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Here are the 10 most popular articles on JavaScript in Plain English. Need inspiration for your next article — look no further!
The following articles have been listed in order of number of claps received. This means that there may be a different order based on number of views, although claps generally are a good barometer of how popular an article is/how well it has performed.
1. 5 Advanced React Patterns
By: Alexis Regnaud
Likes: 2.1k
2. What is HTTP/3, and Why Does it Matter?
By: AsyncBanana
Likes: 1.5k
3. ES12 is Going to Make Your Life Easier
By: Somnath Singh
Likes: 1.2k
4. How Programming Affects Your Brain
By: Nishi
Likes: 1.2k
5. JavaScript 2021: New Features
By: Tirlochan Arora
Likes: 1k
6. Steps to Modernize and Optimize Your React App
By: Mucahit Gurbuz
Likes: 800
7. Mistakes to Avoid When Using React
Likes: 570
8. How to Create a Winning Ecommerce Web App With Node.js
By: Sara Khan
Likes: 500
9. Signs that You are a Bad Programmer
By: Mohamed Aboelez
Likes: 500
10. An In-Depth Look at Angular 12
Here are the 10 most popular articles on JavaScript In Plain English. Need inspiration for your next article — look no further!
The following articles have been listed in order of number of claps received. This means that there may be a different order based on number of views, although claps generally are a good barometer of how popular an article is/how well it has performed.
1. Why You Should Not Use Webpack
By: AsyncBanana
Likes: 1.1k
2. 30 Awesome JavaScript Shorthand Techniques That You Should Know
By: Nehal Khan
Likes: 1k
3. Is Context Better than Redux?
By: Patricia Arnedo
Likes: 900
4. Best Tricks to Make Your Node.js Web App Faster
By: Sophia Martin
Likes: 850
5. How to Structure Angular Apps in 2021
By: Touhid Rahman
Likes: 700
6. Motivational Memes to Help You Master any Programming Language
By: Atit
Likes: 600
7. How to Improve Your Website’s Page Load Speed
By: Zoltan Bettenbuk
Likes: 550
8. JavaScript Concepts every Web Developer should Understand
By: Josef Cruz
Likes: 520
9. 12 Things You Should Know to Become a Better Node.js Developer
By: Josef Cruz
Likes: 500
10. Why You Should Not Use Classes in JavaScript
By: David Fekke
Likes: 350…
Here are the 10 most popular articles on JavaScript In Plain English. Need inspiration for your next article — look no further!
The following articles have been listed in order of number of claps received. This means that there may be a different order based on number of views, although claps generally are a good barometer of how popular an article is/how well it has performed.
1. 14 Useful Tools That I Use for Faster and Easier Web Development
By Josef Cruz
Likes: 2k
2. Repos I Didn’t Know I Needed For Front-End
Likes: 1.8k
3. Your PWA is going to break in August 2021
By Kevin Basset
Likes: 1.4k
4. Top Node.js Frameworks to use in 2021
https://javascript.plainenglish.io/top-node-js-frameworks-to-use-in-2021-4951ee5940b8
By Ronak Patel
Likes: 900
5. Clean APIs in React with TypeScript
By Alain Perkaz
Likes: 700
6. Concepts You Should Know As a JavaScript Developer
By Mohit
Likes: 620
7. Stop using margin, use Spacer component instead
By Thor Chen
Likes: 400
8. Entry Level React Interview Questions
Likes: 570
9. Useful Web Apps for Web Developers
By Josef Cruz
Likes: 460
10. The Ultimate Guide to Writing Self-Documenting Code
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Here are the 10 most popular articles on JavaScript In Plain English. Need inspiration for your next article — look no further!
The following articles have been listed in order of number of claps received. This means that there may be a different order based on number of views, although claps generally are a good barometer of how popular an article is/how well it has performed.
1. HTML Tricks Nobody is Talking About
Likes: 2.2k
2. How I went from earning $0.55 to $2,200+ in 3 Months
By Atit
Likes: 1.8k
3. The Node.js Developer Roadmap for 2021
By Mohit
Likes: 1.6k
4. Ultimate Web Developer Roadmap for 2021
By Mohit
Likes: 1.2k
5. 10 Awesome Front-End Development Tools to Boost Your Productivity
Likes: 1.1k
6. JavaScript Features That Are Introduced In ES2021
Likes: 800
7. 11 Front End Developer Tools I Can’t Live Without
By Josef Cruz
Likes: 750
8. The two-line JavaScript design pattern that covers a multitude of sins
Likes: 600
9. Handle JavaScript Events Like A Pro
By Divyesh
Likes: 600
10. 15 Helpful JavaScript One-Liners
By Daan
Likes: 550
Conclusion
And there we have it! The top 10 most liked articles…
Here are the 10 most popular articles on JavaScript In Plain English. Need inspiration for your next article — look no further!
The following articles have been listed in order of number of claps received. This means that there may be a different order based on number of views, although claps generally are a good barometer of how popular an article is/how well it has performed.
1. Programming Memes That Will Lighten Your Mood
By Atit
Likes: 2.7k
2. JavaScript Optimization Techniques to Know in 2021
By Atit
Likes: 1.5k
3. CSS Properties Nobody Is Talking About
Likes: 1.2k
4. Mistakes I Made (and Regret) as a JavaScript Developer
By Ali Haider
Likes: 1.2k
5. Ways You Can Tell When Programmers Commit Their Life to Programming
By Josef Cruz
Likes: 1k
6. Why you should never use ‘npm install’ in your CI/CD pipelines
Likes: 770
7. How To Create An Awesome Github Profile README
By Gapur Kassym
Likes: 590
8. React Learning Roadmap For 2021
By Mohit
Likes: 550
9. Double Your React Coding Speed With This Simple Trick
Likes: 480
10. CSS Flexbox Explained With Examples
Likes: 480
Conclusion
And there we have it! The 10 most popular…
I don’t talk about it often, but I really enjoy teaching.
A few kind words on an article I’ve written or a video I’ve made will sit with me for long after the comment was posted. Once a week, I volunteer as an English teacher and it warms my heart whenever a student uses a new word they had been taught the previous week.
2020 was a tough year and 2021 — so far — appears to be no different. To try and add some positivity into the world, I wanted to figure out what I could do to help…
Here are the 20 most read articles on JavaScript In Plain English. Looking for inspiration for your next article — look no further!
As Editor of one of the most popular tech publications in the world, some of the questions I get asked a lot are: “what should I write about”, and “how can I write something that people will like?” Well, whether you’re here because you want answers to those questions, or you’re simply here to read some interesting things, here are the most popular articles on JavaScript In Plain English for 2020.
The following articles have been listed in order of number of claps received. This means that there may be a different order based on number of views, although claps…
There’s more to debugging than just console.log(). Just like how strings, arrays and objects have methods, console does too!
One of the easiest ways to debug anything in JavaScript is by logging stuff using console.log. But there are a lot of other methods provided by the console that can help you debug better and smarter.
Let’s get started!
1. Stop doing this with console.log()
Let’s imagine we have a variable called name and we want to log it in the console. Often we find ourselves writing this:
console.log('name', name)Since ES2015, we can use object shorthand notation whenever we want to log out things like this. That means we can write the following:
console.log({name})And this will output the same thing.
2. A better way to log multiple items
Imagine a scenario when…
Sunil Sandhu
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