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4- Bdash
Simple SQL Client for lightweight data analysis.
Simple SQL Client for lightweight data analysis.
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5- Beekeeper Studio
Modern and easy to use SQL client for MySQL, Postgres, SQLite, SQL Server, and more
Beekeeper Studio is a cross-platform SQL editor and database manager available for Linux, Mac, and Windows. Beekeeper Studio Community Edition is GPL licensed so it is free (libre) and free (gratis).
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6- Get It
A macOS GUI for youtube-dl
A macOS video/audio downloader. Think of it as a youtube downloader that works on many sites.
Get It will download audio and/or movies from many websites such as YouTube, BBC, Instagram, ... It's a GUI round the popular YouTube-DL command-line program but with an easy to use interface. It will save your settings dynamically or you can restore the default settings. The default settings will download the audio from a video, convert it to an MP3 and save it to you downloads folder. This was, in my opinion, the mostly used setting.
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7- Git Desktop
Official GitHub Desktop Client
GitHub Desktop is an open source Electron-based GitHub app. It is written in TypeScript and uses React.
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8- GitUp
Git GUI client for advanced users
GitUp is a bet to invent a new Git interaction model that lets engineers of all levels work quickly, safely, and without headaches. It's unlike any other Git client out there from the way it’s built (it interacts directly with the Git database on disk), to the way it works (you manipulate the repository graph instead of manipulating commits).
With GitUp, you get a truly efficient Git client for Mac:
A live and interactive repo graph (edit, reorder, fixup, merge commits…),
Unlimited undo / redo of almost all operations (even rebases and merges),
Time Machine like snapshots for 1-click rollbacks to previous repo states,
Features that don’t even exist natively in Git like a visual commit splitter or a unified reflog browser,
Instant search across the entire repo including diff contents,
A ridiculously fast UI, often faster than the command line.
GitUp was created by @swisspol in late 2014 as a bet to reinvent the way developers interact with Git. After several months of work, it was made available in pre-release early 2015 and reached the top of Hacker News along with being featured by Product Hunt and Daring Fireball. 30,000 lines of code later, GitUp reached 1.0 mid-August 2015 and was released open source as a gift to the developer community.
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9- GitX
The best fork of the best lightweight, visual git client for macOS.
GitX is an OS X (MacOS) native graphical client for the git version control system.
GitX has a long history of various branches and versions maintained by various people over the years. This github org & repo are an attempt to consolidate and move forward with a current, common, community-maintained version.
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10- massCode
A remarkable free code snippet manager for macOS
massCode is a nifty open-source solution for developers that helps them organize their code snippets in multiple languages in a stylish organized way.
Developers have to use web services like GitHub Gist, which is hard to use offline, or often buy a commercial software to keep all snippets. Not anymore with massCode.
It is originally developed by "Anton Reshetov" a web and deskop app developer, who released it under AGPL V3.0.
The project gained popularity among developers. It is built on top of Vue, Electron and Monaco code editor.
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11- Medis
Medis is a beautiful, easy-to-use Mac database management application for Redis.
Medis is a beautiful, easy-to-use Redis management application built on the modern web with Electron, React, and Redux. It's powered by many awesome Node.js modules, especially ioredis and ssh2.
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12- Postbird
Open source PostgreSQL GUI client
Postbird is a cross-platform PostgreSQL GUI client, written in JavaScript, runs with Electron
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13- Sequel Ace
MySQL/MariaDB database management for macOS
Sequel Ace is the "sequel" to the longtime macOS tool Sequel Pro. Sequel Ace is a fast, easy-to-use Mac database management application for working with MySQL & MariaDB databases.
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