HACKER Q&A
📣 vaughan

Where do you research tools/libraries to use for your projects?


There are new tools and libraries popping up everyday that look to improve developer productivity/experience.

For me, it's a manual process of scanning Twitter/Google/Podcasts/HackerNews/Reddit/Github Trending to stay up-to-date.

Interested to know what sites people use, and what their process is, and what pains they experience with this process.


  👤 bartmika Accepted Answer ✓
I would type in "Golang" (for example) into Github search, then order by most stars and then see what the trends are and investigate any particular libraries that catch my interest.

👤 satya71
Several people maintain awesome-x lists. Those, GitHub search and web search are my go to resources.

👤 Rekanice
ProductHunt for exploring & Google when I'm looking for something specific. Thanks for mentioning Github Trending!

👤 thedevindevops
Search most popular nuget/pypi packages and read up on them