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Creative Coder

Stack

the non-internet-breaking revival of Flash culture.
Stackradar

The internet used to be a vast, static landscape of text and images (save for Flash's brief time in the limelight, before it broke the internet). But in recent years, we’ve seen a seismic shift as developers and designers have harnessed the power of code to create interactive, immersive, and visually stunning web experiences (that modern browsers can now handle). 

Source: BBC

Perhaps unlike Flash, this isn’t just a current trend — it’s a response to the growing demand for richer, more interactive web experiences. Audiences today expect more from the digital world than static pages; they want storytelling, interactivity, and immersion. From major brands adopting Disney & Pixar-like animations to indie creators pushing the limits of WebGL, creative coding is making the web not just a place to consume content, but to experience it in an entirely new way. 

As the demand for innovative, engaging digital experiences grows, so too does the need for skilled creative coders. From mesmerizing animations and interactive data visualizations to immersive 3D environments and audio-reactive experiences, creative coders are pushing the boundaries of what the web can do. And with the rise of tools and frameworks like GSAP, it’s never been easier for developers to bring their creative visions to life. 

We've curated a stack for newbie or established 'Creative Coders', but we wanted to give an Honorable Mention to some other frameworks, languages and platforms:

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Resources & learning
Design+Code

Design+Code

learn design + code by building real apps.
Don’t skip design. Learn design and code, by building real apps with React and Swift. Complete courses about the best tools.
Key Features

🎓 Courses

📹 Tutorials

🌐 Livestreams

🥇 Certificates

💾 Downloads

📚 Handbooks

Design+Code
Pricing
Prices are in USD and typically indicate p/m
$
19.00
Freemium
Free trial
Custom pricing
Pay once
SuperHi

SuperHi

curate your own creative career.
Join SuperHi with 50,00050,000+ learners worldwide and gain technical skills through our practical courses. Get started within seconds, with 35+ self-paced courses and workshops covering the most in-demand digital skills.
Key Features

✅ Beginner to advanced

⌨️ Coding

🔮 Digital Design

🗂️ Project Management

⚡️ Career Boosters

🪩 On-demand

👥 1:1 feedback

🏆 Certification

SuperHi
Pricing
Prices are in USD and typically indicate p/m
$
149.00
Freemium
Free trial
Custom pricing
Pay once
Codecademy

Codecademy

giving anyone in the world the ability to learn code.
Learn the technical skills to get the job you want. Join over 50 million people choosing Codecademy to start a new career (or advance in their current one).
Key Features

✅ Projects

☎️ Interview Challenges

📝 Docs

🧐 Cheatsheets

📚 Articles, Videos & Blog

💼 Career Center

Codecademy
Pricing
Prices are in USD and typically indicate p/m
$
15.99
Freemium
Free trial
Custom pricing
Pay once
Inspiration, ideation & no code options
Are.na

Are.na

to connect ideas & build knowledge.
Key Features

💬 Private & collaborative channels

🗂️ Export channels as PDF, ZIP & HTML

🔗 API to display content elsewhere

🌐 Add links or text snippets via the web

📬 Save web pages, images, PDFs, videos & more

📂 Upload any file type

Are.na
Are.na is online software for saving and organizing the content that is important to you—a toolkit for assembling new worlds from the scraps of the old.
Pricing
Prices are in USD and typically indicate p/m
$
7.00
Freemium
Free trial
Custom pricing
Pay once
Eagle

Eagle

all your reference visuals in one place.
Key Features

🌐 Browser Extension

🎥 Video & Audio Management

🔖 Tags

🗂️ Smart Folders

📝 Notes & Annotation

🎨 Color Filter

🔎 Keywords Search

∞ Advanced Filters

⍶ Font Management

Eagle
Eagle is a better way to collect, search and organize your design files in a logical way and all in one place.
Pricing
Prices are in USD and typically indicate p/m
$
29.95
Freemium
Free trial
Custom pricing
Pay once
Curated

