What is Dev.to?
Dev.to is a community publishing platform for developers to write articles, discuss technology and build a public profile, similar in spirit to a blogging platform combined with a forum. It runs on Forem, an open-source community platform (available at github.com/forem/forem) that other organizations can also self-host to run their own branded communities.
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Sources checked 27 September 2026: official website, API documentation, Forem repository.
Dev.toTutorials & LearningOpen-source community platform for developers to write and discuss
Key capabilities
- Publishing: a free platform for articles, tags and discussion threads.
- Community features: reactions, comments and contributor badges.
- Self-hosting option: the open-source Forem codebase for running a separate branded community.
Where Dev.to fits
Developer community and content publishing, and the open-source Forem platform it runs on.
Positioning and limitations
Dev.to fits individual developers who want to publish technical writing and reach an existing audience without running their own blog infrastructure; teams wanting a private or branded community can instead self-host the underlying Forem software.
Because Forem is open source, the same software that powers Dev.to can be self-hosted by other organizations wanting their own community site, separate from using Dev.to itself.
“Open-source community platform for developers to write and discuss”
Technical details
- Access
- Self-hosted
- Source model
- Open source
- License
- Verify license
- Founded
- 2016
- Headquarters
- New York, USA
- Pricing model
- Free
- API
- Available
- Website
- dev.to ↗
- GitHub
- Source repository ↗
What to verify
Start from the users, systems and operating responsibilities the tool needs to support.
- Confirm current features, licensing and support terms.
- Validate deployment, data location and access control.
- Test integrations, exports and recovery workflows.
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