Places to Search
- Google (😁)
- Github
- Stack Exchange (Overflow, etc.)
- Dev (Dev.to)
- SlideShare
- YouTube
- Reddit (last resort, 🤷♂️)
Other Cheatsheets (and Cheatsheet Collections)
- devhints.io
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- Not really cheatsheets, but puts all the docs from various languages/libs together into one searchable app
- javascript.info
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- Dictionary for JS jargon
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- "Illustrated explanations" of dev concepts, by Maggie Appleton
- Ali Spittel's Coding Cheat Sheets
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Nabeel Valley: Docs
- Max Antonucci: Exocortext
- Stefan Judis: TIL - Today I Learned
- Cyanhall Cheatsheets
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Zander Martineau - Notes
- Yeongho Kim (aka yeonghoey) - /index
- secretGeek: til.secretgeek.net
- Josh Branchaud: jbranchaud/til
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simpl.info (Sam Dutton)
- Very cool collection of minimal / MVP examples of different web APIs, concepts, etc.
- "JavaScript Deep Dive to Crack The JavaScript Interviews"
Lists / Collections
- free-for.dev (Free tiers of various platforms / tools)
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Misc Collections
- sindresorhus/awesome - Meta/master collection of "awesome" lists
- Tiny Helpers (Single purpose online tools for web dev)
- @JoshWComeau's thread of free dev resources
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mrmartineau/awesome-web-dev-resources - Collection of web dev tools, packages, resources, etc.
- Kind of similar to my elevator pitches page - each resource has a short sentence describing it.
- webgems.io - Assorted collection of links to dev resources... kind of random.
- "Api Coding" - Collection of APIs to integrate into your next project
- "Everything.js" - A collection of (mostly) client-side JS libraries, and sentence or two about each
- uhub/awesome-javascript - Another "awesome" collection of JS libraries, with blurbs for each
- bestofjs.org - Collection of JS, HTML, and CSS libs. Helpful in that you can browse by tag, and refine with combinations.
- Google Codelabs - Hundreds of guided tutorials, covering their own products (Firebase, Android, etc), as well as general topics (building a PWA, )
Web Dev
- MDN Web Dev Docs
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- Excellent cheatsheet / starting point for web security: /guidelines/web_security
- javascript.info
- Alligator.io
- CSS Tricks
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- Get his FREE ebooks!!! Link
- Scotch.io (aggregate)
- ZeroToMastery - resources page
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- Collection of the "quirky" parts of JS
- YT: Fun, Fun, Function (Anything JS related)
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Fireship 🔥
Comparing programming languages and frameworks
- For some general framework overviews and comparison, make sure to check out my elevator pitches page.
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A great resource for comparing across languages and frameworks is the TodoMVC approach. The idea is to improve upon the "hellow world" baseline (echoing out a string) and have the baseline be a simple todo tracker page. Then, have complete code examples for each language / framework.
- There is the original TodoMVC, which covers JavaScript frameworks, here
- There is also Todo-Backend, which covers different options and languages for building backends, such as .NET Core
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- A collection of the same scripts (based on a famous story) written in multiple different languages
- Similar to TodoMVC, but even more succinct - each script is simplistic and short, so it is good way to compare across languages
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- A "real-world" example app (Medium.com clone) for any combination of popular front-end and back-end stacks.
- You can mix and match front-end with back-end
Books
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Web Dev
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Principles of Object-Oriented Programming in JavaScript, by Nicholas Zakas - Link, Amazon
- Covers a lot of important fundamentals, but also is written in an extremely approachable way - makes a good refresher / reference as well
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"You Don't Know JS" - Link
- Open-source book series by Kyle Simpson aka getify
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JavaScript for Impatient Programmers by Dr. Axel Rauschmayer (aka 2ality)
- Free to read online!
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Front-End Masters: Front-end Developer Handbook
- 2019 Edition: Github, Free Read Online
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Electronics / engineering
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Practical Electronics for Inventors, by Scherz and Monk - Amazon
- This book is awesome; the ultimate condensed electronics guide and reference.
- Written so that not much, if any, prior knowledge of electronics is necessary: A-Z is covered in varying levels of detail
- Great for getting started with building random hobby projects (Arduino, etc.)
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Dev Community
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Twitter!
- Tons of great accounts to follow
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Hashtags:
- dev.to
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Slack / Discord
- tech-community-slacks
- Dev Exchange (C# focused)
- CodeEveryday
- junior-devs (Telegram)
- Many frameworks have their own discords, so just Google for them (for example, Vue, Gatsby, etc.)
- Documentation: "Write the Docs"
- Check for local meetups
Newsletters
- Sebastian De Deyne: Growing the Stack