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Top 7 Featured 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 published later in the week.

Marketing for Developers: The Unconventional Guide

Developers often excel at building products but sometimes neglect marketing them effectively. Let's change that with these tips from @inovak!

Building Your Own VPN for Free

VPN companies have advertisements everywhere, there’s a reason they sponsor most tech YouTubers. But you don’t need to buy an expensive plan to use a VPN. Build your own with @baptistsec!

Creating a More Than Minor Side-Project: From Planning To Release

It’s hard to get anything more than a pet project off the ground. In this post, @llxd shares their thought process in doing just that!

How To Update a Few Years Old Outdated Project in Node and React

Navigating old Node.js dependencies can be confusing. Here’s @meatboy’s experience decoding this challenge in a few-year-old repository using a custom tool—and how you can benefit from it.

Building a Distributed Workflow Engine From Scratch

At their core, workflow engines are responsible for executing a series of tasks over a cluster of machines as efficiently as possible. Read on to explore the mysteries and challenges that come with creating such an engine with @acoh3n.

Beyond Googling the Error Message

Here, @ingosteinke shares some helpful tips for finding the info you need while searching on the web. If you don't find any helpful results on Google or Ecosia, try rephrasing your questions, question your assumptions, and try to isolate relevant aspects.

Complete Guide to JavaScript Promises, Async/Await and Promise Methods

In this tutorial from @myogeshchavan97, you will learn everything you need to know about using promises and async/await in JavaScript.

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!

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Nick Taylor

Great work everyone!

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Bobby Iliev

Well done everyone!

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Lucas Lima do Nascimento

OMG! So glad to see my name on the list!

Thanks for the aknowledgment! Great work everyone 👍

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Ivan Novak

Woah! Cool! Thanks for the recognition. Honored to be among these other wonderful posts and amazing authors!

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ABIDULLAH786

one day my post will also feature in the list. IA

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Yogesh Chavan

Glad to be on the list. Thank you 🙏