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Some JavaScript Leaders You May Want to Follow on DEV

Ben Halpern on July 29, 2019

Our community is wonderful in that anyone's voice can rise and help someone with a coding problem. We've elevated a lot of developers right here on...
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Nans Dumortier • Edited

I think you can add

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who has a good social media presence and who gives great talks (mostly about react hooks at the moment if I'm not mistaken)

(EDIT: he has some other great achievements with redux and stuff, but I wouldn't be able to list them all 😅)

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Stefan Dorresteijn

Dan's React Hooks introduction talk is legendary

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tiff

I've watched that talk several times. Probably won't stop

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Nans Dumortier

Yup, I totally agree 😄

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Ben Halpern

@richharris @compuives @kylemathews @devdevcharlie @kentcdodds @maxlynch @ryanflorence @dan_abramov @benlesh @john_papa @bnb

To the folks mentioned so far in the post and comments: Keep letting us know how we can adjust the mechanics of our platform to best serve the JavaScript community, and always feel free to weigh in on our general direction and open source initiatives.

e.g.

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Massimo Artizzu

I'd like to add these to the list:

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And I'm sure I've missed many more 😄

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Anton Korzunov

Always the same faces around 😩

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Ben Sinclair

Yeah, for me it's more about finding people who are interesting for reasons other than "is popular elsewhere".

But the Venn diagram of those people and people who are interesing here does have a decent overlap.

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Thanks for the list Ben! Followed a few :)

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Jerome Hardaway

Cold game homie.

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KristijanFištrek

Amazing! ❤️

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Jonathan Irvin

Done. :)

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Robin Aspman

Thanks for the list Ben! Followed some :D

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Billal BEGUERADJ

What about me ? :)

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Indra Susila • Edited

hey don't skip Dan Abramov. it's a Joke!

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Yazan Al Monshed • Edited

Thanks for all this list.. Let following all

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Jacob Evans

Cool followed them all!