5 Must-Known Tools for Shopify Developers in 2025

Innovation and technologies have been built to make lives easier. Nowadays, smart work matters more than hard work. In every sphere, there are ways that help humans make their lives easier by simplifying their work. The same applies to Shopify too! Whoever is using Shopify must have or know the list of tools that make their work seamless without much hustle. It is true that at some point you have to do something on your own, and that you must do, but at times taking help from some tools can make your work a bit easier.

Today, let’s read about 5 must-known tools for Shopify developers in 2025.

• Dabblet

This tool is for front-end developers and lets them test and experiment with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript code in real-time. The user-friendly environment of Dabblet allows developers to know the result of their work and how the code works and makes it easy to fix problems as well.

Unique Features of Dabblet

• Interactive CSS playground: Dabblet offers you two spaces to see the results of your code. You can see the result in a separate window or a side-by-side window and hence offers real-time visuals.
• Code preview: This feature helps you test, fix, and make changes right away.
• Code editing: In Dabblet, whenever you type something, it automatically gets changes in it. However, it doesn’t offer an undo/redo feature.
• – prefix-free integration: You can say that Dabblet offers an inbuilt prefix tool. As in it automatically adds a prefix tool to your  CSS code.
• Browser support: It works well with browsers like Safari, Firefox, and Chrome and you can expect the same result in them.
• GitHub Integration for code saving: You can store your code on GitHub’s Gists.
• Inline previews for CSS and HTML values: For colour, gradient, and size, you can hover over values in your code and see how they will appear in the design.

• Haml

If you want to simplify your HTML writing, you can use Haml (HTML Abstraction Markup Language). It replaces older templating systems like PHP, ASP, and ERB. It proves to be a helping hand for developers who want to create well-organized codes that are easier to read and, at the same time, make the development process faster. It works well with Ruby and Ruby on Rails.

Unique Features of Haml

• Templating: It makes coding faster and easier by removing the need to write HTML directly to your templates.
• Versatile Implementation: It can be used in three different ways:

1. 1. Command line tool
   2. Plug-in for Ruby on Rails
   3. Ruby module that can be added to any Ruby project.

• CSS-like markup convention: It uses a similar convention to CSS for naming classes and hence makes it easier to write and manage multiple class names in a single file.
• Integration with Ruby and Rails: It works well with Ruby and Rails.
• Local development and deployment: At times, developers can work locally with Haml and deploy their codes to Shopify.
• Beautiful and clean markup: The focus of Haml is to make code nice and organised.
• Logic and well-indented structure: It makes it easy to see which parts of the codes are connected and hence makes it manageable.

• IcoMoon

This tool helps web developers integrate unique icons on their websites or precisely on their e-commerce sites. It offers numerous icon options as well as gives you the liberty to create your own icons too. It works well with mobile and desktop devices.

Unique features of IcoMoon

• Icon library: It gives you the liberty of over 4000 free and open-source icons.
• Custom icon font builder: You can create your own icon using the IcoMoon features.
• Offline accessibility with Chrome app: You can use IcoMoon on Chrome even if you don’t have an internet connection.
• Three main services: IcoMoon offers three main services:

1. 1. Vector icon packs
   2. An app for editing and downloading icons in various formats
   3. The ability to host icons as SVG files or fonts

• SVG integration: IcoMoon gives you the liberty to easily create icons and integrate them into your web pages.
• Precision and scalability: IcoMoon makes sure that icons align perfectly with your every design.

• WebPagetest

Nowadays, everyone chooses a website that loads faster. This tool helps you measure your website’s speed and analyze how it performs. 

Unique features of WebPagetest

• Speed and performance analysis: It helps you check the speed and performance of your website.
• Global testing location: You can check your website’s speed from every corner of the world.
• Browser compatibility test: This one lets you know how your website performs across all the browsers.
• Detailed performance report: WebPagetest helps you know your website’s performance, grades on key optimisation, breakdown of content by type and checklist to help you improve your site’s performance.
• First-time visitor experience stimulation: It stimulates the experience of someone who is visiting your site for the first time by removing cookies and caches.
• Performance review and optimisation checklist: It offers a full checklist so that you can review your site’s performance and optimise it accordingly.
• Visual content breakdown: It breaks down the visual content and helps you know which visuals are slowing down your website.

• Postman

Postman is the best tool when you want to create, test, and manage APIs. The easy-to-use interface makes it simple to send requests, view responses, and debug any issues in the code. 

Unique features of Postman

• Request building: You can easily create, send and debug APIs with the support of REST, SOAP and GraphQL.
• Automated testing: You can automate testing and workflow and check the efficiency.
• API monitoring: It helps you continuously monitor API performance.
• Collaboration tools: It is one of the best tools for teamwork and collaboration.
• Version control: You can keep a record of API changes with built-in version control and release management.
• Comprehensive documentation: Postman helps you manage your documentation.

Conclusion

These above-mentioned tools help you in your website development. Integration of these tools will enhance your Shopify store’s value. With that, there are a lot more tools that help you with one thing or another. Or else you can hire a white-label service to give an outlook to your vision. Additionally, with Digitalrooar you will get everything in one place. Contact us today, and we will help you with all your Shopify-related queries.