Development Ecosystem

Developing requires several services and applications. The choices to be made will depend on the technology used, and the requirements of the project, but there are some general guidelines.

Most development environments will have:

Component	Usage	Example
Code repository	Store for the version control system, which allows several people to access and use it	Github, Bitbucket
Continuous integration	Service for handling tasks after changes are committed to a project	Travis, Jenkins
Dependencies management tool	Application which handles the project dependencies	Maven, npm, pip
Dependencies repository	Store with libraries and projects to be used as dependencies	Bintray, PyPi, Maven Repository
Documentation server	A server for files which document the project	Any static content server
IDE	Integrated Development Environment, comprehensive application to help programming	Eclipse, Pycharm
Packaging management tool	Application which handles the project building process	webpack
Project management tool	Application which handles the repetitive, complex and common tasks of project building	Maven
Reporting services	Service for generating any kind of report, such as code coverage or code quality	Coveralls, Landscape
Version control system	System which keeps track and a history of all the changes in code	svn, git

But these are just the components which take a direct part in the project lifecycle. A few other important components, such as issues tracking, or test runners, are not included and will be commented in their own sections.