Use what ever IDE you like but this is my setup:
- tmux Terminal multiplexer - lets you split up your terminal into panes
- FiSH nice shell
- Helix if you want to break away from VSCode. Less noise, less mouse usage - learn the keybindings 👍
- Httpie TUI to perform HTTP/HTTPS requests
- Postman if you don't want to use Httpie... just use Httpie 👍
- mitmproxy for testing traffic from the API
- Just get a Mac.