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What can be the pitfalls of a preset, out-of-the-box developer portal framework? How can AI help you to improve developer experience? How can you build confidence and enable self-service with onboarding? This article focuses on developer experience, which also encompasses onboarding, and highlights some of the best practices we saw from the DevPortal Awards nominees.

Providing a delightful developer experience is about more than just satisfying technical requirements: there are psychological factors at play that influence expectations towards API products. In this article, we explore the importance of expectation management for developer success.

Developer Success as an objective can be seen as the combination of successfully serving the needs of the different participants in the API economy: application user experience, developer experience, and value exchange. From among these three, here we focus on the onboarding needs- and behavior of the developer who builds the application.

In this article, we introduce two new open-source tools, the Drupal Dependency Quality Gate Composer Audit plugin and Composer Audit changes, for managing third-party PHP dependencies. We highlight the benefits and challenges of open-source code, emphasizing the importance of maintaining quality and security. The tools help monitor the health and sustainability of open-source projects by flagging insecure or unsupported packages. By using these tools, developers can ensure high-quality and secure projects.

The European Accessibility Act will bring many changes in the private sector in 2025. Regardless of your developer portal’s maturity, we recommend inspecting its content and layout with the eyes of accessibility. Not only because of the legal requirements but also to make your digital content inclusive for everyone. Clear and concise structure and wording help to guide the user through your developer portal. In this article, we show you a few guidelines for doing so.  

How we perceive information (our cognition) depends on many internal and external factors influencing our day-to-day lives. In this article, we highlight how the European Accessibility Act will help to increase accessibility and what are the essential aspects of the upcoming changes which will influence the newly marketed products and services.