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Devterms

๐Ÿ“š The crowdsourced dictionary for developers. Find definitions for technical terms, programming jargon, and more!

From aelewยทUpdated June 21, 2026ยทView on GitHubยท

A crowdsourced dictionary website for developers to look up technical terms, programming jargon, and more. DevTerms has [X (Twitter)](https://twitter.com/devtermsio) and [Bluesky](https://bsky.app/profile/devterms.com) accounts you can follow for daily developer wisdom and to stay in the loop with the latest tech lingo! The project is written primarily in TypeScript, distributed under the MIT License license, first published in 2024. Key topics include: awesome, developer-dictionary, dictionary, drizzle, drizzle-orm.

๐Ÿ“š DevTerms

A crowdsourced dictionary website for developers to look up technical terms, programming jargon, and more. DevTerms has X (Twitter) and Bluesky accounts you can follow for daily developer wisdom and to stay in the loop with the latest tech lingo!

Check out DevTerms in action at https://devterms.com!

Built with

  • ๐ŸŒŽ Vercel: Frontend cloud platform
  • ๐ŸŒŸ Next.js: The React framework for the web
  • ๐Ÿ”ฅ Hono: Fast web framework built on Web Standards
  • ๐Ÿ’จ Tailwind CSS: A utility-first CSS framework
  • ๐ŸŽจ shadcn/ui: Beautifully designed components
  • ๐Ÿ’พ Turso: Fully-managed SQLite database platform
  • ๐ŸŒ€ Upstash: Serverless Redis database and rate limiting
  • ๐Ÿ”Ž Meilisearch: Lightning-fast website search engine
  • ๐ŸŒง๏ธ Drizzle ORM: Lightweight, relational TypeScript ORM
  • ๐Ÿ”’ Lucia: Guide for implementing authentication from scratch

Development

Clone the project

bash
git clone https://github.com/aelew/devterms.git

Go to the project directory

bash
cd devterms

Install dependencies

bash
pnpm i

Set environment variables

bash
To run this project, you need to set the required environment variables. Copy `.env.example` into a new file called `.env` and fill in the values.

Start the local development server on http://localhost:3000

bash
pnpm dev

License

MIT

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This article is auto-generated from aelew/devterms via the GitHub API.Last fetched: 6/22/2026