How to Write an Open Source JavaScript Library

Publishing a JavaScript library for public use requires some extra steps. You need to think about how people will use the library. From end users, to contributors your library now has a variety of people outside of yourself potentially making use of the code that you’ve released into the wild.

From Github and npm, to releasing beta versions, semantic versioning, code coverage, continuous integration, and providing your library with a solid set of unit tests, there are a ton of things to learn.

This series will guide you through a set of steps to publish a JavaScript open source library.

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Course Content

Introduction to How to Write an Open Source JavaScript Library

Setting up GitHub

Configuring npm and creating a package.json

Creating the library and adding dependencies

Pushing to GitHub

Publishing to npm

Releasing a version to GitHub

Releasing a new version to npm

Publishing a beta version

Setting up Unit Testing with Mocha and Chai

Unit Testing with Mocha and Chai

Automating Releases with semantic-release

Writing conventional commits with commitizen

Committing a new feature with commitizen

Automatically Releasing with TravisCI

Automatically running tests before commits with ghooks

Adding code coverage recording with Istanbul

Adding code coverage checking

Add code coverage reporting

Adding badges to your README

Adding ES6 Support

Adding ES6 Support to Tests using Mocha and Babel

Limit Built Branches on Travis

Add a browser build to an npm module