--- title: Best DEV posts — September 2024 | daily.dev description: The most upvoted DEV posts from September 2024, curated by the daily.dev community. canonical: https://daily.dev/sources/devto/best-of/2024/09 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:url: https://daily.dev/sources/devto/best-of/2024/09 og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Best DEV posts — September 2024 | daily.dev og:description: The most upvoted DEV posts from September 2024, 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 — September 2024 1. 1 [](https://daily.dev/posts/react-mindset-how-new-react-developers-should-think-vomhnlsv4 "React Mindset: How New React Developers Should Think") Article DEV · 2y React Mindset: How New React Developers Should Think React, a prominent JavaScript library for building user interfaces, enhances front-end development through reusable components and efficient UI management. New developers should adopt key principles such as thinking in components, embracing declarative programming, understanding state and props, prioritizing composition over inheritance, managing unidirectional data flow, mastering JSX, using hooks, and testing/debugging early to create modular, scalable, and maintainable applications. 2.8K 100 2. 2 [](https://daily.dev/posts/how-developers-destroy-brain-health-ohpov2ai7 "How Developers Destroy Brain Health") Article DEV · 2y How Developers Destroy Brain Health Software developers often undermine their brain health with habits like marathon coding sessions, lack of physical exercise, neglecting mental stimulation, and social isolation. These habits can lead to cognitive decline, mental burnout, and emotional depletion. Incorporating regular breaks, physical activity, continuous learning, and social interactions can greatly improve cognitive function and overall well-being. 1.5K 118 3. 3 [](https://daily.dev/posts/get-screen-size-in-pure-css-vsd3g1wbd "Get Screen Size in Pure CSS") Article DEV · 2y Get Screen Size in Pure CSS Learn how to use pure CSS to get screen size measurements, define custom properties, and perform mathematical operations on those properties. This method updates in real-time without JavaScript, utilizing new CSS features like @property, atan2, and tan functions. 809 29 4. 4 [](https://daily.dev/posts/why-react-won-the-front-end-race-reu063ame "Why React Won the Front-End Race") Article DEV · 2y Why React Won the Front-End Race React has won the front-end race due to its powerful backing by Meta, flexibility as a library rather than a framework, component-based architecture with JSX, the impressive Virtual DOM, multiple state management options, and the introduction of hooks. Its vast ecosystem and the capabilities of React Native further solidify its dominance, making it a go-to tool for modern web development despite its inherent complexities. 504 58 5. 5 [](https://daily.dev/posts/mastering-javascript-arrays-techniques-best-practices-and-advanced-uses-5ake04lgr "Mastering JavaScript Arrays: Techniques, Best Practices, and Advanced Uses") Article DEV · 2y Mastering JavaScript Arrays: Techniques, Best Practices, and Advanced Uses Arrays in JavaScript are versatile structures used to organize, access, and manipulate collections of data efficiently. They support dynamic resizing, various types of data, and come with built-in methods for common tasks like addition, deletion, and iteration. Javascript arrays can be created using different syntaxes, including literal notation and the new keyword, and have numerous methods for transforming and querying data. 417 7 6. 6 [](https://daily.dev/posts/how-js-works-behind-the-scenes--l8azzlulo "How JS works behind the scenes?") Article DEV · 2y How JS works behind the scenes? JavaScript operates in a single-threaded environment, executing code within Global or Functional Execution Contexts. The Global Execution Context is created when a code file is loaded, and it sets up the global object and variables. Each function invocation creates a Functional Execution Context. JavaScript has two execution context phases: memory allocation and execution. The Call Stack manages these contexts using a Last-In-First-Out (LIFO) approach, ensuring functions are executed sequentially. Despite being single-threaded, JavaScript can perform asynchronous operations, to be discussed in a subsequent post. 374 7 7. 7 [](https://daily.dev/posts/100-react-dashboard-components-to-use-in-2024-hyb8lueab "100+ React Dashboard Components to Use in 2024") Article DEV · 2y 100+ React Dashboard Components to Use in 2024 TailGrids is a comprehensive toolkit designed to help developers effortlessly build modern, user-friendly, and powerful React-based admin dashboards. It includes over 100 essential components such as charts, calendars, and maps, all optimized for performance and scalability with Tailwind CSS. The toolkit also offers four pre-built admin templates to accelerate development. 293 10 8. 8 [](https://daily.dev/posts/100-react-e-commerce-components-for-modern-stores-iof4ejm43 "100+ React E-Commerce Components for Modern Stores") Article DEV · 2y 100+ React E-Commerce Components for Modern Stores TailGrids offers over 100 eCommerce UI components specifically designed for React and Tailwind CSS, enabling developers to create scalable, high-performance, and user-friendly online stores with ease. These components cover every aspect of an eCommerce platform, from checkout flows to product carousels, and are fully customizable and responsive across all devices. Additionally, TailGrids provides three pre-built eCommerce templates to kickstart your development. 257 8 9. 9 [](https://daily.dev/posts/7-old-school-practices-in-html-should-be-avoided-c1rd3fshh "7 Old-School Practices in HTML Should Be Avoided") Article DEV · 2y 7 Old-School Practices in HTML Should Be Avoided Avoid using outdated HTML practices like specifying type attributes for