I finally finished my new book, Modern Full-Stack React Projects. It summarizes everything I have learned while working as a tech advisor for enterprises and the public sector, teaching you the fundamentals you need to become a full-stack React developer!

If you didn't have a chance to get my book "Modern Full-Stack React Projects" yet, now's the time! Amazon is currently running a deal where my book is 46% off!. 👉You can find the deal here:

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If you've been thinking about getting my book but haven't had a chance to yet, there is currently a promotion at @PacktPublishing!. 👉 Get it on Amazon: ⏳ Until Sep 27th.📚 On print copies.💸 15% off, no discount code required

My new book "Modern Full-Stack React Projects" is officially released now 🎉🎉🎉 You can get it on Amazon: If you have any feedback or questions about the book, do not hesitate to reach out to me😊. Thanks to @PacktPublishing for the amazing cooperation!.

To celebrate - if you are interested in getting an e-book version, I am giving away a limited number of copies, DM me if you want to join the giveaway! 🎉.

For everyone from Austria and Germany, here is the link to pre-order it on the German Amazon page 😉

Then, you can sign up by using my invite link: I am always happy to see OSS projects get more support, so I am really looking forward to the full launch of this platform 😊.

To get started, first check if your OSS project is eligible for rewards on the following page:

I believe this is a great opportunity for those "random persons who have been thanklessly maintaining a project since 2003" to get some support. If you want to try it out, the project is currently in a testing phase.

As you can see, my node-emoji project scores quite high there, because it is used in many sub-(sub-)(sub-(sub-)dependencies.

The project I have been trying out lately is called the @teaprotocol (made by the creator of homebrew). It takes an interesting approach, where projects get assigned a rank depending on how often they are used in dependency trees.

That reminds me of this xkcd comic. While my node-emoji package might not be essential, there are definitely some packages deep in the dependency tree that are, and they are not getting enough support!

Despite the many downloads, the amount of donations I get from those platforms is miniscule. This is a result of how those platforms work, they reward direct dependents the most, while sub-dependencies only get a fraction of the donation.

One of my most downloaded projects is node-emoji, which regularly gets over 5 million downloads a week!.(Fun fact: the sharp drop in downloads was due to yarn getting rid of emoji in the console output in their v2 release)

I am always on the lookout for new ways to support open source projects. I have already been successfully using GitHub Sponsors, and Tidelift to get a small amount of donations for my OSS projects. Recently, I've been trying out a new platform. 🧵.

RT @JoshuaKGoldberg: Super excited to join @DanielBugl as a new maintainer on node-emoji! 🎉✨🙏. v2 just dropped with a pair of PRs, the bigg….

RT @bookauthority: Well done @DanielBugl! Your book "Learn React Hooks" made it to BookAuthority's list of best React.js books of all time!….

If anyone wants to use my website for inspiration, I am open sourcing it on GitHub: Feel free to also give me feedback on what could be further improved (both on the tech and design side)!. 8/8.

For deployment I used @vercel (which I knew from Next.js), and deploying a Parcel app was surprisingly simple: I imported the GitHub repo, Vercel automatically recognized it as a Parcel app and I did not have to configure anything manually, it was deployed within seconds. 7/8.

Additionally, I am using <picture> with webp and jpg for my portrait pic, and webp and png for the book covers (jpg compression makes the text on the books look worse). With these simple changes, I already managed to achieve 100 on all Lighthouse scores (Mobile & Desktop). 6/8