Introduction

Developer Experience (DX) refers to the overall satisfaction developers have while building products in Web3.

There are different steps in the value chain of Web3 products: blockspace production through Polkadot, providing chain-level primitives from parachains, providing on-chain applications through smart contracts, and eventually user-facing applications that consume Web3 APIs. Thus, developers face completely different paths, depending on what they want to achieve in Polkadot.

DX is typically not invoked when everything is running smoothly for the developer, but rather when there are troubles. This signals that DX is a topic that is approached by creating an environment for devs that allows them to get stuff done in simple, fun, or powerful ways.

What is Developer Experience? We split it into these parts:

Resources

Documentation

Software

Key Stakeholders

Services

Ongoing Work