What do u have open when coding?

Me (PHP/NodeJS web development on a Mac):

CODING & TESTING
- MAMP PRO
- PhpStrom
- Navicat (for localhost MySql DB)
- Chrome
- Terminal

COMMUNICATION
- Slack
- Mail
- Messenger (for Google Chat)
- WhatApp Web
- Calendar

NOTE TAKING
- Evernote
- TextWrangler (for quick notes)

What size monitor do you use?

@jhh2450 It's a 15" Macbook Pro laptop. Just swipe up with 4 fingers to view all the open windows at once.

@techdoc Oh ok! I've known people to use like 40" monitors so they could use several full sized tabs at once.

IDE
Devrant(phone)
VLC
Firefox
at least 3 Terminals

I use Manjaro Linux, XFCE with at least 3 workspaces.

Browsing/web debygging:
Brave/Chromium

Programming:
Android Studio,Vscode,Pycharm. Sometimes eclipse/intellij

Communication/Messaging
All in Franz(really conveniant)

Chromium
PyCharm
devRant
Optional: Spotify or other media player

C# and asp.net development

Visual studio
VSTS
Notepad++
OneNote
Outlook
Skype for business
Devrant
9GaG on mobile

Java developer

Local machine:
-Chrome
-Citrix
-Spotify
-Outlook

In the VM accessed via citrix
-Eclipse IDE
-Notepad++
-PL/SQL Developer
-Internet explorer
-Skype for business
-PuTTy
-Keepass
-Outlook
-Word/Excel probably

Don't judge me, the software library available in the VM I work on is set by the customer and we don't even have access to internet.

Vs code
Mysql workbench
Chrome
Slack
And terminal sometimes.

P.S. I am a web developer.

Windows here

- Zsh terminal
- Winscp
- Sublime Text
- 3x Chrome across 3 monitors
-- googling / coolors.co / uplabs / dribble
-- plex and various chats
-- spotify/youtube if plex not in use
-- current dev webpage open
- steam
- remote desktop
- multiple explorer windows
- often adobe illustrator / photoshop

Java development:
- Eclipse, NetBeans, of IntelliJ open (most likely eclipse)
- Opera
- Two command lines

OS Development:
- Ubuntu VM (VMWare or VirtualBox)
- Nano
- osdev.org
- QEMU

PHP/JS/HTML/CSS:
- Notepad++
- File Explorer
- Quick PHP LAN Server by Zach Saw

Android:
- about 120 tabs
- documentation
- QEMU
- Android studio

MonkeyX:
- the IDE it comes with

Python:
- IDLE

Go:
- liteIDE

C/C++ (Linux):
- Ubuntu VM
- Nano
- Four terminals

C/C++ (Windows):
- Code::Blocks (Visual Studio if I have too😤)

MAMP YAYYYY

Vagrant!

C development
- Sublime Text 3
- Terminal

Bash development
- Terminal
- Terminal with Nano opened
- Man pages

Java development
- Intellij Idea
- Java APIs on chrome

Android development
- Android Studio
- Genymotion
- Java APIs on chrome
- Android APIs on chrome
- Android Developers page on chrome

-Ubuntu to run applications
-Not 10 applications but 10 tabs in atom.
-2-5 Terminals ( for running localhost, db server, remote servers, and git. But last 3 commit I made directly from atom's git+, and will be using it now usually now)
-Documentation on chrome
-Chrome for documentations
-Sometimes youtube, to listen to LP songs ( my ISP provides 4-8 folds speed, compared to my subscribed plan, on Google's services )
File zilla ( not much anymore )

mine is a lenovo y510p runing on osx el capitain, and for work another hackintosh on asus motherboard and it's running stable, if you only using mysql for mac there is Sequel pro, i always like it more, and advice if i may, docker is great for dev, specially if you are confortable with CLI,

about slack, i still believe that the price is very high

Just a terminal and a browser.

I use Vim for everything.

HTML/JS/PHP Dev
Windows 10
IDE (Brackets)
Chrome Window with page open
Another Chrome window open with YouTube autoplay
XAMMP

On Ubuntu:
Terminal with tmux+neovim
Chrome for docs (trying to use Zeal, crash :'( )
Spotify
For the communication it's Slack Discord and Thunderbird

@calmyourtities Jetbrains Gogland is neat for Go as well.

