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. ❤️
Link to the dev.to codebase README.
- What is dev.to?
- Table of Contents
- Getting Started
- Developer Documentation
- Extended Functionality
- Images
- Presentation
- Contributors
- Vulnerability disclosure
- License
This section provides a high-level quick start guide. If you're looking for the installation guide, you'll want to refer to the complete Developer Documentation.
The platform runs on a Rails backend, and is currently transitioning to a Preact-first frontend.
A more complete overview of the stack is available in the dev.to 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 the dedicated docs page for more technical documentation.
For this feature project, we help readers build a daily habit of reading a single article. When a registered user goes to their Settings page and clicks on the Notifications submenu, we've added a checkbox for that user to subscribe to receive a daily emailed article relevant to their tags.
When that option is checked, each day the user will receive an email from the app. We built out functionality to select a highly-read article (based on number of page views) matching a tag that the user follows that was posted in the last 14 days. Users subscribed to receive an email who are not following any tags are sent an article that matches all other article criteria.
Link to presentation, including a video demo of the added feature and additional context related to the project itself.
Backend
Frontend
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 [email protected].
Happy Coding ❤️