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?
Ask HN: Which technical guides or cheatsheets are a must read for a developer?
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#2WCAG 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
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#3Why good commit messages matter.
Re: Ask HN: Which technical guides or cheatsheets are a must read for a developer?
#4WCAG 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/thegitfa…
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.
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#5For 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/
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#6I 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/
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#7What Every Programmer Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic