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

13 points by gymshoes 5y ago ↗ HN

I was reading WCAG's accessibility success criteria pages and the OWASP cheat sheets and they both ar e something that one needs to read through atleast once.

What are some other documents that are a must-read?

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austincheney 5y 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/9c9f1a927cd57df14a59c26...

* https://prettydiff.com/2/guide/unrelated_dom.xhtml

* Web APIs - https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API

* RegExp - https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Guid...

* http - https://devhints.io/http-status

giantg2 5y 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 5y ago ↗

Why good commit messages matter.

https://chris.beams.io/posts/git-commit/#intro

rtkaratekid 5y ago ↗

For picking up language syntax quickly or reminding yourself when you're learning a new one: https://learnxinyminutes.com/

And then for more robust language/syntax support: https://rosettacode.org/wiki/Rosetta_Code

And for those who enjoy Vim but, like me, aren't masters quite yet. https://vim.rtorr.com/

seanwilson 5y 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

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/

jobigoud 5y ago ↗

What Every Programmer Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic

https://floating-point-gui.de/