How to advertise to React developers
To advertise to React developers, be where they read every day: daily.dev Ads, This Week in React, React Summit and r/reactjs. daily.dev gives you a verified company page they follow and puts your posts and releases in the feed of developers who read #react and #nextjs, and in the Web Development newsletter, in one plan we run for you.
One plan, built around your company page: we put it in front of React developers across daily.dev and report on it every week.
Who are the React developers on daily.dev?
What they read, where it comes from, and what else they follow: the signals a campaign is targeted on.
The tags that reach them
Target any mix; your plan runs the campaign on them.
- #react
- #nextjs
- #frontend
- #typescript
- #javascript
- #webdev
800+ targetable keywords in all (daily.dev Media Kit 2.0, August 2026 — targeting).
Where React developers get their news
The sources that publish most on these tags, ranked by followers on daily.dev.
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Hacker News
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freeCodeCamp
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DEV
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All ShadCN
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WebDev
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Dev Tools
What they also read
Tags on the same recent posts, as a share of them. Worth adding to a campaign.
- #css14%
- #react-native6%
- #ai-agents6%
- #accessibility5%
- #performance3%
- #vercel3%
Tags, sources and co-reading: daily.dev public API snapshot.
How do you reach React developers?
Developers are the audience that taught the industry to block ads. The way in is not a louder interruption; it is the reading they chose, in the place they open every day. That is why daily.dev Ads exists: to help brands earn a place in that reading, week after week.
- 13K+
- companies whose developers read daily.dev
- 800+
- targetable stacks and topics
- 2,000+
- content sources in the feed
Written by the daily.dev Ads team, which plans and runs every campaign on the platform. Sources on the audience overview.
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A sandbox earns more trust than a demo call.
React developers decide by editing a working example. Publish posts that link to a sandbox or a starter repo that runs, with the JSX in the post; a gated demo loses them.
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Say where it runs, server or client.
With server components, the first question about any React tool is where it executes. State it in your posts and in the first line of your docs; it shows you keep up.
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Bundle size is a live number, so measure it.
React developers know the kilobytes of every dependency. Publish the size your package adds next to the feature it buys, and the trade-off is accepted before it is questioned.
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Publish on the framework release calendar.
Major React and Next.js releases set what this audience reads about. Publish a compatibility note the week a release lands, and your company page becomes the place they check.
“The biggest standout was the engagement quality. That’s the kind of result that gets attention internally, because it suggests the message is landing with the right audience.”

Why do developers pay attention on daily.dev?
The team reviews real developer ad creatives and unpacks why developer UI, technical density and humour decide what gets read.
More from the team: the developer marketing series →
What do React developers read, and what should your brand say?
A few things they read and discuss
Examples of popular posts on these tags that React developers read and talk about on daily.dev. Open any of them to join the conversation.
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DESIGN.md vs. Design System MCP: Which Does What?
Headway 7 106
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A sustainable web career, for when all this blows over
Lobsters
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Look Mum, No Executors
Nx 2 10
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Upcoming Next.js Security Update for a Critical Upstream Issue
Next.js 1 11
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How we made a 9 MB WebAssembly module feel faster without removing a single byte
DEV 1 10
Each post opens on daily.dev with its discussion.
What that means for your message
Your takeaways from what they discuss. Our team writes the creative with you.
- Drop-in components Publish the import and the JSX in a working example
- Server components and the framework State where your tool runs, server or client, in every post
- Bundle size Publish the kilobytes it adds, measured, next to the feature
How do you target React developers on daily.dev?
Targeting is built on what developers read on daily.dev, not a self-declared profile. You set it once with your campaign manager; your plan runs it, and we optimise it every week.
- Tags
- #react, #nextjs, #frontend, #typescript, #javascript, #webdev, and any of the 800+ targetable keywords
- Seniority
- Junior, mid-level, senior and leadership, from on-platform activity
- Region
- Global, or by region and country
- In your plan
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- Your verified company page
- Your posts in their feed
- The Web Development newsletter
- Your logo on the daily.dev homepage
- A weekly report and a campaign manager
- Creative
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Our team works with you to shape, finish and test your creative, so it reads like the posts around it.
Creative specs for every placement
Pick a size
Same work in every size. The size sets your reach.
Explore my options →Prices are quoted per company. See how plans work →
Where else can you reach React developers?
Where React developers can be reached with paid media, and what each channel is good at. Most teams combine two or three; a plan here is the always-on part.
| Channel | Format | Target by stack | How you buy | Best for |
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| | Your verified company page, your posts in their feed, the newsletter they chose, the homepage | Yes: #react, #nextjs and related tags, seniority, region | Managed monthly plan | Building a brand developers follow, every week, with creative and reporting done for you |
| React newsletters (This Week in React, React Status, Bytes) | One sponsor slot per issue | By list | Per issue | Launch-week spikes |
| React Summit, React Conf and Next.js Conf | Booths and talks | By event | Sponsorship packages | Community presence |
| Reddit (r/reactjs, r/nextjs) | Promoted posts | By subreddit | Self-serve | Discussion and feedback |
| React YouTube creators and courses | Sponsored segments and course partnerships | By creator | Direct with the creator | Product walkthroughs |
| Stack Overflow Ads | Display units beside questions | By tag | Direct sales | Reaching developers mid-task |
| Carbon Ads and BuySellAds | One small display ad on developer sites and docs | By site category | Self-serve and direct | Light awareness beside documentation |
Compare daily.dev with
- Format
- Your verified company page, your posts in their feed, the newsletter they chose, the homepage One sponsor slot per issueBooths and talksPromoted postsSponsored segments and course partnershipsDisplay units beside questionsOne small display ad on developer sites and docs
- Target by stack
- Yes: #react, #nextjs and related tags, seniority, region By listBy eventBy subredditBy creatorBy tagBy site category
- How you buy
- Managed monthly plan Per issueSponsorship packagesSelf-serveDirect with the creatorDirect salesSelf-serve and direct
- Best for
- Building a brand developers follow, every week, with creative and reporting done for you Launch-week spikesCommunity presenceDiscussion and feedbackProduct walkthroughsReaching developers mid-taskLight awareness beside documentation
Channel facts from each channel's own public pages, October 2026. Prices are not compared.
What do teams build with React developers on daily.dev?
Build your brand with them
Show up every day in the reading React developers chose, with your posts, releases and point of view, so yours is the name they know when they pick a tool.
Grow a community around your product
Your verified company page is where React developers follow you, discuss your posts and come back for your next release.
Strengthen your employer brand
Share engineering stories, culture and open roles with React developers where they already discover tools and ideas.
Brands building with developers on daily.dev
Brands building with developers on daily.dev
Google, AWS, Google Cloud, Cursor, Vanta, Zoho, Atlassian, Notion, Okta, Sentry, Datadog, JetBrains, Postman, Snyk, ClickHouse, Edge Impulse, RevenueCat, QA Wolf, TigerData, PostHog, LaunchDarkly, Neo4j, Temporal, Sonar, Appwrite, dbt Labs, Retool, Pulumi, CodeRabbit, Windsurf, OpenRouter, Bright Data, Stream, Postmark, Novu, context.dev
Guides on reaching React developers
- How to market to React developers
- How to reach frontend and web developers
- Target developers by programming language: a marketer’s guide
- Tech stack targeting: reaching developers by the tools they use
- Best developer advertising platforms
- Developer marketing platforms compared: the channel mix
All guides: developer marketing resources →
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