Building A Popular Open-Source javascript Library

Building the same components from scratch for your JavaScript projects just doesn’t make sense. This is why libraries are really powerful — you can use them to more easily build your creative projects, saving tons of time. And if you build something cool yourself, why not share it with the world? We’ll look at what it takes to successfully share your code with the world, learning from examples like jQuery Tokeninput, a project that’s been downloaded millions of times.

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1. BUILDING A POPULAR OPEN-SOURCE JAVASCRIPT LIBRARY BEST PRACTICES AND LESSONS LEARNED
2. JAMES SMITH loopj loopj
4. WHAT IS A LIBRARY?
5. WHY SHOULD I BUILD A LIBRARY?
6. CREATING A LIBRARY
7. USE A LIBRARY BOILERPLATE http://yeoman.io
8. YEOMAN GENERATORS https://github.com/randylien/generator-react-gulp-browserify https://github.com/babel/generator-babel-boilerplate https://github.com/jvandemo/generator-angularjs-library
9. WRITE THE CODE MINIMIZE DEPENDENCIES ENCAPSULATION REUSABLE FUNCTIONS/CLASSES
10. TESTING YOUR LIBRARY
11. WRITE AND USE UNIT TESTS https://mochajs.org
12. RUN YOUR TESTS AUTOMATICALLY https://travis-ci.org
13. DOCUMENT YOUR LIBRARY
14. README.MD CODE DOCUMENTATION EXAMPLE APPS
15. “SPEND AS MUCH TIME WRITING DOCUMENTATION AS YOU DO WRITING CODE”
16. PUBLISH YOUR LIBRARY http://bower.io
17. TELL THE WORLD - GET FEEDBACK
18. REDDIT.COM/R/JAVASCRIPT JAVASCRIPT SUBREDDIT
19. NEWS.YCOMBINATOR.COM HACKER NEWS
20. JAVASCRIPTWEEKLY.COM JAVASCRIPT WEEKLY
21. FURTHER READING https://egghead.io/series/how-to-write-an-open-source-javascript-library
22. QUESTIONS? THANK YOU!
23. COME AND SAY HI! - SUTTER ROOM