What I learned from making my first OSS NPM package/Component Library

This page summarizes the projects mentioned and recommended in the original post on /r/learnprogramming

Civic Auth - Auth in Less Than 5 Minutes
Civic Auth comes with multiple SSO options, optional embedded wallets, and user management โ€” all implemented with just a few lines of code. Start building today.
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InfluxDB high-performance time series database
Collect, organize, and act on massive volumes of high-resolution data to power real-time intelligent systems.
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  1. react-daisyui

    daisyUI components built with React ๐ŸŒผ

    Fast forward to today: me and the developer (who had the npm package name) joined forces and collaborated to release an OFFICIAL library for daisyui which has been adopted by the daisyUI organization/original author (which you can find here). Almost 40 stars on our first day!! ๐Ÿคฏ

  2. Civic Auth

    Auth in Less Than 5 Minutes. Civic Auth comes with multiple SSO options, optional embedded wallets, and user management โ€” all implemented with just a few lines of code. Start building today.

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  3. daisyui

    ๐ŸŒผ ๐ŸŒผ ๐ŸŒผ ๐ŸŒผ ๐ŸŒผ โ€ƒThe most popular, free and open-source Tailwind CSS component library

    To start off: I've had the craziest week. I got back from vacation and continued to pluck away part-time at my little side project โ€“ a react component libray for daisyui โ€“ when I found out the name had been taken on npm while I was out of town.

  4. react-bootstrap

    Bootstrap components built with React

    Throughout development I was referencing design choices made by React Bootstrap, Material UI, Ant Design. Notice how all of these HUGE libraries, used by hundreds of enterprise teams around the globe, are open source?

  5. Material UI

    Ready-to-use foundational React components, free forever. It includes Material UI, which implements Google's Material Design.

    Throughout development I was referencing design choices made by React Bootstrap, Material UI, Ant Design. Notice how all of these HUGE libraries, used by hundreds of enterprise teams around the globe, are open source?

  6. antd

    An enterprise-class UI design language and React UI library

    Throughout development I was referencing design choices made by React Bootstrap, Material UI, Ant Design. Notice how all of these HUGE libraries, used by hundreds of enterprise teams around the globe, are open source?

  7. vite

    Next generation frontend tooling. It's fast!

    My tech stack was React + Typescript, Storybook for docs, vite.js for build instead of webpack, microbundle for bundling (basically a no-config rollup wrapper), and Google's release please bot for handling release/deployment.

  8. storybook

    Storybook is the industry standard workshop for building, documenting, and testing UI components in isolation

    My tech stack was React + Typescript, Storybook for docs, vite.js for build instead of webpack, microbundle for bundling (basically a no-config rollup wrapper), and Google's release please bot for handling release/deployment.

  9. InfluxDB

    InfluxDB high-performance time series database. Collect, organize, and act on massive volumes of high-resolution data to power real-time intelligent systems.

    InfluxDB logo
  10. Microbundle

    ๐Ÿ“ฆ Zero-configuration bundler for tiny modules.

    My tech stack was React + Typescript, Storybook for docs, vite.js for build instead of webpack, microbundle for bundling (basically a no-config rollup wrapper), and Google's release please bot for handling release/deployment.

  11. release-please

    generate release PRs based on the conventionalcommits.org spec

    My tech stack was React + Typescript, Storybook for docs, vite.js for build instead of webpack, microbundle for bundling (basically a no-config rollup wrapper), and Google's release please bot for handling release/deployment.

NOTE: The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives. Hence, a higher number means a more popular project.

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