Friday Finds: #dev-links

Oh, hey there, Friday Finds, where have you been hiding? We’re hereby reviving a good old A Color Bright tradition — our weekly round-up of interesting articles, products and pieces of work.

In keeping with our Slack, we’re going to split them up into three editions: #design-links; #dev-links; and #general for everything else we believe will be worthy of your time.

Here are this week’s most interesting #dev-links, collated by Alice Rose, Lauren Dorman, Theo Lampert and Philipp Bosch.

h/t @Shitty_Future

1. Curated list of falsehoods programmers believe in
   “Falsehood articles are a form of commentary on a particular subject, and are appreciated by the developer community at large for their effectiveness and terseness. They’re a convenient written form to approach an unfamiliar domain by dispelling myths, point out common pitfalls, show inconsistencies and subtleties.”
2. The Google Analytics Setup I Use on Every Site I Build
   Amazing in-depth article on how to make the best use of Google Analytics by Philip Walton, an engineer at Google, who has worked on Google Analytics for the past three years.
3. Shop Talk Show 250: Web Security with April King and Alex Sexton
   Interesting episode in which they’re going deep on front end security in particular.
4. React Helmet
   “This reusable React component will manage all of your changes to the document head with support for document title, meta, link, style, script, noscript, and base tags.”
5. yarn why <query>
   Nifty feature: “This command will identify why a package has been installed, detailing which other packages depend upon it, for example, or whether it was explicitly marked as a dependency in the package.json manifest.” (h/t @teropa)

Have a nice weekend everyone.