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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 that are published later in the week.

7 DEVs Writing Quality Content About Your #Career

@jmfayard recently shouted out 7 inspiring #career writers that you definitely need to check out. This kind of list could never really be complete, so add your favorite DEV writers in the comments of this amazing post!

Top 20 Must-Know Tips for Web Accessibility

This awesome post by @ismaestro aims to provide you with essential principles, practical advice, and examples for creating accessible websites. You’ll learn to create clear descriptions for images, explore the world of navigating using only the keyboard, and much more, so that everyone can browse your site like a pro!

Please Don't Write Confusing Conditionals

Here, we’ll discuss with @somedood how confusing conditionals manifest in our code. Along the way, we also explore different refactoring techniques for improving the readability of conditional control flows.

The Magic of Empty Git Commit

Although seemingly counterintuitive, empty commits can offer valuable benefits for documentation, triggering automation. @pradumnasaraf demonstrates how to create and push an empty commit using Git.

A Comprehensive Beginner's Guide to NPM: Simplifying Package Management

This fully beginner-friendly guide from @abhixsh will take you through the fundamentals of NPM, providing you with a solid foundation for simplifying package management and streamlining your development process.

Real DOM, Virtual DOM, Shadow DOM, What's the Difference?

It can be hard to keep your head straight between real DOMs and virtual DOMs and shadow DOMs, and how they all work together to create a clean, performant Document Object Model. Let’s dive in with @lyndsiwilliams!

Introduction to CSS Grid: A Comprehensive Guide

CSS Grid is a layout system that allows you to create complex, grid-based designs with ease. Here, we'll explore the key concepts of CSS Grid with @joanayebola and demonstrate how to use it with practical code examples.

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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Tim

@lyndsiwilliams post is a must read for front end developers!

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Lyndsi Kay Williams

Thank you! I'm honored to be mentioned here!

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Rachel Fazio

Yay for Top 7!

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Pradumna Saraf

Thank you for the mention.

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Abishek Haththakage

Thank you for mentioned here.

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Joan Ayebola

Really appreciate the mention

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passion117

Hi. Nice to meet you.
I want to work with an excellent developer such as you.
Thanks.

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PeakDev

I want to work with you.

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