As designers or developers, we are continually looking for all of those design resources, tools and apps that can help make our life easier and increase our productivity & creativity.
So today is the day to showcase all of what’s new for designers and developers for May 2020, below I’ve added some newly released and updated resources from JavaScript scripts, jQuery plugins to a few apps, tools for web development including a range of themes and plugins for WordPress and to fonts, icons etc.
If you think I’ve missed something that you think should of been on the list, let me know in the comments or if you know of a new a that should be featured on the June 2020 roundup, please either tweet it to me @SomeWhatCrtv or even use the Submit Resource form and your resource could be seen on next month list.
Blitz.js
Blitz is a Rails-like framework for monolithic, full-stack React apps — built on Next.js
RedwoodJS
Redwood is an opinionated, full-stack, serverless web application framework that will allow you to build and deploy JAMstack applications with ease.
RomeJS
Rome is experimental and in active development. It is open for contributors and those interested in experimental tools.
GitHubStatus – Mac App
A Mac menu bar app to keep an eye on the status of GitHub. Don’t know why your commit wasn’t pushed? Now you’ll quickly see why when the icon at the top of your screen changes colour!
Price: Free
Pixea – Mac App
Pixea is an image viewer for macOS with a nice minimal modern user interface. Pixea works great with JPEG, HEIC, PSD, RAW and many other formats. Supports keyboard shortcuts and trackpad gestures. Shows images inside archives, without extracting them.
Price: Free
Codespace – Mac App
Organise your snippets into branded folders. Find the code you’re looking for instantly and share it with your friends with a single click. Available as a native app on all desktop platforms.
Price: $12.00
Ayecon – iOS & Mac App
Ayecon is a valuable developer tool for those who make apps, allowing them to quickly and easily generate all required icon sizes, and the respective assets catalog and JSON file so that it can be dragged into Xcode directly.
Price: $3.99
EasyLetter – iOS & Mac App
EasyLetter is the efficient way to create letters on iOS and macOS. Writing a well-formatted letter can be tedious. Especially when in a rush, you don’t want to deal with formatting – you just want to start writing and being productive having a great result.
Price: $2.99
OffScreen – iOS App
OffScreen 2.0 has a major update to help people focus on what matters when you working/studying from home. Less screen time can reduce your anxiety obviously. Pomodoro timer, Focus data analysis, Screen time calendar… and many more can improve your workflow
Price: Free
Vincent – iOS App
Your one-stop inbox for design and frontend news, curated daily by real people.
Price: Free
Login.sh – Web App
Login.sh provides a set of features to avoid the pain of managing public-key authorisation on your server fleet. You only have to invite your team members, organise them in groups and assign the servers each group can access. It also offers automatic deployments of public keys using non-intrusive integrations.
Price: $0.00 per month to $99.00 per month
Kanban Boards by Crowdsourcer – Web App
Create your MVPs, games, apps and more quicker and easier with the introduction of Kanban boards to Crowdsourcer.io. Boost your team’s productivity with the highly visible, infinitely customisable boards and lists you’ve been asking us for.
Price: Free
Hocus – Web App
The fast, easy-to-use time tracking app. Hocus was built for freelancers and teams of all sizes, it is the lightweight tool that fades into the background and lets you focus on doing great work.
Price: Free
Blymp – Web App
blymp.io is a webapp that allows you to easily transfer files between devices with high speeds.It uses modern technologies like WebRTC, Blobs and WebSockets to allow files to be transferred as fast as possible. And it’s ad-free!
Price: Free
App Calculator – Web App
Inoxoft app cost calculator is a reasonable way to learn the price of the app without writing request emails, waiting for the response or trying to search in Google how much what service is priced in the IT market.
Price: Free
StyleStash
Inspect, edit, and save your favorite CSS styles from any element on any web page without leaving your browser! Pop saved styles on to any element to live preview them, and browse your collection of saved styles in the StyleBrowser.
Shorthand
Shorthand is a free and open source CSS framework, that allows you to make unique and modern design without writing any CSS.
Boilerplato
A powerful tool and a concept of creating boilerplate source code from a template. It defines a protocol on how to generate bootstrap boilerplate source code for a project/app very easily.
Pattern.css
CSS only library to fill your empty background with beautiful patterns.
Backstage
Meet the first open-source developer portal that puts the developer experience first. With a unified frontend for all your infrastructure tooling, Backstage gets developers up and running faster, which makes them happier.
Secret Hub
Like a traditional password manager does for humans who log into websites, SecretHub automatically injects passwords and keys whenever a machine needs to ‘log into’ another machine, allowing to automate software delivery without leaking secrets in your pipeline.
BEM Cheat Sheet
This tool aims to help you to not get lost in the BEM cosmos by giving you naming-suggestions for some of the most common web components.
Repman
Reduce your build times with Repman, its free, open-source PHP private package repository manager for Composer. Thanks to a dedicated CDN proxy for Packagist, Repman can speed up PHP dependencies downloads up to 80%.
IMAP API
IMAP API is a self hosted application for accessing IMAP accounts over REST API. IMAP API daemon connects to user’s IMAP account, translates API requests to IMAP and also sends webhooks for changes like new or deleted emails.
