Tools for Developers — Curated List

Hello Coders! This article presents a curated list of tools actively supported and versioned by AppSeed. Thanks for reading!

Developer Tools are actively supported and versioned by AppSeed

✨ API Generator for Django

The tool aims to provide a secure, production-ready API via DRF using the developer’s minimum amount of code For newcomers, Django is a leading backend framework used to code from simple websites and APIs to complex eCommerce solutions.

• Django API Generator — Source Code
• Django API Generator — product page (for support)

Django API Generator for DRF

✨ Django Dynamic DataTables

Open-source library for Django that provides a powerful data table interface (paginated information) with minimum effort.

• Dynamic DataTables — Source Code
• Django Dynamic DataTables — product page (for support)

Django Dynamic Data Tables

✨ Django Tasks Manager

A simple Django & Celery integration available as an open-source Python package. Features: create/revoke tasks, view logs, minimal configuration.

• Django Tasks Manager — Source Code
• Django Tasks Manager — product page (for support)

Tasks Manager — Django & Celery

✨ Django Dynamic API

The tool aims to provide a secure, production-ready API via DRF using the developer’s minimum amount of code — How it works:

• Install the Dynamic API package using PIP
• Define a new model in the project (an old one can be also used)
• Execute the database migration to create/update the associated tables
• Update the configuration to enable the Dynamic API over the model
• Start the app & Access the Dynamic API Service

Django Dynamic API for DRF

✨ API Generator for Flask

This tool aims to provide a secure, production-ready API via Flask-RestX using the developer's minimum amount of code.

How it works — see product (free)

• Define a new model in the project (an old one can be also used)
• Execute the database migration to create/update the associated tables
• Update the configuration to enable the Dynamic API over the model
• Start the app
• Access the Dynamic API Service

API Generator for Flask — Open-Source Project

✨ Flask Dynamic DataTables

The tool aims to provide a powerful data table interface using the developer’s minimum amount of code.

How it works

• Define a new model in the project (an old one can be also used)
• Execute the database migration to create/update the associated tables
• Update the configuration to enable the Dynamic Data Table service over the model
• Start the app
• Access the Dynamic DataTable provided on op of the model

Flask Dynamic DataTables — A Developer tool provided by AppSeed

✨ DB Introspection Tool free tool

Open-Source developers tool that provides simple helpers for legacy database introspection. Crafted on top of Python and Peewee.

• Peewee DB Reflection
• Supported DB: SQLite, MySql, PostgreSQL
• DbWrapper Class:
• print_all_models() - returns all tables
• print_db_model - print table definition
• dump_tables() - Dump SQL definitions (all tables)
• dump_tables_data() - Dump database content (all tables)

DB Introspection — A Developer tool provided by AppSeed

✨ Data Converter free tool

A tool that provides simple helpers for data management:

• UI managed by Flask
• CSV Files Print
• Columns: Remove, Update
• Add New Column with random values:
• timestamp, random_int and random string (via Faker)
• CSV to JSON conversion

Data Converter — A Developer tool provided by AppSeed

✨ Full-Stack OpenAPI Generator free tool

Starter project that uses OpenAPI specifications to bind a NodeJs Express backend and a React frontend, using an API-first approach. Generated codebase features and options:

Backend

• Express is the most popular NodeJs web framework; the following commonly used plugins have been included:
• helmet is a utility for setting HTTP headers
• morgan is a logging utility
• cors is a utility for configuring cross-origin request security
• express-openapi-validator is a utility for validating API requests against the OpenAPI specification
• TypeORM is an ORM that supports the DataMapper pattern, which makes is more attractive in combination with the "API first" approach
• Express JWT and JWKS-RSA are two utilities for verifying a JWT token authenticity, in an OAuth2 / OpenID connect context

React Frontend

• Create React App is the most popular way to start with React; the Seed provides three UI alternatives:
• Material UI
• Chakra UI
• React Bootstrap
• Ant Design
• React Redux is a state container using the immutable state/action/reducer pattern
• Recharts is a charts library built with React and D3
• React I18Next is a popular internationalization framework for React
• OpenID AppAuth-Js is an OAuth2 / OpenID connect flow library

🚀 OpenAPI Editor

In-Browser Developers Tool — Edit your OpenAPI definition directly in the browser and download the generated JSON file. For newcomers, OpenAPI is an open-source format for designing RESTful APIs and web services that serves as a single source of truth for all parties involved in the software development process: developers, and testers.

This free service/tool can be used to edit and generate unlimited OpenAPI definitions. The editor supports editing the global API information (Title, API version, description), adding/removing entities, and fields for each OpenAPI entity:

• ✔️ string
• ✔️ timestamp
• ✔️ UUID
• ✔️ binary
• ✔️ boolean
• ✔️ number
• ✔️ array
• ✔️ object (all entities previously defined)

OpenAPI Editor — A Developer IN-Browser tool provided by AppSeed

🚀 OpenAPI Parser

Tool to extract relevant information from an OpenAPI descriptor. The information can be used to generate code (helpers, business logic, or a database schema).

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