Last weekend I got curious: what's actually trending on DEV.TO in 2025?
So I wrote a Go script, hit the API, and pulled 1,600 featured articles. Then I built an infographic to visualize the data.
Here's what I found:
AI is everywhere
The #ai tag appears in 33% of all articles. Add related tags like #machinelearning, #llm, and #agents, and you're looking at 40%+ of content being AI-related.
2025 is definitely the year AI took over the dev conversation.
The numbers
- 1,600 articles
- 54,716 reactions
- 19,543 comments
- 7,084 minutes of reading time (that's ~5 days straight)
Average article: 4.4 min read, 12 comments, 34 reactions.
December was crazy
336 articles in December alone — 47% more than November. Year-end retrospectives and 2026 planning posts everywhere.
April was the quietest month with only 71 articles.
Top tags after AI
- ai (530)
- webdev (397)
- programming (287)
- discuss (244)
- javascript (152)
JavaScript still holding strong, but AI content is 3.5x more common.
The infographic
I put everything into an interactive infographic with animated charts, tag clouds, and top articles by engagement.
Check it out: devto-2025/
Built with Go backend and vanilla JS + Tailwind. No frameworks, no npm install, just straightforward code.
The data was collected via the official DEV.TO API (Forem). Only featured articles from 2025 were included.
Curious about anything specific in the data? Drop a comment.
Top comments (3)
Interesting stats
Wow, very impressive! 🙌
Highly interesting. I was about to ask top authors and then I caught it. So easy to read. Thanks.