SharePoint Tooling 2018

On a development/local machine, I have complied this list of tools that I'm likely to use but it completely depends on the development project, approach, and technologies used.  This post lists tools I commonly use as of March 2018:

SharePoint Tools:

1. SharePoint Inspect
2. SharePoint Designer
3. Visual Studio 2017
4. SharePoint Search Query Tool (CodePlex now PnP)
5. SharePoint Manager
6. CAML Builder

Developer Tools:

1. NodeJS
2. NPM
3. Yeoman, 
4. GULP
5. Webpack

Design Tools:

1. Balsamiq (My favourite) - Screens and interaction flow
2. Updated 2019/12/01 - visual-paradigm.com online drawing tool
3. Axure - Prototyping
4. Figma
5. Microsoft Blend - Screens and interaction flow
6. Visio - Architecture
7. MS Access to ERD design

Other Tools:

1. Visual Studio or Visual Studio Code
2. SnagIT - Basic video recording with audio and annotate screenshots.
3. Office & OneNote
4. NotePad++, add the compare dll plugin
5. Grammarly
6. Slack or Teams
7. Yopmail or mailinator - useful for creating accounts for testing (beware these can be a security risk as anyone can guess you temporary emails) they are deleted after a few days.
8. BrowserStack

Networking:

1. Wireshark
2. Fiddler
3. DeveloperTool IE & Chrome
4. Burp
5. Telnet
6. Postman

Source Control:

1. TFS
2. TFS online
3. GIT