DevDrift

How the programming profession changed · 1970–2026

Live site: devdrift.net

An open-source, static site visualising how senior developer skill expectations evolved over 56 years. Four interactive Chart.js charts, Cookielab brand, powered by community data.

Powered by Cookielab — giving back to the developer community.

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Getting started

Requires Node.js 18+ and npm.

npm install
npm run dev

Then open http://localhost:4321 in your browser.

Other commands

npm run build    # production build → dist/
npm run preview  # preview the production build locally

Stack

• Astro 5 — static site framework
• React 19 — interactive chart islands
• Tailwind CSS v4 — styling
• Chart.js v4 — charts

Adding or editing skills

All skill data lives in public/data/skills-timeline.json. Each skill has a name, category, description, and year-by-year values on a 0–10 scale (logistic S-curve). No code changes needed — just edit the JSON and refresh.

See CLAUDE.md for full developer documentation.

Deployment

Cloudflare Pages — see CLAUDE.md for GitHub Actions workflow details.

License

MIT