--- title: Best Hacker Noon posts — January 2021 | daily.dev description: The most upvoted Hacker Noon posts from January 2021, curated by the daily.dev community. canonical: https://daily.dev/sources/hackernoon/best-of/2021/01 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:url: https://daily.dev/sources/hackernoon/best-of/2021/01 og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Best Hacker Noon posts — January 2021 | daily.dev og:description: The most upvoted Hacker Noon posts from January 2021, 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 Hacker Noon — January 2021 1. 1 [](https://daily.dev/posts/the-ten-most-starred-github-repositories-xnd7khwpx "The Ten Most Starred Github Repositories") Article Hacker Noon · 6y The Ten Most Starred Github Repositories Shreya Purohit has curated a curated list of the most helpful repos ever. Public API contains a list of free APIs which can be used for building projects and apps. Coding Interview University is a repository for learners who want to be a software engineer. 77 5 2. 2 [](https://daily.dev/posts/my-guide-to-the-8-best-dev-tools-in-2021-t-xgone2j "My Guide to the 8 Best Dev Tools in 2021") Article Hacker Noon · 6y My Guide to the 8 Best Dev Tools in 2021 My Guide to the 8 Best Dev Tools in 2021\. Franz Rodenacker's list includes VSCode, Postman, Linx, Apache and Git. The list is worth $1,000,000 and is up for grabs. Read the rest of the article at: http://www.franzro.com/2021-dev-tools-for-2021. 26 1 3. 3 [](https://daily.dev/posts/designing-a-url-shortener-in-deno-s4n7iurrq "Designing a URL Shortener in Deno") Article Hacker Noon · 6y Designing a URL Shortener in Deno Deno is the new JavaScript and TypeScript runtime written in Rust. It offers tight security, TypeScript support out-of-the-box, a single executable to run it. We'll be using one of these libraries, Oak, to build a REST API-based server in Deno. Building a URL shortener we'll use for mapping URLs with their final endpoints. 14 [See all Hacker Noon archives](/sources/hackernoon/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/hackernoon/best-of/2021/01#page","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/hackernoon/best-of/2021/01","name":"Best Hacker Noon Posts — January 2021","description":"The most upvoted Hacker Noon posts from January 2021, curated by the daily.dev community.","isPartOf":{"@type":"WebSite","url":"https://daily.dev"}},{"@type":"ItemList","@id":"https://daily.dev/sources/hackernoon/best-of/2021/01#items","numberOfItems":3,"itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"url":"https://daily.dev/posts/the-ten-most-starred-github-repositories-xnd7khwpx","name":"The Ten Most Starred Github Repositories"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"url":"https://daily.dev/posts/my-guide-to-the-8-best-dev-tools-in-2021-t-xgone2j","name":"My Guide to the 8 Best Dev Tools in 2021"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"url":"https://daily.dev/posts/designing-a-url-shortener-in-deno-s4n7iurrq","name":"Designing a URL Shortener in Deno"}]},{"@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":"Hacker Noon","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/hackernoon"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":4,"name":"Best of","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/hackernoon/best-of"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":5,"name":"January 2021"}]}]} ```