--- title: Productivity Boosters: My Top Five Developer Tools Worth... description: GitLive is a peer-to-peer code streaming platform and IDE UI extensions. Wallaby is an integrated continuous testing tool for JavaScript. Code Time is an Open... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/productivity-boosters-my-top-five-developer-tools-worth-the-money-pijlk2rxb twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Productivity Boosters: My Top Five Developer Tools Worth The Money | daily.dev og:description: GitLive is a peer-to-peer code streaming platform and IDE UI extensions. Wallaby is an integrated continuous testing tool for JavaScript. 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Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@steakeye** · 0 upvotes > I love that some of these pro tools are completely free for open-source projects! **@yetanotherdev** · 0 upvotes > Solid list 👍 **@abc0xmattyic333** · 0 upvotes > Thanks for providing this great read❗️📝 --- Tags: [#career](https://daily.dev/tags/career), [#general-programming](https://daily.dev/tags/general-programming), [#open-source](https://daily.dev/tags/open-source), [#tools](https://daily.dev/tags/tools) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/productivity-boosters-my-top-five-developer-tools-worth-the-money-pijlk2rxb) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Productivity Boosters: My Top Five Developer Tools Worth The Money","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/productivity-boosters-my-top-five-developer-tools-worth-the-money-pijlk2rxb","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/productivity-boosters-my-top-five-developer-tools-worth-the-money-pijlk2rxb"},"datePublished":"2022-04-26T07:40:35.634Z","dateModified":"2026-03-15T04:54:06.037Z","description":"GitLive is a peer-to-peer code streaming platform and IDE UI extensions. 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