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JavaScript Influencers to Follow in 2022🤩

ThemeSelection on April 01, 2021

Well, here we are going to list down some of the well-known JavaScript influencers. Although, before we head towards the list let's take an overvie...
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Sylwia Vargas • Edited

Given how very not diverse this list of recommendations is, I’m curious what your research process was?

You missed quite a few women and black devs with high following. Was this intentional, or more connected to your research process?

EDIT: I see you’ve added Sophie Alpert and Ashley Williams (who’s a Rust dev, though) — please continue your research ✨ I added a list in one of the comments below.

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Sylwia Vargas

My question is about the research process because clearly many “influential” devs have been overlooked.

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Sylwia Vargas • Edited

It is a plain request for clarification on the research process -- your explanation that the OP has "the right to share these influential devs" is unnecessary because I am not taking that right away. My expectation, as a tech writer, is that other authors will have a research process in place and that they will be transparent about it. If the research process consists of just enumerating their favorites, that's fine by me as long as they are transparent about it (which they are not).

Also fyi:

Stop taking everything personally, and stop thinking everything is discrimination.

comes across as quite condescending -- please address other members of the community with respect, especially if you don't know them and have not engaged with their comments before. Given how rarely I engage in such conversations, the hyperbole you used there is less indicative of my ways of being than of how you feel about questions regarding diversity. This is something I'm inviting you to think about.

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🚩 Atul Prajapati 🇮🇳

You are right sylwia I also feeling something like that 🙅🏻‍♂️

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Elior Boukhobza

Not sure about the "influencer" moniker. These people because of their works, not because they are "influencing". To me, influencers would be if these people are frequently posting stuff on Twitter to "influence" their followers, and I don't think they do (at least some of them)

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Christian Kozalla

You sure each of them would consider themselves an influencer?

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Ravi Krishnappa

Thanks for this article. Keep sharing.
When I publish my favorite philosophers, I never think whether I should consider their age, gender, sex, orientation, kids, assets, bank balance, skin color, hair color, height, baldness, education, followers etc. I like them because I like their thought process.

Keep writing. Be honest.

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ThemeSelection ThemeSelection

Thank you very much for your appriciation.🙂

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Django Janny

Little mistake : Samantha Ming has the website of Sara Vieira...

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ThemeSelection ThemeSelection

Thank you for drawing our attention.🙂 We have corrected it.

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stefanovualto

Hi,

A few github links are wrong.

Thank you for the list!

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ThemeSelection ThemeSelection

Thank you very much for pointing this out. We have corrected the links.
Thank you for your appreciation.🙂

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Chittoji Murali Sree Krishna

Nice info, thanks for sharing this

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ThemeSelection ThemeSelection

Thank you very much for your appreciation. We are glad that you find this list helpful.🙂

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Ajay Patel ThemeSelection

I follow almost all of them 🎉

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anthony-grear

Pretty cool list- thanks!

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🚩 Atul Prajapati 🇮🇳

Following already 😁

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shadowtime2000

Ryan Dahl is also the creator of the Deno JS/TS runtime which he works on full time now. That may be worth listing.

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ThemeSelection ThemeSelection

Sure, we will. Thank you for suggesting.🙂

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Anthony Peruso

Thanks for taking the time and putting this together it’s extremely helpful! It’s always cool to see names and new influencers that I’ve never heard of before. I’m excited to see their contributions!

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ThemeSelection ThemeSelection

You are welcome. We are glad that you find this list useful.🙂

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Akshay

blacklivesmatter

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Ali Nazari • Edited

[The things] to [do] in [currentYear] are everywhere 😏