Here's why you should join the server.
What is it?
Discord is a chat application. The KCD Community on Discord is a community of people who want to make connections, share ideas, and use software to help make the world a better place.
Make connections and friends
We're better when we work together. Discord allows us to have meaningful and nuanced conversations about building software. If you want to ask questions or provide your own opinions, this discord community is for you. We'll celebrate your successes and lament your misfortunes and failures. This community is focused on software development primarily, but we're humans and we embrace that (we even have a channel on parenting!).
Share ideas
This community is a fantastic place to get and provide feedback on fun and interesting ideas. We're all motivated to use software to make the world better in a wide variety of ways. Got a project you've been working on? Want to discover facinating ways people are using software? This is the place to be.
Not sure what to expect from the discord?
Here are some features for you at a glance.
Our onboarding process, enforced code of conduct, and fantastic moderators keep it a friendly place to be.
Form study groups and learn better together.
Discord-bot facilitated feature to plan virtual events (like streams) and connect with other devs.
Channels on popular topics like frontend, backend, career, and more.
We're not robots. We're people. And we have kids, pets, and money. Channels for those and more.
Looking for work or an engineer? You wouldn't be the first to start an employment relationship here.
There's a channel for each of the workshops in EpicReact.dev so you can get/give a hand when you get stuck.
Leveling up your testing experience? Sweet! Get and give help in these channels.
Sign up for an account on kentcdodds.com and connect your discord account to get access to the exclusive team channels.
KCD Learning Clubs are like study groups you put together yourself.
Having a group of people with the same challenges will help you learn faster. The discord bot can help you find them.
When we learn together, we learn better, and that's the idea.
Research has shown that learning is more effective when you have a group of people to hold you accountable. It's also more fun and less frustrating when you can help each other.
You can choose anything as your learning club topic.
A learning club can be about anything. All that's really required is some sort of curriculum or schedule to keep everyone focused on the same goal. So you can definitely choose one of my courses, but you could also choose something completely unrelated to software. The bot doesn't care and nobody's had trouble filling their learning club with interested members yet!
Develop friendships with other nice learners in the community.
The KCD Community on Discord is full of friendly people. When you put together a learning club here, in addition to learning better, you'll develop new friendships.
You have access to me (Kent) during weekly office hours.
By joining the KCD Community on Discord, you can ask questions that I'll answer during office hours. Often these questions come from discussions you and your fellow learners have during your learning club meetings. So if you all get stuck on the same thing, I'm there to help you get unstuck.
Enjoy community meetups in the discord server (and host your own!).
Voice and video chats hosted and managed on the KCD Discord server.
01.What are "meetups"?
It's an event. It can be about anything and have any format.
02.So, how do I use them?
You go to the meetups channel to see who's hosting meetups and let the bot know which you'd like to be notified about.
03.Can I organize meetups myself or are there only curated meetups?
Anyone can host a meetup. Simply tell the bot about what you want to do and it'll let everyone know about it in the meetups channel.
Learn more about meetups
Don't just take my word for it.
What others have to say
This community helped me land my first software engineering job! Being active in the community, discussing problems and helping people has been the best decision I could make professionally. On this journey I have made some really great friends too and I could keep going about all the nice things that come with the community. You really have to be a part of it to experience it.
Software Engineer, Healthifyme
I love how Kent teaches. He makes a complex topic easy to understand.
Frontend Engineer
Here's a quick look at all categories.
Click on any category to get more info.
A place to introduce yourself, read the rules, talk to the bot, and get tips about the server
All the stuff I'm up to goes here. You might consider adding special notification settings to the announcements channel so you don't miss anything important.
This is where all meetup activity happens. Go here to chat during meetups, follow meetup hosts, and sign up to be notified of new meetups.
Here's where you can coordinate setting up a new KCD Learning Club. Club captains also get access to a special channel for captains to talk about how to make the most of the experience for everyone.
Need to talk software? That's what this category is for. We've got your whole tech stack covered here (and if we're missing anything, that's what "general" is for 😅). And you've got career related topics here too.
We're not automatons "turning coffee into code" 🙄. We're humans with lives, families, pets, preferences, money decisions, and joys. So we've got a channel to talk about that stuff.
Are you trying to learn React? It can help a lot to have others to help you go through the material. Ask questions about the material in these channels and people will know what you're talking about and jump in to help if they can.
Testing can be a tricky subject, so we've got channels for every module in TestingJavaScript.com for you to ask and answer questions about the material.
Life is better with friends. Find them on discord.
Click the button below and join the community. Let's get better together.
