Top 10 Web Development Tweets that Broke the Internet in 2017

Check out the biggest tweets of the year for web devs. Think we missed one? Let us know in the comments.

The season of Top-10-whatever is upon us. You thought the list would be topped by non-other than Brenan Eich? Nope. Not him. The man is just not that much into tweeting, more just retweeting interesting stuff. Or maybe John Resig to top the list? Again, nope.  The ultimate list is below!

Full disclosure – even after spending more time on collecting this list than I dare to admit, I could have missed a popular tweet. If you recall a tweet that lit up the Web Development and JavaScript world, please drop me a comment below and I promise to edit the list.

Let us know what you think of these popular tweets by voting for your favorites right below each name.

 Now, without further ado, after adding the number of retweets and favorites ….

10. Addy Osmani

JavaScript & CSS code coverage are out of experiments in @ChromeDevTools. Useful for discovering potential size savings in your bundles ✂️🔥 pic.twitter.com/Mfu3yrO6ka

— Addy Osmani (@addyosmani) April 3, 2017

9. Wes Bos

🔥 The next version of VS code will automatically add your import statements as you use functions from your project pic.twitter.com/hk2vwcaoOy

— Wes Bos 🔥 (@wesbos) October 30, 2017

8. Yehuda Katz.

Front end software development is:

- real-time (instant load, 60fps)
- distributed, incremental (synchronize remote data as needed)
- asynchronous
- reactive (react to user actions in realtime)

Front end is the hardest kind of dev I do. The folks who do it every day are heroes.

— Yehuda Katz (@wycats) November 14, 2017

7. ReactJS

We just released React 16. Thanks to all our contributors! 🎉 https://t.co/HhDbgp3Ii4

— React (@reactjs) September 26, 2017

6. Netflix UI Engineers

Removing client-side React.js (but keeping it on the server) resulted in a 50% performance improvement on our landing page pic.twitter.com/vM7JhWhYKu

— Netflix UI Engineers (@NetflixUIE) October 26, 2017

5. Matt Smith

I snuck this little #CSS gem into a project stylesheet to help the team remember #accessibility. 😎 #WebDev pic.twitter.com/48kMmTaPoW

— Matt Smith (@AllThingsSmitty) November 15, 2017

4. Sergey Berezhnoy

JavaScript frameworks benchmarks pic.twitter.com/Tv8RLLanQl

— Sergey Berezhnoy (@veged) December 10, 2016

3. Wassim Chengham aka WASM

understanding async/await in 7 seconds pic.twitter.com/IJOQJ2DR35

— Wassim Chegham シ (@manekinekko) April 22, 2017

2. I Am Developer

1/3 of US bandwidth is used by Netflix...

the rest is used by `rm -rf node_modules && npm install`

— I Am Devloper (@iamdevloper) September 14, 2017

1. React

We're relicensing React, Jest, Flow, and Immutable.js under the MIT license. https://t.co/3XD0z49UsS

— React (@reactjs) September 22, 2017

And the winner is...

Burke Holland

Why, you may ask? We just love Burke. We own the list, so here is to you B!

My absolute fav @code shortcut is ⌘ + Shift + C: Opens terminal in the current project directory. pic.twitter.com/kOi6xpO90G

— Burke Holland (@burkeholland) September 15, 2017

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