Discover Dev News with every new tab you open - thanks to daily.dev! [Week 35/20 in Review]
Tags: javascript, react, programming, dailydev
Published: 2020-09-01 16:02:01

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Hello 👋🏻.

Welcome to my "Week in Review" series. Each week I will share what I discovered, learned, and tested with you.

Besides the fact that I celebrated my 6,000 follower milestone, a lot has happened in the last week. Especially the hype around [daily.dev](https://api.daily.dev/get?r=w9JUQ3y0I) is the topic of my today's issue.

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## Highlights

Last week I reached my [**6,000 follower milestone**](https://twitter.com/natterstefan)! Awesome. So much has happened since the beginning of the year on Twitter for me. I am very happy that I can entertain 6,000 people on Twitter and share my knowledge with them. You guys are great!

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A big thank you to Chris for this mega picture! I still can't believe it. Mega.

Here is the making-off to it:

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Another highlight of the last week for me was the many feedbacks on my open-source tweet. A lot of you got in touch and shared your open source projects with others. Thanks. I discovered some cool new tools which I will try out.

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## Daily.Dev

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In the last few days, but also already weeks ahead, I keep seeing tweets mentioning, praising, and sharing the [daily.dev](https://api.daily.dev/get?r=w9JUQ3y0I). Not least because of the [cooperation](https://twitter.com/dailydotdev/status/1300396014059257857) with [Hashnode](https://hashnode.com/@natterstefan/joinme), the free and open-source browser extension enjoys great popularity. Why is it so popular, what makes it so special?

On the website, we read "Discover Dev News with zero effort". That sounds promising. A few clicks later and the extension is installed. Now with every new tab, I see article suggestions from all kinds of resources ([Alligator](https://alligator.io?utm_campaign=natterstefan.me), [Apollo Blog](https://www.apollographql.com/blog/?utm_campaign=natterstefan.me), [DailyJS](https://medium.com/dailyjs?utm_campaign=natterstefan.me), [dev.to](https://dev.to/natterstefan), [Digital Ocean](https://www.digitalocean.com/blog/?utm_campaign=natterstefan.me), and many more). With a free account, you can also add bookmarks and comments. And did I mention that you can create your own lists of articles (*[Premium](https://api.daily.dev/get?r=w9JUQ3y0I)*)?

It feels good to have the latest news from the industry presented with each new tab. I don't have to find the news, they find me. :D The extension is great and I recommend everyone to try it because it costs nothing.

What do you think of the extension? Do you use it too? What do you like best?

## 📗 Books

I currently read ["We Are All Leaders: Leadership is not a position, it's a mindset" by Fredrik Arnander](https://amzn.to/3kRLadF).

