3 posts tagged with "Developer Tools"

Developer teams use Confluence differently than marketing or HR. You document APIs, share architecture diagrams, write runbooks, and collaborate on code reviews. The default Confluence editor works, but it wasn't built for technical documentation.

This guide covers the best Confluence apps for developers in 2026, organized by use case. We built several of these apps at NGPILOT, so we'll be transparent about where our apps fit and where competitors offer better solutions.

Confluence stores every page as XML in a format called "Confluence storage format." Most users never see it. But if you have ever tried to fix a broken macro, remove hidden formatting artifacts, or bulk-edit repetitive markup, you know the rich text editor alone is not enough. You need direct access to the underlying source.

At NGPILOT, we built two apps for exactly this purpose: Raw Storage Source Editor for Confluence (free) and Raw Storage Source Editor Pro for Confluence (paid). Both let you open, view, and edit the raw XML behind any Confluence page. This post compares them feature by feature so you can pick the right one for your team.

Engineering teams document APIs, share runbooks, and write code reviews in Confluence every day. But the built-in code macro hasn't kept up — limited language support, no dark mode, no line numbers, and a bare-bones editing experience.

Several third-party apps try to fill this gap. We built Modern Code Blocks for Confluence to bring the Monaco Editor (the engine behind VS Code) into Confluence pages. In this post we compare it against the alternatives so you can pick the right one.