Curated

the web design inspiration catalog.
Key Features

Web design inspo for:

💼 Agencies & Portfolios

🎨 Assets

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

🌐 Tech & Web3

🚀 Design & Development Tools

🔥 Marketing

⚡️ Productivity

🛍️ E-commerce

💻 Desktop & Mobile Apps

🔮 & More

Curated
Unleash your creativity with out-of-this-world web design inspiration from across the web
Pricing
Prices are in USD and typically indicate p/m
$
8.00
Freemium
Free trial
Custom pricing
Pay once
Endless Tools

Endless Tools

the first ultimate design multitool.
Key Features

🌎 3D

⚫️ Objects

📃 Materials

✍️ Type

⠿ Textures

📸 Generative graphics

🟪 Shapes

⚪️ Covers

Endless Tools
Endless Tools is a first ultimate design multitool. Explore lifelike textures, unique lettering, captivating 3D designs, and stunning generative graphics. Discover the endless possibilities with our cutting-edge Tools and push your creativity to new heights.
Pricing
Prices are in USD and typically indicate p/m
$
Freemium
Free trial
Custom pricing
Pay once
Unicorn Studio

Unicorn Studio

make your site dazzle.
Key Features

🗂️ 35+ powerful effects

🔮 Super easy motion & interactivity

🚀 Built for speed & performance

😎 Embed with a few clicks

⚡️ Runs fast right in your browser

📸 Hi-res image & video exports

📝 SDK for native code embeds

Unicorn Studio
Elevate your web design with enchanting WebGL effects, motion, and interactivity — in minutes, not hours.
Pricing
Prices are in USD and typically indicate p/m
$
Freemium
Free trial
Custom pricing
Pay once
Rive

Rive

empower designers, slash dev times.
Key Features

⚡️ State Machines

🎬 Transitions

🎧 Listeners

📝 Inputs

💿 Blend States

📅 Events

🔮 Dynamic Assets

🕹️ Joysticks

🗾 Vector & Raster

🚶 Follow paths

& Much more

Rive
With Rive, complex designer-developer handoff is a thing of the past. Reduce development times by empowering designers to build functional graphics with rich interactivity and animation.
Pricing
Prices are in USD and typically indicate p/m
$
24.00
Freemium
Free trial
Custom pricing
Pay once
Mobbin

Mobbin

the world’s largest design library.
Key Features

🖥️ Screens 

❖ UI Elements 

🚀 Flows 

📸 Text in Screenshot

🎥 Flow videos

🔮 Prototype mode

🎨 Copy to Figma

🗂️ Save to collections

💬 Leave comments

Mobbin
Save hours of UI & UX research with our library of 300,000+ screens from the world’s best designed apps. Mobbin is a growing library of 1,069 apps, 347,427 screens and 68,140 flows.
Pricing
Prices are in USD and typically indicate p/m
$
10.00
Freemium
Free trial
Custom pricing
Pay once
Codebases & libraries
GitHub

GitHub

shape the future of software, together.
Key Features

⚙️ Collaborative Coding

🤖 Automation & CI/CD

🔐 Security

👋 Client Apps

✅ Project Management

🗂 Team Administration

💬 Community

GitHub
Harnessed for productivity. Designed for collaboration. Celebrated for built-in security. Welcome to the platform developers love.
Pricing
Prices are in USD and typically indicate p/m
$
4.00
Freemium
Free trial
Custom pricing
Pay once
GitLab

GitLab

is software, faster.
Key Features

🚀 Continuous Integration & Delivery

📚 GitOps

🔐 Security & Compliance

✅ Agile Planning

💸 Value Stream Management

⚙️ Source Code Management

📦 Software Supply Chain Security

🤖 Automated Software Delivery

GitLab
From planning to production, GitLab brings teams together to shorten cycle times, reduce costs, strengthen security, and increase developer productivity.
Pricing
Prices are in USD and typically indicate p/m
$
29.00
Freemium
Free trial
Custom pricing
Pay once
CodePen

