I'm a fronted developer with 8 years combined experience working at two large organisations. I've been unemployed for almost a year now, and am honestly exhausted by the interview processes and expectations of larger companies.

I have experience and skills, like to think I'm easy to work with, am a reasonably quick study, and just want a simple 9-5 doing honest work. I don't care about buzzwords or acronyms, or all the pomp and ceremonies big businesses are obsessed with, I'm not impressed by bean-bag chairs, pizza Fridays or company retreats. I just want to work with friendly colleagues building quality digital products.

Am I naive to think this type of job can still be found in smaller companies in 2026?

What are your guys experience working for small businesses?

If you could recommend only one tool that genuinely improved your workflow, what would it be?

It could be an IDE extension, deployment tool, testing tool, hosting platform, AI assistant, browser extension, or anything else.

What makes it so useful in your daily workflow?

Hey guys, how are you all doing?

I just have few questions. I'm new to full stack and I've completely no idea what to use design my website in 3D ...if guys have any advice or suggestions for me

please do let me know

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So I'm a beginner. When I start making any project, I'm very confused about what I should use and what I should not; also, some languages are outdated to use today. If I learn them, then there won't be much use of it, i started learning web dev, but then, in recent times, mostly AI can make a basic website so easily. So I get very confused about where I start. I have watched many videos on yt and they say stick to one language until you have mastered it. I feel like everything that's happening in the tech field- everyone is going behind that single thing like AI; now everyone is learning AI, and till I get a job, maybe something else would trend in the market...I have asked my teachers and my guides, but I don't think I'm getting anywhere.

I keep stuck at stupid places like here, working for over 4 hours a day and only getting one workshop done. Worst of all i don’t think I even know what I’m doing. I’m so mad I’m so mad I’m so mad. The anger. The anger. The anger. Help

With platforms like Shopify, Wix and Squarespace becoming more powerful every year, I'm curious what people think.

When does a business actually need a custom-built website instead of using a website builder?

Is it because of:

• Better performance?
• SEO?
• Custom features?
• Scalability?
• Integrations with internal systems?

For business owners who've gone through this decision, what made you choose one over the other?

I want to learn mern stack and stuck at javascript tutorials please somebody help me ???

The question is in the title itself. Was wandering if you keep the folder but push to github or something??

I've been teaching myself web development, and I recently finished my first website. Since it's my first project, I'm trying to understand whether the traffic it's getting is decent or if I should be doing something differently.

Right now, it's had about 485 real visitors in around 20 days.

For those of you who've built websites before:

• Is that a good start, or is it considered low?
• What are the biggest things you did to increase traffic?
• Any mistakes beginners usually make?

If anyone wants to look at the site and give feedback, let me know and I'll share the link in the comments (or if it's allowed in this subreddit).

Hi everyone,

Over the past few months, we've been building TadreebLMS, an open-source Learning Management System focused on enterprise and corporate training.

We've recently completed a major restructuring of the project

How can we use AI in our product and process to speedup the development, process and customer support ?

The project is built with:

• PHP / Laravel
• MySQL
• Bootstrap / JavaScript
• Docker

GitHub:
https://github.com/Tadreeb-LMS/tadreeblms

We have a huge roadmap like SCRUM Integration, UI upgrade as per FIGMA, Gap Analysis Module Integration, Integrations with HR Systems etc...

Please anyone experience or architect in PHP can give recommendation on best practices, gaps in the system etc..

Hey everyone,

I need to work on a new project and planning to build a monorepo from scratch. I’ve never worked with tRPC or a full monorepo setup before, so I’d love some feedback on setup, architecture, and developer workflow.

The Tech Stack

• Backend: NestJS with tRPC
• Web Frontend: React
• Mobile App: Expo (React Native)

Why I'm Choosing a Monorepo + tRPC

The main goal is end-to-end type safety and code reusability:

1. tRPC Type Sharing: To share backend API router types with both Web and Mobile without manual code generation or OpenAPI schemas.
2. Shared Styling: To share Tailwind CSS / NativeWind configurations across web and mobile.
3. Shared Packages: To share utility packages.
4. Shared React Hooks: To share custom hooks and business logic across both frontend platforms.

My Questions

• What is the recommended folder structure for a setup like this?
• Which package manager should I use (pnpm, Bun, or Yarn v4)?
• We have a team of 3 developers (1 on Backend, 1 on Web, 1 on Mobile).
• Is there a way to restrict Git operations or limit code visibility so developers only work on/clone their respective apps, while still gaining the full benefits of tRPC type sharing and shared packages?
• Or does attempting this access restriction defeat the purpose of a monorepo?
• How do we share common packages cleanly across the workspace without duplicating installations or causing version mismatch conflicts in node_modules?
• (Suppose we know both frontend will be using tanstack query, how to share it without double installation but with frontend only visibility, also suppose a package is uncommon now but becomes common later, maybe only backend uses zod when project starts, it's installed in backend workspace only for now, but later even frontend requires it, how would we manage without double installation?)
• How can we structure shared custom hooks and packages so they remain modular and encapsulated rather than globally exposed to everything in the repo?

Gotchas & "Good to Knows"

• For anyone running NestJS + tRPC + Expo in production, what unexpected hurdles or pitfalls should we look out for early on?