LinkPreview
Preview Web Links with the free API service. Get JSON Response for any URL.
Selectors Explained
A CSS selector to plain English translator.
Raam
Beautifully boring cosmetic-free React.js components for structure and layout. Use raam’s layout primitives to build resilient theme-driven designs fast.
Cupper
A documentation builder for inclusive designers and those trying to be inclusive designers
Brandfetch for Adobe XD
Fetch brands into Adobe XD
98.css
98.css is a CSS library for building interfaces that look like Windows 98.
No Deploy Friday
It was scientifically proven that deploying on a Friday evening increases the chance of having a broken production server on the weekend. No Deploy Friday is a GitHub Action that will make sure that you don’t do it.
PixOps – Plugin
PixOps handles your images on our AWS S3 with cloudfront as a CDN. It does not delete images on your server or ask you to upload image. it just change the url and append prefix in your images url which later works on our CDN domain.
Price: Free
wpEasyDocs – Plugin
wpEasyDocs is a document store & management plugin which will save you a lot of time and headache. Simply Drag and Drop the files you want to upload and soon you will be able to use the built-in editor to manage all the important properties of your documents with just a few clicks.
Price: Free
WP DeskLite – Plugin
WP Desklite is a simple, easy to use, web-based customer helpdesk, and support ticket system. Users can create a ticket from the front-end. WP Desklite comes packed with a bunch of features that help you to run a support ticket with no extra cost.
Price: Free
Save for Later with WooCommerce – Plugin
Save for Later with WooCommerce allows customers to save their favorite cart items and buy them later with ease. The saved items will appear in a list at the bottom of the Cart page, with or without other items being added to the cart.
Price: $16.00
WP Appointment – Plugin
WP Appointment is an easy to use and powerful scheduling tool for service providers. It gives you an automatic booking and online scheduling of your services, saving your time and money. Moreover, it supports a wide range of services provided by businesses, individuals that provide online booking services through websites.
Price: $15.00
TMDb Pro – Plugin
TMDb Pro is a WordPress shortcode plugin that featured for getting a movie’s or TV show’s details from The Movie Database (themoviedb.org).
Price: $14.00
Distance – Theme
Distance Lite is a multi-purpose theme that you can use for blog and business websites. The theme has a clean look with minimalist style and beautiful blog layout. In the front page you can display your blog or a static page. The theme comes loaded with 28 social media icons to have your visitors connect to you, easily upload your logo image and favicon, styling for Contact Form 7 plugin are among the features.
Price: Free
Versatile Business – Theme
Versatile Business is a light multipurpose business theme that comes with a smooth design and extremely impressive functionality to unleash your website. The new multipurpose business theme is packed with features like Featured Content, Hero Content, What We Do, and more. All of these features have been set to keep multipurpose business websites in mind
Price: Free
Fullscreenly – Theme
Fullscreenly is an SEO friendly & responsive theme made for blogging. The theme is simple to setup but has a lot of features for both affiliate marketing, i.e. lots of advertisement space for affiliate programs such as Google AdSense – of course this kind of website requires a SEO optimized, creative & modern theme which Fullscreenly is.
Price: Free
Aira – Theme
This is Aira it’s an Air Conditioning & HVAC Repair WordPress Theme, packed-up with niche functionalities and blocks, this theme is powered by Aheto plugin. It includes unique service pages that will suit your service requirements, also such as unique and specially dedicated pages.
The theme is not limited to just for Conditioning purposes and could easily be adapted to suit a wide range of applications and it’s compatible with such free and premium plugins as Contact form 7, Booked, Google Maps, Elementor, and Gutenberg.
Price: $19.00
Itonga – Theme
Itonga is an easy-to-use portfolio theme for freelancers and agencies. Itonga is an automated theme which means that all you have to do is create your posts and upload your images and Itonga will automatically arrange your projects into sliders and grids.
The theme has 8 different portfolio showcase layout, 6 different portfolio listing layouts, 10 different blog listing layouts, 2 custom portfolio item layouts, 3 custom posts layouts, 3 custom page layouts, dozens of configurable options and all of this you can manage with one click of your mouse in user friendly WordPress Customizer or when adding new post or page.
Price: $39.00
Houzillo – Theme
Houzillo has been designed and developed keeping in mind the market need for property rental systems allowing easy and user friendly posting and booking system for both, property owners and tenants. A lot of thought has been put into this feature rich WordPress theme and would be a great choice for people interested in setting up property rental systems and similar businesses etc.
Price: $99.00
Bebrush – Font
Osaka Chips – Font
Thrifty – Font
Kunamy – Font
Beard Canye – Font
Silka Mono – Font
Northern Light – Font
Hive – Font
Wattgone – Font
Lordicon 500+ animated icons
35 Transportation Icons
67 Free device Icons
20 Summer Vector Icons
Remote Work – Illustrations
Merge Wireframing UI Kit
Slada – eCommerce App UI Kit
Open Source Dashboards UI Kit
Ozine UI Kit
