{"id":7256,"date":"2021-03-08T13:30:14","date_gmt":"2021-03-08T18:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/?p=7256"},"modified":"2021-03-08T12:53:08","modified_gmt":"2021-03-08T17:53:08","slug":"5-developer-communities-you-should-follow-in-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/2021\/03\/08\/5-developer-communities-you-should-follow-in-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Developer Communities You Should Follow in 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We&#8217;re three months into 2021 and things are looking up from a wild last year. Since we&#8217;re all glued to our computers for a bit longer, here are some developer communities that you should check out (if you are a coder). If you aren&#8217;t a coder, you may still find them interesting \ud83d\ude01.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">TLDR<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hashnode.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">HashNode<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.to\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Dev.to<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.codewars.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Codewars<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">GitHub<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Reddit<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hashnode.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">HashNode<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>HashNode&#8217;s focus is allowing developers to easily create their own blogs, and share knowledge with others. Blogs created in HashNode are customizable using their WYSIWYG editor. This is what sets HashNode apart from other like-communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.to\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Dev.to<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Dev.to is a social network, much like HashNode, but more collaborative. Users can do all the normal social media stuff like create posts, comment, like, etc. but there is more of it here than in HashNode.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.codewars.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Codewars<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Codewars is a community focused on presenting and solving challenges using using the language of your choice. It&#8217;s a great resource for learning new skills and languages, as well as seeing how others solve the same problems. It also brings some competition to the table, allowing users to team up and accumulate points for solving problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">GitHub<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>You may know GitHub as a way to manage a product&#8217;s source code, but did you know that you can also view <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/topics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">browse popular topics<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/trending\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">trending repos<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/explore\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">explore interesting repos<\/a>?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Reddit<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>If you are focused more on web development, these subreddits are a good start: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/webdev\/\">r\/WebDev<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/frontend\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">r\/frontend<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/web_design\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">r\/web_design<\/a>. If you aren&#8217;t focused on web development, Reddit also has communities for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/Python\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">many<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/cpp\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">different<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/C_Programming\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">languages<\/a>, as well as some <a href=\"http:\/\/reddit.com\/r\/programming\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">general purpose<\/a> and  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/shittyprogramming\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">humorous<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/programminghorror\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ones<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Bonus Mentions<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stackoverflow.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Stack Overflow<\/a> (yes it&#8217;s still relevant)<br><a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">HackerNews<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/hackernoon.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Hacker Noon<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/discord.com\/invite\/programming\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Programmers Hangout on Discord<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/discord.com\/invite\/code?ref=thehiveindex\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Coding Den on Discord<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re three months into 2021 and things are looking up from a wild last year. Since we&#8217;re all glued to our computers for a bit longer, here are some developer communities that you should check out (if you are a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/2021\/03\/08\/5-developer-communities-you-should-follow-in-2021\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">5 Developer Communities You Should Follow in 2021<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":7268,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[428,306,90,427,308],"class_list":{"0":"post-7256","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-academic-technology","8":"tag-community","9":"tag-development","10":"tag-featured","11":"tag-social-networking","12":"tag-web-development","14":"fallback-thumbnail"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/developers-developers-developers-developers-developers-developers-developers.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ph2nPL-1T2","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/70"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7256"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7269,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7256\/revisions\/7269"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}