Open Sourcing Your Stuff
How to create an Open Source JavaScript Library
Kent C. Dodds
Utah
wife, 4 kids, & a dog
PayPal, Inc.
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What this talk is
- Identifying a good candidate in a project for open sourcing
- Extracting it to a solid open source project
- Pushing the library to a GitHub org
- Publishing the library on npm
- Replacing the custom project code with a library dependency
What this talk is not
- An explanation of all of the benefits of open sourcing
- Everything you need to know to maintain an open source project
Let's
Get
STARTED!
Let's get started...
Identify the component
for open sourcing
Create the new Project
npm init
create your package.json
Copy the needed files
from your project
npm publish
npm install
and add the module dep
Create the GitHub repo
Create the git repo
git init && git remote
Community
You are not an island
ESLint & Jest
setup your project's tests
Build
Write modern JS!
CI
Run tests, linting, and build for every PR
done!
Resources
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