r/webdev · 2020

Most-mentioned books in r/webdev during 2020

This page ranks books by exact tracked mentions in r/webdev within the published source unit for 2020. Counts come from the reconciled subreddit-by-month matrix; a source unit may be a bounded sample.

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Tracked mentions in 2020

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Cover of Clean Code

Clean Code

Robert C. Martin

Robert Martin's case that unreadable functions are a discipline failure, not an inevitability, argued one renamed variable and one extracted method at a time.

Cover of Eloquent JavaScript

Eloquent JavaScript

Marijn Haverbeke

Marijn Haverbeke's free JavaScript book teaches closures and recursion, then has its own author admit he wouldn't wish a game-programming career on anyone.

Cover of You Don't Know JS

You Don't Know JS

Kyle Simpson

A front-end director tells a career-change hopeful to stop skimming tutorials and actually learn how JavaScript works underneath React.

Cover of Clean Architecture

Clean Architecture

Robert C. Martin

Robert Martin's rule: business logic sits at the center of the system, frameworks and databases plug in at the edges, never the other way around.

Cover of Design Patterns

Design Patterns

Erich Gamma

Four authors catalog twenty-three recurring object-oriented problems in 1994 and hand every future code review the same argument to have.

Cover of Refactoring

Refactoring

Martin Fowler

Martin Fowler's method for restructuring code's internals without anyone outside noticing that anything changed at all.

Cover of The Pragmatic Programmer

The Pragmatic Programmer

Andy Hunt

Two working programmers write down the shop habits senior engineers use so junior ones stop reinventing them badly.

Cover of Code Complete

Code Complete

Steve McConnell

Steve McConnell's seven-hundred-page argument that construction, not design or testing, is where most software quality is actually won or lost.

Cover of Implementing Domain-Driven Design

Implementing Domain-Driven Design

Vaughn Vernon

Vaughn Vernon rewrites Eric Evans' domain-driven design into something an actual team can implement without a whiteboard consultant.

Cover of Test-Driven Development: By Example

Test-Driven Development: By Example

Kent Beck

Kent Beck writes a failing test, makes it pass, then refactors — and shows you the keystrokes, not the theory.

Cover of Working Effectively with Legacy Code

Working Effectively with Legacy Code

Michael C. Feathers

A consultant walks into a five-year-old codebase with zero tests and a deadline, and writes the manual for surviving exactly that.