849: How to Pick a JS Package

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Wes Bos

Js, Technology, Css, Html5, Tech News, Webdevelopment, News, Javascript, Html

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🗓️ 18 November 2024

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

You’ve got a project, and you need the right tool—but how do you know if that JavaScript package is the one? Scott and Wes guide you through finding and validating packages, from checking NPM to scoping out social proof, so you can pick tools you can trust.

Show Notes

00:00 Welcome to Syntax!
00:29 Brought to you by Sentry.io.
- Take The Pledge
01:44 How to find a JS package.
- 02:56 Searching via NPM.
- 03:28 Searching via Socket.dev.
- 06:02 Searching via Reddit.
- 06:24 Searching via Perplexity.
- 08:31 Searching via Google autocomplete.
- 09:25 Searching via Awesome repo.
- 09:51 Searching via social networks.
- 10:47 Searching via established projects.
11:19 Evaluating the quality of a package.
- 12:02 Validating via GitHub Issues.
  - html2canvas.
- 13:58 Are there types?
- 15:16 Validating via Socket.
- 16:15 Validating via Bundlephobia.
- 17:15 Validating via the docs.
- 17:55 Validating via GitHub Search.
- 18:14 Validating via GitHub Insights.
  - GitHub Network Dependents.
- 20:19 Validating via the package.json file.
  - Syntax Episode 563.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to Syntaxie in this Monday Hasty Treat.
0:03.8	We're going to be picking packages.
0:04.9	We're going to be talking about how you can pick a JS package and how you should look,
0:09.9	what you should look for in a package, and what types of things you might be wanting to pay attention to
0:15.8	before you go ahead and NPM install that thing and have the dump truck come up and just dump a whole lot of
0:21.5	who knows what in your application. My name is Scott Tolensky. I'm a developer from Denver with me as
0:25.5	always is Wes Boss. What's up Wes? Hey, not too much. I do want to talk about the open source pledge
0:31.6	real quick though. This is a initiative that Century is heading up. But what it is is if you are a company that uses open
0:41.7	source software, it's time for you to pay your share. Right. And there's an open source pledge.com
0:47.1	and all these really cool companies are pledging per dev how much money they are going to give.
0:54.0	So for example, Sentry give $500,000. per dev how much money they are going to give.
1:01.0	So, for example, Sentry give $500,000, which is $3,700 per dev.
1:06.5	And there's a huge list of different companies on here, Volt, Git Butler, Valtown,
1:09.5	Larval is on here, StackBlitz.
1:11.7	It's really cool to see.
1:13.1	And along with this,
1:15.2	Cetri has put up some billboards,
1:17.7	which with the CEO,
1:19.8	the CFO, and the CTO,
1:23.0	we'll try to put some images up on the screen of it.
1:25.1	But what do they call this? CEO is the chief excuse officer.
1:27.7	Yes.
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