Personal Developer Blogs to follow

#webdev #blogging

When I started my career as a developer I always struggled to find the latest trends, news, and best practices in the web development world or at least some developers who can help with that. Here is the listing of all the personal blogs that I find really useful and helpful.
The listing does not indicate any priority order.

Flavio Copes

C React.js Vue.js DevTools Javascript HTML CSS Database Express Git Go GraphQL Next.js Node.js Services Svelte Web Platform

Flavio Not only writes a blog post every single day, but he has endless handbooks, courses, and tutorials. Some of the posts are more like snippets but are really helpful.

Alligator IO

Javascript HTML CSS React.js Vue.js Angular WebPlatform Stencil GraphQL Gatsby Electron SASS WebComponent RxJS Typescript Redux

Not a Personal Blog but more like a collaboration, I liked it so mentioning this. Alligator.io is born out of a love for the web platform and Open Source software. Their goal is to try and make it easy and quick to understand things that are otherwise daunting to untrained eyes.

Wes Bos

Javascript HTML CSS React.js Redux Node.js CSS-Grid Markdown

Well known for his Javascript 30 a 30 Day Vanilla JS Coding Challenge that helps you in building 30 things in 30 days with 30 tutorials.

Samantha Ming

Javascript HTML CSS

I really appreciate and love the Tidbits section of her blog it has short and simple code snippets that explain various concepts. Also, the articles and tutorials are amazing.

Addy Osmani

Chrome DevTools LightHouse ImageOptimization Performance

Want some tips on optimizing your webpage/website and make it fast?
Want to know some handy tools in chrome dev tools?
Want some productivity tips?
Just follow him.

Tania Rascia

HTML CSS Javascript React.js Vue.js Node.js Bash Script SQL

Tania Rascia is a full-stack developer. She blogs mostly on modern Javascript, HTML, CSS, and everything web development-related.

Dan Abramov

Javascript React.js Redux CreateReactApp

Dan is known for his amazing contributions to JavaScript - Create React App and Redux - and his blog is known for long, insightful posts that cover unique areas of JavaScript and development in general.

Kent C. Dodds

Javascript React.js TypeScript Testing

Kent C. Dodds is a world-renowned speaker, teacher, and trainer and he’s actively involved in the open-source community as a maintainer and contributor of hundreds of popular npm packages. Kent is the creator of TestingJavaScript.com, Epic React and he’s an instructor on egghead.io and Frontend Masters. He’s also a Google Developer Expert.

Dr. Axel Rauschmayer

Javascript fundamentals

Dr. Axel Rauschmayer, author of many books on javascript like Exploring ES6, Javascript for impatient programmers, Exploring ES2018, and ES2019, regularly writes about the newest developments in Javascript's language specification and gives valuable advice for developers from all walks of life. A must-read blog if you ask me!

Tanay Pratap

Javascript HTML CSS React.js Web Development GraphQL Gatsby Typescript Redux Podcast Mentoring
Tanay Pratap is a software engineer at Microsoft. A great mentor and a teacher who teaches for free. Makes candidates job-ready through his Job Challenge and guidance. He also has a podcast and youtube channel.

Ahmad Awais

VS-code Git JAM-stack Node.js Wordpress

Ahmad Awais is an award-winning open-source engineer and a Google Developers Expert. Author of various open-source dev-tools and software libraries used by millions of developers worldwide. He’s known for his open-source community contributions in the Node.js Community Committee.

Robin Wieruch

Javascript React.js Redux Firebase GraphQL

Robin Wieruch is a german software engineer and freelancer located in Berlin. In recent years he has gained experience in single-page applications.

Swyx

Svelte React.js Typescript Netlify

Swyx has a lot of great posts and tutorials, and one of his most famous contributions to the web development zeitgeist is Learn in Public.

Khalil Stemmler

Node.js Typescript GraphQL Gatsby FunctionalProgramming Networking API

Khalil's blog posts are filling a very rare niche in web development, which is how to build large-scale applications properly, specifically with React, TypeScript, GrarphQL, and Node. He's bridging the gap between intermediate and advanced, which is a difficult area to cover.