--- title: Best DEV posts — December 2020 | daily.dev description: The most upvoted DEV posts from December 2020, curated by the daily.dev community. canonical: https://daily.dev/sources/devto/best-of/2020/12 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:url: https://daily.dev/sources/devto/best-of/2020/12 og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Best DEV posts — December 2020 | daily.dev og:description: The most upvoted DEV posts from December 2020, curated by the daily.dev community. og:image: https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--VAY5ToZt--/f_auto/v1724209435/public/daily.dev%20-%20open%20graph --- # Best of DEV — December 2020 1. 1 [](https://daily.dev/posts/ui-design-trend-of-2021-grcyto33h "UI Design Trend of 2021") Article DEV · 6y UI Design Trend of 2021 Glassmorphism is possibly the new UI Design Trend of 2021, which in my opinion has a lot of potential. In todays tutorial we're going to briefly go over what glassmorphism was, and create a design using it in Figma. I will recommend to use Adobe Xd, if you're interested in learning how to achieve this effect. 35 2. 2 [](https://daily.dev/posts/wait-docker-is-deprecated-in-kubernetes-now-what-do-i-do--nhqlpzdsq "Wait, Docker is deprecated in Kubernetes now? What do I do?") Article DEV · 6y Wait, Docker is deprecated in Kubernetes now? What do I do? Kubernetes is an infra orchestration tool that groups up many different compute resources such as virtual/physical machines. In this architecture, Docker, or a container runtime, is used only to run those applications in an actual host by being scheduled by Kubernetes control plane. 20 3. 3 [](https://daily.dev/posts/my-vs-code-setup-pjt66w-lb "My VS Code Setup") Article DEV · 6y My VS Code Setup VS Code is one of the best editors out there in the market. It has some really amazing features, the primary one being, allowing developers to install extensions. As a dark theme lover, I have plenty of them installed in my editor and I shall be sharing them with you!! 18 3 4. 4 [](https://daily.dev/posts/cyberpunk-2077-inspired-menu-in-css-only-video-tutorial--b3kecmdka "Cyberpunk 2077 Inspired Menu in CSS only! Video Tutorial!") Article DEV · 6y Cyberpunk 2077 Inspired Menu in CSS only! Video Tutorial! I have created a video where you can learn how to create a menu like in cyberpunk. If you just want to see the code it is here:https://github.com/lampewebdev/cyberpunk-menu. Say Hello! Instagram | Twitter | LinkedIn | Medium | Twitch | YouTube. 17 2 5. 5 [](https://daily.dev/posts/micro-frontends-patterns-jamstack-v3xcntlgh "Micro Frontends Patterns: JAMstack") Article DEV · 6y Micro Frontends Patterns: JAMstack JAMstack is an architecture that combines JavaScript, APIs, and Markup. It eliminates the need to make a round trip to the server side for each screen transition. SSG provides flexible markup generation at build time. SPA can be said to be an indispensable part of JAMstack. Next.js has a feature called Incremental Static Regeneration. 16 2 6. 6 [](https://daily.dev/posts/my-web-development-study-plan-for-2021-jwdxjqb-i "My Web Development Study Plan For 2021") Article DEV · 6y My Web Development Study Plan For 2021 As 2020 is coming to an end, I have been reflecting on how much I have learned this year. The things I want to learn generally fall into the following categories:Fundamentals and getting better at things I already know and use. Getting more familiar with backend tools like Docker and Docker Compose. 12 1 7. 7 [](https://daily.dev/posts/my-mac-setup-for-work--h8o3rf9lsz "My Mac setup for work 👩‍💻") Article DEV · 6y My Mac setup for work 👩‍💻 This weekend I'm going to set up a new Macbook Pro 13' for work. Here are my current preferences for setting up a MacBook Pro. I really hope this could help speed up your process or gave you some ideas for the next macOS setup. I am always looking for ways to improve my efficiency, so if you use any tool that you find useful, feel free to comment. 12 1 8. 8 [](https://daily.dev/posts/what-is-json-and-why-do-you-need-it--oy8b-cvgq "What is JSON? And why do you need it?") Article DEV · 6y What is JSON? And why do you need it? JSON is a data interchanging format that uses human-readable text to transmit data objects. It’s the most widespread format for data serialization. It can be used as a configuration or temporary data storing file also for any application. 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