Best Self-Hosted Developer Tools

4 self-hostable developer tools tools you can run on your own server — compared on specs, deployment difficulty, and the SaaS each one replaces.

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code-server

VS Code running on a server and opened in the browser, so you can edit code and use a terminal on a remote machine from any device. It is maintained by Coder and protected by a password by default.

TypeScriptNode.js

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Hoppscotch

An open-source API development workspace that runs in the browser: send REST requests, GraphQL queries, WebSocket, Server-Sent Events, Socket.IO and MQTT connections, organise them into collections and share them with a team. The self-hosted Community Edition is MIT-licensed; SAML single sign-on, OpenID Connect, audit logs and access controls belong to the paid Enterprise Edition.

TypeScriptVueNestJSPostgreSQL

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IT Tools

A collection of small browser-based utilities for developers, such as encoders and decoders, hash and UUID generators, format converters and network calculators. It is a static site served by one container, with no database or accounts.

TypeScriptVue

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Verdaccio

A lightweight private npm registry that hosts your own packages and caches the public npm registry as a proxy. It stores packages on local disk and needs no external database.

TypeScriptNode.js

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