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Sep 4, 2018 47 min

19: Supporting Open Source with Michael Jackson

from React Podcast Hosted by Michael Chan

Chantastic talks with Michael about his journey into open source and how he's building a business to sustain open source development. They discuss frontend libraries (then and now), the link between business and open source, the genesis of unpkg.com (a CDN for NPM), and the future of modules in the browser. Featuring Michael Jackson — Twitter, Github, Website Michael Chan — Twitter, Github, Website Notes & Links Shadowbox.js — Michael's first open source project React Router UNPKG — A CDN for NPM [UNPKG: The CDN for everything on npm] — Michael's 2017 React Rally talk on web modules Can I use modules — Browser support for script type="module" Babel on Open Collective — Support JavaScript innovation by donating

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Chantastic talks with Michael about his journey into open source and how he's building a business to sustain open source development. They discuss frontend libraries (then and now), the link between business and open source, the genesis of unpkg.com (a CDN for NPM), and the future of modules in the browser.

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