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

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!

Show sponsors:

• Egghead.io - Bite-sized web development video training
• Frontend Masters - Expert front-end training
• TrackJS - JavaScript Error Monitoring
• WebStorm - Smart JavaScript IDE
• Trading Technologies - Building For What's Next
• React.js Program - Master the React.js Ecosystem
• Sentry - Cross-platform crash-reporting

Links, Picks, and Tips:

James Kyle
@thejameskyle

Tips

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

Picks

• FlowType.org

John-David Dalton
@jdalton

Links

• Lerna
• babel-plugin-lodash
• lodash-webpack-plugin
• ES6 Module Interoperability
• Shrinkpack

Tips

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

Picks

• eslint-plugin-import

Stephan Bönnemann
@boennemann

Links

• Semantic Release
• npm prune
• npm pack
• package.json files

Tips

• Always bring your skateboard to the airport

Picks

• npm CouchDB changes feed
• shrinkwrap on publish

Henry Zhu
@left_pad

Links

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

Tips

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

Picks

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

Kent C. Dodds
@kentcdodds

Links

• np
• nyc
• How to use bundledDependencies
• generator-kcd-oss

Tips

• Automate things

Picks

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

Pam Selle
@pamasaur

Tips

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

Picks

• LambCI

About JavaScript Air:

JavaScriptAir is the live broadcast podcast all about JavaScript hosted by egghead.io instructor Kent C. Dodds. Please visit the JavaScript Air website (javascriptair.com) to see upcoming and past episodes. Go to jsair.io/suggest to suggest topics and guests for the show. Go to jsair.io/feedback to provide feedback on this and other episodes. Also be sure to subscribe to our email newsletter at jsair.io/email and follow JavaScript Air on Twitter and Google+ to stay up to date with future episodes. Also, all episodes are on the YouTube channel as well.