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dev.to is now open source

Ben Halpern on August 08, 2018

Even though this release has been the culmination of a lot of hard work and hard thinking, this is not a finish line. It's a starting line. ...
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Ben Halpern

First merged open source PR goes to @_bigblind

👏👏👏👏👏

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Itachi Uchiha • Edited

Congrats Ben. I'm very excited because of dev.to open source. Now, I'm reviewing the code base of dev.to.

Thanks to all developers who contributed to dev.to. Most of the developer read dev.to articles. They improved themselves and I also improved myself thanks to dev.to.

:)

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Peter Kim Frank

Yes! A full-loop. dev.to helping people code better so (among other things) they can help dev.to. An awesome virtuous cycle.

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Ben Halpern

I hope you uncover some bugs 🐛 🤞

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Adam The Victini

Yummy bugs.

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Andrew Bone

bugs

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Christian Vasquez • Edited

I imagine the whole DEV team being like:

happy dancing

Right on time for my college semester break starting tomorrow :D

I'm super happy and excited for the future of this community!

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Ben Halpern

The reality is that we're more exhausted than everything. Post launch has been a matter of dealing with little things here and there all day, but...

It's pretty cool to be number one trending on GitHub

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rhymes

Wow!

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Christian Vasquez

Say wuuuuuuut!

Congratulations 👏👏👏

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freePean

wow

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Isaac Lyman

Congratulations!

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Ben Halpern

Thanks Isaac, you've been an awesome supporter in helping us get to this point.

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Mohammad Alahmadi

I'm so excited to check out PWA practices in the code base.
DEV has been the best PWA experience I ever had. I've been using
the App button to browse DEV on my phone and never actually going to
the website. I'm learning more on PWA and it's great to have an open
source project like DEV to learn from.

Thank you so much!

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Robert James Gabriel • Edited

Congrats Ben and everyone else!

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Ben Halpern

Thanks!

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Meghan (she/her)

Woohoo! Congrats everyone!

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Ben Halpern

Thanks Meghan! I think you’ve got the most decorated profile of anyone in the community in terms of badges.

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Meghan (she/her)

Woah, really? 😲😊 Aww thank you, I really love DEV 💖

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Domitrius

Congratulations guys and gals! So excited to be a part of this as it makes its rounds! Dev.to is going to continue to be THE space for breaking down barriers and being the legs to the table of the engineering community!

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George

Think it's about time I learn Ruby, great work everyone!

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Jess Lee

You don't have to know Ruby...but it might help 🙃

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George

It's a language I've been wanting to learn for a while, just never got round to it :p

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Bilal Budhani 👨‍💻

dev.to was the most anticipated OSS project for me. I just went through the code, There is just so much to learn from the architecture for delivery blazing fast & robust application. Thank you 🙏, Dev to team, for open sourcing it

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Oleksii Trekhleb

Congratulations! This is a huge step!

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Ben Halpern

Chasing after after your GitHub star count!

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Oleksii Trekhleb

I believe it won't take too long! :)

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Cosmin Popescu

👏👏

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Nans Dumortier

Congratulations, I was waiting for this day!

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Ben Halpern

That's great to hear!

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Roy Honders • Edited

I wonder how the progressive webapp is made with the full size icon. Whenever I make one there is a small chrome icon next to it. (on android, don't know about ios)
Anyone know how to get a PWA like dev.to?

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ItsASine (Kayla)

Congrats!

I'm looking forward to poking around and finding something to contribute. I have an idea of where to look, but I need to find the code first 😉

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Nick Taylor

Congrats team! Big milestone. Looking forward to making more contributions post-vacation.

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Jess Lee

Nick, thank you for being an awesome DEV member and contributor!
Have a great vacation :)

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Andrea Goulet

w00t! So excited for y’all. Thanks for the Corgibytes shout out. :)

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Jess Lee

We love Corgibytes!

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Jermaine

Great news Ben!

