r/webdev is a subreddit with 3.3M members. The most common kinds of discussions are solution requests and advice requests, and the community frequently discusses looking for, looking, ai, web, and built, and they frequently recommend/review domain registrar, headless cms, and cms.
A community dedicated to all things web development: both front-end and back-end. For more design-related questions, try /r/web_design.
Popular Themes in r/webdev
#1
Solution Requests
: "Best host for a personal website?"
9 posts
#2
Advice Requests
: "[feedback saturday] would love to get feedback only portfolio redesign."
6 posts
#3
Self-Promotion
: "Showoff Saturday: I built WeatherToRun because weather apps don’t tell runners what they actually need to know"
5 posts
#4
Pain & Anger
: "SEO company holding clients' websites hostage"
1 post
#5
Opportunities
: "Saw someone say that user accounts/authentication is complex and high risk but there are lots of off the shelf solutions for that from third parties that make sense for most of our needs. Which got me thinking. Which microservices should we outsource and which should we keep in-house? Priorities?"
1 post
Popular Topics in r/webdev
#1
Looking For
35 posts
#2
Looking
31 posts
#3
Ai
: "Do other people still mostly use just an IDE with occasional in-browser help from Ai?"
19 posts
#4
Web
: "What to do regarding the front end? Can I just showcase the backend"
14 posts
#5
Built
: "Built a little tool for placeholder images — because sometimes you just need sized box"
13 posts
#6
Tool
: "built a little Tool for placeholder images — because sometimes you just need sized box"
11 posts
#7
Design
: "Portfolio colour theme"
11 posts
#8
Development
: "Do you feel like there was more meaning and purpose behind software Development and tech before AI?"
11 posts
#9
Website
: "10+ year old Websites getting delisted from google."
10 posts
#10
Frontend
: "How many people are using the BFF(Backend for Frontend) pattern? Why do I feel it greatly increases the complexity of the system?"
9 posts
Products Discussed in r/webdev
Domain Registrar
202 reviews
#1
NameCheap
4.1★ from 49 reviews
#2
Cloudflare
4.4★ from 33 reviews
#3
PorkBun
4.2★ from 18 reviews
Headless Cms
174 reviews
#1
Strapi
4.3★ from 27 reviews
#2
Sanity
4.5★ from 24 reviews
#3
Directus
4.4★ from 15 reviews
Cms
117 reviews
#1
Sanity
4.4★ from 10 reviews
#2
Strapi
4.1★ from 8 reviews
#3
WordPress
4.3★ from 8 reviews
Flair Used in r/webdev
#1
Showoff Saturday
: "I made a social network where every post is hand-drawn"
30 posts
#2
Question
: "10+ year old websites getting delisted from google."
25 posts
#3
Discussion
: "The End Of Open Source: Two Brilliant Engineers In Discussion"
15 posts
#4
Article
: "Leaving Vercel for AWS Amplify"
5 posts
#5
News
: "New QUERY method is about to join GET, POST, PUT, DELETE and PATCH and become part of HTTP standard 🎉"
3 posts
#6
Resource
: "Has anyone tried this course, can I go for it, need advice from Java developers"
1 post
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Last updated: June 19, 2026