Publishing JavaScript Packages with John-David Dalton, Stephan Bönnemann, James Kyle, and Henry Zhu

Description:

Doing open source involves a lot more than just coding up the tool/library. We're going to talk about the challenge of activly publishing an open source package on npm and some of the tools that have been developed to automate this process. Our guests have each developed some amazing tools, so you're in for a really interesting show!

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Links, Picks, and Tips:

James Kyle

@thejameskyle

TipsGo home, stop working, take a vacation, don't work on the weekends.

PicksFlowType.org

John-David Dalton

@jdalton

LinksLerna
babel-plugin-lodash
lodash-webpack-plugin
ES6 Module Interoperability
Shrinkpack

TipsReduce barriers for contributions
If a repo is lagging in activity jump in as a contributor

Pickseslint-plugin-import

Stephan Bönnemann

@boennemann

LinksSemantic Release
npm prune
npm pack
package.json files

TipsAlways bring your skateboard to the airport

Picksnpm CouchDB changes feed
shrinkwrap on publish

Henry Zhu

@left_pad

LinksThoughts on setting up a monorepo for cycle.js
Why is Babel a monorepo?
Prosemirror monorepo disucssion
package.json files property, .npmignore

TipsQuestions can become PRs for a project - if something seems weird/could be improved, it was probably overlooked. (for example)

PicksLebab: the opposite of babel
View # of Issues/PRs for a contributors

Kent C. Dodds

@kentcdodds

Linksnp
nyc
How to use bundledDependencies
generator-kcd-oss

TipsAutomate things

Picksngrok Secure tunnels to localhost
How to Write a JavaScript Library Free Egghead.io course

Pam Selle

@pamasaur

TipsIf you figure out why istanbul/nyc is called nyc, let me know

PicksLambCI

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