The 7 Most Popular DEV Posts from the Past Week

Every Tuesday we round up the previous week's top posts based on traffic, engagement, and a hint of editorial curation. The typical week starts on Monday and ends on Sunday, but don't worry, we take into account posts that are published later in the week. ❤️

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Unstick yourself from UI templates!

We’re all trying to level up! In this cheatsheet, Abdelrhman helps us improve our front-end skills. Woot!

Not your average personal website tutorial

Sylvia acknowledges that there are many existing tutorials on building a personal website but explains that there’s value in putting a refreshed spin on previously-covered topics.

New Heights with Ruby and Rails

Dianakw8591 used their love of climbing and past experience with the sport to inspire a final project for the Flatiron School: building a digital climbing logbook that allows climbers to easily enter new climbs and visualize their climbing history using Nokogiri!

Architecting great applications based on industry best-practices

The principals of the AWS Well-Architected Framework are applicable to any project, according to Mark. In this post, you’ll get a rundown and cost-breakdown of various AWS solutions and how they integrate with the five pillars of this framework.

Overcoming the NLP jitters

Nic walks us through some important context for Natural Language Processing for those just getting started.

Here’s why you should bother with SVGs

For starters, SVGs are vector-based and thus scale perfectly (making them the most loss-less format for graphics in websites), says Jess.

Tiny changes, BIG UX improvements

Raja explains that if you care about accessibility and usability in your applications or websites, “skipnav” can help you get there.

That's it for our weekly wrap up! Keep an eye on dev.to this week for daily content and discussions...and if you miss anything, we'll be sure to recap it next Tuesday!