--- title: Best DEV posts — August 2022 | daily.dev description: The most upvoted DEV posts from August 2022, curated by the daily.dev community. canonical: https://daily.dev/sources/devto/best-of/2022/08 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:url: https://daily.dev/sources/devto/best-of/2022/08 og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Best DEV posts — August 2022 | daily.dev og:description: The most upvoted DEV posts from August 2022, 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 — August 2022 1. 1 [](https://daily.dev/posts/bye-bye-heroku-d8oqtwlmf "Bye Bye Heroku") Article DEV · 4y Bye Bye Heroku Heroku is a cloud programming platform designed to help build and deploy online applications. Founded in 2007, it is now one of the largest PaaS platforms in existence. Starting November 28, 2022, we plan to stop offering free product plans and start shutting down free dynos and data services. 285 46 2. 2 [](https://daily.dev/posts/free-alternatives-to-heroku-ts-bgrotu "Free Alternatives to Heroku") Article DEV · 4y Free Alternatives to Heroku Heroku has brought an end to free dynos and Postgres databases. Other free platforms can be used to host Django (Python) powered web applications for free. Fly and Render seems to offer Postgres on a free plan. Railway doesn't have a free tier, but basic usage is quite cheap. 285 13 3. 3 [](https://daily.dev/posts/my-neovim-setup-for-react-typescript-tailwind-css-etc-iiojz8jop "My Neovim setup for React, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, etc") Article DEV · 4y My Neovim setup for React, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, etc Neovim is a cross-platform Markdown note-taking app. It's built with Electron for desktop and React Native for mobile platforms. The config files are now written in Lua. 114 5 4. 4 [](https://daily.dev/posts/jwt-json-web-token--szcruqp7p "JWT (JSON Web Token)") Article DEV · 4y JWT (JSON Web Token) A JWT is used for authorisation and authorisation to make sure that the user that sends a request to your server is the same user that logged in during the authentication process. In JWT instead of cookies, it uses a JWT web token which is what it stands for. The server checks its memory that what the user app is for. 68 1 [See all DEV archives](/sources/devto/best-of) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"CollectionPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/sources/devto/best-of/2022/08#page","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/devto/best-of/2022/08","name":"Best DEV Posts — August 2022","description":"The most upvoted DEV posts from August 2022, curated by the daily.dev community.","isPartOf":{"@type":"WebSite","url":"https://daily.dev"}},{"@type":"ItemList","@id":"https://daily.dev/sources/devto/best-of/2022/08#items","numberOfItems":4,"itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"url":"https://daily.dev/posts/bye-bye-heroku-d8oqtwlmf","name":"Bye Bye Heroku"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"url":"https://daily.dev/posts/free-alternatives-to-heroku-ts-bgrotu","name":"Free Alternatives to Heroku"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"url":"https://daily.dev/posts/my-neovim-setup-for-react-typescript-tailwind-css-etc-iiojz8jop","name":"My Neovim setup for React, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, etc"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":4,"url":"https://daily.dev/posts/jwt-json-web-token--szcruqp7p","name":"JWT (JSON Web Token)"}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Sources","item":"https://daily.dev/sources"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"DEV","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/devto"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":4,"name":"Best of","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/devto/best-of"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":5,"name":"August 2022"}]}]} ```