Best practices for versioning and maintaining crates, packages, libraries, and tips for promoting and marketing your library or crate to potential users. These articles may also cover topics such as licensing, documentation, and community engagement, which are important considerations for maintaining a successful and sustainable open-source project.
I know how to write macro, what it’s useful for, but can’t seem to define it well when people ask me. Rust book defines it as a way of writing code that writes other code, known as metaprogramming. In Java you would write an annotation and annotation processor, in Scala Read more…
I created a custom Github action that deploys a static website to s3, and I want to point out a few details of my process of building a reusable action. For detailed reference refer to https://docs.github.com/en/actions/creating-actions/about-custom-actions. There are 3 types of custom actions – docker, javascript and composite. For deploying Read more…
I recently did a switch to monorepo for my React components with Lerna. I was usually against having a monorepo because For example, does your frontend colleague need to know about your backend? Now, that being said, monorepo is convenient because everything is in one place, and other repos can Read more…
I recently found out that npm doesn’t support downloading same scope dependencies from multiple registries. Ideally, I’d like to define multiple registries for a scope. If npm fails to find the package from registry1, then it should try registry2 and so on. I use an @eisberg-labs scope for some private Read more…
In this post I’ll cover my workflow of creating env-inject-file, a command line utility for populating config files with environment variable placeholders and my first published npm package. Version management My advice is protect your branch, write descriptive commit messages, use branch management. Branch Protection To enable branch protection, go Read more…