r/webdev is a subreddit with 3.3M members. The most common kinds of discussions are advice requests and self-promotion, and the community frequently discusses looking for, looking, ai, web, and frontend, 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
Advice Requests
: "Job hunting and preparation"
5 posts
#2
Self-Promotion
: "I spent the last couple months building an open-source budgeting app, finally at a point where I’m happy with the UI!"
3 posts
#3
Solution Requests
: "best sponsorship signaling/backend hosting for open source project?"
2 posts
#4
Ideas
: "I’ve been building a little shared world for two"
1 post
Popular Topics in r/webdev
#1
Looking For
34 posts
#2
Looking
31 posts
#3
Ai
12 posts
#4
Web
9 posts
#5
Frontend
7 posts
#6
Design
6 posts
#7
Development
6 posts
#8
Built
5 posts
#9
Job
4 posts
#10
Css
4 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
: "TIL that you can connect to IPv4 addresses like 192.168.1.1 in your browser through it's decimal form: 3232235777"
22 posts
#2
Discussion
: "Interesting video from WDS Kyle, talking about ai brainrot, and how important it is that junior devs in particular understand an LLMs output. Showing that even famous devs are having their skills atrophy. Thoughts?"
15 posts
#3
Question
: "PayPal button links are not accessible"
12 posts
#4
Resource
: "Enforcing Best Practices with Jev as a Linter using Plain English Rules"
4 posts
#5
News
: "Example.com changed again !"
2 posts
#6
Article
: "I Tested 11 HTTP Resilience Libraries"
1 post
#7
Monthly Career Thread
: "Monthly Getting Started / Web Dev Career Thread"
1 post
Member Growth in r/webdev
Yearly
+207k members(6.6%)
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Last updated: October 8, 2026