🔥 What's Hot in Web Development? — Weekly Picks #126
Tags: webdev, vscode, javascript, codenewbie
Published: 2020-05-06 13:07:31

🌟 This week we have awesome web development content, VS Code extensions, new products, and even free books! It's a great chance to shout out to all the great devs that work in these hard times to deliver this incredible content. 🙌

So, let's get it started.

## 1️⃣ 10 Practical JavaScript Tricks

📝 **A straightforward list of javascript tricks that you can implement immediately in your project**. Even if you think you know all about javascript check this list out it's less than a 1-minute read.

* [10 Practical JavaScript Tricks](https://app.dailynow.co/r/b097f8c3aef5bf4610630226d41e2b41)

## 2️⃣ Free Programming Books (Updated)
📚 This post contains a collection of free programming books. **A list of 48 books available for download immediately about Ruby, React, Spring, Postgres and so much more**.

* [Free Programming Books (Updated)](https://app.dailynow.co/r/f0e58bdd21e7392e1d3c5c749881fdca)

## 3️⃣ Code Time 2.0 — Use data to improve as a developer
> An open-source plugin for automatic programming metrics and time tracking, right in your editor.

**Install Code Time in your favorite IDE to start tracking how much time you code with detailed graphs and breakdowns**. It supports almost every major IDE, including VS Code, IntelliJ, Sublime, Atom, and others ⏰

* [Code Time 2.0 — Use data to improve as a developer](https://app.dailynow.co/r/405f075af0148ef2a889b30d0fa0e165)

## 4️⃣ 💡 10 VS Code extensions I can't code without

⚡ **Yet another great list filled with awesome VS Code extensions**. If you look to power up your VS Code setup and improve your productivity check it out.

* [💡 10 VS Code extensions I can't code without](https://app.dailynow.co/r/efd619e9cbc445b9c5899028d3b0fd0a)

## 5️⃣ Codespace — A beautiful cross-platform code snippet manager

> Organise your snippets into branded folders

If you are like me, probably you have so many notes and projects you to copy-paste from, we can waste so much precious time looking for the right snippet. **Codespace cleans the clutter and saves your snippets in one place organized and searchable**. 🧹 It only costs $12.99 for 3-machines.

* [Codespace — A beautiful cross-platform code snippet manager](https://app.dailynow.co/r/94bcd9cd8554b435b86ebd441128dd18)

## 6️⃣ How to become a Frontend Dev 👩‍💻👨‍💻 +the Frontend checklist✅

🎨 **If you think about being a frontend developer, this post will help you understand what it means and what it takes**. You even have a checklist there to make sure you've gone through all the steps and you are ready-to-go!

* [How to become a Frontend Dev 👩‍💻👨‍💻 +the Frontend checklist✅](https://app.dailynow.co/r/5dc155f12e25b820fbc3580c8af4c291)

## 7️⃣ VS Code extensions that make me fall love in programming each day

🆙 I guess this week you all looked to level-up your IDE setup. This is the second post that lists incredible VS Code extensions. **This list is focused on extensions for productivity, to reduce development time, and style, to make your code look better**.

* [VS Code extensions that make me fall love in programming each day](https://app.dailynow.co/r/fd19deb82b4b3aa61791d7dc28f96853)

## 8️⃣ ✨ Announcing ModernCSS.dev

This is part 8 of a 9-parts series about modern CSS solutions to daily struggles we have. Originally, it started as a DEV series, and now **on this post [ModernCSS.dev](https://moderncss.dev] is officially launched and the stack is laid out for inspiring others**. My favorite hack is IFTTT that watches RSS feed to trigger a deploy, such a great idea! 🚀

* [✨ Announcing ModernCSS.dev](https://app.dailynow.co/r/9f396b7dee392109f61058fd01b62b40)

## 9️⃣ If you use Git and VS Code – Read This!

👨‍💻 Git and VS Code are probably among the top utilities for developers. This post covers the Timeline view that was released in March. **The Timeline view is a unified view for visualizing time-series events for a file**.

* [If you use Git and VS Code – Read This!](https://app.dailynow.co/r/0586b1795f26c30411b9dfffc0530c62)

## 🔟 UNeed Frontend — A list of hand-picked tools for front-end developers

> a list of hand-picked tools for frontend developers, sorted by categories

Exactly as the description says, **UNeed is a side project that lists many popular tools and platforms divided by categories and is fully searchable.** If you want to promote your own tool, it's also possible!

* [UNeed Frontend — A list of hand-picked tools for front-end developers](https://app.dailynow.co/r/b265e1ab463b9fd88c26711f456ab689)

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

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