Top 9 Books That Every Web Developer Needs to Read in 2020

Bring your code and architecture to the next level, step away from tutorials, and read these essential books on clean code, larger application architectures, and fundamental software design.

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The Startup

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This article is more written towards the web (application-)developer since there tons of dry coding books. This is an essential list of books every developer should own and read someday.

The first list of books is not specifically web related but rather for coding in general. A lot of examples are written in languages you are either not familiar with or not interested in, but I noticed that reading those books and being open to other visions of different languages really improved my coding and ability to think like a developer.

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The tutorial pit-fall

A lot of junior and middle developers get stuck in the land of tutorials and walkthroughs. While this is a great way to introduce yourself to an idea, a language, or just get the job done, it also keeps you stuck at a certain level.

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kay in t veen
The Startup

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