The 7 Most Popular DEV Posts from the Past Week

#top7 #bestofdev

Every Monday 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. ❤️

1. CSS-free

An overview of W3.CSS, a CSS framework that heavily leverages class attributes. Corina stumbled across this framework when they were looking or an effortless way to add some styling to a few web pages.

Style beautiful web pages without writing any CSS. Using W3.CSS.

Corina Pip ・ Dec 8 '18

#css #w3css #html #style

2. Sean -> Ricky -> Pete -> Malcom -> Ari

A primer on linked lists through the lens of Ariana Grande's latest hit, "thank u, next." Enjoy!

thank u, next: an introduction to linked lists

Ali Spittel ・ Dec 5 '18

#datastructures #beginners #programming #javascript

3. Do you need another reason?

Quincy takes us on a walk through the FCC repo from open PR -> logged in user. In this post, we also learn the benefits of JAMstack.

How freeCodeCamp.org uses the JAMstack + a single API server to help millions of people learn to code every month

Quincy Larson ・ Dec 5 '18

#webdev #javascript #opensource #devops

4. What if.

Inspired by a HackerNews article, Nick shares why they once avoided using Bash aliases, and why that practice is now in the past.

Optimize Your Programming Decisions for the 95%, Not the 5%

Nick Janetakis ・ Dec 5 '18

#beginners #devops #productivity #webdev

5. Uncle Bob Hours

Part of Uncle Bob's vision is that a developer should spend 15-20 hours a week learning. John compares software development to other high maintenance and high responsibility jobs (i.e. medical field) and points out why this advice might be dangerous.

Keep learning, should you invest your own time?

John Hotterbeekx ・ Dec 3 '18

#productivity #career #programming #learning

6. Unit tests, integration tests, smoke tests, regression tests...

A quick roundup and explanation of the different ways you can test.

Different types of testing explained

jess unrein ・ Dec 6 '18

#testing #beginners #explainlikeimfive

7. Ultimate Flexibility

Theodore shares how they went from ski bum to....well, still a ski bum, but also a software developer. In this post, they share rules to follow if you want flexibility. For Theodore, this means the privilege to ski everyday.

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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 Monday!