Things I wish I knew before I started an open-source project

• latitude

  7 709 9.8 TypeScript

  Developer-first embedded analytics

  

Check out Latitude for examples of all these.

• SurveyJS

  surveyjs.io featured

  Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App. With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.

  

• github-action

  2 261 5.7 TypeScript

  CLA Assistant GitHub Action (by contributor-assistant)

  

To have all contributors sign the CLA, there’s a handy Gtihub Action that automatically requires new contributors to do so.

• changesets

  32 8,199 5.4 TypeScript

  🦋 A way to manage your versioning and changelogs with a focus on monorepos

  

As a general rule, I recommend against completely automating the release of your software and instead have a manual approval step required at some point in the process. Tools like changesets, the one we use at Latitude, greatly help with this. Changesets takes care of publishing new packages, updating changelogs, and tagging releases, yet it can only do so via automatic pull requests that have the same approval requirements as any other PR at Latitude.

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