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Ask HN: Which technical guides or cheatsheets are a must read for a developer?

• austincheney 6y ago
  WCAG and OWASP indicate web development, probably front-end development. You will want to learn the standard DOM methods. Walking the DOM as a tree structure as opposed to treating it as a database to query will increase your application capabilities. Learning to access the DOM without parsing a selector string will make your application many thousands of this new faster. I suggest: * https://gist.github.com/thegitfather/9c9f1a927cd57df14a59c268f118ce86 https://gist.github.com/thegitfather/9c9f1a927cd57df14a59c26... * https://prettydiff.com/2/guide/unrelated_dom.xhtml https://prettydiff.com/2/guide/unrelated_dom.xhtml * Web APIs - https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API * RegExp - https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Guide/Regular_Expressions/Cheatsheet https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Guid... * http - https://devhints.io/http-status https://devhints.io/http-status
  • giantg2 6y ago
    I only worked on front-end stuff for a year, but I can say walking the DOM and learning more about it was probably one of the most useful things.
• animesh 6y ago
  Why good commit messages matter. https://chris.beams.io/posts/git-commit/#intro https://chris.beams.io/posts/git-commit/#intro
• rtkaratekid 6y ago
  For picking up language syntax quickly or reminding yourself when you're learning a new one: https://learnxinyminutes.com/ https://learnxinyminutes.com/ And then for more robust language/syntax support: https://rosettacode.org/wiki/Rosetta_Code https://rosettacode.org/wiki/Rosetta_Code And for those who enjoy Vim but, like me, aren't masters quite yet. https://vim.rtorr.com/ https://vim.rtorr.com/
• seanwilson 6y ago
  I would say Google's Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Starter Guide is essential for frontend developers: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/7451184?hl=en https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/7451184?hl=en I maintain my own guide of concise webdev tips that's mostly distill from and links to recommendations from OWASP, Mozilla and Google which you might find a good jumping-off point: https://www.checkbot.io/guide/ https://www.checkbot.io/guide/
• jobigoud 6y ago
  What Every Programmer Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic https://floating-point-gui.de/ https://floating-point-gui.de/