Hey guys, I wanted to showcase my latest project: A DEV clone.
Why I made it
My motivation behind the project was simple: I had learnt...
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Quite impressive
Thanks a lot, Ben!
Hey Ben you are here.
How's everything going man?
Things are good, you?
Glad to hear,I'm also doing good.
Impressive !
Quite ballsy of you to post about it on dev.to
But, amazing work
Hahaha!
Well, Ben approved it so it's all good :)
A beautiful attempt! Well done
Great job. Have a look at abstracting logic from your controllers and writing tests!
Yes, I plan to refactor code and add tests.
Thanks!
Nice!
Woah nice!
Thanks!
No problem! This is really impressive
Incredible that must have taken a long time to perfect π€©
looks like we got a twin for dev.to . well done mate!
Awesome
Woah!!
Wow! That's incredible!
Really neat project and well written summary!
Unicorn (I believe)eans it is a one-of-a-kind article that is of extremely rare quality.
BRUTAL!!!!!
Congrats bro. I'll like be like you when I growth up. π€
Awesome! Fantastic aesthetics too!
This is Awesome!!!!β¨π₯β€
Whoa awesome!
Very impressive. Thanks for sharing.
Stunning man !
impressive brother
impressive
Awesome! π
Woaaaaah this one is tooooo good!
I cloned your clone as well.
Thanks.
Okey I see you cloned a website to make look alike and now what with that effort? I am curious because you spent a lot of time and was it productive? I understand to spend dedication, time and energy on something for example some project that will be found a real need and someone to use it, but this, doesn't seem to have a reason. Ps. only my personal opinion.
Hey, thanks for your honest opinion.
"I am curious because you spent a lot of time and was it productive?"
It was. 100%. Before making this, I had no idea how so many things worked. Cloning is the best way of learning (because you already have the design and features to implement) and I can show employers what I'm capable of. This person got an interview with Netflix by creating a Netflix UI clone. And as for me: I intended to start applying in May but have already got three interviews.
"I understand to spend dedication, time and energy on something for example some project that will be found a real need and someone to use it"
First of all, I'm a developer and not an entrepreneur. I could've thought about something original with a crappy design, coded halfway and given up realizing a better solution exists and no one will use mine. Not everything needs to fill a need. These are for learning purposes. I've always struggled with CSS and now I'm significantly better at it.
These users spent a huge amount of time and effort replicating the Medium clap effect and Netflix Intro Animation and learned a lot. Would you call that (and furthermore, majority of GitHub repos and Codepens because of no users) unproductive?
Secondly, everyone clones at some point. A to-do list has been cloned a million times :)
And as for the time and effort, it took me about 2 months because I worked on it on and off. Would've taken much lesser if I planned better on what features and design to implement beforehand (I'm 90% done with my second project in just 5 days!)
Apologies for such a long comment but I figured I'd give you a proper explanation since you're genuinely curious π
Fiquei impressionado com o projeto, e mais ainda como consegue se expressar, com certeza terΓ‘ muito sucesso na sua carreira.
Thanks a lot! Your comment made my day :)
For me personally and on a basis of experience of 15 years in IT field, to be honest that is not brainiac, that is stupid to do something like clonning and a reference to someone else who did something similar.
What I suggest you to do is to prove your skills on projects that you can contribute to, there are many github projects that needs a contributions like dev.to for example, or others where the community will be happy and satissfied, and you will be better recognized by the community than by clonning a website, because clonning can do mainly everyone that has available time and dedication to it.
Everything can be learnt! Today there are so many people which became developers but they come from different work areas like (management, marketing, financial, plumber, etc.), and besides this not everyone succeeds because their mind and habit are not meant for being a developers and sitting 10 and more hours in front of screen per day, some of them yes, they succeed.
My advice: spend your time efficiant and contribute for the community and get recognized by them.
You can also contribute to answering developer questions on stackoverflow.
Make a portfolio of projects and buld up your github with many different projects.
Just a suggestion where you should head yourself.
That's my final words.
Best regards :)
Really? What about your Todo list? Why did you "waste your time" in making something "stupid" (your words, not mine) that has literally been cloned a million times, is every beginner's first project and no one wants to make anymore? Honestly, you lose the entire argument right here. Furthermore, If I were an interviewer, I would definitely hire the developer who created this Notion clone over you. Both are (to-do) clones but the latter is better in every way (features/design). Feel free to prove otherwise.
You're significantly underestimating the effort it takes to make something like that. On the other hand, a to-do list is actually something that anyone can make. But that doesn't stop you from making a to-do clone (even after a decade of experience) but you advise others against cloning (Why? Because it's a bigger project?). Only a person who has never made anything like that will say such a thing.
Not sure what you wanted to say here but if you're saying that a "true" developer should always make something original: This guy created a WeChat clone. He's probably not a developer in your eyes but that doesn't matter as he's worked at NASA and Google as an engineer. Also, see the contributors list to see how the community recognized him :)
I do contribute to open-source projects whenever I get the time. Making this project open-source is also my contribution to the community. And I was so much more recognized by the community via this clone (you can check out the GitHub). People who want to make social-media websites are forking my project so they can learn and understand how it's done.
In my eyes, anyone who makes makes something with code is a developer. I don't judge you for cloning a to-do list (that has been cloned a million times!) so you shouldn't judge me for cloning DEV (that has only been cloned by me!)
Wp dud. Congrantz!!
Perfect. I know you are lost 2 month to finish this project.It is impressive.Because I have viewed you source code and you don't use any libs UI. I wonder How long experience? How many hours do you spend each day to develop this project?
I have built a website from dev.to idea.I using UI framework is ChakraUi and use Strapi framework for backend.But I took 4 month to complete.
That is: mytopic.vn
Wow, that's what i call a real clone.
Great one....is it live?
Yup!
Live site: devfrom.netlify.app/
Github repo: github.com/eknoorpreet/dev.to-clone
did you also developed the filtering feature like relevant, latest or top
No, I didn't. DEV includes so much more like E-commerce, videos, etc. and somewhere, I had to draw the line. After all, it's not like anyone will use mine :)
Wow interesting! Would like to know the time you took to finish this project.
A very good app.. why not build a platform like dev.to for hardware or animators....
But must say impressive
Just a question though. When you decide to clone a website, how do you know what tech its using. Or is it just you clone the website with the tech you know?
Hey,
I don't clone a website based on its stack. I make a website based on the tech I want to learn. For example, I wanted to learn fullstack, so I created this clone. Now, I'm creating a Medium clone to learn Next.js. In my third project, I'll use Postgres.
On a side note, you can use Wappalyzer to know the stack used by a company :)
How many time to do it?
Great! How much time has it taken, if it's not a big secret?
Looks good!
Impressive !
Try Fastify.
Well done, looks great! You're going places buddy :) Am I allowed to run this on my own server and play with it?
how are you getting real time notifcations?
I used Socket.io
Such an awesome idea.
How long did it take you?
A great way to showcase the project.