CodePen

build, test, & discover front-end code.
Key Features

✍️ The Pen Editor 

💼 The Project Editor 

🗂️ Collections 

🌐 Asset Hosting 

🔗 Embeds 

🔌 API

CodePen
CodePen is a social development environment for front-end designers and developers. Build and deploy a website, show off your work, build test cases to learn and debug, and find inspiration.
Pricing
Prices are in USD and typically indicate p/m
$
8.00
Freemium
Free trial
Custom pricing
Pay once
GSAP

GSAP

a wildly robust JS animation library.
Key Features

🔮 Animate anything

🔌 Plug-and-play

🤌 Jaw-dropping scroll effects

🎞️ SVG magic

🎨 Create complex UI in a click

⚡️ Text animations

GSAP
GSAP (the Greensock Animation Platform) allows you to effortlessly animate anything JS can touch. Delivering silky-smooth performance and unmatched support so you can focus on the fun stuff.
Pricing
Prices are in USD and typically indicate p/m
$
99.00
Freemium
Free trial
Custom pricing
Pay once
Writing & testing
Cursor

Cursor

the AI code editor.
Key Features

✅ Knows your codebase

🚀 Just hit tab

✍️ Edit in natural language

👋 Feels familiar

🔐 SOC 2 certified

🗝️ Bring Your Own Key

Cursor
Built to make you extraordinarily productive, Cursor is the best way to code with AI.
Pricing
Prices are in USD and typically indicate p/m
$
20.00
Freemium
Free trial
Custom pricing
Pay once
CodeSandbox

CodeSandbox

instant cloud development.
Key Features

🗳️ microVMs

🔌 GitHub Integration

🔮 AI Code Autocomplete

🌏 Pre-configured environments

🛠️ Powerful DevTools

⚡️ Low Code Tooling

🔷 VS Code Extension

🌐 Online Code Editor

CodeSandbox
CodeSandbox gives you 24/7 collaborative cloud development environments (CDEs) that resume in 2 seconds.
Pricing
Prices are in USD and typically indicate p/m
$
9.00
Freemium
Free trial
Custom pricing
Pay once
VS Code

VS Code

code editing. redefined.
Key Features

💽 Integrated terminal

🎞️ Run code

🗂️ Version control

✅ Build tasks

🌎 Local history

🎨 Themes

💙 Accessibility

🌐 Web support

VS Code
Visual Studio Code is a lightweight but powerful source code editor which runs on your desktop and is available for Windows, macOS and Linux. It comes with built-in support for JavaScript, TypeScript and Node.js and has a rich ecosystem of extensions for other languages and runtimes (such as C++, C#, Java, Python, PHP, Go, .NET).
Pricing
Prices are in USD and typically indicate p/m
$
Freemium
Free trial
Custom pricing
Pay once
Zed

Zed

to code at the speed of thought.
Key Features

🍞 Breadcrumbs

⚙️ CLI & Code Actions

🧽 Multi-buffers

🔎 Navigation & References

⚡️ Rename Refactoring

📹 Screensharing

📑 Splitting Terminals

💡 Command Palette

⛑️ Diagnostics

🎨 Themes

Zed
Zed is a high-performance, multiplayer code editor from the creators of Atom and Tree-sitter. Productive coding starts with a tool that stays out of your way. Zed combines the power of an IDE with the responsiveness of a lightweight editor for productivity you can feel under your fingertips.
Pricing
Prices are in USD and typically indicate p/m
$
Freemium
Free trial
Custom pricing
Pay once
Tuple

Tuple

remote pair programming for macOS & Windows.
Key Features

💻 MacOS & Windows

🔊 Ridiculously crisp audio & video

🔐 End-to-end encryption

👥 Seamless collaboration

🔄 One click to swap who’s sharing

⚙️ Native cross-platform C++ engine

🔋 Stingy with your CPU cycles

⚡️ Runs in your menu bar

⌘ Shortcuts & triggers

🤣 Emoji reactions & animations

💬 Screen annotations

Tuple
The best remote pair programming app on macOS and Windows. Built from the ground up to deliver razor sharp screen sharing, crisp audio, and seamless remote control, so you can get into the flow with your teammates and do real work.
Pricing
Prices are in USD and typically indicate p/m
$
30.00
Freemium
Free trial
Custom pricing
Pay once
Stackblitz

