Below are the results to date for the 2022 State of the CF Union survey. This is the fourth part of the Survey, about Tools to speed up your CF development and make better apps.
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If you want to see the other 7 parts, just click on the section below.
1. Server Environment | 2. Your Environment | 3. Frameworks and Methodology | 4. Tools | 5. Your Programming Background | 6. ColdFusion Community | 7. Deployment | 8. Wrap up
Contents
- 4. Tools
- 17. What do you use for source code control? (Check all that apply)
- 18. What tools/IDEs do you use? (Check all that apply)
- 19. What browser Dev Tools do you use? (Check all that apply)
- 20. What do you use to build REST APIs? (Check all that apply)
- 21. What caching solutions are you using? (Check all that apply)
- 22. Do you use Message Queues (MQ) in your CF apps? If so which one(s)? (Check all that apply)
4. Tools
17. What do you use for source code control? (Check all that apply)
Others
| WinCVS |
| Virtual imaging |
| Gitea |
| Kiln |
| Git |
| Beanstalk |
| OneDrive, Apple TimeMachine |
| aws source code |
| Gitea |
| Dropbox |
| SmartGit |
| Beanstalk |
| Visual SourceSafe |
| Gitea |
| PVCS |
| Vault |
| selfhosted git repositories through ssh |
| VersionRecall |
18. What tools/IDEs do you use? (Check all that apply)
Others
| Coda |
| I still LOVE Homesite and use it daily. I refuse to let it go. There's nothing better (IMHO) for hand-coding CF. |
| VS Codium |
| VSCodium |
| have used majority of list, selected current use |
| I do a lot of coding in BeyondCompare, where I can look at a similar file, function, snippet, or portion of same or different file, using the Align With feature, in the other side for reference or to assist in refactoring. |
| VIM |
| Gedit |
| Editplus for FTP on occasion |
| Android Studio |
| Textastic (for the Mac and iOS) |
| Cold Fusion Report Builder |
| Coda |
| Coda |
19. What browser Dev Tools do you use? (Check all that apply)
Others
| Brave |
| Vue Dev Tools (chrome plugin) |
| browserstack |
| assorted plugins/addons |
20. What do you use to build REST APIs? (Check all that apply)
Others
| Spring Boot |
| .net based webapi |
| Masa CMS build-in |
| Contract with other programmers |
| Output JSON with CFOUTPUT |
| Unknown |
21. What caching solutions are you using? (Check all that apply)
Others
| Custom built |
| custom |
| dont understand the question |
| Clojure libraries |
| CFWheels Cache |
| Plans for Redis, not currently using though |
| Homegrown |
| Cloudfront |
| Just caching stuff in the Application / Server scope. |
| Akamai |
| cfwheels built in |
| Cfquery built-in cachewithin |
| Custom-built solution |
| Akamai |
| IIS, Coldfusion's built in caching |
| ScopeCache |
| Homegrown |
| MongoDB Cache Extension for Lucee |
| Farcry cache |
| DB Cache |
| Varnish |
22. Do you use Message Queues (MQ) in your CF apps? If so which one(s)? (Check all that apply)
Others
| dont understand the question |
| Early stages of Kafka |
| HiveMQ (MQTT) |
| Homegrown |
| plan to use one this year, trying to decide |
| selfhosted MTA |
| Somewhat of a homegrown one to learn the basics |
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Next: 5. Your Programming Background
Michaela Light is the host of the CF Alive Podcast and has interviewed more than 100 ColdFusion experts. In each interview, she asks "What Would It Take to make CF more alive this year?" The answers still inspire her to continue to write and interview new speakers.
Michaela has been programming in ColdFusion for more than 20 years. She founded TeraTech in 1989. The company specializes in ColdFusion application development, security and optimization. She has also founded the CFUnited Conference and runs the annual State of the CF Union Survey.
