Top Front-End Tools Of 2022 — Smashing Magazine

Over the past 12 months, we continue to see new free and open-source projects shared around the developer community. In my newsletter, Web Tools Weekly, I feature more than two dozen tools every week. As I do every year, I’ve gone through the numbers and put together what were the most popular tools according to my readers.

Some of these tools are interesting in a curious kind of way, but almost all of them are practical tools you can use in your projects today. Enjoy!

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