Back-End Web Essentials

Below is a curated list of awesome tools and services aimed for modern back-end web developers in 2024. The goal is to quickly introduce beginner or small teams to a variety of tools for common tasks in web app development and operation. This list is focused on the best available and cost-effective options, including open-source that you can generally self-host.

  1. Transactional emails
  2. Email campaigns
  3. Testing emails
  4. Error monitoring
  5. Cron monitoring
  6. Website monitoring
  7. Search engine
  8. Privacy focused analytics
  9. Subscription management
  10. Image optimization
  11. Hosting / VPS Servers
  12. Provisioning and deployment
  13. Team password manager

Transactional emails

Email campaigns

Testing email

Error monitoring

Cron monitoring

Website monitoring

Search engine

Privacy focused analytics

Subscription management

Image optimization

Hosting / VPS Servers

Provisioning and deployment

Team password manager