48: Open Source It with Jon Rohan
React Podcast
English - May 16, 2019 12:00 - 41 minutes - 38 MB - ★★★★★ - 72 ratingsTechnology News Tech News react reactjs react native javascript web development programming coding software development frontend Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Jon Rohan is an Engineer on the Design Systems Team at Github, building tooling for Octicons and Primer — their React component library.
Chantastic asks about his 6 year tenure at GitHub, the inspiration behind his primer.css slam poem, how their using CSS-in-JS and Lerna to structure their work, and his project Figma Actions for seamlessly building icons from Figma design files.
They discuss design apps, Monorepos, GitHub Actions, CSS-in-JS, and why you should open source your systems.
Featuring
Jon Rohan — Twitter, Github, Website
Michael Chan — Twitter, Github, Website
Links
25: Make Brilliant Messes with Diana Mounter and Emily Plummer — Previous React Podcast episode with on Design Systems at Github
Design Systems at GitHub — by Diana Mounter
Primer — Resources, tooling, and design guidelines for building interfaces with GitHub’s design system
Github Primercss.io slam poem — a pem about Primer by Jon Rohan
Styled System — Style props for rapid UI development
Emotion — CSS-in-JS library designed for high performance style composition
styled components — Visual primitives for the component age
Github Octicons — Your project. GitHub's icons
FAMFAMFAM — Silk
Figma — A better way to design
Figma Developer API
GitHub Actions — Focus on what matters: code
Figma Action — GitHub action for exporting Figma components
lerna — 🐉 A tool for managing JavaScript projects with multiple packages
Monorepo — a software development strategy where code for many projects are stored in the same repository
Primer Community on Spectrum
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