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React Feb 23, 2024 18 min read

React Functional Testing Best Practices

Learn React functional testing best practices, from React Testing Library to Jest matchers. Discover advanced techniques for scalable test suites and optimizing performance.
daily.dev Feb 22, 2024 10 min read

Daily.dev: A Global Dev Community Hub

Daily.dev is a global hub for developers offering personalized news feeds, community engagement, collaboration tools, developer resources, and a global reach. Join today!
Insights Feb 22, 2024 12 min read

Styled Components Form Example: A Guide

Learn how to create visually appealing and functional forms in React using Styled Components. Explore the advantages, design considerations, validation logic, and advanced techniques for building robust forms.
Career Feb 21, 2024 13 min read

Community for Developers: Remote Work Integration

Explore the landscape of online developer communities, best practices for remote collaboration, and essential tools for distributed teams in remote work integration.
Webdev Feb 21, 2024 16 min read

Go to JavaScript: Understanding Syntax Differences

Explore key syntax differences between Go and JavaScript and learn how to adapt coding practices for a seamless transition. Understand control flow, data structures, and more.
Career Feb 21, 2024 20 min read

Programmer Community: Continuous Learning

Explore the role of programmer communities in continuous learning, networking, and career advancement. Learn how to leverage shared resources, mentorship, and collaboration for professional growth.
daily.dev Feb 20, 2024

Adding the daily.dev DevCard to your GitHub profile

In this article, we will cover two ways of showing your reading interests through your GitHub profile: manually adding your DevCard by copying the code and automatically updating DevCard by leveraging GitHub actions.
daily.dev Dec 20, 2023

2023 is finally over, let’s wrap it up!

Discover how daily.dev revolutionized the developer experience in 2023 with the launch of Squads, an AI-based Search tool, and numerous other features. Explore our community-centric Squads, join the AI-driven future of dev research, and experience our enhanced platform functionalities. Celebrate a year of innovation and progress with us at daily.dev.
daily.dev Dec 19, 2023

Under the Hood: daily.dev weekly digest

Explore the technical journey of daily.dev in creating the "Weekly Digest" - a personalized weekly email feature. This detailed blog post covers challenges in sending over a million emails, user-specific content curation, scheduling complexities, and the use of technologies like GraphQL and Sendgrid. Perfect for developers and tech enthusiasts interested in email system implementation and personalized content delivery.
Architecture Nov 20, 2023

Exploring the Archipelago Architecture

Discover the Archipelago Architecture in software development with daily.dev. Explore how it balances monolithic and microservices models, offering scalable, manageable solutions. Learn about its deployment units, infrastructure as code, and benefits in this insightful blog post.
React Nov 13, 2023

Moving back to React

Discover the story behind daily.dev's transition from Preact to React for frontend development. This post explores the challenges, solutions, and benefits of migrating to React, enhancing our web app's performance and development experience.
daily.dev Oct 16, 2023

Scaling a side project: The story of daily.dev

How we scaled daily.dev from its first moments to hundreds of thousands of users. Technical decisions, hiring the first engineers and more.
daily.dev Aug 2, 2023

Source Spotlight by daily.dev: Product Hunt 💡

Explore the collaboration between daily.dev and Product Hunt, two platforms dedicated to serving the tech and developer community. Learn about the impact of their partnership on organic traffic and engagement, the benefits they offer to their communities, and the opportunities they provide for developers. Discover how they work together to amplify reach and foster a connected community.
daily.dev Jun 6, 2023

Giveaway Campaign terms and conditions

Join the daily.dev referral campaign and get a chance to win an exclusive limited edition lego set! Invite five new users with your unique referral link to enter. Participate ethically, and make the daily.dev community joyful!
daily.dev Mar 23, 2023

daily.dev raised an $11M seed round 🎉

daily.dev, a developer-focused startup, has raised $11 million in seed funding to build the world’s largest professional network for the global developer community. The platform aims to provide a space for developers to improve, interact and collaborate with each other, while staying up to date with the latest trends in the developer ecosystem. The funding round was led by Aleph with participation from Jibe Ventures and Secret Chord Ventures alongside notable angel investors.
daily.dev Jun 21, 2022

The Companion Widget

How to use the daily.dev companion feature. In this quick overview, we show you how to use the companion and all of the amazing functionality it unlocks when reading an article.
daily.dev Jun 2, 2022

Getting Started With the Companion Widget

How to use the daily.dev companion feature. In this quick overview, we show you how to use the companion and all of the amazing functionality it unlocks when reading an article.
Backend Nov 8, 2021

Building a news app using RedwoodJS

In this tutorial, we will learn about the RedwoodJS framework by building a News app.
Backend Oct 18, 2021

How to start with RedwoodJS - The full guide

RedwoodJS is a full-stack serverless web application framework built by Tom Preston Werner (co-founder of GitHub) et al. This framework provides the mechanism to build JAMstack applications very fast. Such applications can be deployed with ease just with a git push command.
Backend Oct 14, 2021

RedwoodJS and PostgreSQL

RedwoodJS is a full-stack React app, this means that the front-end and the back-end are all handled in one place. The frontend is a React app that can be deployed to the cloud or CDNs. The back-end is a GraphQL API that can be hosted anywhere and can be called from external or internal services.
Next.js Oct 11, 2021

Next.js is turning 5. Join the celebration!

