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ama's Issues

Why so many bundling tools instead of focusing one?

Hi! it's not a bad criticism, just wondering. There are many many different bundling tools you have created but why not just focusing on all-in-one? Is it easier to start and focus on different areas with different projects? Isn't it hard to maintain all?

How does vite ssr work?

Will you please make a sample demo vite plugin which uses preact for ssr along with HMR support. It will be really helpful to understand what is going on down in there

How do you learn new Concepts

You have been in this industry for many years, and I have also seen many of the tools you built. How do you learn new concepts because for example when I hear a new concept like SSR but I can't find enough resources to implement it myself. How do you keep improving your skills?

Your future goals

Besides trying to work open source full time (which is fantastic)

what specific goals are you actively trying to achieve?

What do you think of JavaScript decorators?

https://github.com/tc39/notes/blob/HEAD/meetings/2021-07/july-14.md#decorators-update

and one more question:How do you think ESBuild's support strategy for decorators will change？

Should I use building tools to build my js/ts library?

There are so many building tools for lib(eg. bili, tsup, tsdx, ncc, bunchee, rollup), what's the differences between them, when i wanna make a lib, which tool should i choose?

BTW, Should I really need a "building tool" to bundle all js files into one js file for pure js/ts library? Using transpile tool (such as tsc, babel) ONLY works in most use cases(no banner, no global var replacement, no umd output). What do you think about transpile + bundle VS transpile only

How can i learn web development as fast as possible? (Purpose: To build MVPs of my projects)

Hi, how can i learn web development as fast as possible? I'd like working knowledge so that I can build SaaS projects and do freelancing.

devDependencies in monorepo

I'm really confused about the dependencies in monorepo.

if there is a monorepo project like this

package/A

{
  "main": "dist/index.cjs",
  "module": "dist/index.mjs",
  "script": {
     "build": "rimraf && tsup src/index.ts --format esm,cjs"
  },
  // tsup,rimraf should be placed here?
   "devDependencies": {
     "tsup": "xxx",
     "rimraf": "xxx"
  }
}

root package.json

{
 // or tsup,rimraf should be placed here?
  "devDependencies": {
     "tsup": "xxx",
     "rimraf": "xxx"
  }
}

In common case, we will use yarn , lerna, pnpm in a monorepo project, yarn / lerna will hosit all dependencies in root node_modules, so you can use the package(rimraf, tsup) in sub package although the devDependencies is not specified in a sub package.json , as long as they are specified in root package.json.

In yarn's website

Be careful when publishing packages in a workspace. If you are preparing your next release and you decided to use a new dependency but forgot to declare it in the package.json file, your tests might still pass locally if another package already downloaded that dependency into the workspace root. However, it will be broken for consumers that pull it from a registry, since the dependency list is now incomplete so they have no way to download the new dependency. Currently there is no way to throw a warning in this scenario.

It seems that it's ok if you specified the devDenpencies in root in a library , because no one will run the script defined in package.json, main or module field was used only?

So, how to handle the devDependencies in monorepo?