Dev.to is now open source

I was very surprised to open the gemfile and see a gem I wrote &quot;s3_direct_upload&quot; being used. Especially considering there is native support to upload files directly to s3 in rails 5.<p>Then I looked at the repo and realized, wow people are still using this gem, maybe I should maintain it.

Not only is the content great on that site, the performance of it is absolutely spectacular. It&#x27;s amazing how much people will jump to new fangled solutions when this site is a great example of what a well tuned Rails app can pull off from a UX perspective.

&quot;We run on a Rails backend with mostly vanilla JavaScript on the front end, and some Preact sprinkled in. One of our goals is to move to mostly Preact for our front end.&quot;<p>(what I consider the most interesting part)

It isn&#x27;t clear what dev.to is, so I was looking for the <i>About</i> page. The link is at the bottom of the page, on a site with infinite scrolling. WTF

This is a very cool approach to building a developer community: let developers contribute directly to the platform, both in code and in content.

Now somebody should make a PR to get rid of the nag notification for logged out users...

Just whatever you do on dev.to don&#x27;t ask hard questions to their AMA people. You&#x27;ll get shadowbanned for that. (Even if the person handles the question well)

It&#x27;s lovely to see a sane backend language being used instead of shitty Javascript.

For some time I was looking for a discovery mechanism in database topics.. so combining the usual tags yielded already a good blog I can follow. People can use their blog rss to crosspost, and the text contrast is friendly.

Awesome! Dev.to is a really nice community - I’m excited to see how this goes :).

This is all great, but their Readme.md doesn’t even explain what it is — they are just assuming that the reader knows!

Are the politics necessary?<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;thepracticaldev&#x2F;dev.to&#x2F;blob&#x2F;65110550d8c2231f73ff99ae305a46b7b0bcb4f9&#x2F;public&#x2F;offline.html#L90" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;thepracticaldev&#x2F;dev.to&#x2F;blob&#x2F;65110550d8c22...</a>

this looks like HN for devs in their 20&#x27;s

Congrats guys! Great move to open source the code.

Looks like the standard rails mess :&#x2F; Don&#x27;t get me wrong. From time to time i am going to look at other peoples rails code to learn, how they solved common problems in grown rails apps. Most oft the time i leave rather disappointed...<p>I like the spec for Comment#id_code_generated ;)

What is Dev.to?