Claim your ticket for Next.js Conf 2021 on October 26. Join me and other frontend developers as we see the latest advancements in Next.js, dive deep into product demos, and connect with experts and the community on Discord.
Tailwind CSS Oct 7, 2021

Building an image searching app using Alpine and Tailwind CSS

Alpine.js is a collection of 14 attributes, 6 properties, and 2 methods; you can think of it as jQuery for the modern web.
Blitzjs Oct 4, 2021

Building a Banking admin app using Blitzjs

Blitz.js is an awesome framework, it makes the job easier for devs. We learned a lot here. We started with introducing Blitz.js, detailing its great features and also how to install it. Next, we demonstrated how to use the various features of Blitzjs by creating a minimal banking admin app just like Finacle. Yes, the bank app we built here lacks so many features. I urge you to keep going from this point, it's a great way of learning a new tool and picking up on it very fast.
Blitzjs Sep 30, 2021

Getting started with Blitz.js | Complete guide with examples

Blitz.js is a full-stack React framework with a zero-API data layer built on Next.js and inspired by Ruby on Rails. Blitz.js uses the concept of the "Zero-API" data layer. This Zero-API enables us to add server code in the React components, Blitz.js will generate the HTTP API at build time. This removes the need of adding API endpoints in our project and making an HTTP request to them via the client-side.
Blitzjs Sep 27, 2021

How to use Prisma in Blitzjs

Prisma is a very powerful ORM (Object-Relational Mapping) tool, it encapsulates the complexity of using SQL databases and provides us with a simple interface to connect and manipulate databases. Blitzjs on other hand is a new and fast full-stack JavaScript framework, full-stack in the sense that the frontend and backend code is handled by Blitzjs. The frontend connects with the backend to request and retrieve data and Blitz does the magic using Prisma.
Career Sep 24, 2021

The Importance of Developer Velocity and Engineering Processes

In our rapidly changing technology landscape, it can be difficult to maintain a competitive advantage. Challenges present themselves daily and staying ahead of your competition can feel daunting. At the INTERACT conference for engineering leaders on September 30th, we’ll be exploring two of the most impactful ways that have emerged for companies to differentiate themselves - streamlining engineering processes and maintaining high developer velocity.
Fastify Sep 23, 2021

Error logging with Sentry on Fastify

Fastify is one of the fastest Node js web frameworks out there. It was inspired by Express and Hapi but outperforms them when it comes to speed. Fastify is also open-sourced and focused on providing a better experience to developers with lower overhead.
Vue.js Sep 20, 2021

Using Vue.js DevTools for Better DX

Vue.js DevTools is available as a Chrome extension, Firefox extension, and stand-alone electron application. It allows developers to monitor and edit component data, handle routing, time-travelling through states, performance monitoring, etc. This article will discuss the usage of Vue.js DevTools to perform these activities in detail.
Career Sep 17, 2021

Five Leadership Lessons I Learned From Microsoft, Netflix, Stack Overflow, GitLab, & Equinix

After a Year Interviewing The Best Engineers in Tech, This Is What I’ve Learned - (Lessons from Microsoft, Netflix, Stack Overflow, GitLab, & Equinix)
Alpine.js Sep 16, 2021

Building A Registration Form With Reactive Validation Using Alpine.js and Tailwind CSS

Alpine.js is a tiny JavaScript framework with no build steps but it provides all the tools needed to build a user interface. Alpine.js allows us to write declarative codes and with a size of about 6kb, it can be seen as a modern replacement for jQuery.

Developer news, read by people who ship.

React Functional Testing Best Practices

Daily.dev: A Global Dev Community Hub

Styled Components Form Example: A Guide

Community for Developers: Remote Work Integration

Go to JavaScript: Understanding Syntax Differences

Programmer Community: Continuous Learning

Adding the daily.dev DevCard to your GitHub profile

2023 is finally over, let’s wrap it up!

Under the Hood: daily.dev weekly digest

Exploring the Archipelago Architecture

Moving back to React

Scaling a side project: The story of daily.dev

Source Spotlight by daily.dev: Product Hunt 💡

Giveaway Campaign terms and conditions

daily.dev raised an $11M seed round 🎉

The Companion Widget

Getting Started With the Companion Widget

Building a news app using RedwoodJS

How to start with RedwoodJS - The full guide

RedwoodJS and PostgreSQL

Next.js is turning 5. Join the celebration!

Building an image searching app using Alpine and Tailwind CSS

Building a Banking admin app using Blitzjs

Getting started with Blitz.js | Complete guide with examples

How to use Prisma in Blitzjs

The Importance of Developer Velocity and Engineering Processes

Error logging with Sentry on Fastify

Using Vue.js DevTools for Better DX

Five Leadership Lessons I Learned From Microsoft, Netflix, Stack Overflow, GitLab, & Equinix

Building A Registration Form With Reactive Validation Using Alpine.js and Tailwind CSS