Web Developer Tool Choices

1. CSS pre-processors

1.1. SASS/SCSS

1.1.1. SASS seems to be more popular (2017 metric though)

1.2. LESS

1.3. Stylus

2. Databases

2.1. MongoDB

2.2. MySQL

2.3. PostgreSQL

2.4. RethinkDB

2.5. SQLite

3. Transcompilers

3.1. CoffeeScript

3.2. TypeScript

4. Automation

4.1. Grunt

4.2. Gulp

4.3. Webpack

5. View engines

5.1. Pug

5.2. Handlebars

5.3. Swig

5.4. EJS

5.5. Marko

5.6. Nunjucks

6. Generators

6.1. Yeoman

6.2. Lineman

6.3. Slush