Semver would be great if nobody ever shipped bugs (JS Party #91)

With the jumping off point of KBall’s question: “What are best practices for organizing a Node project?” Mikeal and Feross drop an incredible amount of wisdom about Node, organizing using modules, release management, deployment approaches, how to adopt change, and more.

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Featuring:

• Kevin Ball – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Mikeal Rogers – GitHub, X
• Feross Aboukhadijeh – Website, GitHub, X

Show Notes:

Segment 1

• Substack on tiny modules
• Github Actions
• Mikeal’s merge-release github action
• Feross’s npm publish scripts to do releases really quickly
• Mikeal’s github action for npx
• Mikeal’s github action for bundle size

Segment 2

• Bitmidi.com repo
• Zeit Now
• Zeit Now CLI
• Arc
• Zeit deployment
• Netlify deployment
• Now Desktop
• Content addressable storage

Segment 3

• Fibers and Threads in node.js – what for?
• Async Generator Functions in JavaScript

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!