🔥 What's Hot in Web Development? — Weekly Picks #154
Tags: webdev, javascript, css, graphql
Published: 2020-11-18 13:27:11

Every week we publish the top 10 popular posts on [daily.dev](https://api.daily.dev/get?r=devto).

This week features interesting pieces about personal branding, the downsides of open-source, JavaScript, and CSS.

Shout out to all the authors 👏

## Chrome Extensions You Should Install Today

🆙 Level up your web development experience with these 5 browser extensions.

* [Chrome Extensions You Should Install Today](https://app.daily.dev/posts/5Jccmvngl)

## 7 Websites To Find Front End Projects For Your Portfolio

💡 Coming up with good ideas for projects to show off in your portfolio is super hard. You might find some inspiration or even concrete ideas on the websites listed here.

* [7 Websites To Find Front End Projects For Your Portfolio](https://app.daily.dev/posts/jum5tlcvM)

## Terminal tips to make you a 2x developer

🚀 I use the terminal every day and optimizing my productivity in my daily tools is very important. The tips here are very useful and we'll make you love the terminal.

* [Terminal tips to make you a 2x developer](https://app.daily.dev/posts/STXCsdznJ)

## Async/await is awesome, but don't abandon Promises

👋 The article is mainly about the optimization boosts you gain when using Promise.all compared to serial await calls. Don't underestimate it.

* [Async/await is awesome, but don't abandon Promises](https://app.daily.dev/posts/E1TbT0gva)

## Create Awesome Git readMe Profile

👩‍🎤 GitHub recently released fully customizable profile pages. The hype of building the best profile is constantly growing. This article will guide you through revamping your profile.

* [Create Awesome Git readMe Profile](https://app.daily.dev/posts/h_DgY53Fv)

## 9 (FREE) JavaScript Books That Are Well Worth Reading

📚 Books are very much different than online articles and blogs. They usually equip you with good fundamentals and focus on long-term concepts.

* [9 (FREE) JavaScript Books That Are Well Worth Reading](https://app.daily.dev/posts/jid8Qxbvg)

## em, rem, and px

✏️ If you are not familiar with these three CSS units, make sure to read this quick intro.

* [em, rem, and px](https://app.daily.dev/posts/csP6ku0Mc)

## How Netflix Scales its API with GraphQL Federation (Part 1)

🍿 Featuring a Netflix article here always excites me! Their architecture is so impressive and their blog posts are insightful. This article tells the evolution of their UI facing architecture. 

* [How Netflix Scales its API with GraphQL Federation (Part 1)](https://app.daily.dev/posts/GSyR-3IGr)

## Software design principles: DRY

🌵 This daily tip by Chris will make you crave some water

* [Software design principles: DRY](https://app.daily.dev/posts/awL4eMDuS)

## Facebook has taken the name of my open source project

😢 This is a very interesting GitHub issue that shows some of the bad things that could happen in the open-source community. Luckily, this issue has a happy ending.

* [Facebook has taken the name of my open source project](https://app.daily.dev/posts/yYXbtGV2r)

## 🙌 Wrap Up!
 
That was all for this week. We will come back with another list of interesting development posts next week.

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