From community to community - open hub articles

DevShelf.us is an open-source hub of web development articles based on user voting. The goal of the project is to provide developers with high-quality collections of articles and the best materials in the community’s opinion, and not in popularity in issuing search engines. ( w3schools ) .

Starting from a prototype on the hackathon, the project develops as a completely open platform for your ideas, code, and links to the best materials.
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Under the cut, we will tell you more about the idea of ​​the project and share links to the first collections of articles.

Endless streams of information

Modern society is continuously surrounded by huge streams of information. We are constantly looking for the best ways to perceive it, in order to “stay on the wave”. Many tools are 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 does not work well in cases where you need to find "the very article about which someone wrote a month ago." Bookmarks and lists of deferred reading do not put 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.

Looking for the right tool.

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

Add your materials to DevShelf can any member of the community, 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

Increasingly, there are projects on the githaba, whose authors are trying to organize collections of materials on various topics. We give a platform where you can quickly and conveniently organize your collections and allow people to choose the best.

Especially for the release, we have prepared the first collection of materials on current topics:

• Selection of materials for beginners in the development
• Best practices in web development
• A selection of CSS methodologies
• Living Style Guides - tools for organizing a library of components
• All about performance
• MVC in javascript
• Nodejs
• Grunt and Gulp
• Development Tools
• Web animations
• All about CSS Flexbox
• Browser game development

From community to community

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

The project is still running in beta mode, and we still have a lot of ideas for improving the open platform. We will welcome any committees, as well as ideas and proposals for development. We describe all the tasks openly, and if you want to participate in the development, write - we will introduce up to date.

Development plan

In the first release, we prepared a minimum set of necessary functionality, as well as took care of multilingual features and the ability to easily add other languages. The project is international, English articles are added to all locales, but soon you can define filters for search.

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

• Filters in search: by skill level and category
• Interface to quickly add packs of links and bookmarks
• Generating collections of articles and hot topics
• RSS or tweeter feed with the best articles

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