Before we jump into 2023, let’s look at the most memorable accomplishments of the past year.  

2022, Cosmic Development’s eleventh year of helping businesses level up, was accompanied by constant growth. We remained committed to building a better tomorrow for our clients and continued working hard to provide first-class services.

Driven by our core values, we strived to make a positive impact with all of our activities and business decisions. We introduced many new ideas to our company and participated in numerous significant events.

Cosmic Development welcomed many new team members and hoped to have a successful journey together in the years ahead. We recognized our team members’ personal lives and their need for flexibility and growth. And we acknowledged their talent and their many contributions to our company. 

Cosmic Development Continues Growing 

We continued building strong relationships with our clients throughout the year and remained committed to delivering the highest service and value. We’ve helped them grow and celebrated their successes. We successfully kicked off three new projects this year and welcomed one new client.

Our HR team has been busy bringing on new team members that helped Cosmic grow all year. Our company began the year with 91 team members and finished with 152 highly skilled professionals.

We ensured that our team had the skills and knowledge needed to succeed and invested in training programs, mentorship opportunities, and professional development courses.

Cosmic Development is constantly learning about advancements in the future of work and how workplaces are modernized worldwide. Our vision of a modern workplace means providing our employees with the tools and resources to do their jobs effectively, so we invested in tools and equipment that support a hybrid workforce.

The secret to our growth is our investment in employee experience. Offering various benefits and employee perks tailored to the individual needs of our people has remained imperative. 

Cosmic Development Events in 2022

It’s been a busy and eventful 2022 for Cosmic Development. 

As pandemic restrictions were lifted, we welcomed the return of in-person events. And after two years of virtual events, getting back to the “real world” and meeting people in person felt good. Here’s a round-up of the fantastic events we took part in.

Seminars and Conferences  

• AllWeb 2022. Staying on top of current trends is essential for our marketing team. In September, our colleague Aleksandar Bogdanoski attended Digital Marketing Conference AllWeb in Mavrovo and learned more about the latest trends in digital marketing from prominent industry experts. 

• The Future Is Remote. In October, we were part of the amazing “The Future is Remote” event organized by Native Teams. Our managing director Anthony Naumoff talked about growth and remote work and shared our success story on the subject.

• Youth Strategy 2022. Our colleague Marina Trajkovska attended Youth Strategy 2022 workshop, where she gave insight into employing young people and how it reflects our society.

• Kontakt 2022 – Job Fair. In April, we participated in the online Job and Internship Fair in Skopje, Kontakt 2022, and presented our company. 

• Business Trip to New York. In September, a few people from the Cosmic Development team went to New York City and had the honor of attending the NASDAQ bell-ringing ceremony of one of our most loyal clients Rumble.

Sports Events  

The wellness of our company depends on the well-being of our employees. One of the ways to get our employees active and motivated and boost their mental and physical well-being is by encouraging participation in sports activities. So, this year too, we supported their participation in Avicenna Women’s Race 2022, Trcaj Be Race, and Skopje Wizz Air Marathon.

Other events include participating in the FICT online fair in May, the AmCham event in November, and the HR networking event in Bitola in December. Additionally, we sponsored the 7th Toptash Downhill Cup and the monodrama of our talented colleague Kristijan Tanchevski.

Making the World a Better Place

Cosmic Development is a socially responsible company, and we always strive to do what’s best not only for our company but for people, the planet, and society at large. Therefore, we give back to our communities regularly, participate in events and initiatives that support others, and raise awareness about the world’s pressing issues today. 

• Donate a Computer initiative. We supported the Donate a Computer initiative and donated computers, mobile phones, and tech inventory to people in need. Our company was also invited to Doniraj Kompjuter’s 6th birthday party, where we received a certificate of appreciation for our donations to their organization.

• Earth Day Picnic. Earth Day 2022 was a great way to reflect on our environmental responsibility. We organized a fun picnic and celebrated the day by putting on gloves and picking up trash.

• World Space Week. We joined the celebration of space, science, and technology. Our employees and their kids had an exciting planetarium visit where they looked through the telescope and learned more about our galaxy.

• Afforestation Activity. We also took part in the afforestation activities and donated equipment.

Success is Best When it is Shared

This year we have successfully conducted different internal events and created in-person moments. All our colleagues, new and old, finally had a chance to connect and bond.

