🔥Why Deepseek designed their API to match OpenAI’s

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A year after moving on from React, Scholarly shares how a Rails, Stimulus, and Turbo stack has simplified development, improved reliability, and boosted performance.

Meanwhile, Deepseek R1 challenges OpenAI’s o1 models in reasoning tasks but still falls short in chess-based evaluations.

In CSS, new animation features like @starting-style and transition-behavior are making life easier for developers, while the release of Svelte 5 sparks discussions about the future of web frameworks with insights from its creator, Rich Harris.

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Moving on from React, a Year Later - Scholarly has embraced a server-rendered, JavaScript-light approach using Rails, Stimulus, and Turbo, prioritizing simplicity, performance, and testability. Moving away from React has reduced complexity, improved system reliability, and allowed faster, lower-risk development. As the company grows, this stack continues to support a fast, scalable, and developer-friendly experience without the overhead of heavy frontend state management.

Deepseek R1 vs OpenAI o1 - Deepseek R1 is a promising new reasoning model that outperforms many competitors but still falls short of OpenAI's o1 models in chess-based evaluations. While it achieves a notable number of wins, its frequent mistakes and issues with instruction-following limit its reliability. Distilled versions of R1 struggle significantly, and Google's updated Gemini Thinking model shows improvements but remains a surrogate. ( Check out the comments, most interersting… )

Transitioning Top-Layer Entries And The Display Property In CSS - We are getting spoiled with so many new features involving animations with CSS, from scroll-driven animations to view transitions, and plenty of things in between. But it’s not always the big features that make our everyday lives easier; sometimes, it’s those ease-of-life features that truly enhance our projects. In this article, Brecht De Ruyte puts two features on display: @starting-style and transition-behavior — two properties that are absolutely welcome additions to your everyday work with CSS animations.

Svelte 5 And The Future Of Frameworks - After months of anticipation, debate, and even a bit of apprehension, Svelte 5 arrived earlier this year. Frederick O’Brien caught up with its creator, Rich Harris, to talk about the path that brought him and his team here and what lies ahead.

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Problem: Today I was going through DeepSeek’s API docs, trying to see what features they support. I noticed that all of their examples were using the connection libraries from OpenAI. Here is an example of a code snippet for making a request to /completions .

import OpenAI from "openai";

# for backward compatibility, you can still use `https://api.deepseek.com/v1` as `baseURL`.
const openai = new OpenAI({
        baseURL: 'https://api.deepseek.com',
        apiKey: '<your API key>'
});

async function main() {
  const completion = await openai.chat.completions.create({
    messages: [{ role: "system", content: "You are a helpful assistant." }],
    model: "deepseek-chat",
  });

  console.log(completion.choices[0].message.content);
}

main();

As you can notice, the very first line is import OpenAI from "openai"; 

To me, this means one thing—Deepseek designed their API to match OpenAI’s, allowing existing libraries and documentation to be reused seamlessly. Pretty smart!

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