--- title: Best Medium posts — October 2021 | daily.dev description: The most upvoted Medium posts from October 2021, curated by the daily.dev community. canonical: https://daily.dev/sources/medium_js/best-of/2021/10 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:url: https://daily.dev/sources/medium_js/best-of/2021/10 og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Best Medium posts — October 2021 | daily.dev og:description: The most upvoted Medium posts from October 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 Medium — October 2021 1. 1 [](https://daily.dev/posts/remaking-wordpress-in-js-stack-hello-to-a-new-cms-for-next-js-websites--zythwpceq "Remaking WordPress in JS stack. Hello to a new CMS for Next.js websites.") Article Medium · 5y Remaking WordPress in JS stack. Hello to a new CMS for Next.js websites. Cromwell CMS is a free and open-source CMS for Next.js websites. It is a set of packages and services that can be installed and launched independently. It inherits the advantages of microservice architecture, and it’s much easier to update the CMS simply via running one node command. 122 12 2. 2 [](https://daily.dev/posts/5-min-to-understand-event-loop-in-javascript-vrtcbl3wk "5 min To Understand Event Loop in Javascript") Article Medium · 5y 5 min To Understand Event Loop in Javascript The event loop is a very important and core concept in javascript. 90% of javascript developers are not clear with it even though they have a very good amount of working experience. In this blog, I will try my best to explain the event loop in a very simplified way. We cover the following key points. How it supports multiple requests with the help of a Call Stack, Web API and Event Queue. 91 2 3. 3 [](https://daily.dev/posts/the-javascript-nobody-told-you-about-6scrxxyh0 "The JavaScript Nobody Told You About") Article Medium · 5y The JavaScript Nobody Told You About The JavaScript Nobody Told You About Shivam Bhasin. The language that I feared and ran away from in the past 4 years was now in front of me. The reason I was afraid of JavaScript is mostly because of why you’re here too. It’s not easy to understand why it works the way it works. 64 3 4. 4 [](https://daily.dev/posts/don-t-use-electron-until-you-ve-read-this-article--xtjljrtj "Don’t Use Electron Until You’ve Read This Article") Article Medium · 5y Don’t Use Electron Until You’ve Read This Article Electron is a framework that allows developers to create native desktop applications for Windows, Mac, and Linux from a single codebase. The biggest problem with Electron applications is security. It is too easy to create a highly insecure Electron application. Electron team has worked to address this problem, changing setting defaults to more secure options in recent releases. 61 3 5. 5 [](https://daily.dev/posts/create-high-performance-javascript-apis-using-rust-lpgbrpcio "Create High-Performance JavaScript APIs using Rust") Article Medium · 5y Create High-Performance JavaScript APIs using Rust WasmEdge brings together Rust’s performance and JavaScript's ease of use. The embed\_js demo showcases several different examples of how to embed JavaScript inside Rust. The interpreter runs inside WasmEdge, and can execute JavaScript code, which calls API functions, from CLI or the network. 45 6. 6 [](https://daily.dev/posts/do-you-know-the-5-types-of-states-in-react--tk4behkf0 "Do You Know the 5 Types of States in React?") Article Medium · 5y Do You Know the 5 Types of States in React? Do You Know the 5 Types of States in React? The helping guide to know your states in React better. Vithushan Jey explains the types of states such as Logical, Server, Form, Navigation, and Browser. Also, it will help 25.12% of the developers who would like to learn React. 33 7. 7 [](https://daily.dev/posts/the-best-of-programming-on-medium-september-2021---9wqr-ao9 "The Best of Programming on Medium (September 2021)") Article Medium · 5y The Best of Programming on Medium (September 2021) The Best of Programming on Medium (September 2021) Our favorite stories that were published last month. By the way, Facebook had a hangover yesterday. In case you want to know the cause of the glitch, here’s a detailed explanation of their global outage. 21 1 8. 8 [](https://daily.dev/posts/write-better-javascript-function-composition-with-pipe-and-compose-ixy6tjuyn "Write better JavaScript, function composition with pipe and compose") Article Medium · 5y Write better JavaScript, function composition with pipe and compose Function composition is a way of chaining multiple functions together to create a new function. It’s not hard to introduce it even in a well-established codebase. 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