Helpful Tools Version 2 is an initiative to help in the above scenarios. These are a set of curated tools that we as devs often use in our work. They are always available at our fingertips with very less amount of work needed to install and use.

GitHub - susamn/helpful-tools-v2: Privacy-focused local developer toolkit: JSON/YAML formatters, regex tester, diff viewer, JWT decoder & more

Simply clone the project, follow the Readme instructions, and run the quick-start.sh <port>. It starts a Python web app that you can just access from any web browser.

Why use?

Good question, let’s see if I can convince you.

• Always free, MIT license
• Runs locally as a Python process
• Privacy-focused, no tracking, no data leaves your system anytime.
• No installation, download the source, and just run.
• Barely used any third-party libraries, built using barebones JavaScript, decreasing the attack vector from any third-party libraries. Only contains very few Python standard libraries.
• Fully configurable, enable, and disable tools
• Modern and clean UI.

Tools

Needless to say, you must have Python 3 installed. That is the only requirement.

The currently available tools are as follows.

• JSON/YAML formatters & validators
• JSON-YAML-XML converter
• Text diff viewer
• Regex tester with live highlighting
• Cron expression parser
• Scientific calculator with graphing
• JWT decoder
• Data sources manager (S3, HTTP, SFTP),
• And more to come…

Let’s see them in action

Here is a quick video on how to run and use this tool.

Hopefully you liked this tool demonstration. To use just clone and start using and it it appears useful don’t forget to give me a start in Github 🙏😃

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