Hey everyone! Hexbear is looking for some more core developers to join the team and contribute some of their free time towards development.

Our main need is for Typescript/Javascript developers - both our frontend and our new backend rewrite are programmed in Typescript. The frontend is based on React, and the backend uses Node.js and TypeORM. We're looking for about 5-6 developers who have experience in Typescript and are willing to help out!

Our current backend is based on Rust. Although we plan to phase it out soon, we still need developers willing to maintain it until then. The current backend uses Actix and Diesel. The image backend, Pict-rs, is written in Rust as well - although it's not maintained by us, we would love to contribute upstream. We're looking for about 1-2 Rust developers!

If you're interested in helping out at all, please send me a PM with a short snippet about some of your experience and why you'd like to help out. (Don't worry - this isn't supposed to be a resume or a cover letter!) You can also join our development Matrix server #hexbear-dev:chapo.chat. Once you're "in", we'll get you briefed with our current projects and get you set up.

Thanks for reading through this! Viva la Hexbear!