Enginnering CS

Shell

Bash - Ubiquitous and reliable.

Dev Browser

Chrome - Chrome Dev Tools are now the best around

Macro Language

Coffeescript - enhanced version javascript

Backend Web Framework

Express - Most popular node.js backend framework

DVCS / DVCS WEB UI

GIT / Github - distributed version control / frontend

PAAS

Heroku - Easy deployment.

Data Format

JSON - industry standard for api

SSJS Interpreter

Node - Async server-side J implementation

Scraping

Phantom.js - Server-side webkit implementation in JS

Database

PostGreSQL - Popular/robust fully open-source relational db

Frontend JS Framework

React/Vue/Angular - simpler than Backbone JS

Backend ORM

Sequelize - Most polished node.js ORM

Frontend CSS Framework

Tailwind/BS - most common css framework

Name an OS

Ubuntu Linux - most popular linux distro.

Text Editor

VSCode - Strong REPL Integration

Web Server

node.js - node on Heroku is reasonably good as a server

Name an IAAS

AWS - Used for reproducible development