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Wix Studio Challenge: Community Edition
Flex your JavaScript skills while leveraging the Wix Studio developer platform!
Running through October 27, Wix Studio Challenge: Community Edition invites you to leverage the power of Wix Studio to build your dream community platform. This challenge is an opportunity to showcase your JavaScript skills while leveraging the Wix Studio developer platform to create a meaningful project for your portfolio.
Ania Kubów will be returning as our guest judge. With her extensive experience as a software developer, educator, and popular YouTuber, Ania brings a wealth of knowledge to the table. Showcase your work to one of the software’s most respected voices!
There is one prompt for this challenge, with one lucky and talented winner.
- $3,000 USD
- 6-month DEV++ membership
- Exclusive DEV Badge
- A gift from the DEV Shop
All Participants with a valid submission will receive a completion badge on their DEV profile.
Sponsored by Wix Studio
Wix Studio is an intuitive web platform for creative, fast-paced teams at agencies and enterprises to create, develop and manage exceptional web projects with hyper-efficiency. Agencies get advanced design capabilities, extensive AI solutions, flexible dev tools and custom CSS for complete creative control. Combined with an integrated workspace, the platform provides everything needed for a super seamless workflow.
Key Dates
- Contest start: October 16, 2024
- Submissions due: October 27, 2024
- Winners announced: October 29, 2024
Badge Rewards
Winners
Congratulations to our Wix Studio Challenge: Community Edition winners! Read the full announcement post here.
Build Your Dream Community Platform
Challenge Prompt
Build Your Dream Community Platform
For this challenge, your mission is to build your dream community platform on Wix Studio - a digital space that enables groups of people with shared interests, goals, or characteristics to interact, collaborate, and engage with each other online.
With Wix Studio, you can rapidly build a tailored platform to meet your community’s exact needs by leveraging Wix Apps and their associated Velo APIs. Launching a community app also requires considering many factors including scalability, reliability, performance, and security, so we are excited for you to experience Wix Studio's built-in infrastructure and adaptability!
Judging Criteria:
- Use of Underlying Technology
- Usability and User Experience
- Accessibility
- Creativity
Wix Studio Challenge: Community Edition FAQ
Participation
Can I submit to the prompt more than once?
Yes, you can submit multiple submissions to the prompt but you’ll need to publish a separate post for each submission.
Can I work on a team?
Yes, you can work on teams of up to four people.
- If you collaborate with anyone, you’ll need to list their DEV handles in your submission post so we can award a badge to your entire team! Please only publish one submission per team.
- DEV does not handle prize-splitting, so in the event that your submission wins the shop gift, you will need to split that amongst yourselves. Thank you for understanding!
How old do I have to be to participate?
Participants need to be 18+ in order to participate.
If I live in X, am I eligible to participate?
For eligibility rules, see our official challenge rules.
Submission
Can my submission include open source code?
Riffing on open source code and borrowing and improving on previous work/ideas is encouraged but it’s important your changes are significant enough to ensure your submission is valid.
When does riffing become plagiarism?
It will depend, but transparency is important, license compatibility is important. You can use someone else’s code to give you a jumpstart to demonstrate your ideas on top of someone else’s base, but not just re-package the base. It should be clear to the judges what you added to the project in terms of the code and conceptual inspiration. This means, you should clearly state what you were building on and what elements are original to this new submission. When building on existing code, we expect a significant change that adds something tangible to the output. i.e. a new animation, and new sprite, a new function, a new presentation. Not just changes to the source - i.e. changing colours, changing one sprite, changing one function.
What happens if my submission is considered plagiarized or invalid?
Anything deemed to be plagiarism will not be eligible for prizes. Incidental plagiarism may simply result in your disqualification from the challenge (regardless of the number of other valid submissions you have published). Egregious plagiarism will result in your suspension from DEV entirely. Any non-generic, non-trivial usage of prior work, including open source code must be credited in your submission.
Do submissions have to be in English?
Non-english submissions are eligible for a completion badge but not eligible for prizes due to the current limitations of our judges. We will not be judging on mastery of the English language, so please don’t let this deter you from submitting if you are not a native English speaker! We hope to evolve this in the future to be more accommodating.
Do I need a license for my code?
You are not required to license your code but we strongly recommend that you do. Here are some you may consider: MIT, Apache, BSD-2, BSD-3, or Commons Clause.
Can I use AI?
Use of AI is allowed as long as all other rules are followed. In fact, the Wix IDE offers a powerful AI assistant you can leverage. Wix Studio is a platform designed to allow you to be a productive developer which includes the ability to use third party APIs and integrations.
We want to give you a chance to show off your skills in realistic scenarios. If you use AI tools to help you achieve your submission, all the power to you.
How do I embed my project directly into my DEV post?
Our editor supports many types of embeds, including: Stackbliz, Glitch, Github, etc. You can typically use the {% embed https://... %}
syntax directly in the post. Click here for more information on our markdown support.
- For CodePen, you will need to use this syntax:
{% codepen http://... %}
- For CodeSandbox, you will need to use this syntax:
{% codesandbox http://... %}
Judging and Prizing
Can there be ties?
In the event of a tie in scoring between judges, the judges will select the entry that received the highest number of positive reactions on their DEV post to determine the winner.
How will I know if I won?
The winner will be announced in a DEV post on the winner announcement date noted in our key dates section.
When will winner(s) receive their Forem Shop gift?
The DEV Team will contact you via the email associated with your DEV profile within, at most, 10 business days of the announcement date to share the details of the shop gift.
When will I receive my DEV badge?
Both participation and winner badges will be awarded, in most cases, the same day as the winner announcement.
When will I receive my prizes? The DEV Team will contact you via the email associated with your DEV profile within, at most, 10 business days of the announcement date to share the details of claiming your prizes.
What steps do I need to take to receive my cash prize?
The winner (including each member of a team) may be required to sign and return an affidavit of eligibility and publicity/liability release, and provide any additional tax filing information (such as a W-9, social security number or Federal tax ID number) within seven (7) business days following the date of your first email notification.
Wix Studio Challenge: Community Edition Rules
NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. Open only to 18+. Contest entry period ends October 27, 2024 at 11:59 PM PDT. Contest is void where prohibited or restricted by law or regulation. All entires must be submitted during the content period. For Official Rules, see Wix Studio Challenge: Community Edition Contest Rules and General Contest Official Rules.