Stackblitz

how design systems & frontend teams work together.
Key Features

🔐 Unmatched security

✅ Online & offline

🐛 Seamless debugging

📦 WebContainers built-in

📑 Live, interactive documentation

🧐 One-click bug reproductions

⚡️ Iterate on new ideas fast

🛅 Enterprise SSO

💻 Desktop-grade editor

👥 Access & usage controls

Stackblitz
Collaborate on web development without the hassle of setting up local environments. StackBlitz lets you write, run, and debug frontend code directly in your browser.
Pricing
Prices are in USD and typically indicate p/m
$
9.00
Freemium
Free trial
Custom pricing
Pay once
Jobs, Contracts & Showcasing
Contra

Contra

a new way to work.
Key Features

👀 Find your next opportunity

💸 Get paid commission-free

✍️ Manage contracts and payments

🕺 Invite freelancers

🔥 Find matches for your opportunity

🎉 Discover the perfect hire

Contra
Contra is the Independent-first community & commission-free hiring platform shaping the future of work ✨
Pricing
Prices are in USD and typically indicate p/m
$
199.00
Freemium
Free trial
Custom pricing
Pay once
Breef

Breef

the easiest way to find an agency.
Key Features

📝 Plan, scope + budget your project

🎉 Find an agency in < 7 days

🚀 Select team. Start project.

Breef
Breef is the modern, end-to-end outsourcing solution that brings together the world’s best small agencies and technology - in one place. Receive vetted pitches based upon your project’s timeline, budget, and deliverables.
Pricing
Prices are in USD and typically indicate p/m
$
99.00
Freemium
Free trial
Custom pricing
Pay once
Wellfound

Wellfound

where the startup finds what’s next.
Key Features

🔥 10k Matches Made

💼 150k+ Tech Jobs

🦄 10m+ Startup Ready Candidates

➗ Salary Calculator

📊 Startup Hiring Data

🚀 Recruitment Support

Wellfound
AngelList Talent is now Wellfound. Your favorite startup community is back, with a twist. Find the job made for you: Wellfound makes it easy to find your dream job - regardless of your location. Browse over 100,000 jobs from top companies to fast-growing startups. Hire candidates that want to help build your vision: 8 million startup-ready candidates from around the world, unique details you can't find anywhere else, and all the tools you need to hire - get everything set up in 10 minutes, for free.
Pricing
Prices are in USD and typically indicate p/m
$
499.00
Freemium
Free trial
Custom pricing
Pay once
Pangea

Pangea

to find work on your terms.
Key Features

🔥 Find the hottest companies

💸 Get paid on your terms

🤖 Rise above the crowd with AI

💌 Blast off with Referrals

🪐 All your work in one place

🌐 Link your free shareable profile

Pangea
Connect with the right people at your dream companies. You can share your profile, determine your hours, set your rate, and keep all your earnings.
Pricing
Prices are in USD and typically indicate p/m
$
Freemium
Free trial
Custom pricing
Pay once
Read CV

Read CV

build mindful professional profiles.
Key Features

👋 Profiles

👥 Team Profiles

🗂️ Case studies

💸 Lead generation

💼 Job listings

🌐 Personal domains

Read CV
Read.cv is a show, don't tell professional network with beautiful profiles and meaningful connections. Designed from the ground up to help you find new opportunities or your next great hire.
Pricing
Prices are in USD and typically indicate p/m
$
6.00
Freemium
Free trial
Custom pricing
Pay once
Layers

