Best Discord Dev Communities to Join.

Jay Gohil — Sat, 12 Mar 2022 17:34:43 +0000

Wait, what's discord?

Discord is a group-chatting platform that was originally built for gamers, but has since become a general platform for many other kinds of communities, especially of developers.

And when it comes to communities, there's virtually no competition to how close knit tech/dev communities are! Be it opportunities, resources, help, tech-talks or events/sessions; discord tech communities are a must to join and thus, here's my pick on the best Dev communities to join.

I) Mintbean

Mintbean is an online makerspace for tech professionals on discord which consists of channels spanning across algorithms, hardware, security, resources, design, job opportunities and professional chat among others.

II) SAWO Community

A community by SAWO Labs, SAWO community is your one stop shop for resources, job/internship opportunities, content sharing, resume+github reviews, events+sessions, tools, discussions and much more!

Join here: https://discord.gg/XemmJJb3tA

III) StartLadder Learning Community

Another discord community covering jobs/opportunities, competitions, resume reviews, resources, career advice, LinkedIn reviews and networking among others; while being one of the most active servers to be a part of!

IV) Cuvette Tech

A community by an internship opportunity organization that covers much more including profile reviews, resources, AI-ML, UI-UX, tech help and fun+insightful activities.

Join here: https://discord.gg/UhqF6cnNGN

V) DevCord

An official discord partner community that covers hardware, HTML-CSS, JavaScript-TypeScript, PHP, Java, Python, UI-UX, system languages, career development, workshops, gaming, memes and much more!

VI) Other worthy mentions

Lazy Developer
Python
Replit
Hashnode- Programmer’s Hangout
The Coding Den
Nodeiflux
TensorFlow
SpeakJS
CodeSupport
The Poopers Family
Local Host
Reactiflux
Programmer Humor
The Coding Den

Completed HacktoberFest 2020!

Jay Gohil — Mon, 09 Nov 2020 02:58:11 +0000

A Pristine Experience indeed!

Hi there, I am Jay Gohil, 2nd year B.Tech student pursuing Information and Communication Technology. Hacktoverfest 2020 was mentioned in one of a conversation I had with my senior, and thankfully, I remembered about it and did quite a bit of research later on.

Background

I did have experience to programming in Web Development and Python, and had worked on few university websites as well as completed standard data structures in python.

Although, open source was completely new for me, and it's excellent ideology made it a go-to thing for me in the future, and Hactoberfest was the best start I could possibly have had.

Progress

I saw several YouTube videos explaining the concepts of git, Github and working of Hacktoberfest. I would say that they really helped me get a clear understanding of the process.

Thereafter, I searched for open-source projects that excited me and talked to several of my seniors to recommend some as well. Finally, I found a python repository for projects as well as a recommended JS repository by my senior.

Contributions

In total, I made 6 contributions to the python repository with my projects (including Task Management application, Stone-Paper-Scissor game, List Manipulation application, etc) and 4 contributions to the JS repository (comprising of Music Player, Breakout game, etc).

Reflections

Looking back on the whole experience, I think it was one of my most passionate work or contribution to the developer community, while gaining valuable experience, viz, Git and Github; while polishing my skills in python and Web Dev. In a nutshell, the complete experience was sublime, educative and wonderful.

DEV Community: Jay Gohil