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r/webdev · 2022

Most-mentioned books in r/webdev during 2022

This page ranks books by exact tracked mentions in r/webdev within the published source unit for 2022. Counts come from the reconciled subreddit-by-month matrix; a source unit may be a bounded sample.

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Books ranked
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Tracked mentions in 2022
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Cover of Clean Code #1

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.

2 in 2022
Cover of Code Complete #2

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.

2 in 2022
Cover of Design Patterns #3

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.

2 in 2022
Cover of System Design Interview #4

System Design Interview

Alex Xu

You get handed a whiteboard and forty-five minutes to design something like TinyURL, and this is the crash course for surviving that conversation.

2 in 2022
Cover of The Design of Everyday Things #5

The Design of Everyday Things

Don Norman

A cognitive scientist argues that when you can't open a door or use a stove, the door and stove are broken — not you.

2 in 2022
Cover of The Mythical Man-Month #6

The Mythical Man-Month

Frederick P. Brooks Jr.

Fred Brooks managed IBM's late-1960s OS/360 project, then wrote the book explaining why adding more programmers only made it later.

2 in 2022
Cover of Clean Architecture #7

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.

1 in 2022
Cover of Continuous Delivery #8

Continuous Delivery

Jez Humble

The devops book the internet's most skeptical devops subreddit never actually argues with.

1 in 2022
Cover of Eloquent JavaScript #9

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.

1 in 2022
Cover of Grokking Algorithms #10

Grokking Algorithms

Aditya Y. Bhargava

A cartoon-illustrated walkthrough of binary search, sorting, and graphs aimed at people who bounced off Introduction to Algorithms.

1 in 2022
Cover of Think Like a Programmer #11

Think Like a Programmer

V. Anton Spraul

You know exactly what your budget app should do and still can't make yourself start typing; V. Anton Spraul wrote the book that breaks that freeze into steps.

1 in 2022