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How I built my first micro Javascript Library
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I mean, 2017 has been a great year for me so far.
- I started writing Javascript in March.
- It’s October and I can build solid scalable web apps using the MEAN stack.
- I write TypeScript to a solid level.
- And to top it, I can write micro libraries too.
Whoa! A year full of Javascript.
yoruba-names
I had dirty data scraped off yorubaname.com for a while now and I didn’t know what to do with it. I decided to build a JavaScript library around it.
yoruba-names allows you to generate a random yoruba name. You can combine two names also to get a full name, and you can return any specifeid amount of names you want generated too.
Challenges
- I had no idea how or where to start from
- I knew this would be a lot of work
- I was scared because i didn’t want this to be another half way abandoned project lost somewhere on my computer.
How I started
- Google everything literally
- Took a course on eggheads.io that was remendously helpful
Tools I used
- Git and Github
- NodeJS and NPM
- Mocha and Chai for testing
- Semantic-Release-Cli for automatic deployment and release
- Commitizen for writing and making proper commits
- TravisCI for Continious Integrations
- Ghooks for automatically running tests before commits
- Istanbul and CodeCov for code coverage
- WebPack and Babel for building and compiling for browser
Experience
Jesus Christ, it was haaaaaaarrrrrrrdddddddd, I won’t sugar coat it. Like this is the simplest form of a JavaScript micro library and it was this hard? But nevertheless:
- It was hard one more time
- It was fun
- Learnt a lot about tools used in building from scratch to deployment
- I learnt a bit of ES6
- I felt like i was progressing (I am actually)
In conclusion
Lol, I really don’t know how to conclude but I hope you understand.
If you’ve got questions about yoruba-names or tools I used when building, tweet at me. I tweet and retweet about the latest dev and sec stuffs.
Cheers!!! ✌✌✌
Olakanmi Oluwole
Cyber Security and Software Engineering.