Top 7 Featured DEV Posts from the Past Week
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Published: 2023-03-07 15:43:15

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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._ 

## Why Oh My ZSH Is So Cool?

If you’re looking to up your terminal game, consider checking out @equiman’s series [terminal-helpful-tips](https://dev.to/equiman/series/11407). The most recent entry discusses Oh My Zsh, a framework for ZSH that offers new shortcuts, plugins, and themes that will boost your productivity and put a smile on your face.

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## The Coolest JavaScript Features from the Last 5 Years

@ppiippaa walks us through some of the most useful, interesting, and perhaps lesser known features added to JS in the last 5 years. 

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## How to Automatically Close Your Issues Once You Merge a PR

It can be super annoying to have to close each GitHub issue once a feature request or bug report has been completed. Why not let GitHub do it for you? Automation is your friend and @mishmanners shows ya how it works so you can be a little more efficient and a little less annoyed.

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## Functions Are Killing Your React App's Performance

@crutchcorn looks at some of the ways that functions often slow down React applications, why they do so, and how to combat them, providing us helpful insight into the world of React application performance improvements.

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## AI Generated Git Commit Messages

Aicommits is a CLI that writes your git commit messages for you with AI. @bdougieyo digs into the AI part of the code, offering up thoughts on the implementation of OpenAI as part of his [30 days of OpenAI series](https://dev.to/bdougieyo/30-days-of-openai-1ek6).

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## Learn How to Setup a CI/CD Pipeline from Scratch

In this tutorial, @pavanbelagatti uses an example Go application to walk us through setting up a CI/CD pipeline with Docker, Kubernetes, and Harness.

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## React vs Signals: 10 Years Later

@ryansolid reflects on the last 10 years of JavaScript, comparing React and the idea of “Signals.” The fun part is that Dan Abramov showed up to have an in depth discussion on the topic in the comments. This is a very valuable read for any JavaScript developer!

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_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!_