PragueJS Community 2022: Developer Experience
Tags: javascript, community, devrel, eventsinyourcity
Published: 2022-06-28 09:58:25

We’re excited to join the PragueJS community as one of their sponsors.

In case you haven't heard, it’s a community of about 2,000 JavaScript developers based mainly in Prague, Czech Republic.

![](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/edlvs8az2l1kqkk0ak3n.jpg)

PragueJS community is a group of rising JavaScript enthusiasts 💛  who meet every month in different places, to discuss all the cutting-edge trends and tweaks in JavaScript and related topics.

The April’s meetup topic was [Developer Experience (DX)](https://www.meetup.com/praguejs/events/285335331/) where [Jan Vlnas](https://dev.to/jnv) (our developer advocate at Superface) was sharing his insights about how to lose users and alienate developers. 😈

## What did the people say?

> It was my pleasure to have taken the stage together with Jan Vlnas from Superface. I really enjoyed his standup comedy-like take on DX (especially the “unexpected open source sponsorship”) 🤡
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> — <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/posts/josef-zeman_so-what-is-my-take-on-tuesdays-dx-event-activity-6925735857735745536-AZOq">Jozef Zeman</a>, DX Heroes

## What did the PragueJS organizers say?

> The reason why Karel Žoha, Petr Brzek and I decided to put all the effort into event organisation is quite simple. We wanted to help the community with knowledge sharing and also to have some fun.
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> PragueJS is currently the biggest JS community in the Czech Republic with a long and pretty turbulent history. We delivered tens of talks to thousands of attendees, all for free.
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> But the most valuable for me personally are all the new friendships we helped establish over time at our afterparties, which are an important part of the whole experience.
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> — <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/filipmares1/">Filip Mareš</a>, co-founder of PragueJS, along with <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/karel-žoha-04093b53/">Karel Žoha</a>, and <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/petr-brzek-76359417/">Petr Brzek</a>

## So, how do you lose users and alienate developers?

A good documentation, thoughtful library, or well-designed API rarely gets appreciated. So let's try it the other way around! 😁

Annoy your coworkers, drive away contributors, and become infamous in the open-source world with these easy tips.

Sounds doable? Maybe. But have you tried this?

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![Don't: Examples without reference. Do: Reference without examples.](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/bl9pg7nyhwhmbx5xbvkt.jpg)

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Memes & all by Jan Vlnas, superface.ai
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Take a look at the [full presentation deck](https://jnv.github.io/talks/2022-04-lose-users-alienate-developers/) (it’s mostly GIFs, though).

You can find a few recorded talks from the past meetups on [PragueJS YouTube Channel](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC35c9cDvXa4zDNq_uJXufTQ).

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Join the PragueJS community at [Meetup.com](https://www.meetup.com/praguejs/)! There's an upcoming [meetup about typed functional programming](https://www.meetup.com/praguejs/events/285600682/) on June 29th and more coming in September.

By the way, we also have our meetup, called [“API Prague: The people and tech behind open APIs”](https://www.meetup.com/api-prague/).