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Ben Halpern

Indeed

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John Luke Garofalo

This is super exciting! Nice work Ben, Jess, Peter (& everyone else)!

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Peter Kim Frank

Thanks, John!

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Ashok Mohanakumar

Congrats guys!!!! So happy to be part of Dev.to when you guys achieved this great milestones

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Ben Halpern

Thanks Ashok!

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Revendedora

Congratulations for open source to all the Dev.to team 🎉🎉 you are amazing! Keep up the good work

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Moe

Congats! Y'all been working hard on this!

also every time I refresh the page there is a new gif😂😂

dev open source gif ex

I'm just gonna keep refreshing the page until I see that Beyonce gif again 😆

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ItsASine (Kayla)

My current one is this one and it's perfect

Data Fist Pump

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Ben Halpern

It's the little things. 💖

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Rafael Romero

Congratulations for open source to all the Dev.to team 🎉🎉 you are amazing! Keep up the good work 🕺

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Quentin Sonrel

That's awesome, congrats!

I've been waiting for this, I was so hyped I even starred the repo yesterday... which make it the first repo I ever starred 😂 (never quite found a reason to star anything on GitHub)

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Jess Lee

haha awesome!!

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tranbathanhtung

Congrats team!!! I will learn ruby and this's really helpful for me ... Thanks you so much !!!

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John Alcher

Congratulations Ben and the rest of the team!

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Jess Lee

Thanks, John!!

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Raymond

It was good to make dev.to open-source as most of the open-source community enjoys using dev. The one thing I wish is that dev.to should be able to use SQLite databases so we can run it on less powerful containers.

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Robby Russell 🐘🚂

Congrats on the big release (to the community)!

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Aral Roca

Yeah! Congrats!

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Tosotada

This is so amazing! I love open source projects.

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Technical India Hind

Same here its awesome
Happy Diwali 2018 happydiwali2018rms.blogspot.com/

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Balabhadra Sahoo

Collections of pictures is worth a thousand words.
Happy Diwali

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Balabhadra Sahoo
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Pedro Nasser

Now we need the community to help to implement a REST API so we can start having fun with it ;)

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Chris Quinn

nice opening, this isn't the finish, it's the start, nailed it.

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Jamie Barton

Congrats!

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Waleed Barakat

Wow! I love opensource communities a lot. It helps me to share, exchange, and benefit from others. Thank you.

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Natapon Samsri

สำหรับผมชุมชนคือหัวใจหลัก

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Patrick Tingen

Hi and welcome to the community!
According to Google translate, you say that the community is the heart and I fully agree with you. For ease of communication though, it might be better to stick to English instead of Thai so everyone can read and understand your contributions

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rhymes

Thank you for the trust and congratulations on the release!

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John Edward Escuyos

Yey! :tada: Congrats!

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Charles D. Villard

This is so exciting to see! Congrats, everyone!

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Chinmay Joshi

Woohoo! Congratulation! 😎😎😎

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Daniel

Congratulations!

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Elad Cohen

Great! Congratulations!
Do you have any API that we can use to build a costumed client app?

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Alexandr K

sources have pretty good quality :) thank you for sharing!

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Jayme Edwards 🍃💻

Congrats y’all. It takes big courage to put your product out there for the masses!

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Ben Halpern

Thanks Jayme!

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Danny de Vries

Congrats 🎉 Really love how detailed the general readme and contributing guidelines are!

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Nick Cinger

Achievement unlocked! Congrats guys!

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Angeiͥͥͥͥͥͥͥͥͥͥͥͥͥͥ

That's something awesome

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Thomas Bnt ☕

Congrats !

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Matthieu Vion

I must say, the README is perfect, it has badges, clear explanation of technical requirements, etc...

I'm really excited to see what will happen with some OSS magic !

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TMcSquared

Congrats and Good luck! Open Source projects are awesome!

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Jess Lee

🙂🙂🙂🙂

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Khanh Tran

Congratulations!!
It's time to learn Ruby :))

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Ricky Januari

Congratulations, I was waiting for this day! :D

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Kyle Galbraith

Huge milestone, a big congrats to the entire team on this accomplishment. Maybe I can open a PR soon 😀

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Kasey Speakman • Edited

Congrats!

