Welcome to the results announcement of by and HackerNoon. This contest is part of our mini writing contest series launched in the month of April. Let’s see who won 🎉 JavaScript File Handling Writing Contest FileStack The Javascript File Handling Contest: Top 10 Nominations For selecting the top 10 nominations, we picked all the stories with the tag on HackerNoon, published in April. Then we chose the top stories using a 60:30:10 weightage ratio for: javascript-file-handling Number of hours read The number of people reached The freshness of the content Here’s the list of the top 10 stories: by Exploring Monads in JavaScript for File Handling @maksimmuravev by Next-Level JavaScript File Handling: Advanced Techniques and Patterns @induction by How After 400 Hours, Lifting 2MB Limit Drastically Increased Sales @tomaszs by Handling Files on the Web: A Deep Dive @psuranas by Javascript File Handling: 11 Golden Rules to Follow as a Programmer @karanravval by Why I Use Filestack for JavaScript File Handling @diecast343 by JavaScript Security: Mitigating Vulnerabilities for Safer Web Development by Maximizing Accessibility in Your Web App with Filestack @sundayadenekan176 by How to Detect Malicious JavaScript Code @induction by Filestack API — Everything You Need to Know @RAHULISM The winner #Javascript-File-Handling story with almost 5500+ reads and highest number of votes is: https://hackernoon.com/exploring-monads-in-javascript-for-file-handling?embedable=true A monad is an abstraction over a chain of related computations. A container that takes the current state and a function that takes that state as an argument and returns the new state. Sounds hard? Not yet… 🙃 This container encapsulates the environment (context) for performing calculations, taking into account possible exceptions. The output is only the expected values. In general, just a “monoid in the category of endofunctors” (c). I hope now it’s clear 🧌 Well-deserved win, @ ! You have won $1000! We will contact you with the next steps to claim the prize shortly. maksimmuravev Shoutout to all the writers who participated in the contest! Keep an eye on for running and upcoming contests! contests.hackernoon.com