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.

Mar 1 '25

Dev.to Posts I Found Helpful 🔥

#programming #webdev #opensource #bestofdev

1 min read

Dmitry Zakharov

Feb 21 '25

JavaScript schema library from the Future 🧬

#schema #typescript #rescript #opensource

15 min read

Feb 10 '25

Unit Testing Without Tears: How CodeBeaver Turned Testing from 'pytest run pain' to 'git push joy' 🚀

#opensource #webdev #tooling #testing

2 min read

Ucscode

Mar 2 '25

Automate HTML Tables Generation in PHP with this Modern Library

#webdev #productivity #opensource #php

3 min read

Shrijal Acharya for Composio

Feb 21 '25

Grok 3 vs. Deepseek r1: A deep analysis

#discuss #ai #opensource #productivity

13 min read

Mar 2 '25

Eddit – A Simple, Open-Source Video Editing Tool 🚀

#programming #tauri #opensource #react

2 min read

Lymah

Mar 2 '25

Week 14 Recap of #100DaysOfCode

#buildinpublic #programming #100daysofcode #opensource

1 min read

Nick Tchayka for NeoHaskell

Mar 2 '25

Hypersigilating NeoHaskell and Speedrunning Life

#news #opensource #watercooler

5 min read

Anthony Max for HMPL.js

Mar 10 '25

🎙️We've implemented new features in HMPL to help developers make web apps more secure🔥

#webdev #javascript #programming #opensource

3 min read

OritseWeyinmi Samuel Tuoyo

Mar 1 '25

Dokugen: The Simple Tool That Automates the Most Neglected Part of Your Repository

#opensource #webdev #github #productivity

3 min read

Marcus Kohlberg for Encore

Feb 28 '25

Backend Platforms Roundup 2025

#opensource #cloud #programming #backend

4 min read

Mar 2 '25

StackSync: The Open-Source Tech Stack Explorer

#webdev #opensource #javascript #programming

3 min read

Eww Games

Jan 27 '25

The Democratizing Power of MIT-Licensed AI: A New Era of Open Innovation

#ai #opensource #api #deepseek

2 min read

Jisan Mia

Mar 1 '25

30+ String Manipulation Techniques in JavaScript

#webdev #javascript #opensource #beginners

11 min read

Abijith B

Mar 1 '25

Adobe’s Monopoly on PDFs: The Innovation Bottleneck and the Need for Open-Source Alternatives

#opensource #pdf #linux #adobe

7 min read

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