Two days ago, I put up a simple survey that asked what essential tools, libs and frameworks you were using for front-end development. I closed out the survey last night a little before 9pm EST and after getting 1000+ responses. I now wanted to share the results.

<h3>The Process</h3>

As I've mentioned, this was an incredibly unscientific survey and not meant to determine which tool is best. Just which tools seem to be in heavy use.

I'm doing this to help web developers stay on top of commonly used tools. Since change constantly but at least this gives 
a snapshot of what's frequently used.

After closing the survey, I removed all blank records and then went entry by entry to factor in the "Other" submissions and list out tools not originally added on the survey.

I ended up with 1031 total responses that I felt were good submissions.

Important to note is that the following options were added after 218 people had already replied so those values could've been much higher if added at the beginning. This is evident in Git & Coffeescript's high numbers despite being added late.
<ul><li>LESS</li>
<li>Git</li>
<li>ExtJS</li>
<li>Ember.js</li>
<li>prefix-free</li>
<li>JSBin</li>
<li>JSFiddle</li>
<li>dabblet</li>
<li>Kendo UI</li>
<li>Wijmo</li>
<li>Coffeescript</li>
<li>YUI</li></ul>

<h3>Results from the Main List</h3>

jQuery			916	89%
Modernizr		525	51%
Git			489	47%
HTML5 Boilerplate	439	43%
Sublime Text 2		442	43%
jQuery UI		421	41%
Bootstrap		346	34%
Sass			316	31%
JSFiddle		261	25%
Underscore		245	24%
LESS			237	23%
Backbone		215	21%
Compass			182	18%
RequireJS		173	17%
Handlebars		108	10%
JSBin			102	10%
Coffeescript		104	10%
KnockoutJS		95	9%
Grunt			80	8%
Jasmine			87	8%
Qunit			67	7%
Kendo UI		66	6%
Zepto			52	5%
Mocha			41	4%
MooTools		38	4%
YUI			41	4%
AngularJS		34	3%
ExtJS			29	3%
prefix-free		31	3%
dabblet			29	3%
Dojo			20	2%
Ember.js		16	2%
Wijmo			20	2%

