Rewards and Struggles in maintaining a Vue.js OS library by Nicolo Mezzopera (Eng) | JSConfAM19
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Maintainer-first account of building and running a Vue.js library: a Vue-Leaflet wrapper that simplifies maps into a few lines and serves 15,000 weekly loads, plus a Storefront UI–inspired component library with ≈1,000 stars and 5 core team members ~35 contributors. Covers concrete tooling (tests, CI/CD, Storybook previews), docs, issue templates, dependency/security churn, the night release after a production break, and when to trade support for documentation.
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- 0:00Start
- 5:34Expectation vs
- 9:40Write your documentation
- 10:38Maintainer & Contributor
- 19:36Start working on open source
- 20:30The recipe for success








