Project Management

• Notion — For overall project management, documentation, notes and wikis
• Clubhouse / Monday — Clubhouse or Monday to manage the development process itself. Both can be Incorporated into a CI/CD workflow so builds are done automatically and changes are reflected in the staging and production CI/CD branches
• Discord — For communication between teams

Design

• Figma — Figma is a modern cross platform design tool with sharing and collaboration built in
• Photoshop / Canva — Photoshop is the industry standard for doing graphic design work and Canva is a great image editing tool

Back-End

• Node.js — A popular modern back-end framework
• PostgreSQL — A popular SQL Database
• MongoDB — A popular NoSQL Database

Front-End

• NextJS — NextJS for generating a static website
• Tailwind — Tailwind for writing the CSS, as its a modern popular framework basically allowing you to avoid writing your own custom CSS from scratch leading to faster development workflows
• CSS/SASS / styled-components — This can be used as a different option to Tailwind, giving you more customization options for the components in React
• Storybook — This is the main build process for creating the components because it allows for modularity. With Storybook components are created in isolation inside of a dynamic library that can be updated and shared across the business
• Jest and Enzyme, React Testing Library and Cypress — TDD using unit tests for the code and components before they are sent to production and Cypress for end to end testing
• Sanity / Strapi — Sanity and Strapi are headless CMS, and are used to publish the content with the use of a GUI (optional tools)
• Vercel / Netlify / AWS — The CI/CD provider combined with GitHub, it makes it easy to review and promote changes as they’re developed

Mobile

• Ionic — Cross-platform apps
• React Native / Redux — React Native for creating cross platform mobile apps and Redux for state management
• Flutter/Dart — Flutter and Dart for creating cross platform mobile apps

Final notes

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