Skip to content

DEV Community

Open Source

May The Source Be With You! Articles about Open Source and Free Software as a philosophy, and its application to software development and project management.

submission guidelines

UPDATED APRIL 8, 2020

To keep this tag clean and meaningful, please ensure your post fits into at least one of the following categories:

Organizing, managing, running, or working in an Open Source project.
Open Source philosophy, licensing, and/or practical and legal topics thereof.
Advocacy and adoption of Open Source philosophy.

DO NOT use this tag if you are simply using technologies which happen to be open source.

You should NOT use this tag for any of the following:

Promoting open source projects, such as feature lists or announcements. (Use #news or Listings.)
Contributor requests. (Use #contributorswanted or Listings.)
Tutorials/articles that happen to use an open source tool. (Use appropriate technology tags.)
Showing off something you've built that happens to be open source. (Use the #showdev tag.)
Sharing lists of open source projects. (Use #githunt or the appropriate technology tags.)

Projects must comply with the Open Source Definition (see below) to legally use the term "open source".

As all "Free Software" officially complies with the standards of Open Source anyway, this tag covers both (collectively, FOSS).

about #opensource

Open Source is so much more than "you can read the code". It is formally defined by the Open Source Initiative.

"Open Source" should not be confused with the similar Free Software, which is defined by the Free Software Foundation. Generally, all Free Software is also Open Source, and the two camps often cooperate; however, the concepts are distinct! (The tags are merged here on DEV.to for simplicity, however.)

Open Source Hardware is defined and overseen by the Open Source Hardware Assocation

👋 Sign in for the ability to sort posts by relevant, latest, or top.

sfrunza13

Sep 17 '22

Collaborating...

#python #programming #opensource

3 min read

Sm0ke

Sep 15 '22

NextJS Material Kit - Free TypeScript Template

#nextjs #opensource

2 min read

Sep 13 '22

Announcing AnnaDB - next-gen NoSQL database

#database #programming #opensource #rust

13 min read

Marvelous Akporowho

Sep 16 '22

Trust me, Redis really makes your app super fast.

#redis #javascript #opensource #programming

7 min read

Shahed Nasser for Medusa

Sep 15 '22

Medusa v1.4.0: Product Import API, Improved API Reference and More!

#opensource #javascript #webdev #programming

4 min read

Sep 12 '22

💥 Introducing Skott, the new Madge!

#javascript #opensource #node #computerscience

5 min read

Sep 15 '22

How to generate Sitemap for your Next JS project

#nextjs #javascript #tutorial #opensource

1 min read

Christopher Kujawa for Camunda

Sep 15 '22

Zbchaos — A new fault injection tool for Zeebe

#chaosengineering #kubernetes #opensource #camunda

8 min read

Matej Bačo for Appwrite

Sep 14 '22

Go Limitless with New Appwrite Queries

#webdev #opensource #database #programming

5 min read

Shahed Nasser for Medusa

Sep 13 '22

What are your Favorite Developer Communities?

#discuss #programming #opensource #watercooler

1 min read

Jake Barnby for Appwrite

Sep 14 '22

Migrate Firebase Users to Appwrite

#opensource #appwrite #migration #tutorial

4 min read

Samina Rahman Purba

Sep 14 '22

Rwar – A Simple Static Site Generator Written in Python

#opensource #python #github #git

4 min read

Sep 14 '22

Tools Required For Backend Development

#javascript #node #api #opensource

4 min read

Ian Jennings for Replayable

Sep 14 '22

How to improve the DX of your readme with embeddable demos

#tutorial #devrel #productivity #opensource

6 min read

Nevo David for novu

Sep 12 '22

Building an interactive screen-sharing app with Puppeteer and React 🤯

#react #webdev #javascript #opensource

12 min read

👋 Sign in for the ability to sort posts by relevant, latest, or top.