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Alpine.js Mar 22, 2021

Alpine.js guide 2026: directives, magic props & use cases

Alpine.js is Vue-like reactivity in ~7kB. This guide covers every directive, magic property, and a real movie-search app you can build along the way.
Weekly Picks Mar 17, 2021

Tailwind CSS Gems, Micro-Frontends, 3 Biggest Failures - Picks #171

This week is all about micro-frontend, Tailwind CSS, the biggest failures and more!
Tailwind CSS Mar 15, 2021

Why I moved from styled-components to Tailwind CSS and what's the future of CSS-in-JS?

Learn from my experience as I share the process of moving from styled-components to Tailwind CSS and why I did it
Career Mar 11, 2021

How TikTok Got Me Into Tech - With Zero Experience

A short story of how I successfully got a job in the tech industry with no technical experience, after following a TikTok’s advice.
Weekly Picks Mar 10, 2021

The Dark Side of Javascript, Guide to Code Refactoring, Lazy Properties Are Good - Picks #170

The Dark Side of Javascript, Guide to Code Refactoring, Flutter 2.0, new TypeScript Handbook, and more...
Backend Mar 9, 2021

A Guide To Writing Clean API Calls Using Axios

Write better and more readable frontends using Axios.
React Mar 5, 2021

Create smoking hot toast notifications in React with React Hot Toast

Smoking hot Notifications for React provides lightweight, customizable and beautiful by default notifications. Learn how to use it quickly with examples.
Webdev Mar 4, 2021

Introduction to Mirage.js: Mocking APIs

Mirage JS is an API mocking library that lets you build, test, and share a complete working JavaScript app without having to rely on any backend services.
Weekly Picks Mar 3, 2021

Meet the HERN Stack, TypeScript 4.2, CSS4, 10 All-time favorite books - Picks #169

The HERN stack, TypeScript 4.2, CSS 4, all-time favorite 10 books, and many more on this week's picks
Mobile Mar 2, 2021

Clone WhatsApp Conversation Screen With Flutter

Learning how to code is so much fun when practicing it on actual use-cases. Learn a tiny bit of Flutter by creating a clone for WhatsApp.
Backend Mar 1, 2021

Creating a capped leaderboard with Redis sorted set, secondary index, and Lua 🥇

Learn how to build a leaderboard using the Redis sorted set, Node.js and Lua
Weekly Picks Feb 24, 2021

Habits That Kill Your Career, Vue.js vs React, Technical Interview Questions - Picks #168

7 Habit That Kills a Developer Career, I'm Not Using JavaScript Anymore, 100 most asked JavaScript Interview Questions and more on this week picks :)
Tools Feb 22, 2021

Meet our 5 days open-source side-project and its tech stack

Team daily.dev is a huge fan of side-projects, and we realized that it'd been a while since our last side-project.
Webdev Feb 19, 2021

Create a Chrome Extension with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript

Learn an easy way to experiment with building a Chrome Extension. You will learn how to build a calculator app for your first browser extension.
Weekly Picks Feb 17, 2021

CSS Hacks, JavaScript Animation Libraries - Picks #167

10 CSS hacks, JavaScript animation libraries, what's new in JavaScript, microservices architecture, and so much! Our weekly picks are here 🚀
Webdev Feb 17, 2021

Transpilers: How They Work and How To Build Your Own JS Transpiler

The post covers how transpilers and provides a way to build your own javascript transpiler.
Career Feb 16, 2021

Top 5 Coding Challenge Websites Ranked by Data

Coding challenges websites ranked by data. That is the approach I chose for this article. I believe it can help you make a smarter choice and save time.
Tools Feb 10, 2021

You can stop looking for googleapis in your site’s analytics

Google has released a new update about its Search Consone Discover feature that would merge all referrer to be just "google.com"
Insights Feb 9, 2021

My Recent Tips For Optimizing Web Performance

If you don't care about web performance, you're missing out. Better performance leads to a better ux, conversion rate, and surprisingly also SEO.
daily.dev Feb 8, 2021

How we did it: upgraded tags system for daily.dev

We decided to create a proprietary auto-tagging system. This time, we wanted the tagging to be based on the post's actual content, regardless of the tags provided in each source's RSS feed.
Backend Feb 4, 2021