Layers

a home for designers.
Key Features

🚀 Share your work

🗂️ Build your portfolio

📊 Analytics & scheduling

🔎 Find design jobs

🎥 Generate bespoke videos

💬 Connect effortlessly

Layers
Layers is a community/platform for designers to share their work, connect with others, and discover new opportunities.
Pricing
Prices are in USD and typically indicate p/m
$
9.00
Freemium
Free trial
Custom pricing
Pay once
Design+Code

Design+Code

learn design + code by building real apps.
Key Features

🎓 Courses

📹 Tutorials

🌐 Livestreams

🥇 Certificates

💾 Downloads

📚 Handbooks

Design+Code
Don’t skip design. Learn design and code, by building real apps with React and Swift. Complete courses about the best tools.
Pricing
Prices are in USD and typically indicate p/m
$
19.00
Freemium
Free trial
Custom pricing
Pay once
SuperHi

SuperHi

curate your own creative career.
Key Features

✅ Beginner to advanced

⌨️ Coding

🔮 Digital Design

🗂️ Project Management

⚡️ Career Boosters

🪩 On-demand

👥 1:1 feedback

🏆 Certification

SuperHi
Join SuperHi with 50,00050,000+ learners worldwide and gain technical skills through our practical courses. Get started within seconds, with 35+ self-paced courses and workshops covering the most in-demand digital skills.
Pricing
Prices are in USD and typically indicate p/m
$
149.00
Freemium
Free trial
Custom pricing
Pay once
Codecademy

Codecademy

giving anyone in the world the ability to learn code.
Key Features

✅ Projects

☎️ Interview Challenges

📝 Docs

🧐 Cheatsheets

📚 Articles, Videos & Blog

💼 Career Center

Codecademy
Learn the technical skills to get the job you want. Join over 50 million people choosing Codecademy to start a new career (or advance in their current one).
Pricing
Prices are in USD and typically indicate p/m
$
15.99
Freemium
Free trial
Custom pricing
Pay once
Eagle

Eagle

all your reference visuals in one place.
Key Features

🌐 Browser Extension

🎥 Video & Audio Management

🔖 Tags

🗂️ Smart Folders

📝 Notes & Annotation

🎨 Color Filter

🔎 Keywords Search

∞ Advanced Filters

⍶ Font Management

Eagle
Eagle is a better way to collect, search and organize your design files in a logical way and all in one place.
Pricing
Prices are in USD and typically indicate p/m
$
29.95
Freemium
Free trial
Custom pricing
Pay once
Endless Tools

Endless Tools

the first ultimate design multitool.
Key Features

🌎 3D

⚫️ Objects

📃 Materials

✍️ Type

⠿ Textures

📸 Generative graphics

🟪 Shapes

⚪️ Covers

Endless Tools
Endless Tools is a first ultimate design multitool. Explore lifelike textures, unique lettering, captivating 3D designs, and stunning generative graphics. Discover the endless possibilities with our cutting-edge Tools and push your creativity to new heights.
Pricing
Prices are in USD and typically indicate p/m
$
Freemium
Free trial
Custom pricing
Pay once
Rive

Rive

empower designers, slash dev times.
Key Features

⚡️ State Machines

🎬 Transitions

🎧 Listeners

📝 Inputs

💿 Blend States

📅 Events

🔮 Dynamic Assets

🕹️ Joysticks

🗾 Vector & Raster

🚶 Follow paths

& Much more

Rive
With Rive, complex designer-developer handoff is a thing of the past. Reduce development times by empowering designers to build functional graphics with rich interactivity and animation.
Pricing
Prices are in USD and typically indicate p/m
$
24.00
Freemium
Free trial
Custom pricing
Pay once
Mobbin

Mobbin

the world’s largest design library.
Key Features

🖥️ Screens 

❖ UI Elements 

🚀 Flows 

📸 Text in Screenshot

🎥 Flow videos

🔮 Prototype mode

🎨 Copy to Figma

🗂️ Save to collections

💬 Leave comments

Mobbin
Save hours of UI & UX research with our library of 300,000+ screens from the world’s best designed apps. Mobbin is a growing library of 1,069 apps, 347,427 screens and 68,140 flows.
Pricing
Prices are in USD and typically indicate p/m
$
10.00
Freemium
Free trial
Custom pricing
Pay once
CodePen

