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