5 Alien Articles of the Week Worth Reading 👽📖
Tags: beginners, webdev, css, javascript
Published: 2019-04-04 10:07:22

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Hello to all! I hope you enjoyed my last article. Last week was super hectic for me and my team, with the launch of [Dragula](https://www.producthunt.com/posts/dragula-2) and everything that followed. That's why I'm a little late for this week's article, but anyway, here are this week's top alien articles. These are the articles posted outside Dev.to, hence the moniker "alien". 👽
I hope you guys enjoy them!

# 1. 20+ Best JavaScript Modal Window Plugins
Modals can be used for multiple purposes in your website, e.g image gallery, to show error messages, filling a form, etc. This article by Prechu shares a list of Best JavaScript Modals that you can pick to implement in your web apps.

[![Alt text of image](https://thepracticaldev.s3.amazonaws.com/i/vg8ni6btr4tll9noz2ts.png)](https://cssauthor.com/best-javascript-modal-window-plugins/)

# 2. Integrating and Enforcing Prettier & ESLint
Consistency and quality of code matter a lot while developing an application and it can be improved by using some tools. This article will explain and help you achieve that by integrating the two most popular tools Prettier & ESLint together.


[![Alt text of image](https://thepracticaldev.s3.amazonaws.com/i/qbzhac13sksdzytafo92.png)](https://silvenon.com/blog/integrating-and-enforcing-prettier-and-eslint)

# 3. Cool uses of the ::before and ::after pseudoelements
There are so many things that can be done with ::before and ::after pseudoelements and this article by KBall covers some of them, like adding icons with a particular class, adding quote marks at the starting and end of a line, making shapes and so on.

[![Alt text of image](https://thepracticaldev.s3.amazonaws.com/i/l2juq4qkhumg3oglrp8p.png)](https://zendev.com/2019/03/28/cool-uses-of-before-after-pseudoelements.html)

# 4. Things nobody ever taught me about CSS
This article by Charlie Gerard shares some of the important things about CSS that you might not be aware of.

[![Alt text of image](https://thepracticaldev.s3.amazonaws.com/i/sdo49z0kudhb9h3gf3yv.png)](https://medium.com/@devdevcharlie/things-nobody-ever-taught-me-about-css-5d16be8d5d0e)

# 5. Let’s decode the CSS Specificity
Sometimes we notice that the styles we apply on an element do not get reflected as it is expected to be, and it all depends upon the specificity. Based on this specificity the browser determines which selector is to be picked. This article by Neha Sharma shows a quick overview of this which will help you get better at it.

[![Alt text of image](https://thepracticaldev.s3.amazonaws.com/i/wtrc7n08lw6jgefzjrb1.png)](https://medium.com/@hellonehha/lets-decode-the-css-specificity-8d64f20f4a75)

# Let me know what you think!
Tell me in the comments which article you found most useful! Also tell me about your favorite dev blogs and share what you've been reading recently. Have an awesome day! ❤

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P.S. If you have a few minutes to spare, please try [Dragula](https://dragula.teamxenox.com/). And if you like it, please let me know!

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