devtools.fm: Developer Tools, Open Source, Software Development Zeno Rocha - React.Email, Resend, Dracula Theme
Feb 12, 2024
Zeno Rocha discusses creating React Email and Resend, challenges of email delivery, origins of Dracula Theme, and tool recommendations like workerpool, promise-fun, and react-postgres-components.
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Hospital-Starter Theme Became A Global Standard
- Zeno created the Dracula theme while stuck in a Madrid hospital and missing his dotfiles and editor setup.
- He released it open source and it grew to hundreds of supported apps and millions of VS Code users.
Make Email Tools Familiar To Developers
- Zeno discovered React Email by reframing email authoring as a developer problem using familiar primitives.
- Using React and JSX lets engineers reuse their existing skills instead of learning a new markup language.
Don’t Ship Code Alone
- Ship the whole package: code, docs, website, and README to get adoption.
- Treat open source as the start of work, not the finish, to sustain growth.