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🔥 What's Hot in Web Development? — Weekly Picks #108

🔥 What's Hot in Web Development? — Weekly Picks #108
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🎉 Happy New Year everyone!

We hope you all had amazing holidays and excited to get back to work. At Daily, we are super pumped for 2020 and working on amazing things to share with you all.

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We wrote a detailed year in review 2019 to share all the amazing moments of last year. If you haven't read it yet, go check it out. It lists all the milestones we were able to achieve in 2019, and what people liked about Daily.

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Now, let's jump to the weekly picks of the last week of 2019.

1️⃣ What Every Developers & Programmers Need to Read in 2020

🔥 The Quick Code publication at Medium shared a great list of their top posts from 2019. The list contains a diverse set of articles from different categories. Irrespective of your field of development, you can get something to learn from this list.

What Every Developers & Programmers Need to Read in 2020 →

2️⃣ 11 Must-Know FrontEnd Trends for 2020

🎨 Another great publication at Medium Bits and Pieces shared the prominent trends of 2019 in frontend. The article explains different topics in detail with helpful diagrams and useful resources. If you are a frontend developer, I would definitely recommend reading this piece.

11 Must-Know FrontEnd Trends for 2020 →

3️⃣ 7 New and Exciting TypeScript Features

Typescript is one of the most powerful ways of doing JavaScript. This article explains the exciting new features of TypeScript 3.6+ with explanations and code snippets. 👨‍💻

7 New and Exciting TypeScript Features →

4️⃣ Jaime's Guide to Tmux: The Most Awesome Tool You Didn't know you needed

Jaime — a frontend developer at Google — wrote about an incredible tool Tmux. I personally didn't know about this tool before. It's a powerful terminal multiplexer. Jaime wrote in detail about getting started with it. If you are a power terminal user, it's the time to level up your game. 📟

Jaime's Guide to Tmux: The Most Awesome Tool You Didn't know you needed →

5️⃣ Programming Languages of the Future

💡One of my favorite posts from this week. It contains a list of the language which are getting popular and might be the hot picks in 2020. So, if you are looking to learn a new language, that's a great post to read and pick one.

Programming Languages of the Future →

6️⃣ Learn and understand ES6 Helpers, easily…

👨‍💻 It's one of the very well explained articles related to ES6 Helpers. It contains code-snippets, examples, and explanation diagrams. So, if you're the one who struggles with ES6 helpers, you should definitely check out this post.

Learn and understand ES6 Helpers, easily… →

7️⃣ Essential Terms for a React Developer

A beginner focussed but a very useful list of terms that you should know as a React developer. All terms are explained in a simple way with relevant examples. So, if you want to just revise or want to check your knowledge, feel free to skim through the post. 🧮

Essential Terms for a React Developer →

8️⃣ Setting CSS Styles with JavaScript

🧐 Love vanilla JavaScript? This post illustrates how you can access the CSS of an element using JavaScript and change it. It also explains in detail all the concepts which go behind accomplishing this task. So, if you don't know how to get this done, this post is for you.

Setting CSS Styles with JavaScript →

9️⃣ Can you solve the fastest horse 🐴 algorithm problem?

This is an interesting algorithm problem posted on dev.to. If you are looking for some great problems to practice your analytical skills, you should definitely check out this one.

Can you solve the fastest horse 🐴 algorithm problem? →

🔟 An instructive how-to on writing CSS media queries

A detailed guide on understanding and writing media queries in CSS. If you do responsive designs, you must have encountered media queries. For those who are learning to do responsive designs, you should definitely check this post.

An instructive how-to on writing CSS media queries →

🙌 Wrap Up!

This was all from the previous week. Let's know what you think of the trends this week in the comments below.

We will come back with another list of interesting development posts next week. Till then, peace! ✌️


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