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post_title: WooCommerce developer tools
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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.

## Productivity Tools

Use these resources to get a WooCommerce development environment up and running.

### [wp-cli](https://wp-cli.org/)

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.

### [wp-env](https://www.npmjs.com/package/@wordpress/env)

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.

### [eslint-plugin](https://www.npmjs.com/package/@woocommerce/eslint-plugin)

This is an [ESLint](https://eslint.org/) plugin including configurations and custom rules for WooCommerce development.

### [e2e-environment](https://www.npmjs.com/package/@woocommerce/e2e-environment)

This is a reusable and extensible end-to-end testing environment for WooCommerce extensions. Additionally, it contains several files to serve as the base for a Docker container and Travis CI setup.

### [WordPress Scripts](https://www.npmjs.com/package/@wordpress/scripts)

This is a collection of reusable scripts tailored for WordPress development.

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## Libraries

Use these resources to help take some of the heavy lifting off of fetching and transforming data -- as well as creating UI elements.

### API Clients

### [WooCommerce REST API - JavaScript](https://www.npmjs.com/package/@woocommerce/woocommerce-rest-api)

The official JavaScript library for working with the WooCommerce REST API.

### [api-fetch](https://www.npmjs.com/package/@wordpress/api-fetch)

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.

### Components

### [WooCommerce Components](https://www.npmjs.com/package/@woocommerce/components)

This package includes a library of React components that can be used to create pages in the WooCommerce admin area.

### [WordPress Components](https://www.npmjs.com/package/@wordpress/components)

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

### [CSV Export](https://www.npmjs.com/package/@woocommerce/csv-export)

A set of functions to convert data into CSV values, and enable a browser download of the CSV data.

### [Currency](https://www.npmjs.com/package/@woocommerce/currency)

A collection of utilities to display and work with currency values.

### [Data](https://www.npmjs.com/package/@woocommerce/data)

Utilities for managing the WooCommerce Admin data store.

### [Date](https://www.npmjs.com/package/@woocommerce/date)

A collection of utilities to display and work with date values.

### [Navigation](https://www.npmjs.com/package/@woocommerce/navigation)

A collection of navigation-related functions for handling query parameter objects, serializing query parameters, updating query parameters, and triggering path changes.

### [Number](https://www.npmjs.com/package/@woocommerce/number)

A collection of utilities to properly localize numerical values in WooCommerce.