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Developer Communities Every Developer should Join According to your niche.

Hillary Nyakundi on August 03, 2021

Alone, we can do so little; together, we can do so much. Helen Keller Over the past few years we have seen lots of devel...
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GrahamTheDev

Great list, any chance you could swap the <mark> around each section title for ## titleName to make it a proper heading. It makes life a lot easier for people using a screen reader and it also makes it easier to skim read the article and jump to sections.

A couple on that list I didn't know so I am off to check them out now! ❤🦄

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Hillary Nyakundi

Thanks,
I will definitely do that.

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GrahamTheDev

Super, I would unicorn and heart it again if I could, I wish all authors updated their posts that quickly! ❤

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Hillary Nyakundi

Thanks

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Oskar Codes

Additionally, there are several Discord servers where people share knowledge and help others, all the while contributing to their community.
An example for that would be SpeakJS, which focuses on JavaScript and web development.

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Hillary Nyakundi

Thanks for mentioning that.

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Siddharth • Edited

Could you suggest any others?

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Oskar Codes

Sure

Specific languages or technologies:

  • Python (235k members)
  • C# (24k members)
  • TypeScript Community (24k members)
  • Angular Community (13k members)
  • Together C & C++ (10k members)

Broad communities:

  • Game Dev Network (31k members)
  • The Programmer's Hangout (98k members)
  • Code Support (15k members)
  • Codecademy Community (29k members)
  • Devcord (31k members)
  • Microsoft Community (62k members)
  • The Coding Den (75k members)
  • CS Career Hub (22k members)
  • Brackeys Community (83k members)
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Brian Rinaldi

Good list! Thanks for compiling it. I have a few to share:

  • CFE.dev - I run this one and it has live meetups and events every couple of weeks (almost all are free). There's also 4 years worth of recordings available for free.
  • VirtualCoffee - This is a really welcoming community that is more focused on having people meet virtually and talk about development and tech.
  • Mintbean - A really great community focused on up-leveling the skills of Jr. Devs. They run a lot of virtual meetups and hackathons.
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Hillary Nyakundi

Thanks for adding up on the list.

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Simon Barker

Great list! IndieHackers has gone invite only (at least for a while due to some spam issues), I have a few I can give out if anyone is interested

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vakcin.me • Edited

Hi Simon

Hope you're fine in far north ;)

Seems I should register IndieHachers before going for hollidays this summer... :)

Do you still have some invitation code available?

It would be great to share

Regards

Rui

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Hillary Nyakundi

I think I am interested , the new rules were implemented a day ago before I could create an account.

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Simon Barker

Cool, shoot me a DM here or on twitter (@allthecode_) and I'll end you one 😀

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Swathi Dharshna S

I'm interested. I have been reaching out to the IH team, my emails go unanswered. Can you spare one?

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Jean-Michel 🕵🏻‍♂️ Fayard

Great list but it's missing the one I was looking for: community for back-end developers.

Any idea?

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Rachel Bourne

The Codecademy server on discord has a section for back-end. There's also a discord community called The Coding Den that has a mix of everything on there :)

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Hillary Nyakundi

Yes

  • there is the PHP one entioned in the article itself.
  • We have this facebook group, it can help too: facebook.com/Develcom/
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Chris Hansen

Great stuff 🔥 I just opened like 8 tabs and bookmarked 8 tabs ✌️ Let the learning together, growing together commence.

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Hillary Nyakundi

That's true, all the best.

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Sanjaay R.

replit?

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Hillary Nyakundi

Is it a community?
I didn't know. Thanks for the add.

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Sanjaay R.

ya it is a community

pretty good one too!

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hatch I.T.

I'll add the community for startup technologists (eg. software engineers/data scientists/product managers working in the startup space). Hatchpad myhatchpad.com

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Adrian Matei

On Codever you can also share with the community your bookmarks and code snippets if you choose to...