I understand the choice, but always 💔😞 to see AGPL.

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John shim

well, this is a Huge chance for me to advance my learning...

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Juan F Gonzalez

Congratulations guys! Haven't been long in here, a month or so, but I already feel at home with all the awesome people in this community. Great work to all you guys!

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Leighton Darkins

So rad! Congratulations, folks! ❤️

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sunnyIloveyou

能看懂中文吗

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Surjith S M

Where is this hosted? @ben

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Omar

It is nice to see a mobile application for this amazing comminty.

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Renan

Great approach. Thanks for the free source code and the free stickers that I have received.

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Victor.

awesome !

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bc0der

Yeah ! In FOSS We Trust !

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John Paul Ada

I hope this accelerates growth, feature-wise ❤️

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John Paul Ada

and congratulations! 💕

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Sharmen Akter

Thank you!

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Tailo Mateus Gonsalves

@ben , how do I see the number of posts views? Thanks.

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Ahmad Awais ⚡️

Congratulations, folks! 👌

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Thoby V ijishakin

Congratulations! Guys this is awesome.

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Sung M. Kim

Thank you and Congratulations~

woohoo

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Peter Kim Frank

Thanks, Sung! You've been a great member and I've really enjoyed reading your posts. You just had your one year DEV anniversary!

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Sung M. Kim

You're welcome.

It's because dev.to has been great to hang out on.

You just had your one year DEV anniversary!

🍰 Thank you.

Now I need to act my age 😝

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Haseeb Burki

This is really cool! I'm interested about the reasons which led to the choice of technology though!

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Belhassen Chelbi

This is amazing !

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LuisPa

Congrats to the dev.to team! Keep making awesome things, now together.

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Jan Wedel

Great move! Open source for a great and open community :)

If it wouldn't be Ruby, I'd certainly would like to contribute. I think I'll rewrite it in Elixir... :P

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Gabriel Guzman

Awesome!

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Brian Kephart

Congrats! I know this was a big undertaking.

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Kamal Mustafa

Congratulation guys !

Now looking into all the steps required to get up and running, I'm wondering no one mentioned docker yet ;)

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Anuj Sharma - eCommerce Developer

That's better .

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B Jacquet

Great move!

It also an opportunity for RoR new comers (like myself) to learn from a real living application.

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Johan • Edited

Congrats

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Muhammad

Congrats guys
I remember my first PR was related to a typo in dev to repo
Glad to be part of this awesome community

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Jitendra

dev.to is the most friendly, social, interactive and welcome place for developers. i find … too toxic and … too indifferent (not naming them particularly).

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daniel

Congratulations!

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Shrey Dabhi

@ben I would like to help out with the development of the Android app. Can we discuss the approach you are willing to take for the native app?

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Prathap Rathod

Can i have tutorial on how to install in heroke

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Arnelle Balane

Awesome! Congraaats!!! <3

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Dennis Ploeger

What a great effort and thanks so much for contributing to the open source community! Awesome stuff!

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Carlos Galarza

Great!

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Luis Miguel

Congrats!!!!

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phild

Wow that's really nice ! Thanks a lot !

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metalator • Edited

I want to be part of Dev...please teach me to practise and how to start it.Thanks

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Nuno Neves

Congratulations 🥳!

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Diógenes Polanco

congratulations now we can collaborate on dev.to

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dgloriaweb

What is a unicorn icon? The tooltips aren't really descriptive. :D

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David J Eddy

Awesome work and amazing faith in the FOSS community. Opening up your hard work and dreams to a community can be a scary proposition. The Dev.to and friends have done an amazing job.

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Albino Tonnina

Congratulations!! Way to go Ben!! 🚀
Looking forward to contribute!

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Wahyu Sumartha

Awesome,
Really looking forward to contribute on iOS Code :D