Tools
Know what's in the toolbox
What each tool is, how it's licensed, and when a dev would actually reach for it.
Dev tooling & AI
Build tools, API styles, containers, and AI coding assistants.
Vite
Open sourceFrontend build tool and dev server
Serves source files as native ES modules during development, so the dev server starts almost instantly and hot module replacement stays fast as the project grows. Bundles for production.
Claude Code
CommercialAI coding agent
Anthropic's agentic coding tool. It reads your codebase, edits files, runs commands, and handles multi-step tasks from the terminal, IDE, desktop app, or browser.
Codex
Open sourceAI coding agent
OpenAI's coding agent, available as an open-source CLI and as a cloud agent that works on tasks in parallel sandboxes.
REST
Open standardAPI architectural style
Resources addressed by URLs and manipulated with standard HTTP methods and status codes. Simple, cacheable, and understood by every HTTP client.
GraphQL
Open standardAPI query language
Clients send a query describing exactly the fields they need and get back that shape in one request, from a single typed endpoint.
Docker
Open sourceContainer platform
Packages an app with its dependencies and configuration into a container image that runs the same on a laptop, CI, and production.