🔥 What's Hot in Web Development? — Weekly Picks #147
Tags: webdev, css, react, frontend
Published: 2020-09-30 13:13:03

🌟 This week is all about frontend development! React news, CSS selectors cheatsheet, visx by Airbnb, and more.
As always, all posts were ranked by [daily.dev](https://api.daily.dev/get?r=devto) community. Shout out to all the authors. 👏

So, let's get it started.

## 🤩 24 Coolest VSCode Extensions That Will Rock Your World 🛠

👨‍💻 I guess devs love these VSCode Extensions lists because they're featured so many times. Some of the extensions are very popular but you might still find a relevant extension for your VSCode setup.

* [🤩 24 Coolest VSCode Extensions That Will Rock Your World 🛠](https://app.daily.dev/posts/5OX72LR0N)

## Dark Mode with only 1 CSS PROPERTY

🎨 The core concept is great but the implementation is controversial. Still, I recommend reading this article. It's super short.

* [Dark Mode with only 1 CSS PROPERTY](https://app.daily.dev/posts/pu6mRCwkE)

## The end of jQuery!

🔚 jQuery is no longer the cool kid, it had its time of glory a few years back. The author claims that it's even a game over since Bootstrap 5 is not using jQuery and according to a StackOverflow survey it's the 3rd most dreaded language (really language!?).

* [The end of jQuery!](https://app.daily.dev/posts/-iMOlv6Qo)

## The 30 CSS Selectors You Must Memorize

🏆 A super comprehensive CSS selectors cheatsheet. At least skim through, if you don't want to read it all.

* [The 30 CSS Selectors You Must Memorize](https://app.daily.dev/posts/Jqa3RRvJw)

## SOLID: Software Design Principles. Be a better developer

🧱 The SOLID principles are some of the first you learn as a programmer. If you're not familiar with them, read this guide.

* [SOLID: Software Design Principles. Be a better developer](https://app.daily.dev/posts/S3GnEHoFx)

## One Way To Stay Up To Date As Developer

🆙 Catalin shares his way to keep a hang of everything that happens in the tech sector.

* [One Way To Stay Up To Date As Developer](https://app.daily.dev/posts/umBcqAJzi)

## My Top 5 APIs For New Developers

✨ Prebuilt APIs are always helpful when you want to demo a frontend app without thinking about the data. I used some of them in articles that I wrote. My favorite is PokéAPI.

* [My Top 5 APIs For New Developers](https://app.daily.dev/posts/_x_eXPw21)

## I made my website 28ms faster with content-visibility 🤓

🏎 Chris showcases his recent discovery, the almighty `content-visibility` attribute.

* [I made my website 28ms faster with content-visibility 🤓](https://app.daily.dev/posts/CilhtbduI)

## Introducing visx from Airbnb

📈 Airbnb expands its arsenal of open source projects with a new data visualization library. It's for React developers who want some good looking graphs on their website.

* [Introducing visx from Airbnb](https://app.daily.dev/posts/tv_Fx0PeU)

## Introducing the New JSX Transform

🥳 The new JSX Transform is incredible! No need to import React for using JSX as we used to do. More details below

* [Introducing the New JSX Transform](https://app.daily.dev/posts/Or9w0itQN)

## 🙌 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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