Some of the exciting events we did internally were the business visit and an informal dinner meeting with Cosmic Development’s CEO and CFO, Ryan and Matt, as well as Rumble’s CEO, Chris Pavlovski. 

Additionally, we held our first in-person general meeting since the pandemic’s start. And we organized two interactive soft skill workshops in Skopje and Bitola with the business and management consultant Mihail Kitanovski. 

After two years of missing out on team building, we organized team buildings in Serbia and Macedonia. It was an excellent opportunity to get together, build connections, improve communication and collaboration, and have a lot of fun. 

The New Year activities are an essential part of our traditions. We ended 2022 in a big way and had one of the best New Year parties. There were cocktails, tasty food, great music, and dancing till the morning. Furthermore, we organized a New Year party for the youngest Cosmic members. We loved seeing our offices in Skopje and Bitola becoming happier, louder, and more lively, and we enjoyed all those big smiles and happy faces. 

Our People Are Our Greatest Asset

As we look back on this year, we can’t help but recognize the amazing group of people behind our company. Employee well-being, employee happiness, employee experience, and employee satisfaction are the terms that marked 2022 at Cosmic Development. They are a vital feature of our corporate culture and essential to the company’s overall success.

We continued encouraging open communication and listened to our employees to understand their needs and goals for the future. At the beginning of the year, we surveyed all employees to identify how, when, and where they work best. We used the survey results to create a concise and comprehensive hybrid work policy that meets the needs of our employees and our business. We invested in space and modern technology to bridge the physical and digital world and equipped our people with the tools they need to be productive, whether working from home or in the office.

Employee well-being, work-life balance, and flexibility remained a priority this year.

We further developed our employee benefits strategy. Now, we offer private health insurance for all employees and close family members, a yearly budget for professional growth and learning and training programs, wellness benefits, employee recognition, reward programs, and subsidized healthy meal options. The list will grow in 2023. 

We continued acknowledging their hard work and accomplishments and celebrated work anniversaries, new wins, new clients, birthdays, and much more. And we invested investment in networking, educational, and mentorship opportunities.

Great work this year, and thank you for being such an integral part of our growth in 2022. We couldn’t have done it without you!

Looking Forward to 2023

Looking ahead to the coming year, we are grateful for what we’ve accomplished and look forward to further growth. Our culture constantly evolves, but our values and purpose remain the same. We continue to support our people and create an environment where they can do their best work and be their best selves. And we will continue serving our clients with the highest quality and expertise. 

Overall, it’s been a successful and rewarding year for Cosmic Development, and the company is well-positioned for even more outstanding achievements in the future. We look forward to 2023 and are excited to see how it unfolds, as we believe it will be another great year.

If you want to join us on our path to growth, check our open positions on the following link!

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This article will share some full-stack developer tools to help you level up your web development skills and become a better web developer.

Full-stack web development is a complex job that requires building complicated applications from scratch. Full-stack developers work on both frontend and backend projects and need to use both frontend and backend programming languages and tools. Besides having fundamental web development skills, every aspiring full-stack developer should master various tools and technologies. Knowing which tools to use will make their work easier and enable them to provide high-quality work, land higher-paying jobs, and faster career growth in web development.

The number of full-stack web development tools available on the Internet is overwhelming, and finding the best ones can sometimes be challenging. To help, we’ve created a list of some of the best tools you can use and master to become an effective full-stack web developer in 2022.

What are full-stack developer tools?

Full-stack developer tools are programs, apps, and software designed to increase the productivity and efficiency of web development projects. They allow web developers to work with numerous frontend and backend technologies, frameworks, and libraries to create a fully-functional, visually appealing, and user-friendly websites.

Why are they important?

Although tools don’t make the programmer, they can be a game-changer in the development process. The right full-stack development tools aid in developing, testing, designing, and maintaining the websites. They speed up the development process, eliminate redundancies, automate processes, and lower the project’s cost. Learning powerful and advanced tools will empower developers improves their skills and productivity.

