Dev Stack

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  NodeJS

  Open-source, cross-platform JavaScript runtime environment.
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  TypeScript

  Strongly typed programming language that builds on JavaScript.
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  Cursor

  AI code editor built on top of VS Code. Wow it's good
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  VS Code

  Popular code editor with great community-maintained extensions (still use occassionally).
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  Warp

  Modern terminal with rich text features, grouping and AI
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  ChatGPT

  Groundbreaking AI chat bot. Great for asking dev questions and finding obscure npm packges.
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  Mocha

  Well-known testing frame-work with great flexibility
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  Knex

  My favourite database ORM. Supports many underlying engines.
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  Runkit

  Test NPM packages in the browser
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  Redis

  Fast in-memory data store
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  Postgres

  Advanced Open Source Relational Database
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  SQS

  Message queuing for microservices, distributed systems, and serverless applications
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  Lambda

  Run code without managing servers*. *You still might need provisioned concurrency
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  tailwind CSS

  I don't often do front-end, but when I do I use tailwind css