From community to community - open article hub



    DevShelf.us is an open source web development article hub based on user votes. The purpose of the project is to give developers high-quality collections of articles and the best materials according to the community, and not according to popularity in the search engines( w3schools ).

    Starting with a prototype at the hackathon, the project is developing as a completely open platform for your ideas, code and links to the best materials.

    Under the cut, we will tell you more about the project idea and share links to the first collections of articles.

    Infinite streams of information



    Modern society is continuously surrounded by huge flows of information. We are constantly looking for the best ways to perceive it in order to “stay on the wave”. Many tools are being created to help people cope with the load: Twitter, Pinterest, and today, DevShelf are fighting for the best methods of organizing your information.

    But Twitter doesn’t work well when you need to find “the very article someone wrote about a month ago.” Bookmarks and deferred reading lists do not fit everything, and search engines do not really cope with the task of providing the best materials. Only we, the community, can advise each other the best, based on personal experience, and not on the opinion of search engines.



    We are looking for the right tool



    Inspired by the Caniuse project , we came up with an application with which you can get the most relevant and high-quality information on specific tags quickly and clearly.

    Any member of the community can add their materials to DevShelf, for this you only need to have a GitHub account. For each article you can vote, thereby affecting the weight of the material in the issue.

    Collections of Articles



    Projects on the github are increasingly common, the authors of which are trying to organize selections of materials on various topics. We provide a platform on which you can quickly and conveniently organize your collections and let people choose the best.

    Specially for the release, we prepared the first selection of materials on relevant topics:



    From community to community





    DevShelf was born to be as open as possible to the community. We will gladly accept your best bookmarks and links to articles on your blogs. To replenish the database, you can do pull requests directly to the article repository or use the form on the site.

    The project is still in beta mode, and we still have a lot of ideas for improving the open platform. We will be glad to any commits, as well as ideas and suggestions for development. We describe all tasks openly, and if you want to participate in the development, write - we will introduce you to the course.

    Development plan



    In the first release, we prepared the minimum set of necessary functionality, as well as took care of multilingualism and the ability to easily add other languages. The project is international, English articles are mixed with all the locales, but soon it will be possible to define filters for the search.

    In addition to improving the architecture of the application and lowering the threshold for development, the following tasks are in the queue:

    • Search filters: by skill level and category
    • Interface for quickly adding bundles of links and bookmarks
    • Generation of collections of articles and "hot topics"
    • RSS or Twitter feed with the best articles


    The project is non-profit and lives on the enthusiasm of a friendly development department. We will be happy to accept any feedback, ideas and all ...

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