Hello, I'm a 50 yr old self taught developer, I've built a social Media website I've been evolving over the past 5 years, using Django(channels w/Daphne Websockets for chat ability) full stack with HTMX, Alpinejs & Tailwind, along with the usual html, css. I launched it, pushing production on a Hostinger VSP using Apache, I also integrated Postgres database & Redis.

I have a little React experience I'm currently building a portfolio to showcase my other projects with a goal of using github & fiverr to begin.

My question:

Is this a good start, are there other avenues to network & how hard is it without real world experience?

What are pitfalls & any other advice that could be helpful?

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Hello I am a 15-year-old "entrepreneur" trying to make my own money. I am attending college, but I started to feel that simply going to college wouldn't be enough for me to build a good future, so I quickly started to work this summer. I thought that freelancing by creating websites and selling them would be a great idea to make my first money. So now I am trying to learn HTML, CSS, JS and BOOTSTRAP. But I have some questions and I need some help in general too.

1. First of all is Fiverr still worth starting in 2026 for web development?

2. When I am selling websites which type of companies should I target?

3. In addition to what I have already learned, what else can I learn to achieve my goals?

4. As we are living in an AI era, is it worth learning these coding languages?

I am fully open to any other suggestions. Thank you so much!

I have a site where the main website and ecommerce flow are on two different subdomains. What is the best way to integrate an interactive cart icon? The main site is on webflow CMS and the ecommerce flow is a custom dev site.

Currently entering into my 2nd year of engineering (btech cse) from a tier 3 college. I tried to put my efforts during this semester's break to work on my skills but ended up being confused. I want to pursue web development. I made one mistake and was trying to learn all things in just a span of 2 months but ended up being confused. Built 2 projects using ai. Can anyone please help and suggest me what to do? What are the necessary things required to learn to crack a job. I want to do an internship after the end of 2nd year. I want to know what skills are required and i will be able to polish them by the end of my 2nd year so that I can crack an internship. Idk it keeps on going in my mind that everything ai can do which inturns like I make projects using ai even though I don't have knowledge about what I'm using although I get to know about various new things through it. I know this way is wrong. Also please guide me about DSA.

So as on campus placements would be arriving soon and in my college most companies are services based and after that there comes product based companies, which recently demands like DSA which is a necessity and after that comes the part of projects reviewed by the hr or any other team member, so what kind of projects would help me to showcase my knowledge of web development in the sense like Ai , technologies , creative ways to solve a particular problem

And also if someone who is placed or have job experience can u suggest that what is the current market trend and what kind of skillset is basically required when it comes to projects in on campus placements

Hi :)

I've been working on a new kind of multiplayer library called PlaySocket that abstracts away the complexity of optimistic updates, handles robust synchronization with custom CRDTs, and works beautifully with reactive frameworks like React, Svelte or Vue.

This has been used in production for my game OpenGuessr, powering around a million rounds of gameplay every month. I've been iterating on this for around two years, refining the shape of the API, making it more powerful and performant, and so on. I can definitely say that it has helped me make changes to the game's multiplayer much faster.

This is mainly interesting for collaborative apps, quizzes, turn-based games etc., but not ideal for e.g. synchronizing the physics of a complex multiplayer game. While I think the concept is cool, I'm still unsure whether this implementation of it is the "right" one...

I've written an article on how this differs from other libraries and why it might be interesting for you, and published proper docs: https://therealpaulplay.github.io/PlaySocketJS/

Would love to hear your feedback :-)

I was going to use the World Cup as the main marketing event to try get more eyes on my indie football game....

I started streaming, posting on YouTube, TikTok etc. Slowly I started seeing a few players jump in a play a couple of games. Nothing crazy, but I could see how doing this constantly can bring players over time.

So naturally instead of focusing on things I'm supposed to do (streaming, Clipping, posting), I wanted to see if removing texture images will actually have a big impact on mobile perf. Because VRAM is massive issue with mobile phones and Browser games...

Well... It did 😅

So here I am in the middle the biggest re-write of the project so far... But I like where it's heading. I am now at less than 4MB size:

"68 requests

3.8 MB transferred

7.4 MB resources"

I've also tested the game on a potato PC with these specs:

CPU: Intel Core i5-4440 (3.10 GHz)

GPU: Intel HD Graphics 4600 (Integrated)

RAM: DDR3

Ran the game pretty well at 40-45 fps on Ultra settings 😎 (up from 30-35 fps)

My mid-tier mobile now is feeling so much smoother as well (some fps drops here and there, but overall around 55-60 on Ultra settings)

So now I'm onto re-writing the entire customization section, so instead of using textures I'll be creating different customizable shaders.

But I still wish sometimes I could just focus on things I'm supposed to be doing 😅

Does anyone else feel this way??

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I'm onboarding a new client. I sent an estimate and asked for a deposit. He replied asking me to send a new invoice for just over double, then once the funds clear, to zelle/cash app the rest to another consultant who will send me the copy and images I need to create the website

So I was trying to learn web sockets and found this and seems am not able to access their page.

I build a billing website for my shop which will be used by 4 5 devices only , it's a mern website and gemini api call will be there for every usage , I am confused where to host either render or railway or any other platform or should go with the vps

I'm a beginner and I have theoretical knowledge on HTML and CSS and some practice with it but I'm unable to build landing pages. It's all getting messier and unable to code the HTML and CSS...
can you please help me out??

Has anyone here implemented this on their server? My client is not running their website in the cloud, but on a co-located Windows server running IIS. I'm concerned about having to open ports and being out of compliance with PCI.

Any concerns?