🇹🇼✈️ Taking DEV to Taiwan with me ✈️🇹🇼
Tags: showdev, meta, travel, beginners
Published: 2019-02-21 19:34:56

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This month I've been traveling in Taiwan, exploring this beautiful country, eating tons of seafood, and making new friends. So before I embarked on this journey, I planned to attend a few meetups here. Although there are not many events going on here, I found one group called [Wizard Amigos](https://www.meetup.com/WizardAmigos/), a nomadic community of individuals helping new developers learn Javascript.

![](https://scontent.ftpe7-3.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/17499395_10155580147441416_24121990061902149_n.jpg?_nc_cat=103&_nc_ht=scontent.ftpe7-3.fna&oh=2a2b93d3664377bc6662eeae553a0546&oe=5CEBA39F)

Their mission instantly clicked with me. So I joined them in two of their meetups in hopes of helping shape some young minds. I mentored them on how to make desktop apps in Electron and also on how to make CLI apps in node.js. Around the same time, I also published the DEV.TO CLI app **devtocli** on GitHub.

{% link https://dev.to/teamxenox/devto-cli-a-valentines-day-gift-to-my-favorite-people-56bd %}

And coincidentally, around the same time, Ben was invited as a guest to the Product Hunt Radio. In the podcast, he talks about how Dev.to came into existence and what is the core ideology behind this platform. He also talks about leading by example ([which I've admired since the beginning](https://dev.to/sarthology/why-devto-is-winning-over-hashnode-27nj)), his love for open source, and how to manage remote teams, along with other interesting stuff. I highly recommend you all to check out the episode.

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Listening to the podcast reminded me why I left [Medium](http://medium.com/@Sarthaksharma0), even being the top author in Productivity for a while, and started writing of Dev.to instead. It's because Dev.to is a community in the purest sense of the word. People *listen* to you, *respond* to you, and moreover, are *ready* to help you.

And how can you make such a strong community even stronger? By adding more like-minded people to it, of course! And that's exactly what I did in the Wizard Amigos meetup. To understand what their organization is doing, you can check their [website](http://wizardamigos.com) or just check this screenshot below. 

![](https://i.imgur.com/B2WX8wC.png)

So anyway, I invited all of them to join Dev.to. I thought their mission would resonate strongly with all of us here, since they're trying to help beginner developers, and that's what Dev.to is about, right? It was so great to show off the platform to them, and I could see in their eyes how excited they were! Oh, and the best part was telling them about [Jess](https://dev.to/jess), co-founder of Dev.to and *Taiwanese*-American software developer. They were super proud to find that out. (Believe me, Jess, they really were.)

So overall, it was a great experience for me, attending a meetup in a foreign country and talking about something that I am proud to be associated with😊. Here are a few clicks from the event:

![](https://thepracticaldev.s3.amazonaws.com/i/orpe697gltkkc5vitj1n.JPG)
![](https://thepracticaldev.s3.amazonaws.com/i/u6v8npxyh8myl2bvvuh1.jpg)
![](https://thepracticaldev.s3.amazonaws.com/i/tn27z4fwy45fvhzs4onu.jpg)
![](https://thepracticaldev.s3.amazonaws.com/i/vpu5daof36r040orp78y.JPG)

## Sharing is Caring
I want to end this post by saying this: keep sharing your knowledge, guys. Believe me, it's a great feeling that is hard to match. Here's a list of things I shared with the members of Wizard Amigos. I really hope you guys can also get something out of it as well. 
{% github sarthology/wizard-sarthak %}
Another thing I highly recommend you guys to do is to start attending meetups like this in your local community and on your travels, especially if you're veteran developers. I sound like such an old man when I say this😂, but mentoring young blood and introducing them to wonderful communities like DEV is as important as generating content.

And on that note, I'm gonna take my leave. See you next time, folks! I am going to continue exploring Taiwan for now 😆.

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