How To Build an SMTP Mail Server with Express, Node, and Gmail

Recently I had the opportunity to develop and integrate an SMTP Email Server into a more extensive full-stack application. Today we will reference the code from my solution for this tutorial.
Career Feb 1, 2021

My favorite coding and entrepreneurship books 📚

My most recommended books are laid out here together with my personal notes. They all about engineering, entrepreneurship, and DevRel.
Architecture Jan 27, 2021

Configuring CloudWatch Logs for Identifying Memory Leaks on Windows Workloads in AWS

Recently I needed to identify potential memory leaks in a Windows application running in an AWS environment. CloudWatch metrics were used to be able to store this information over time for business le
Tools Jan 26, 2021

Creating a Killer GitHub Profile README Part 2

In this second article and final issue in this series, I will add the dynamic content injection and will get you familiar with GitHub Action workflows!
Next.js Jan 25, 2021

Preact vs React: A lightweight alternative (Next.js included)

Preact is a 3kB alternative to React. If you care about performance, you should at least consider Preact as an alternative.
Insights Jan 20, 2021

How to Deal with the Stress of Being a Software Developer

As a software developer, you’ve probably experienced stress multiple times and every time seems a little different yet the sensation is the same. A developer’s job is very stressful due to its nature:
Tools Jan 19, 2021

Creating a Killer GitHub Profile README Part 1

README's. You know, those markdown files that get created when you generate a new project or create a GitHub repository. Perhaps you're a developer who updates the README file for each project you wor
AI Jan 14, 2021

Train a Neural Network to Count, with Javascript & Dannjs

Making a neural network yourself is a good way to familiarize yourself with a neural network concept. This is also relatively simple to do. The library we will use, Dannjs, makes it even easier to hav
daily.dev Jan 11, 2021

Why we started The Monthly Dev

We took some inspiration from TED. We thought, what if we can make "TED for developers"? That would be super cool and refreshing! We wanted to bring a monthly series of online events but with a differ
Security Jan 7, 2021

Discover Techniques to Solve Web Security Challenges

This blog will walk you through some of the top web security attacks and will render you with some of the most practical solutions as well.

Developer news, read by people who ship.

Alpine.js guide 2026: directives, magic props & use cases

Tailwind CSS Gems, Micro-Frontends, 3 Biggest Failures - Picks #171

Why I moved from styled-components to Tailwind CSS and what's the future of CSS-in-JS?

How TikTok Got Me Into Tech - With Zero Experience

The Dark Side of Javascript, Guide to Code Refactoring, Lazy Properties Are Good - Picks #170

A Guide To Writing Clean API Calls Using Axios

Create smoking hot toast notifications in React with React Hot Toast

Introduction to Mirage.js: Mocking APIs

Meet the HERN Stack, TypeScript 4.2, CSS4, 10 All-time favorite books - Picks #169

Clone WhatsApp Conversation Screen With Flutter

Creating a capped leaderboard with Redis sorted set, secondary index, and Lua 🥇

Habits That Kill Your Career, Vue.js vs React, Technical Interview Questions - Picks #168

Meet our 5 days open-source side-project and its tech stack

Create a Chrome Extension with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript

CSS Hacks, JavaScript Animation Libraries - Picks #167

Transpilers: How They Work and How To Build Your Own JS Transpiler

Top 5 Coding Challenge Websites Ranked by Data

You can stop looking for googleapis in your site’s analytics

My Recent Tips For Optimizing Web Performance

How we did it: upgraded tags system for daily.dev

How To Build an SMTP Mail Server with Express, Node, and Gmail

My favorite coding and entrepreneurship books 📚

Configuring CloudWatch Logs for Identifying Memory Leaks on Windows Workloads in AWS

Creating a Killer GitHub Profile README Part 2

Preact vs React: A lightweight alternative (Next.js included)

How to Deal with the Stress of Being a Software Developer

Creating a Killer GitHub Profile README Part 1

Train a Neural Network to Count, with Javascript & Dannjs

Why we started The Monthly Dev

Discover Techniques to Solve Web Security Challenges