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The 7 Most Popular DEV Posts from the Past Week

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. All About Rendering

Franck shares an overview of four web rendering solutions, along with a list of benefits and drawbacks for each solution.

2. Fav Coding Activity?

Refactoring! Bryce shares six refactoring patterns and provides examples of each.

3. Blowfish!

Sylvia helps us understand how BCrypt works. You'll learn about some history, hash algorithms, salts, and more.

4. Hypertext Markup Language

("what does HTML stand for is a fun trivia question", right?)

For anyone interested in learning HTML, this post shares an overview of important topics to cover.

5. 200x, 300x, 400x...

Lucas takes us on a deep dive about HTTP status codes. In this post, we'll define status codes and learn when it's appropriate to use each code.

6. Open Source & Intuitive

Bushra shares an overview and tutorial of Cypress, a popular testing framework.

7. Big Rewards

Miranda highly recommends the book, "Cracking The Coding Interview". Here, they share seven steps to help you gain the confidence to ace your next interview.

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!

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