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๐Ÿ”ฅ What's Hot in Web Development? โ€” Weekly Picks #147

๐Ÿ”ฅ What's Hot in Web Development? โ€” Weekly Picks #147
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๐ŸŒŸ This week is all about frontend development! React news, CSS selectors cheatsheet, visx by Airbnb, and more.
As always, all posts were ranked by daily.dev community. Shout out to all the authors. ๐Ÿ‘

So, let's get it started.

๐Ÿคฉ 24 Coolest VSCode Extensions That Will Rock Your World ๐Ÿ› 

๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป I guess devs love these VSCode Extensions lists because they're featured so many times. Some of the extensions are very popular but you might still find a relevant extension for your VSCode setup.

Dark Mode with only 1 CSS PROPERTY

๐ŸŽจ The core concept is great but the implementation is controversial. Still, I recommend reading this article. It's super short.

The end of jQuery!

๐Ÿ”š jQuery is no longer the cool kid, it had its time of glory a few years back. The author claims that it's even a game over since Bootstrap 5 is not using jQuery and according to a StackOverflow survey it's the 3rd most dreaded language (really language!?).

The 30 CSS Selectors You Must Memorize

๐Ÿ† A super comprehensive CSS selectors cheatsheet. At least skim through, if you don't want to read it all.

SOLID: Software Design Principles. Be a better developer

๐Ÿงฑ The SOLID principles are some of the first you learn as a programmer. If you're not familiar with them, read this guide.

One Way To Stay Up To Date As Developer

๐Ÿ†™ Catalin shares his way to keep a hang of everything that happens in the tech sector.

My Top 5 APIs For New Developers

โœจ Prebuilt APIs are always helpful when you want to demo a frontend app without thinking about the data. I used some of them in articles that I wrote. My favorite is PokรฉAPI.

I made my website 28ms faster with content-visibility ๐Ÿค“

๐ŸŽ Chris showcases his recent discovery, the almighty content-visibility attribute.

Introducing visx from Airbnb

๐Ÿ“ˆ Airbnb expands its arsenal of open source projects with a new data visualization library. It's for React developers who want some good looking graphs on their website.

Introducing the New JSX Transform

๐Ÿฅณ The new JSX Transform is incredible! No need to import React for using JSX as we used to do. More details below

๐Ÿ™Œ Wrap Up!

That was all for this week. We will come back with another list of interesting development posts next week.


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