I want to publish my first Open Source library
summary
Practical checklist and tradeoffs: why publish, which license to pick, and how to shape the API around a working core; concrete tooling includes CI, type definitions for TypeScript, and semantic versioning for breaking changes. Testing expectations are explicit—about 500 unit tests for a router, ~4,000 unit tests for a parser, and ~25,000 integration tests for a client—so plan coverage, automated examples, and a docs-first README template. Emphasis on developer experience, clear options, and that maintenance is mostly people work.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Start
- 4:59Focus first on the problem you need to solve then on the API design.
- 6:35Should I make it Open Source?
- 18:43Developer experience
- 22:40If you are developing a JavaScript library... TypeScript support
- 31:42Your software could be used by anyone.
- 32:30Be a maintainer is not about code, is about People
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