Tools

Know what's in the toolbox

What each tool is, how it's licensed, and when a dev would actually reach for it.

Databases & backends

Relational, document, embedded, and vector stores, plus the backends and ORMs around them.

Clerk

Managed authentication and user management

A hosted authentication service with client/server SDKs, prebuilt sign-in and account components, and organization membership, roles, and permissions. Your application verifies sessions and enforces access to its own data.

Dashboards & UI kits

Pre-assembled admin panels and templates for internal tools and client portals.

CoreUI

Freemium

Admin dashboard system

An admin template with native versions for React, Vue, Angular, and plain Bootstrap. The free edition is open source; Pro adds more components and templates.

Horizon UI

Freemium

Admin dashboard template

A modern dashboard template for React and Next.js with Tailwind CSS and Chakra UI versions, strong default dark mode, and chart-heavy widgets. Free version plus a Pro upgrade.

TailAdmin

Freemium

Admin dashboard template

A Tailwind CSS admin dashboard with free open-source editions for React, Next.js, Vue, and plain HTML, plus a paid Pro tier.

CSS & component libraries

Utility-first CSS, headless primitives, and full component design systems.

Flowbite

Freemium

Tailwind component library

Interactive Tailwind components (dropdowns, modals, navbars, datepickers) with vanilla JS plus React, Vue, and Svelte bindings. Open-source core with paid Pro blocks.

Hosting & content platforms

Where sites get deployed and published: frontend clouds, edge platforms, and the CMS behind content-heavy sites.

Vercel

Freemium

Frontend cloud platform

Managed framework hosting with Git-connected branch previews and production deployments. Server code runs in Functions with runtime, region, memory, and duration settings; static assets use its delivery network.

Cloudflare Workers

Freemium

Edge compute and static hosting

Runs application code alongside Static Assets, with bindings to Cloudflare services. Workers provides Web APIs and a subset of Node APIs; framework integrations must target its runtime.

Netlify

Freemium

Web hosting platform

Git-based hosting with deploy previews, serverless and edge functions, forms, and a global CDN. A long-standing home for static and Jamstack sites.

Game development

From browser-first renderers and 2D frameworks to full engines, plus physics, level editors, and free assets.

GameMaker

Freemium

Editor-led 2D game engine

A 2D engine with rooms, sprites, object events, GML scripting, and platform export tools.

Construct 3

Freemium

Browser-based game editor with visual events

A game editor centered on layouts, objects, event sheets, and behaviors, with optional JavaScript scripting.

Unity

Freemium

Cross-platform game engine

A widely used commercial engine for 2D and 3D games, scripted in C#, with a large asset store and export to desktop, mobile, consoles, and the web.

AI agent skills

Installable skill folders that teach a coding agent one specific job — design direction, polish, accessibility, design systems.

Figma Generate Library

Freemium

Design-system skill

One of Figma's official MCP skills: builds or updates a Figma component library from your codebase in phases — audit what exists, create token collections, build component pages, then run a quality check.