List of useful full-stack developer tools:

• Visual Studio Code – code editor

VSCode, a Microsoft product, is one of the most popular web application development tools among full-stack developers. It is a fast and lightweight code editor used for writing modern web and cloud applications and is available for Linux, Windows, and macOS. The best thing about Visual Studio Code is that it is free and open-source and that it encompasses tons of features like code refactoring and syntax highlighting, along with many more. It is easy to use and beginner-friendly. It is also customizable, including many extensions that range from debugging, connecting, or deploying into the cloud. Plus, it integrates with GitHub and can be utilized with various languages and frameworks, such as Ruby, JavaScript, Typescript. Rust, Node.js, etc.

• Chrome Developer Tools – debugging tool for web developers.

Browser developer tools are built into most modern browsers such as Chrome, Firefox, Edge, and Safari and are a preferred tool of most developers. Google Chrome Developer Tools or Chrome DevTools are debugging tools built into the Chrome browser designed to help you in front-end development. These are some of the most useful tools that allow web developers to edit their code in real-time, diagnose issues, and debug their code quicker, thus building better websites faster. Visit the Google Developers YouTube channel regularly to keep your skills up-to-date.

• Docker– an open-source containerization platform

Another excellent tool for full-stack developers is Docker. It is an open-source software platform used for creating, deploying, and running applications in a lightweight virtual environment called a container. Packing up application code and all the dependencies used in the application into a single package improves application performance and allows it to run efficiently in different environments. It also makes your applications more portable and scalable.

And why every software developer should learn Docker in 2022?

Docker is a technology that transformed the tech industry in the past years by making containerization the new norm. As organizations are moving toward the Cloud environment, the use of containers is growing rapidly and is now part of the standard architecture for businesses with a cloud-first approach. According to Gartner, 85% of organizations will be using containers by 2025 (up from less than 30% in 2020.) Undoubtedly, the container model will be critical in the coming years, meaning tools like Docker are a must for modern-day developers.

• GitHub – code hosting platform

GitHub is the world’s largest online software development platform used by software developers to store, track, manage and control changes to their code. As of November 2021, it has over 73 million developers and more than 200 million repositories, making it the most extensive web-based hosting service for IT projects. By using GitHub, you’ll simplify the process of developing code and mitigate errors.  GitHub also works as a social networking site with a large active developer community where developers can collaborate on projects in real-time, network, and help each other. Whether you are new to coding or have solid coding experience, GitHub is a tool you should leverage.

• Postman – API testing tool 

Postman is an open-source collaboration tool for API development used to create, test, design, modify, and document APIs. With Postman, you can create and save complex HTTP/s requests, inspect responses, build and manage collections, and support every stage of the API lifecycle. It supports manual and automated API testing and all kinds of APIs like REST, SOAP, etc. Besides a testing tool, Postman is also a collaborative tool. You can invite team members to communicate and work together on your API work.

Of course, this is not an extensive list, and there are many other tools full-stack developers can learn to sharpen their skills and stay ahead of the curve. Other tools worth mentioning include collaboration tools like Slack and Asana, which are essential in every developer’s job, and online learning platforms like Codecademy, Freecodecamp, and Dev Challenges.

Conclusion

Building a website takes time and involves a large number of tools. The above-listed full-stack development tools are designed to help you and your team be more productive in the long run and develop full-fledged web applications.

Choose the tools that work best for you and enjoy the process of learning and designing web applications and websites. They have the power of helping you stay up-to-date as a developer and take your full-stack development career a bit farther.

Ready to join Cosmic Development?

Cosmic Development is your place if you want to join a professional team to work on big and exciting projects! We have several open positions for software developers and engineers, including Full-Stack Software Engineer. Go ahead and apply.

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2021 was a challenging, unusual, and fantastic year. Here’s a recap of what Cosmic Development accomplished in 2021.

As we are coming to the end of another challenging year, we reflect on everything we have accomplished in 2021. Despite all challenges, we at Cosmic Development successfully adapted to the rapid changes brought about by the new reality of life and doing business. During the second year of the COVID-19 pandemic, we showed resilience, flexibility, and compassion and supported our people and clients through uncertainties and unpredictability. We continued working hard and provided our clients with high-quality services and innovative solutions. And we proudly say that we have seen some excellent results. To wrap up the year, let’s look back at some highlights of 2021.

