Tips for Library Development (from a Startup Developer)
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Advice centers on concrete moves not manifesto: extract a focused module, publish it with a single Gradle dependency and a dead simple example, run tests on CI (examples: CircleCI Travis etc), use semantic versioning, prefer composition over inheritance, accept community help (the GraphQL client used in production by the New York Times and Shopify is cited), label alphas/betas clearly, decline scope‑creep politely, and expect eventual deprecation by platform.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:24Why create a library
- 3:35Self-interest and modularity
- 5:48Community and learning
- 8:42Best practices for scope
- 12:18Design and user experience
- 16:04Maintenance and honesty
- 19:43Testing and collaboration
- 22:21Legal and ownership
- 25:03Competition and future outlook
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