The Vibecoder Dictionary

2302 developer terms explained like you're five. No jargon, no gatekeeping — just vibes.

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Git & Version Control

Commits, branches, merges, PRs

CI/CD & DevOps

Pipelines, Docker, Kubernetes

Frontend

HTML, CSS, JS, frameworks

Backend

APIs, servers, authentication

Database

SQL, queries, migrations

Security

Auth, encryption, OWASP

Testing

Unit tests, E2E, mocking

Cloud & Infra

AWS, Vercel, serverless

Networking

HTTP, DNS, WebSockets

Architecture

Patterns, SOLID, DRY

General Dev

IDE, debugging, algorithms

AI & ML

LLMs, prompts, training

Vibecoding

Vibes, AI-assisted dev, culture

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H 66 terms

I 65 terms

IAM(Identity and Access Management)IDE(Integrated Development Environment)IMAP(Internet Message Access Protocol)INNER JOIN INP(INP)INSERT IP(Internet Protocol)IP Address IPv4(Internet Protocol version 4)IPv6(Internet Protocol version 6)ISR(Incremental Static Regeneration)IaC(Infrastructure as Code)IaaS(Infrastructure as a Service)Idempotency Idempotency Key Idempotent Idle Resource Detection Image Image Classification Image Optimization Image Signing Immutability Imposter Syndrome Impostor Syndrome In-App Purchase In-Context Learning In-Memory Database Inbox Pattern Incident Incident Response Index IndexedDB Inference Infinite Loop Infinite Scroll InfluxDB Infrastructure Drift Infrastructure as Code Infrastructure as Code Pattern Ingress Inheritance Init Container Inner Source Input Validation Insomnia Instant App Integer Integration Test IntelliJ IDEA Interactor Interceptor Interface Interface Segregation Internal Developer Platform Internet Gateway Interpreter Intersection Observer Inversion of Control(IoC)IoC(IoC)Ionic Island Architecture Islands Architecture Isolation Issue Istio

L 78 terms

LCP(LCP)LEFT JOIN LGTM(Looks Good To Me)LIMIT LLM(Large Language Model)LLM Wrapper LM Studio LSM Tree Lambda Lambda Layers LanceDB LangChain Laravel Large Language Model(LLM)Latency Latency-Based Routing Latent Space LaunchDarkly Law of Leaky Abstractions Layer Normalization Layer Promotion Layouts Layouts (Frontend)Lazy Loading LazyVim Lead Time Lead Time for Changes Leaky Bucket Left-Pad Incident Legacy Code Lerna LibSQL Library Lifecycle Lighthouse Linear Linked List Linkerd Lint-Staged Linter Linus's Law Liquibase Liskov Substitution Lit Litmus Chaos Live Reload Liveness Probe Llama LlamaIndex LoRA(Low-Rank Adaptation)Load Balancer Load Balancer Algorithm Load Shedding Load Test Load Testing Patterns Local AI Local LLM LocalStorage Localhost Localhost Millionaire Lock File Lock File Resolution Locking Locust Log Log Aggregation Logging Logic Error Long Polling Long Polling Pattern Long Tasks Long Tasks API Loop Loss Function Lottie Lovable Lua Lucia Auth