*What are you reading? Share your recommendations in the comments below. 🙏🏻*

## ⛓ Links of the Week

- Last week a few freelancers in my network shared their invoicing tools with us. [Crater](https://craterapp.com/?utm_campaign=natterstefan.me) and [Invoice Ninja](https://www.invoiceninja.com/?utm_campaign=natterstefan.me) were two of them. is The open-source invoice apps for freelancers & small businesses look both interesting. Which one do you use for your business?
- Do you read eBooks on your [Kindle](https://amzn.to/31Mza5q), or with [iBooks](https://www.apple.com/apple-books/?utm_campaign=natterstefan.me)? Do you use [Instapaper](https://www.instapaper.com/?utm_campaign=natterstefan.me) or [Pocket](https://getpocket.com/?utm_campaign=natterstefan.me) as your read later list? You can save your favorite tweets and threads from [Twitter](https://twitter.com/natterstefan) too (with `@readwiseio save thread` once you are signed up)! Then [Readwise](https://readwise.io/?utm_campaign=natterstefan.me) is for you. Sync your highlights with Readwise, get daily emails including your highlights, and remember what you've highlighted. Grow your knowledge over time.
- Handle cookies like a pro in your React apps with [react-cookie](https://www.npmjs.com/package/react-cookie).
- Does `0.2.5` satisfy the `^0.3.5` SemVer constraint? At the beginning of my career, I was not always sure if it matches. Thanks to this [semver-check](https://jubianchi.github.io/semver-check?utm_campaign=natterstefan.me) tool I learned it pretty quickly. It's like [regex101.com](https://regex101.com/?utm_campaign=natterstefan.me) but for [SemVer](https://semver.org/).
- Create beautiful color schemes within seconds on [coolors.co](https://coolors.co/?utm_campaign=natterstefan.me).
- Are you working a lot with videos? Are you tired of having huge video files on your disk? [Compressify](https://compressify.herokuapp.com/?ref=producthunt&utm_campaign=natterstefan.me) helps. Compress video files by 20-60%
- In our projects, we use [picsum.photos](https://picsum.photos/?utm_campaign=natterstefan.me) to get random images during development. If you are interested in how they created the site check out their [source code](https://github.com/DMarby/picsum-photos). It's open-source.
- "Invest as little as $10 in private startups and earn a return if the startup succeeds." is what [republic.co](https://republic.co/?utm_campaign=natterstefan.me) promises on their website. I have not used it and I am curious if one of you does.
- When I started taking Social Media seriously, I had to first update and sync all my profiles across multiple platforms. This was a tedious task. I hope [dev-pack](https://www.devpack.dev/?utm_campaign=natterstefan.me) solves this issue in the future.
- I've got some more [Alfred Workflows](https://www.alfredapp.com/workflows/?utm_campaign=natterstefan.me) for you! One for [bundlephobia](https://github.com/prashantpalikhe/alfred-bundlephobia) and another one for [goodreads](https://github.com/wesbaker/alfred-goodreads-workflow). Both work great.
- If you ever run into the "Error: Command failed: alfred-link" issue, I got you covered. Here's [what I did to resolve it](https://gist.github.com/natterstefan/5d3d7681abfb992648c65776dcd5c864).
- I've never thought of this before, but renting a domain could be actually a thing. [upfordomain](https://upfordomain.com/?utm_campaign=natterstefan.me) gets you started. Would you rent a domain?
- [fzf](https://github.com/junegunn/fzf) - A command-line fuzzy finder
- Build a website in 5 minutes with building blocks and [Softr](https://www.softr.io/?ref=producthunt&utm_campaign=natterstefan.me).
- Wanna know [how to add a CI to your Frontend with GitHub Actions](https://www.dawntraoz.com/blog/how-to-add-ci-to-frontend-project-with-github-actions/?utm_campaign=natterstefan.me)?
- Do you use [styled-components](https://styled-components.com/?utm_campaign=natterstefan.me)? If yes, [styled-theming](https://github.com/styled-components/styled-theming) is probably for you. Easily create themes and variants for your next app.
- Many of you may already know [Santiago](https://twitter.com/svpino). He shares valuable insights on Twitter and I love every tweet of him. His threads are full of insights, tips, and tricks. You should follow him if you don't already. Anyway, he shared his [twitter-giveaway](https://github.com/svpino/twitter-giveaway) script with us on GitHub. Awesome and thanks!
- In the last couple of days, I had to add several animations to our application with [react-transition-group](http://reactcommunity.org/react-transition-group/css-transition?utm_campaign=natterstefan.me) and CSS animations. At one point I needed to figure out how to ["Restart a CSS animation"](https://css-tricks.com/restart-css-animation/?utm_campaign=natterstefan.me). Interesting learning. What do you use for animations? [react-spring](https://www.react-spring.io/?utm_campaign=natterstefan.me)? Let me know in the comments, please.
- Looking for some easy to copy React hooks? Check out [usehooks.com](https://usehooks.com/?utm_campaign=natterstefan.me).
- [In my last review](https://natterstefan.hashnode.dev/manage-your-chrome-tabs-like-a-pro-with-workona-week-3420-in-review), I mentioned the release of TypeScript 4.0 already. Here is once again an [overview of the latest features](https://medium.com/better-programming/whats-new-in-typescript-4-0-b8513c38fd20).
- [whenipress](https://github.com/lukeraymonddowning/whenipress): A tiny, powerful and declarative wrapper around keyboard bindings in JavaScript

##  🐦 Tweets of the Week

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## 📺 Video of the Week

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This is it for week 35/2020.

See you next week - thank you. 👋🏻

Stefan

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