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🔴 Live - Learning How to Create an NPM Package

Back at it Again

Hey there it's been quite some time since I've written anything on here so I thought let's just jump right back into it. For this one I'm sharing what we have planned for the livestream this Friday, August 12th, 2022. If you're interested in joining our welcoming community as we learn together drop by the stream today starting at 12:30pm ET (time zone conversions).

Stream Plans

Here's an outline of what you can expect on the stream today:

  1. Welcome and celebrate each other's wins of the week
  2. Solve today's wordle
  3. Research how to create an npm package and build an example

Wins of the Week

If you've not joined us for the livestream before you might be wondering what this is all about. It's the beginning segment of the show where we take time to reflect on the past week and look to find the positive things that happened for which we're grateful.

The idea behind this is that I personally have had a tendency to dwell on the negative things. This exercise has helped me to break out of that habit (not all the time but more often now than before). My hope is that it'll help folks dealing with the same thing.

Wordle

We do this as a transition segment where I hide the chat and turn off the text-to-speech feature of my chatbot (something we built on stream) so folks don't spoil the game. Viewers seem to have fun laughing at my frustrations as I try to solve the puzzle.

Technical Topic

After we're warmed up from the previous two segments we dive into a technical topic for the day. This can vary from stream to stream but for this particular one we're learning about creating npm packages for JavaScript and Node.js projects.

So far we've spent some time looking into some build tools like rollup.js and esbuild to generate CommonJS and ESM modules formats to support project use cases.

How to Join

If any or all of that interests you and you'd like to see what this community is all about you can join us over on Twitch. Hope to see you there 🙂👍

✌ Clarkio

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