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.

Senior Developers They're Just Like Us!

@kevinhickssw touches on an important facet of being alive: that no matter your experience level, nobody is immune from impostors syndrome not even senior devs.

Even Senior Developers Have Imposter Syndrome

Kevin Hicks Feb 13 7 min read

#career #beginners #mentalhealth

Demystifying front end vs back end

Thanks for this explainer on the differences between front and back end development, @lanrewaju!

Front-End VS Back-End Web Development

Lanre Fagbeyiro Feb 11 5 min read

#webdev #html #css #javascript

A race to the solution

If you've ever gotten stuck on the cant perform a React state update on an unmounted component warning, this thorough guide from @saranshk will be a life-saver.

Avoiding race conditions and memory leaks in React useEffect

saransh kataria Feb 10 4 min read

#react #javascript #beginners #tutorial

The how, when, and why behind refactoring

After refactoring, @notsidney's team now has a more solid foundation to build more features on, they squashed a few tricky bugs, and they came out of it with a guide on how contributors can write new field types. Great job, team Firetable!

We Refactored 10K Lines of Code in Our Open-Source ReactProject

sidney alcantara Feb 9 6 min read

#javascript #react #webdev #showdev

Your AWS study buddy

@scrummastert passed the AWS Certified Developer Associate exam with flying colors (96%!). In this post, they share how they did it so you can be better prepared if you're studying for this certification.

How I passed the AWS Certified Developer - Associate Exam

Tom Milner Feb 14 13 min read

Delivering on promises

"Do you remember stumbling on your first Promise {pending}?" asks @spartakyste "Putting a .then just to see if it will magically work?" If so, this article is for you.

The Promises guide I would have loved as a junior developper

Chandelier Axel Feb 9 8 min read

#javascript #beginners

COVID Crawler

@kaylasween wanted a way to track the moving average of COVID cases per day in their home state, Mississippi. To do it automatically on an ongoing basis, they wrote up a crawler to get all the important data from the states Department of Health website. Nice work!

I wrote a crawler for the first time.

Kayla Sween Feb 12 6 min read

#webdev #node #javascript

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!