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3,750Audience · developerComplexity · 1/5Setup · easy

TLDR

A community collection of solutions to the Coding Challenges site, real tools like JSON parsers, web servers, and Redis clones built from scratch, submitted in any language.

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  root((Shared Solutions))
    Challenge types
      CLI tools wc grep cat
      Network tools HTTP DNS
      Data structures
      Games Tetris Chess
      Server infra Redis Docker
    Structure
      One markdown per challenge
      Links to forks by language
    Contributing
      Fork and branch
      Pull request
      Any language welcome
    Community
      Discord server
      Coding Challenges site
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What do people build with it?

USE CASE 1

Find reference implementations of classic tools like a shell or DNS resolver in your language of choice.

USE CASE 2

Compare your own solution to a coding challenge against what other developers submitted.

USE CASE 3

Contribute your finished challenge solution to a public portfolio of implementations.

USE CASE 4

Use existing solutions as a learning guide when you are stuck on a particular challenge.

How does it compare?

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Stars3,7503,7503,750
LanguageVueJavaScript
Setup difficultyeasyeasyeasy
Complexity1/52/52/5
Audiencedevelopervibe coderdeveloper

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How do you get it running?

Difficulty · easy Time to first run · 5min

This is a reference collection, no build or install needed, browse markdown files and follow links to individual repos.

No license information was mentioned in the explanation.

In plain English

This repository collects community-submitted solutions to the programming challenges published on Coding Challenges (codingchallenges.fyi). The site publishes a series of hands-on projects where developers build working versions of real tools from scratch: things like a JSON parser, a web server, a Redis server, a load balancer, a shell, a DNS resolver, a Git client, and many others. The repository itself is organized around those challenges. Each challenge gets its own markdown file under a Solutions folder, and that file links to the different implementations people have submitted in whatever programming language they chose. There is no single language requirement, so you will find solutions written across many different languages depending on what each contributor used. The list of covered challenges is broad. It spans classic command-line tools (wc, cut, grep, cat, head, diff, sed, sort), network-level tools (load balancer, HTTP server, DNS resolver, traceroute, port scanner, SMTP server, DHCP client), data structure and algorithm projects (Huffman compression, Bloom filter spell checker, Lisp interpreter, Forth interpreter), games (Tetris, Pong, Chess, Snake, Minesweeper, Asteroids, Space Invaders), and server infrastructure projects (Memcached, NATS message broker, Bitcask storage engine, Docker). The range is deliberately wide so that developers at different skill levels can find something that matches their interests. Adding a solution follows the standard open-source contribution pattern: fork the repository, create a branch with your changes, push it to your fork, and open a pull request. The project has a Discord community for discussion. No specific language or framework is required to contribute.

Copy-paste prompts

Prompt 1
Show me the community solutions for the Coding Challenges JSON parser project, which languages are covered?
Prompt 2
How do I submit my own solution to a Coding Challenges project in this repository?
Prompt 3
I want to build a Redis server from scratch, are there reference solutions here I can compare against after I try?
Prompt 4
Which Coding Challenges projects have solutions in Python, and which are the most complex?
Prompt 5
I finished the load balancer challenge in Go, walk me through opening a pull request to add it to the shared solutions repo.

Frequently asked questions

What is sharedsolutions?

A community collection of solutions to the Coding Challenges site, real tools like JSON parsers, web servers, and Redis clones built from scratch, submitted in any language.

What license does sharedsolutions use?

No license information was mentioned in the explanation.

How hard is sharedsolutions to set up?

Setup difficulty is rated easy, with roughly 5min to a first successful run.

Who is sharedsolutions for?

Mainly developer.

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