I'm a Jetbrains whore, I use it for PHP, MySQL (Datagrip), Go, Python, Rust, etc.

Slack, Urxvt and Chrome are the only other windows.

Within Chrome, I usually have Asana, Bugsnag, Github and several pages of the site I'm working on open.

Code editing/devving:
NetBeans
GEdit
Firefox
Shitloads of terminals
Advanced REST cliënt (Chromium addon)

Communications:
Signal
Riot.IM
Tox

Note stuff:
Don't take notes.

OS: Fedora.

@clovisIrex I'd use Franz but every communication method I use relies on a different end to end encryption scheme so yah

Web Dev (front end and back end) on MacOS.

- Sublime Text
- Chrome (often with a bajillion tabs)
- Firefox
- iOS Simulator (for testing)
- iTerm2 (usually 4 or 5 sessions/tabs — a couple for servers/build tasks, and a few in different directories)
- GitUp (awesome free git client)
- Electron-wrapped Trello (made with nativefier)
- iTunes or Spotify or VLC
- Slack and/or Discord and/or Mac Mail (for team or client communication)

All spread out over 7 or 8 virtual desktops.

WebDev on OSX:

Foreground

- iTerm (3 tabs: nvim + gulp/webpack + git)
- Chrome

Background

- MAMP
- RescueTime
- WakaTime
- Spotify / PocketCasts

Almost anything else most of the time. When needed:

- Photoshop
- Sketch
- VBox (Ubuntu Server)
- FileZilla or Transmit
- Sublime Text
- ...

i always have multiple workspaces with 3 monitors.

Workspace 1:
M1: slack / skype
M2: mail / github
M3: github repos I'm working on

Workspace 2:
all shells ssh sessions are here usually about 4 or 5 plus some serial consoles to devices

Workspace 3:
M1: browser with SO, linux doc other docs
M2: Sublime in full screen no distraction mode
M3: terminals to compile/run/ and one with tig

Workspace 4 (windows):
M1: browser doc so ...
M2: visual studio
M3: git bash / browser with api doc and postman

Workspace 4: (Android dev)
each monitor has an android studio project open + one browser for doc and stack overflow

Workspace 5:
M1: Browser with necessary doc
M2: linux VM monitor1
M3: linux VM monitor2

i can add other workspaces if needed for support cases when I'm working on all the raspberry pies we have in the office etc...

PS: i use
i3 / tig / ranger on linux

Spark, Chrome, Atom, android Studio and Spotify

Read all comments in hope to find an answer for this but nope :(

1. Which REST client? Started to hate postman, and Paw is only for macOS. Need something like Paw because it is a one time payment can't afford monthly payments.
2. Which documentation tool? I am planning on using Gitbooks but open to suggestions :)

I use a mid 2012 MacBook Air. I usually have VS Code, Chrome, Skype, devRantron, VirtualBox, and a terminal window open.

@gitpush i just started testing insomnia it's on GitHub. and started using swagger for my restapi documentations and client code gen

@Tychus I used to use Insomnia but didn't really like it, it is too basic.
AS for Swagger, I'll give it a try thanks man

@gtoff servers/build tasks ?

CODING
-Unity
-Sublime Text 3 with 20+ files open at any given time, using a custom color scheme where all the code is displayed in varying degrees of green, on a dark, almost black background
-Chrome with 100+ tabs open

COMMUNICATION
-Discord (ignoring this 95% of the time)
-LINE (to speak with the waifu)
-devRant
-Opera Mail
-Sublime Text 3 (to draft my emails)

NOTE TAKING
-Sublime Text 3 with a custom made color scheme called RedCode. All the text is red.

MISC
-Spotify playing the FTL soundtrack as background music
-Civilization IV running in background for random sessions of procrastinating

@tsouhaieb often webpack or webpack-based. I have some projects where I run a database as well, and sometimes I'll open two projects at the same time to compare or copy code from one to another or whatever.

@gtoff thanks for response, i hate when i read something that i don't understand.