Codédex Update - February 2025

Sonny Liposted on Mar 16, 2025

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“If you build it, they will (eventually) come.”

February may have been just 28 days, but it was a record-breaking month on all fronts.

229,000 unique visitors came to our site last month. 🤯

Between fundraising and keeping the site running (scaling up servers and juggling API limits & AI credits), it’s been a whirlwind. I’ll keep this intro short – read on.

#✅ Code Evaluation (Beta)

Code validation is a core feature that y'all have been asking for. The traditional approach would take months, possibly a year, to retroactively add regex tests and output functions across the existing catalog. We soft-launched an AI version to test out accuracy.

#🦠 Node.js Course

Node.js isn’t a library – it’s a runtime environment that allows JavaScript to run outside the browser, like a food truck that lets a chef cook anywhere instead of just in a kitchen! Highest requested course. (This is also our first Club course.)

#🖼 Project Showcase

We redesigned our Project Showcase to feel more like a showcase (switched to a gallery-style presentation that emphasized each project’s cover image while making it clear how to filter by project tags). Added Staff Picks, too. Go and check out some projects!

#🏆 Leaderboards: Weekly vs. All Time

Leaderboards is an entirely new addition to our on-platform community! Now, you can see who has earned the most XP (gained by completing exercises and code challenges) to create more friendly competition. It's inspired by game leaderboards (i.e. Dota 2, League).

#🌐 Builds Sharing

You can now share the HTML/CSS/JS projects that you built on Codédex with friends & family all with one click. Click [Share] and it generates a URL. Currently, the output has a Codédex watermark, but Clubbers will have the option to remove it in the future.

#🤓 Community Redesign

We redesigned our On-Platform Community aka the OPC! Take a look into our product process, design decisions, and what’s to come. This is the first blog post by Jackie, our product design and UI/UX mastermind behind all the recent revamp.

#Changelog - February 2025

Curriculum

• 🦠 Released Node.js course.
• ☕️ Published Java Ch. 6: Methods.
• ☕️ Published Java Bonus Article: ArrayLists.
• ☕️ Published Java Checkpoint Projects (3).
• 🔥 Welcomed Julien Kris (Sr. Curriculum Dev) to full-time role. Go follow him!
• 👋 Onboarded Alex Kuntz as a freelancer for Data Structures & Algorithms.

Product

• ✅ Shipped Code Evaluation for Python Ch 1-4.
• 🤖 Shipped “Infinite Course” feature for SQL, C++, and Java courses.
• 🖼️ Shipped Project Showcase.
• 🏆 Shipped Leaderboards.
• 🌐 Shipped Builds deployment feature (Codédex watermark).
• 📣 Sent a team announcement via notifications.
• 🧪 Ran 3 product experiments.
• 🧹 Shipped 54 papercuts + fixed 35 bug reports.

Community

• 🔥 Completed Roast My Resume February Monthly Challenge. 161 resumes!
• 🧋 Released Boba Talk podcast ep. #10 with Jovanay (ex-Google recruiter).
• 📰 Published three blog posts:
  • Community Redesign by Jackie.
  • A Day in the Life of a SWE by Asiqur.
  • Codédex Update - January 2025 by me.
• 💻 Hosted a Node.js workshop.
• 👋 Onboarded new Discord mod: Valérie.

#What’s happening in March?

• 📝 Publish Data Structures & Algorithms Ch 1-2.
• 📝 Publish Node.js Ch 2.
• 📝 Publish two project tutorials.
• 🐣 Revamp #30NitesOfCode.
• 🗓️ Ship /Events page.
• 📰 Revamp /Blog.
• 🗳️ Ship Checkpoint/Final Project submission flow.
• 🏡 Host Guest Speaker: Jenn Schiffer (ex-Glitch).
• 🧋 Publish Boba Talk podcast ep. #11.
• 🪴 Drop March Monthly Challenge: Virtual Garden.
• 🧪 3 more product experiments.

#Final Thoughts

Huge kudos to the Codédex team for an insane February. 🫰

As always, my email is sonny@codedex.io if you have any feedback on the product.

Sonny