Web Rush

Episode 261: Who’s Afraid Of Open Source?

Episode Summary

Evyatar Alush is back to help us understand API development, knowing when an API is done, what you should think about if you're making breaking changes to your API, and how to get into open source software.

Episode Notes

Host(s):

• John Papa @John_Papa
• Ward Bell @WardBell
• Dan Wahlin @DanWahlin
• Craig Shoemaker @craigshoemaker

Guest:

• Evyatar Alush @evyataral

Recording date: 11/09/23

Brought to you by

• AG Grid

  

• Narwhal

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Resources:

• Vest.js
• Ward’s Forms talk: “Form Validation Done Right”
• Brecht - Advanced Angular Template Driven Forms
• Episode 256: FullStack JavaScript and TypeScript Apps Using Remult.js | Web Rush
• Vest.js on GitHub
• RxJs
• RxJs Breaking changes
• Emoji-picker-react
• Emoji-picker-react Live demo

Timejumps

• 00:28 Talking about our fears
• 02:09 Introducing Evyatar Alush
• 08:11 Sponsor: Ag Grid
• 09:13 What is Vest?
• 11:59 When is an API done?
• 18:08 If you didn't have to worry about the API, would you have done something different?
• 20:04 How do you know what you don't know?
• 22:06 Sponsor: Narwhal
• 22:40 When should you make breaking API changes
• 28:43 How should people be thinking about open source?
• 41:26 Final thoughts

Podcast editing on this episode done by Chris Enns of Lemon Productions.