Open Sourcing Your Stuff
Kent C. Dodds
Utah
1 wife, 3 kids
PayPal, Inc.
@kentcdodds
Please Stand...
What this talk is not
- An explanation of all of the benefits of open sourcing
- Word-for-word script of what to tell your boss when you want to open source
- Everything you need to know to maintain an open source project
What this talk is
- Identifying a good candidate in a project for open sourcing
- Extracting it to a solid open source project
- Publishing the library on npm
- Replacing the custom project code with a library dependency
Let's get started...
Identify the component
for open sourcing
Prepare it
for open sourcing
Create the new Project
Create the GitHub repo
on github.com
Copy the needed files
from your project
Alter the files
so they can stand on their own
yarn (or npm) init
create your package.json
build with babel
create your package.json
test with jest
setup your project's tests
npm publish
and git tag && git push
npm install
and add the module dep
done!
Resources...
Thank You!
Open Sourcing Your Stuff
By Kent C. Dodds
Open Sourcing Your Stuff
How to write an Open Source JavaScript Library
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