Web Developer Monthly 💻🚀January 2020
Tags: news, webdev, productivity, react
Published: 2020-02-02 18:27:48

**19th issue! If you missed the last few months, check them all out**
**[here](https://zerotomastery.io/blog/?tag=WDM&utm_source=devto&utm_medium=WDM)**.

### If it’s your first time here… (otherwise, skip this part)

Being a web developer is a fantastic career option. You have many job opportunities, you can work around the world, and you get to solve hard problems. One thing that is hard, however, is staying up to date with the constantly evolving ecosystem. You want to be a top-performing web developer, coder, programmer, software developer, but you don’t have time to select from hundreds of articles, videos and podcasts each day.

This monthly newsletter is focused on keeping you up to date with the industry, keeping your skills sharp, without wasting your valuable time. I will be sharing the most important articles, podcasts and videos of the month. Think [Tim Ferriss](https://medium.com/u/56d3bc91794f) and [the Pareto Principle](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_principle) (80/20 rule) meeting the Software Development world. What’s the 20% that will get you 80% of the results?

### What you missed in January as a Web Developer…

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### Which Companies Pay You The Most? 💰
[A new report came out](https://drive.google.com/file/d/19ne7ccUdOWewD4rFDQjjnQEJDgsmgFID/view) analyzing the top paying companies in 2019. Sure, money and salary isn't the only factor when applying for a job, but it's good to know what some people are getting paid at big companies (*hint: it's mostly companies in Silicon Valley, so keep in mind the cost of living is high as well...so don't get sad if your salary is lower*).

If you are interested in more analysis regarding the tech industry salaries, you can check out [this great post](https://huyenchip.com/2020/01/18/tech-workers-19k-compensation-details.html).

### Take This JavaScript Quiz ⌛️
[How well do you know JavaScript](https://quiz.typeofnan.dev/)? Take this quiz and find out! A great way to learn javascript fundamentals and practice your problem solving skills. 


### Free Tools For Web Developers ✂️
Some tools and assets to help you build your next project since we are best friends by now (*unless this is your first time reading my articles… in that case let’s take things slow*):

1.  [Generative Art](https://generative-placeholders.glitch.me/) as your image placeholders (this is really cool)
2.  The world doesn't have enough color pallets so [here is one](https://colorsinspo.com/)
3.  The world also doesn't have enough [gradient libraries](https://www.eggradients.com/gradient/free-education)
4.  [Really neat command line tool](https://dystroy.org/broot/) to help you explore folders.
5.  Animate your icons and edit them [with this tool](https://www.getmotion.io/)
6.  [Free illustrations](https://lukaszadam.com/illustrations) because I really like you (*they aren't made by me. I'm not that talented*)
8.  [Free SVG icon pack](https://www.iconshock.com/svg-icons/)


### 30 Seconds of Code ⏱
Now anytime you have 30 seconds or more of free time, you can spend it staring at code and learning. [This neat little website](https://www.30secondsofcode.org/) shows you short snippets of code for JavaScript, Python, C#, and CSS. Pretty neat!

### Secure Browsing Toolbelt 🗽
Ever thought about what kind of information you are letting others see online? With the new [Firefox version 72](https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/72.0/releasenotes/) release, I figured it would be a good time to give you the perfect (*my opinion*) toolbelt to browse the internet securely. 
- [Ghostery](https://www.ghostery.com)
- [Privacy Badger](https://www.eff.org/privacybadger)
- [DuckDuckGo](https://duckduckgo.com/)
- [uBlock](https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock)
- [Firefox Containers](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account-containers/)

You're welcome. 

### React News 💎
Mostly everyone's favourite frontend library. What crazy things have they been up to?

* Dan Abramov lovers/fans can rejoice because you can now read about his [decade in review](https://overreacted.io/my-decade-in-review/). He has played a big part in the React and Redux ecosystem.
* [React Nice Dates](https://reactnicedates.hernansartorio.com/). This is a library I will be using for any time I need a Date input. Just so pretty.
* [Why Did You Render version 4 is out](https://github.com/welldone-software/why-did-you-render). It tells you if you have any components that may be re rendering for no reason.


### New Facebook Feature 🧸
How cute is that teddy bear?! Ok...

**… wait where is the rest? You can read the full newsletter on our blog [here](https://zerotomastery.io/blog/web-developer-monthly-january-2020?utm_source=devto&utm_medium=WDM)!**