M 104 terms

MATLAB MCP(Model Context Protocol)MCP Server MD5(MD5)MDX MFA(MFA)MIME Type(Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions Type)MITM(MITM)ML(Machine Learning)MLOps MPA(Multi-Page Application)MQTT MSW MVC(MVC)MVCC MVP(MVP)MVVM(MVVM)MX Record(Mail Exchange Record)Machine Learning(ML)Magic Link Magic Number Magic String Maintainer Man-in-the-Middle(MITM)Managed Service Mantine Many-to-Many Mapped Types MariaDB Markdoc Markdown Material UI Materialized View Materialized View Refresh Matrix Strategy Mean Time to Recovery Media Query Meilisearch Memcached Memoization Memory Leak Merge Merge Queue Message Acknowledgment Message Broker Message Framing Message Queue Meta Tags MetaGPT Method Metrics Metro Bundler Micro Frontend Microsegmentation Microservice Middleware Middleware Chain Midjourney Migration Minification Minify Mise Mistral Mixture of Experts(MoE)Mob Programming MobX Mobile First Mocha Mock Mock Server Model Model Collapse Model Context Protocol(MCP)Model Hopping Model Inversion Model Routing Model Serving Modular Monolith Modular Monolith Pattern Module Federation Mojo Monad MongoDB Mongoose Monitoring Monkey Patching Monkeypatching Monolith Monorepo Monorepo Tools Multi-Agent Multi-Cloud Multi-Factor Authentication(MFA)Multi-Head Attention Multi-Primary Replication Multi-Region Deployment Multi-Stage Build Multimodal Multiplexing Mutation Observer Mutation Score Mutation Testing MySQL mTLS

P 163 terms

PACELC Theorem PCI DSS(PCI DSS)PEBKAC(Problem Exists Between Keyboard And Chair)PHP(PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor)PKCE PM2 POC(POC)POP3(Post Office Protocol version 3)POST PUT PWA(PWA)PaaS(Platform as a Service)Package Package Manager Packer Packet Pact Pager PagerDuty Pages Router Pagination Paint Timing Pair Programming Parallax Parallax Scrolling Parallelism Parameter Parameters Parcel Parkinson's Law Partial Hydration Partial Index Partitioning Passkey Passkeys Passport.js Password Manager Patch Path Filters Path Parameter Pattern Matching Paved Road Payload Payment Intent Peer Dependencies Penetration Testing Pentest Percy Performance Budget Performance Test Perl Permission Mode Permissions Policy Perplexity Pessimistic Locking Petite Vue PgBouncer Phantom Read Phishing Phoenix Pinecone Ping Pinia Pipeline Pipeline Pattern Pivot Table Pixel Pushing Plan Mode PlanetScale Platform Engineering Platform Tax Platform Team Playbook Playwright Playwright Test Plugin Architecture Pod Podman Point-in-Time Recovery Points of Presence(PoPs)Poison Message Policy as Code Polling Polyfill Polymorphism Polyrepo Popover API Port Portals Ports and Adapters PostCSS Postel's Law PostgreSQL Postman Postmortem Pre-Commit Hooks Pre-training Preact Precision Preemptible VMs Prefetch Preload Premature Abstraction Premature Optimization Presenter Prettier Primary Key Principal Engineer Principle of Least Privilege Priority Queue Prisma Private Key ProGuard Process Process Manager Product Type Production Progressive Delivery Progressive Enhancement Progressive Web App Projection Prometheus Promise Prompt Prompt Caching Prompt Chaining Prompt Debt Prompt Engineering Prompt Exfiltration Prompt Fatigue Prompt Golf Prompt Injection Prompt Relay Prompt Rot Prompt Template Prompt-Driven Development Property-Based Testing Props Protocol Protocol Buffers Prototype Proxy Proxy Pattern Proxy Protocol Pseudocode Pub/Sub(Pub/Sub)Public Key Pull Pull Request(PR)Pulumi Puppet Puppeteer Pure Function Push Push Notification PyCharm PyTorch Pydantic Python pip pnpm pnpm Workspaces pub

Q 9 terms

QUIC(Quick UDP Internet Connections)Qdrant Quantization Query Builder Query Optimization Query String QuestDB Queue Qwik