Ten years of Cosmic Development

This year, we’ve marked the first decade for Cosmic Development. What began with a small team of six young and passionate people slowly grew into a larger crew. Today we are a renowned international IT outsourcing company with over 200 highly skilled and dedicated professionals. We have over 300 completed projects with over 90 clients around the globe. In the past ten years, we kept on our growth path. We established ourselves as a global provider of skills, knowledge, and expertise, offering a wide range of digital outsourcing solutions. Even though we had a virtual party, we can’t wait to celebrate this important milestone in the good old-fashioned way by gathering our people from all locations. 

Happy 10th birthday, Cosmic Development, and a big thank you to our fantastic employees and clients for making this journey a success. With you, we are well set for success in the next decade. 

We continued our path of growth

If this year has taught us anything, it is that uncertainty and progress can exist together. Despite all the ups and downs, we’ve made the most of the current circumstances and continued growing our business. We have achieved this by utilizing our core skills and providing services that add value for our clients. Next, we implemented strategies and innovations that drove the company forward and led us to a better future.

We have launched new partnerships during the year and continued to build the team. From the beginning of 2021, we have welcomed 47 people in many different positions, and we are actively looking for more to join us. Our loyal client, Bookmark, an AI-powered website builder, has also continued with its considerable growth and is expanding its team with us. The latest opportunity is for a Software Developer with the following specifications.

Cosmic’s hard-working employees are the foundation of our business, and it is our priority to make them feel valued, appreciated, and motivated. As part of Cosmic’s employee reward and recognition strategy, we acknowledge their hard work and accomplishments on various turns.

To name a few, this year we are proud of:

• our loyal employees who celebrated five-year and ten-year anniversaries,
• our Cosmic ambassadors who took part and represented the company in external events,
• our diligent people who went above and beyond giving their contributions in internal projects,
• the ones who stood out in the creative challenges,
• the youngest members of our Cosmic family who amazed us with their original works in the World Space Week kids’ workshop. 

Further, we invested in IT infrastructure and equipped our employees with the technology and services to stay productive. Our teams are fully prepared to respond to the increasing demand for IT outsourcing and rapid digitization and help our clients successfully navigate the COVID-19 environment.

Thank you for being a part of this incredible community and being an essential part of our growth in 2021.

Events we attended and initiatives we supported

Every year Cosmic Development takes part in various events and initiatives, and this year was no exception despite the circumstances. Let’s look back at the following:  

Sports events. Our commitment to healthy life choices and wellbeing has always been a part of our company culture. Our team members participated and successfully represented Cosmic Development in the Wizz Air Marathon Skopje 2021, the Skopje Run 10k race, and the “Trcaj Be” race in Bitola.

Charitable initiatives. Social responsibility is another significant aspect of our company culture. We feel it is our duty to help the communities in which we live and work, and we are dedicated to making a real difference in the lives of those in need.

Traditionally, every year we take part in Christmas and New Year charitable initiatives. This year we supported nonprofits and charities in Macedonia and Serbia. We helped 30 families and donated food, clothing, and money to children without parents, children with disabilities, and low-income families. Additionally, we responded to the call to donate IT equipment and computers to families who can’t afford it and joined the “Donate a computer” initiative. The donation is going to be realized in the first week of January.

Tech events. In December, our colleagues Bojan Angjelkovski and Viktorija Krstevska represented Cosmic Development at DIGIT (Design and Interactive Graphics in IT), an educational event for students in the field of design and programming. At this year’s DIGIT Web – Angular Edition, Viki, a web developer, shared her personal story at Cosmic. Whereas, Bojan, a professional in Angular, mentored and assisted students in building a website with the help of Angular.

Bye 2021, hello 2022! 

2021 has been a year of challenges, learning, and change – not only for our team but for our clients, too. However, we remained strong and persistent. We plan to use everything we have learned from this past year to continue providing the best services for our clients.

We are looking forward to an inspiring 2022. Hopefully, we can put the pandemic behind and continue building Cosmic Development’s success story. In 2022 safety remains one of our highest priorities, and working from home will continue to be our core way of functioning. Despite the remote work policy, we will keep on growing our teams and hiring many new people. We will work hard and support our people and clients in reaching their goals and succeeding in 2022 and beyond.

Still, our biggest wish waits to be fulfilled as we can’t wait to gather all and celebrate everything from our rapidly growing community, birthdays, to new wins, new clients, and much more.

Eager to join us? You can find out more about our current vacancies by clicking here.

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