The 7 Most Popular DEV Posts from the Past Week

Every Tuesday, we round up the previous week's top posts based on traffic, engagement, and a hint of editorial curation. The typical week starts on Monday and ends on Sunday, but don't worry, we take into account posts that are published later in the week.

Lets make autocomplete more a11y-friendly

Autocomplete is awesome, but it comes with a small but important issue. @savvasstephnds walks us through how to fix it.

The problem with autocomplete and how to fix it

Savvas Stephanides Jan 13 3 min read

#a11y #html #javascript #webdev

A transparent look at coding bootcamp, DevRel, & more!

@lauracharveys reflection on how they landed a DevRel (developer relations) job, nitty-gritty and all, is so informative.

How I went from newbie to dream role in 225 days...

lauracharvey Jan 15 11 min read

#career #codenewbie #beginners #webdev

Avoid an identity crisis by understanding authentication and authorization

@charlottebrf_99 gave a talk at a Node Girls and Women of Security
meetup to share a few things they have learned about authentication and authorization. This post sums it up!

Authentication and Authorisation 101

Charlotte Fereday Jan 16 5 min read

#javascript #beginners #security

The importance of webpack cannot be understated

@kalashin1 explains how to use webpack to bundle your code, manage your assets, automate easy processes and optimize your code. Lets do it!

Mastering Webpack

Kinanee Samson Jan 12 8 min read

#javascript #webdev #webpack

"Books are life's cheat codes"

Books that examine ways of living, how we go about our daily lives, approach productivity, and interact with others have been overall much more impactful for me both in my working life as well as my personal life says @jameesy. Books are magic

The Five Books that Changed my Life as a Software Engineer

Jamees Bedford Jan 15 7 min read

#books #devjournal #career

REST assured

@pragativerma18 provides some community recommended best practices to follow while designing and developing RESTful APIs for consistent, error-free, and easy to use APIs.

RESTful API Design: Best Practices

Pragati Verma Jan 14 4 min read

#webdev #beginners #devops #django

Under the Linux hood

From flags to file permissions with @rudrakshi99.

Linux Basics

Rudrakshi Jan 12 4 min read

#linux #commandline #terminal #crio

That's it for our weekly wrap up! Keep an eye on dev.to this week for daily content and discussions...and if you miss anything, we'll be sure to recap it next Tuesday!