19: Supporting Open Source with Michael Jackson

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