R 147 terms

R RAG(Retrieval Augmented Generation)RDS(Relational Database Service)RDS Proxy README(README)REST(Representational State Transfer)REST Maturity Model REST vs GraphQL RESTful RIGHT JOIN RLHF(Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback)RPO(Recovery Point Objective)RSC RSPack RTFM(Read The Fine Manual)RTO(Recovery Time Objective)RabbitMQ Race Condition Radix UI Raft Rage Coding Rage Quit Rails Railway Railway Hosting Rate Limit Rate Limiter Rate Limiter Middleware Rate Limiting Rate Limiting Security React React Context React Hook Form React Native React Navigation React Portals React Query React Server Components React Three Fiber Reactive Reactivity Read Committed Read Model Read Replica Readiness Probe Real User Monitoring Reanimated Reasoning Model Rebase Recall Recharts Recoil Record Recursion Recursive Query Red Teaming Red-Green-Refactor Redirect Redis Redis Cluster Redis Pub/Sub Redis Streams Redoc Redux Redux Toolkit Refactor Refactoring Referential Transparency Reflow Refresh Token Regex(Regex)Region Registry Regression Regression Test Reinforcement Learning Release Release Candidate Release Train Remix Remote Render Render Hosting Renovate Repaint Replicate Replication Replit Agent Repository(Repo)Repository Pattern Repository Pattern (Architecture)Request Request Lifecycle Request Tracing Request Validation Request for Comments Reserved Instances Reset Resize Observer Resolver Response Response Caching Response Streaming Responsive Design Responsive vs Adaptive Restore Result Type Resumable Workflow Resume Driven Development Retrieval-Augmented Generation(RAG)Retro Retry Logic Retry Pattern Retry with Backoff Return Value Reusable Workflows Reverse Proxy Revert Richardson Maturity Model Right-Sizing Roc Rollback Rolling Update Rollup Round Robin Route Route 53 Router Row Row-Level Security Rubber Banding Rubber Duck Debugging Rubber Duck Method Rubber Ducking Rubber Stamp Review Rubber Stamping Rube Goldberg Code Ruby Runbook Runner Runtime Runtime Error Runtime Security Rush Rust requestAnimationFrame ripgrep

S 247 terms

S3(Simple Storage Service)SAST SBOM(SBOM)SCA SCSS SDK(SDK)SELECT SEO SFTP(SSH File Transfer Protocol)SHA(SHA)SLA(Service Level Agreement)SLI(Service Level Indicator)SLO(Service Level Objective)SLSA SMTP(Simple Mail Transfer Protocol)SNS(Simple Notification Service)SOA(Service Oriented Architecture)SOC 2(SOC 2)SOLID(SOLID)SOLID Principles SPA(Single Page Application)SQL(Structured Query Language)SQL Injection SQLAlchemy SQLite SQLite in Production SQS(Simple Queue Service)SRE(Site Reliability Engineering)SSE(Server-Sent Events)SSG(Static Site Generation)SSH(Secure Shell)SSL(SSL)SSO(Single Sign-On)SSR(Server-Side Rendering)SST SVG Animation SWC SWR SaaS(Software as a Service)Sad Path Saga Saga Pattern Salt Sandbox Sanitization Sanity Check Sass Scaffold Scala Scheduled Task Schema Schema Migration Tool Schema Registry Schroedingers Bug Scope Scope Creep Screaming Architecture Screen Reader Script Scroll Snap Scroll-Driven Animations Scrum Second System Effect Secret Secret Scanning Secure Boot Secure Enclave Security Audit Security Group Security Groups Security Headers Seed Segfault Selenium Self-Attention Self-Contained System Self-Hosted Self-Hosted Runner Semantic HTML Semantic Kernel Semantic Release Semantic Search Semantic Versioning(SemVer)Semver(Semver)Sentinel Sentry Separation of Concerns Serializable Isolation Serialization Server Server Action Server Actions Server Components Server Middleware Server Push Server-Sent Events Server-Sent Events Pattern Serverless Serverless Functions Service Account Service Discovery Service Layer Service Mesh Service Mesh Pattern Service Oriented Architecture(SOA)Service Worker Session Session Hijacking SessionStorage Shadcn/ui Shadow DOM Shadow Prompting Shadow Traffic Sharding Shared Database Shell Shift Left Shim Shiny Object Syndrome Ship Ship It Shotgun Surgery Side Effect Sidecar Pattern Signals Sigstore Single Responsibility Singleton Singleton Pattern Site Reliability Engineering Skeleton Loading Skeleton Screen Skia Skopeo Slash Command Sliding Window Sliding Window Rate Limit Slot Smart Contract Smoke Test Snapshot Isolation Snapshot Test Snapshot Testing Snapshot Testing Patterns Snippet Snowflake Schema Social Engineering Socket Socket.io Soft Delete Software Composition Analysis Solid.js Sora Source Map Sourcegraph Cody Space Complexity Spaghetti Code Sparse Checkout Specification Pattern Spike Solution Splunk Spot Instance Spot Instances Spread Operator Spring Sprint Sprint Zero Spy Squash Stable Diffusion Stack Stack Overflow Stack Trace StackBlitz StackOverflow-Driven Development Staff Engineer Staging Staging Area Standup Star Schema Starship Startup Probe Stash State State Machine Statement Coverage Static Hosting Static Typing Status Checks Status Code Status Page Stencil Step Sticky Positioning Sticky Session Sticky Sessions Pattern Stimulus Storage Classes Stored Procedure Story Points Storybook Strangler Fig Pattern Strategy Pattern Streaming Streaming Protocol Streaming SSR Stress Test String Stripe API Stripe Webhooks Strong Consistency Structural Typing Structured Output Stub Styled Components Submodule Subnet Subquery Subresource Integrity Suggestion Sum Type Sunk Cost Fallacy Supabase Supabase Auth Supabase Edge Functions Supabase Function Hooks Supabase Functions Supabase Realtime Supabase Storage Supabase Vectors Supertest Supply Chain Attack Supply Chain Security SurrealDB Suspense Svelte Swagger Swagger UI Swift SwiftUI Symmetric Encryption Sync Syntax Syntax Error Synthetic Data Synthetic Monitoring System Prompt

