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Lessons learned doing open source

Carlos Roso on July 16, 2020

I'm not popular in Github but I have a repo with 1.5K stars and 1M hits/month. I got some more with a few hundred stars. Here's what I've learned a...
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Anik Khan •

Cool man! Notyf looks really nice to have library. Learning a lot from you.. 😀

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Carlos Roso •

Thanks mate! I'm glad I'm being helpful in some way :D

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Anik Khan •

My pleasure :)

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Richard Tong •

Thank you for this! I've added a badge to my library thanks to you. Now I want to hit 100% code coverage for the badge a bit 😅

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Carlos Roso •

Nice! What's the project? Share it here!

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Richard Tong •

I call it rubico - async agnostic functional programming

github.com/a-synchronous/rubico

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Carlos Roso •

Amazing work. I love FP. Does it support TypeScript?

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Richard Tong • • Edited

Thank you! It's written in pure JavaScript, so totally importable in TypeScript. I gotta get around to speccing out some TypeScript examples

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Adam Crockett 🌀 • • Edited

Thank you I'm going to use this for (shameless plug 😏) didi especially the cli demo that's great! Wonderful article!

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Carlos Roso •

Loving didi, great work man!

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Adam Crockett 🌀 •

Thank you Carlos il be follow your stuff.

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Nehal Hasnayeen • • Edited

Really good read, thanks for the article. I've a repository with 1.2K stars and it is one of my better work or I like to think so 😛

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Carlos Roso •

Goodwork looks terrific, mate, great work! Can you share with us what has worked so far for you?

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Nehal Hasnayeen •

Just being patient and keep working on it. OSS projects take time to build up as they are mostly done on free time so it takes a while to build up a project.

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Carlos Roso •

This, so much. OSS is about consistency and long term. Viral repos (+2k stars in 1 week) are very overrated esoteric exceptions to the norm. Easy come, easy go.

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MxL Devs •

Definitely feeling that "good looking demo".
I've learned that everything boils down to look & feel. When I try a new library or tool, the ones that look good are the ones that catch my eye

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Carlos Roso •

Right, that's been a great lesson from my journey.

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Alex Janke •

Was just starting a new site at work and looks like I'll give this a shot. Hope it works flawlessly with Nuxt ;) The toasts themselves look really nice

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Carlos Roso •

Thank you! Let me know if you face any problems

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FV •

Great article Carlos!