12 Front End Developers to Follow on Twitter

Felipe Plets Uncategorized 25 de November de 2020 | 0

My first paid venture as a Software Developer was a website shop, I had no name for it, but would sell online websites built with HTML (version 3.2 and soon the updated version 4.01), CSS (version 2), and JavaScript (version ES3). The tools needed to build it were Notepad, Microsoft FrontPage and later Macromedia Dreamweaver. Those were my first years building code that would run on IE5, IE6 and sometimes on Netscape or Opera.

Although the tools, standards, frameworks and patterns had evolved A LOT in the last 20 years there is one thing that did not changed and that is one of the lessons I’ve learned as a software developer:

Code is made by people for people.

One of the most important tools you have to keep relevant after 20 years and understand the different aspects is follow people that are shaping the future of the industry and engage into discussions and collaboration so yourself will also take part on building the future, that is why I want to share 12 profiles I recommend to follow on Twitter from people I follow and share great content.

1. Dan Abramov

@dan_abramov: I didn’t make @reactjs • Please ask technical questions on GitHub issues rather than in mentions • http://JustJavaScript.com • he/him

Should I keep something in React component state? I made a small cheatsheet. pic.twitter.com/W4lebiOoMp
— Dan Abramov (@dan_abramov) July 3, 2016

2. Henri Helvetica

@HenriHelvetica: dev, devilry, design, denim & #devsWhoRun. @ToWebPerf/@JAMstackTORONTO curator. creator of @RapperTurnedDev.

🚨 Did you know the IMG tag was introduced 25 yrs ago TODAY on Nov 24th 🎂🎉, as part of the HTML 2.0 spec -or- RFC 1866. In celebration, I’d like to release the videos from IMAGE READY, a series of talks on modern images, recorded Oct 2. A thread ⬇ #imageReady pic.twitter.com/nreb3AiNyz
— Henri Helvetica 👩🏾‍🚀 (@HenriHelvetica) November 24, 2020

3. Joel Denning

@Joelbdenning: #BlackLivesMatter. JavaScript enthusiast. Author of single-spa, maintainer of SystemJS. Independent consultant (hire me!)

The hardest part of programming is often just figuring out how to do it incrementally.
— Joel Denning (@Joelbdenning) October 22, 2020

4. Justin Fagnani

@justinfagnani Web components, lit-html & LitElement with the Polymer Project at Google. Views all mine.

One thing I love about the "noise" of the ? symbol in optional chaining and nullish coalescing in JS is that it's a direct visual indicator of the amount of uncertainty you have in your objects.

To reduce the noise, increase the certainty. That's usually good all around.
— Justin Fagnani (@justinfagnani) November 17, 2020

5. Kevin Kreuzer

@kreuzercode: @GoogleDevExpert in #Angular, #blogger, #Javascript enthusiast. Writer for @AngularInDepth.

Just compared the time needed to run 700 unit tests with Karma or #Jest on my local machine.

Karma: 7 minutes and 20 seconds
Jest: 3 minutes and 40 seconds
— Kevin Kreuzer (@kreuzercode) September 30, 2020

6. Lauren Stephenson

@CompSciLauren: Software Engineer. Interned @CernerEng. Open Sourcerer. Tech blogger. 1st Gen CS Major Dec 2020. Plant parent. JavaScript, React, a11y, UX, Git. She/Her

Did you know?

git diff –staged
git diff –cached

are two different ways to do the same thing (doing a diff on any files that have been added or "staged" but not yet committed). I think most people use –staged? Maybe not the most useful fact, but maybe a fun little tidbit.
— Lauren Stephenson (@CompSciLauren) November 2, 2020

7. Manfred Steyer

@ManfredSteyer: Speaker, Trainer, Consultant and Author with focus on Angular. Google Developer Expert (GDE) and Microsoft MVP.

ICYMI: Announcing 🥳 v1.2 of our #ModuleFederation plugin

Makes #MicroFrontends w/ #Angular a pice of 🍰

New features
✅ Sharing libs of a monorepo
✅ Dynamic Module Federation
✅ Updated tutorial in readmehttps://t.co/NIQS8XiYNZ
— Manfred Steyer (@ManfredSteyer) November 24, 2020

8. Steve Kinney

@stevekinney: Frontend architect: @twilio && @sendgrid; organizer: @dinosaur_js; author: http://bit.ly/electronjs; instructor: @frontendmasters; formerly: @turingschool.

For many of us in the software industry, you're job is to make change. That change could be:

– Improving maintainability,
– Shipping features,
– Improving efficiency,
– Empowering your team,
– Changing the world.

What is the change you want to make? How can you best make it?
— Steve Kinney (@stevekinney) August 14, 2020

9. Tobias Koppers

@wSokra: founder of webpack – webpack core team

EcmaScript Modules to CommonJS interop is complex, inconsistent and different between tools.

Here is an overview how inconsistent and different:https://t.co/J3ipCVA5Vo
— Tobias Koppers (@wSokra) November 18, 2020

10. Tomas Trajan

@tomastrajan: Maker @releasebutler & Medium Stats http://bit.ly/2DabniF – Co-organizer of @AngularZurich Meetup

Always try to implement stuff with the least amount of concepts and as readable as possible 🔥

💎 keep it simple

✅ less abstraction
✅ less libs
✅ less concepts
✅ less extentionability

✅ easy to evolve in the future!#frontend #angular #kiss
— Tomas Trajan 🐻🇨🇭 (@tomastrajan) November 3, 2020

11. Zack Jackson

@ScriptedAlchemy: Principal Engineer @lululemon. Maintainer of @webpack & co-creator of #ModuleFederation, Universal, mini-css. #Distributed #JavaScript #Orchestration at scale.

In the theory you could wire module federation up directly to client side performance feeds. With an internal remote module from the host, you could control how and what parts of an application start – this could lead to performance-aware application controllers
— Zack Jackson (@ScriptedAlchemy) November 24, 2020

12. Felipe Plets

Yes, I feel I couldn’t leave myself out from this list 🙂

I don’t recollect ever building software alone.

Even the projects I’ve coded alone, I’ve always had people to talk about the idea, to code review, to ask opinion, to use the software and give feedback.

Remember: software development is a team game. And there is no I in team.
— Felipe Plets (@FelipePlets) November 21, 2020

I hope you have enjoyed the list and you start following some of the people I’ve mentioned. Let me know if you like it and feel free to recommend the developers you follow that are making the difference too.

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