Welcome to the dev.to codebase. We are so excited to have you. With your help, we can build out DEV to be more stable and better serve our community.
dev.to (or just DEV) is a platform where software developers write articles, take part in discussions, and build their professional profiles. We value supportive and constructive dialogue in the pursuit of great code and career growth for all members. The ecosystem spans from beginner to advanced developers, and all are welcome to find their place within our community. ❤️
- What is dev.to?
- Table of Contents
- Contributing
- Getting Started
- Developer Documentation
- Core team
- Vulnerability disclosure
- License
We encourage you to contribute to dev.to! Please check out the Contributing to dev.to guide for guidelines about how to proceed.
This section provides a high-level quick start guide. If you're looking for the installation guide, you'll want to refer to our complete Developer Documentation.
We run on a Rails backend, and we are currently transitioning to a Preact-first frontend.
A more complete overview of our stack is available in our docs.
- Ruby: we recommend using rbenv to install the Ruby version listed on the badge.
- Yarn 1.x: please refer to their installation guide.
- PostgreSQL 9.4 or higher.
- ImageMagick: please refer to ImageMagick's installation instructions.
- Redis 4 or higher.
- Elasticsearch 7 or higher.
View Full Installation Documentation.
Check out our dedicated docs page for more technical documentation.
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- @rhymes
- @jacobherrington
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- @atsmith813
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- @juliannatetreault
- @ridhwana
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We welcome security research on DEV under the terms of our vulnerability disclosure policy.
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. Please see the LICENSE file in our repository for the full text.
Like many open source projects, we require that contributors provide us with a Contributor License Agreement (CLA). By submitting code to the DEV project, you are granting us a right to use that code under the terms of the CLA.
Our version of the CLA was adapted from the Microsoft Contributor License Agreement, which they generously made available to the public domain under Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal.
Any questions, please refer to our license FAQ doc or email yo@dev.to.
Happy Coding ❤️
- Learn and apply strategies for understanding how to analyze a large, existing code base
- Apply strategies for reading and evaluating documentation
- Explore and implement new concepts, patterns, or libraries that have not been explicitly taught while at Turing
- Practice an advanced, professional git workflow
- Added functionality to allow users to subscribe to daily DEV emails. This is found in the users notification settings. The email consists of a hot article relating to the users followed tags. If the user has no followed tags, the user will receive that days hottest article.
- Added email_daily_dev boolean column to the Users table. Default value of this column is false. If email_daily_dev is true the user has elected into daily emails.
- Overflowing team positivity/moral.
- Completed our MVP.
- Problem solved effectively.
- FE was able to understand BE workflow.
- Initial setup involved multiple new tools.
- Diving into a new code base.
- Finding and understanding what files were needed.
- Navigating the rebase process.
- Lain McGrath
- Caleb Haizlett
- Jordan Holtkamp