T 119 terms

TCP(Transmission Control Protocol)TCP Handshake TDD(TDD)TLS(TLS)TLS Handshake(Transport Layer Security Handshake)TOTP(TOTP)TPM(Trusted Platform Module)TTFB(Time to First Byte)TTL(Time To Live)TXT Record Tab-Tab-Tab Table Tabnine Tag Tagged Templates Tail Call Optimization Tailwind Tailwind Plugins TanStack Tanstack Router Tanstack Table Tauri Tech Lead Tech Radar Tech Stack Technical Debt Technical Debt Bankruptcy Technical Interview Tekton Temperature Template Template Literal Type TensorFlow Terminal Terraform Terratest Test Case Test Containers Test Coverage Metrics Test Data Factory Test Double Test Environment Test Isolation Test Parallelization Test Pyramid Test Runner Test Suite Test-Driven Development(TDD)TestCafe TestFlight Testcontainers Testing Library Text-to-Speech(TTS)The Handoff The Loop Thrashing Thread Three-Way Handshake Three.js Throttle Throttling Throughput Ticket Time Complexity Time to Interactive Time-Series Database Timeout Pattern TimescaleDB Together AI Toil Token Token Anxiety Token Bucket Token Rotation Tokenizer Tokens per Second(TPS)Tool Use Top-k Top-p Total Blocking Time Toxiproxy Traceroute Training Transaction Transfer Learning Transform Transformer Transpile Tree Tree Shaking Tribal Knowledge Trigger Trigram Search Trunk-Based Development Trusted Platform Module(TPM)Truthy Try/Catch Tunnel Turbo Turbopack Turborepo Turducken Architecture Turso Tutorial Hell Tween Two-Factor Authentication(2FA)Two-Phase Commit Two-way Binding Type Type Coercion Type Guard Type Inference Type Narrowing TypeScript TypeScript Strict Mode Typesense Typosquatting tRPC tmux

X 4 terms

XML(eXtensible Markup Language)XSS(XSS)XState Xcode

Y 9 terms

YAGNI(You Aren't Gonna Need It)YAGNI Principle YAML(YAML)YAML Engineer YOLO Deploy Yak Shaving Yeet yarn yq

Z 16 terms

Zed Zero Downtime Deployment Zero Trust Zero-Day Zero-Knowledge Proof Zero-Shot Learning Zero-Shot Vibing Zero-shot Zig Zipkin Zod Zod (Frontend Validation)Zombie Process Zustand zoxide zsh

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