- Top 10 Developers
- Top 5 Posts & Their Authors
- Top 10 Stacks
- Top 10 New Stacks
- Top 50 Methodology
- Top 10 Hosted Services
- Top 10 Open Source Tools
- Top 50 Tools & Services
- Top 50 New Tools & Services
- Top 20 Groups and The #1 Tools
- Top 5 Categories of Tools/Services
Now that 2015 has officially come to an end, we’re proud to present our 2nd Annual year end roundup! 2015 was an amazing year for us as more people got wind of StackShare and shared the tools and services they use. Some quick stats for the year:
- 20,301 stacks added
- 1,848 tools and services submitted by the community (487 approved)
- 120,012 votes for tools and services (via one-liners)
- 3,921 one-liners and comments
- 15,313 favorites for stacks and tools
This is all thanks to the amazing people who contribute to StackShare regularly and take the time to share not only the tools they use but why and how they use them. So first up, we’d like to recognize the awesome community members who made the most contributions (one-liners, votes, reviews, stacks, and comments) and community members who made the largest impact (most viewed stacks and posts):
Out of the over 20K stacks added this year, here are the Top 10 most popular. We were particularly surprised at this list since we assumed the biggest companies would have the most popular stack profiles, but that didn't turn out to be true for the majority of the top 10:
Methodology: tool/service rankings are based on a score that is a combination of the following weighted values: number of one-liners, number of votes for those one-liners, number of reviews, number of verified stacks a tool/service is included in (highest weight), and number of favorites. The top groups and categories are based on the aggregated sum of the score of the tools and services in each group or category.
This year we decided to also create separate lists for hosted and open source software (OSS) in order to make it easier to see what's been most popular. For open source tools that are offered as hosted services (e.g. Sentry), we've classified them as hosted services.
Bootstrap dethroned GitHub as the top overall tool/service, nginx made it into the top 10, and Rails was knocked out of the top 10 by more ubiquitous tools like Git and JavaScript. Check out the category breakdowns below the Top 50 list to see specific rankings for the most popular groups of tools and services.
We also decided to break out top new tools and services into a separate ranking to make a distinction between tools and services that already existed vs ones that were released/added this year. Open source tools dominated the new list, with very few new hosted services ranking amongst the most popular. React, Docker, and open source Slack alternatives all had multiple tools in the top 50 pointing to the growing popularity of all of these tools and their respective ecosystems- we suspect this will continue in 2016.
- Languages
- Frameworks (Full Stack)
- Databases
- Code Collaboration & Version Control
- Javascript UI Libraries
- Front-End Frameworks
- Web Servers
- Text Editor
- General Analytics
- Javascript MVC Frameworks
- Group Chat & Notifications
- Continuous Integration
- Version Control System
- Cloud Hosting
- Integrated Development Environment
- Front End Package Manager
- Project Management
- CSS Pre-processors / Extensions
- Platform as a Service
- JS Build Tools / JS Task Runners
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