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post_title: WooCommerce developer tools
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menu_title: Developer tools
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tags: reference
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This guide provides an overview of essential tools and libraries for WooCommerce development. It's intended for developers looking to enhance their WooCommerce projects efficiently.
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## Productivity Tools
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Use these resources to get a WooCommerce development environment up and running.
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### [wp-cli](https://wp-cli.org/)
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This is the command-line interface for [WordPress ](https://wordpress.org/ ). You can update plugins, configure multisite installations and much more, without using a web browser.
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### [wp-env](https://www.npmjs.com/package/@wordpress/env)
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This command-line tool lets you easily set up a local WordPress environment for building and testing plugins and themes. It's simple to install and requires no configuration.
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### [eslint-plugin](https://www.npmjs.com/package/@woocommerce/eslint-plugin)
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This is an [ESLint ](https://eslint.org/ ) plugin including configurations and custom rules for WooCommerce development.
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### [WordPress Scripts](https://www.npmjs.com/package/@wordpress/scripts)
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This is a collection of reusable scripts tailored for WordPress development.
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## Libraries
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Use these resources to help take some of the heavy lifting off of fetching and transforming data -- as well as creating UI elements.
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### API Clients
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### [WooCommerce REST API - JavaScript](https://www.npmjs.com/package/@woocommerce/woocommerce-rest-api)
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The official JavaScript library for working with the WooCommerce REST API.
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### [api-fetch](https://www.npmjs.com/package/@wordpress/api-fetch)
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This is a utility to make WordPress REST API requests. It's a wrapper around `window.fetch` that includes support for nonces, middleware, and custom fetch handlers.
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### Components
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### [WooCommerce Components](https://www.npmjs.com/package/@woocommerce/components)
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This package includes a library of React components that can be used to create pages in the WooCommerce admin area.
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### [WordPress Components](https://www.npmjs.com/package/@wordpress/components)
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This packages includes a library of generic WordPress components that can be used for creating common UI elements shared between screens and features of the WordPress dashboard.
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## Utilities
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### [CSV Export](https://www.npmjs.com/package/@woocommerce/csv-export)
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A set of functions to convert data into CSV values, and enable a browser download of the CSV data.
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### [Currency](https://www.npmjs.com/package/@woocommerce/currency)
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A collection of utilities to display and work with currency values.
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### [Data](https://www.npmjs.com/package/@woocommerce/data)
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Utilities for managing the WooCommerce Admin data store.
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### [Date](https://www.npmjs.com/package/@woocommerce/date)
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A collection of utilities to display and work with date values.
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### [Navigation](https://www.npmjs.com/package/@woocommerce/navigation)
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A collection of navigation-related functions for handling query parameter objects, serializing query parameters, updating query parameters, and triggering path changes.
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### [Number](https://www.npmjs.com/package/@woocommerce/number)
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A collection of utilities to properly localize numerical values in WooCommerce.