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Posted on Aug 21, 2017

The 7 Most Popular DEV Posts from the Past Week

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Every Monday we round up some of the last week's top posts, comments, and tweets. If you have any feedback, please leave a comment. â¤ï¸

1. New job, new codebase

Which means more reading and less writing. Jason shares three practices to clean up code and improve readability.

Writing Clean Code

Jason McCreary ・ Aug 14 '17 ・ 4 min read

#practices #refactoring #programming

2. An argument for Electron

Electron, a popular framework that allows developers to write code once and deploy on multiple platforms like Mac, Windows, and Linux, has been under a state of steady attack over the past year. Pro-electron dev, Mo Bitar, defends Electron by diving into user perception and business cases.

Warning: this topic got heated ðŸ”¥

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3. An attempt at benchmarking

The author of the Iris web framework uses the MVC architecture pattern to compare Go and .NET core.

Go vs .NET Core in terms of HTTP performance

Gerasimos (Makis) Maropoulos ・ Aug 19 '17 ・ 8 min read

#benchmark #net #go #webdev

4. Getting meta

Everyone now and then, Ben writes a Meta post about dev.to -- this week it was about how our home page renders virtually instantly for all our users around the globe.

What it Takes to Render a Complex Web App in Milliseconds

Ben Halpern ・ Aug 18 '17 ・ 4 min read

#webperf #meta #cdn #webdev

In the comments, we learned that Nigeria isn't getting as much internet love as it deserves.

Osaetin Daniel • Aug 18 '17

When you're in Nigeria. The HTML request comes from Egypt or SA. They're thousands of miles away. Why Nigeria? Why? :(

But dev.to is still fast enough though :)

5. Are you serious?

This week, Dattatraya writes a satire piece about the advantage of dirty code. Unfortunately, most people didn't catch the satire part and thought he was actually advocating for poor naming conventions and throwing shade at TDD.

And now that you've been warned...

Advantages(!) of Dirty Code

Dattatraya Anarase ・ Aug 18 '17 ・ 4 min read

#cleancode #programming #tdd #unittesting

6. Reading list

This list is directed at CTOs, but they're all really good reads for any entrepreneur or person working in software.

7. A love for editors

A user shares his journey through different editors, and why. Which editors have you outfitted?

How I chose my Code Editor

Nelson ・ Aug 16 '17 ・ 2 min read

#codeeditor #beginners

That's it for our weekly wrapup! 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!

Top comments (3)

Walker Harrison • Aug 21 '17

I remember when these roundups used to be sprinkled with cheeky GIFs that would brighten my day. Whoever was in charge of that was a true hero.

Andy Zhao (he/him) • Aug 22 '17

Mmm, what a shame.

Ben Halpern • Aug 21 '17

Wonderfully deserved top spot for @gonedark this week.

An Animated Guide to Node.js Event Loop

Node.js doesn’t stop from running other operations because of Libuv, a C++ library responsible for the event loop and asynchronously handling tasks such as network requests, DNS resolution, file system operations, data encryption, etc.

What happens under the hood when Node.js works on tasks such as database queries? We will explore it by following this piece of code step by step.

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