Top 7 Featured DEV Posts from the Past Week

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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.

Time to Give Up on Twitter?

You know it already, it's all over the news: Elon Musk has bought Twitter for 44 billion dollars. @jmfayard asks, is it time to give up on Twitter?

Twitter - My Advice is To Give Up

Jean-Michel (agent double) ・ Oct 28 '22

#healthydebate #mentalhealth

8 Tips for Clean JS Code

JavaScript is an amazing programming language that has been around for decades, but even experts struggle with writing clean code. Here are eight tips on clean code in JS from @alexomeyer.

8 must-know tips for writing clean code with Javascript

Alex Omeyer ・ Oct 27 '22

#javascript #refactorit #webdev #beginners

Passing Markdown Components to Preact in Astro

Trying to pass Markdown to non-Astro components and having no luck? @cassidoo has got your back with this helpful post.

Passing Markdown components to React or Preact in Astro

Cassidy Williams ・ Oct 26 '22

#astro #preact #react #markdown

I Built My own Tweet Scheduler

@dineshs91 wanted a simple scheduler to post tweets from their Notion database to Twitter without paying $10 a month for it. Read on to see how they made it happen!

I built my own Tweet scheduler which costs less than 1$ per month

Dinesh S ・ Oct 29 '22

#twitter #javascript #webdev

Unit testing like a Hacker🧪

Writing unit tests and keeping them maintained was not an easy concept to grasp at first, but it is one of the crucial skills @batunpc learned as a junior developer.

Unit testing like a Hacker🧪

Batuhan Ipci ・ Oct 29 '22

#opensource #testing #beginners #tutorial

Divtober 2022

October is gone. And with it, divtober is over too... @alvaromontoro shares a collection of CSS art that he created for the 2022 edition.

My Divtober 2022 Drawings

Alvaro Montoro ・ Oct 31 '22

#css #webdev #showdev #art

Customizing Grammarly to the Tune of Taylor Swift

@lauren_schaefer walks us through how to customize the theme of the Grammarly Text Editor Plugin in this fun and helpful tutorial. With Taylor Swift as our guiding muse, Lauren crafts several different themes based on the pop star's discography.

How I Customized the Grammarly Text Editor Plugin’s Theme for Each Taylor Swift Album

Lauren Schaefer for Grammarly for Developers ・ Oct 27 '22

#grammarlyfordevelopers #css #taylorswift #grammarly

That's it for our weekly Top 7 for this Tuesday! Keep an eye on dev.to this week for daily content and discussions...and be sure to keep an eye on this series in the future. You might just be in it!