When the JavaScript Standard Style (StandardJS) project1 decided to show ads during installation, the backlash was swift and harsh. The project is an opinionated JavaScript style guide, formatter, and linter all in one, and it was also the first npm project to try and raise money by inserting an ad in the command line.2 The... […]
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In the previous two posts in this series, I described why companies sponsor open source projects1 and how following some basic project hygiene can help attract sponsors2. Now that your project is functioning at a high level and is attractive to companies, it’s time to talk specifics about accepting sponsorships from companies. Making it easy... […]
In part 11 of this series, I described how companies make decisions about spending their money and why they might (or might not) sponsor an open source project. If you haven’t yet read that post, I’d suggest going back to do so now before continuing. Everything in this post builds off the topics discussed in... […]
Early on, it was a battle to get sponsorship for open source projects. What used to require phone calls and drawn-out discussions has now been streamlined thanks to efforts like Open Collective1 and GitHub Sponsors2. Companies and individuals can now know if a project accepts donations just by looking at the project page on GitHub,... […]
Open source sustainability is a topic that is just starting to get the attention that it deserves. So much of the technology sector is run on software that can be used for free without any further obligation. However, as companies profit from using this software for free, the maintainers of the software often struggle to... […]
Traditionally, developers have created properties inside of JavaScript classes for any data that might be needed within an instance. This isn’t a problem for small pieces of data that are readily available inside of the constructor. However, if some data needs to be calculated before becoming available in the instance, you may not want to... […]
If you’ve spent any time developing software professionally and then you are probably used to the spirited debates that take place between software engineers as well as between software engineers and management, design, and product. Software engineers are not known for being shy about their opinions on any particular subject, and especially when it comes... […]
If you write server-side JavaScript, chances are you’ve need to read information from environment variables. It’s considered a best practice to share sensitive information, such as access tokens, inside of environment variables to keep them secure. However, the way environment variables are read from JavaScript is error-prone in subtle ways that might take you hours... […]
When promises were introduced in ECMAScript 2015, they had an interesting flaw: if a promise didn’t have a rejection handler and was later rejected, you would have no idea. The rejection silently occurred behind the scenes and, therefore, could easily be missed. The best practice of always attaching rejection handlers to promises emerged due to... […]
In my last post, I walked you through the creation of the Promice.race() and Promise.any() methods, both of which work on multiple promises and return a single promise that indicates the result of the operation. This post continues on to discuss Promise.all() and Promise.allSettled(), two operations that are similar to one another as well as... […]