CodePen

build, test, & discover front-end code.
Key Features

✍️ The Pen Editor 

💼 The Project Editor 

🗂️ Collections 

🌐 Asset Hosting 

🔗 Embeds 

🔌 API

CodePen
CodePen is a social development environment for front-end designers and developers. Build and deploy a website, show off your work, build test cases to learn and debug, and find inspiration.
Pricing
Prices are in USD and typically indicate p/m
$
8.00
Freemium
Free trial
Custom pricing
Pay once
Cursor

Cursor

the AI code editor.
Key Features

✅ Knows your codebase

🚀 Just hit tab

✍️ Edit in natural language

👋 Feels familiar

🔐 SOC 2 certified

🗝️ Bring Your Own Key

Cursor
Built to make you extraordinarily productive, Cursor is the best way to code with AI.
Pricing
Prices are in USD and typically indicate p/m
$
20.00
Freemium
Free trial
Custom pricing
Pay once
CodeSandbox

CodeSandbox

instant cloud development.
Key Features

🗳️ microVMs

🔌 GitHub Integration

🔮 AI Code Autocomplete

🌏 Pre-configured environments

🛠️ Powerful DevTools

⚡️ Low Code Tooling

🔷 VS Code Extension

🌐 Online Code Editor

CodeSandbox
CodeSandbox gives you 24/7 collaborative cloud development environments (CDEs) that resume in 2 seconds.
Pricing
Prices are in USD and typically indicate p/m
$
9.00
Freemium
Free trial
Custom pricing
Pay once
VS Code

VS Code

code editing. redefined.
Key Features

💽 Integrated terminal

🎞️ Run code

🗂️ Version control

✅ Build tasks

🌎 Local history

🎨 Themes

💙 Accessibility

🌐 Web support

VS Code
Visual Studio Code is a lightweight but powerful source code editor which runs on your desktop and is available for Windows, macOS and Linux. It comes with built-in support for JavaScript, TypeScript and Node.js and has a rich ecosystem of extensions for other languages and runtimes (such as C++, C#, Java, Python, PHP, Go, .NET).
Pricing
Prices are in USD and typically indicate p/m
$
Freemium
Free trial
Custom pricing
Pay once
Tuple

Tuple

remote pair programming for macOS & Windows.
Key Features

💻 MacOS & Windows

🔊 Ridiculously crisp audio & video

🔐 End-to-end encryption

👥 Seamless collaboration

🔄 One click to swap who’s sharing

⚙️ Native cross-platform C++ engine

🔋 Stingy with your CPU cycles

⚡️ Runs in your menu bar

⌘ Shortcuts & triggers

🤣 Emoji reactions & animations

💬 Screen annotations

Tuple
The best remote pair programming app on macOS and Windows. Built from the ground up to deliver razor sharp screen sharing, crisp audio, and seamless remote control, so you can get into the flow with your teammates and do real work.
Pricing
Prices are in USD and typically indicate p/m
$
30.00
Freemium
Free trial
Custom pricing
Pay once
Stackblitz

Stackblitz

how design systems & frontend teams work together.
Key Features

🔐 Unmatched security

✅ Online & offline

🐛 Seamless debugging

📦 WebContainers built-in

📑 Live, interactive documentation

🧐 One-click bug reproductions

⚡️ Iterate on new ideas fast

🛅 Enterprise SSO

💻 Desktop-grade editor

👥 Access & usage controls

Stackblitz
Collaborate on web development without the hassle of setting up local environments. StackBlitz lets you write, run, and debug frontend code directly in your browser.
Pricing
Prices are in USD and typically indicate p/m
$
9.00
Freemium
Free trial
Custom pricing
Pay once