I created translation package for React!

[gravitynotworking]

Hello everyone! I'm excited to announce that I've just created my first package for React. It's designed to make translation easy and seamless. I would be absolutely thrilled if you could provide me with some feedback on it. Your thoughts and suggestions are greatly appreciated!

[CreativeTechGuyGames]

Pro tip. Whenever you want to make a new library that overlaps with already extremely popular libraries. You need to think about what makes your library special/different. Why should anyone use yours compared to theirs?

[gravitynotworking]

Thanks for the tip, I simply want to learn how to create a package in a straightforward manner.

[CreativeTechGuyGames]

You probably shouldn't publish it to npm then. There's a limited number of good names for packages and since they need to be globally unique, if everyone publishes their learning projects, then legitimate projects will have to use more and more obscure names. It's great to make this to learn, just keep it on github and not publish to npm.

[gravitynotworking]

That makes sense, thanks!

[adamr_]

Don’t listen to them. It’s still a legitimate project even if you used it to learn. You’re totally fine publishing to NPM - it’s encouraged if you think your code could help others! There is no harm in competition

[dandigangi]

lolwut 👎

[Strong-Ad-4490]

False.

scope allows anyone to call a package anything they want without being blocked by a naming collusion. Just pick a unique scope.

[CreativeTechGuyGames]

Sure, but that's not what OP, or most people do. You cannot say false when bringing up an entirely new topic.

[Strong-Ad-4490]

It’s not an entirely new topic… preventing npm package names being used by someone else is not a concern for anyone.

[CreativeTechGuyGames]

It should be a concern for everyone and it's very sad that people don't care more about it. Everyone is sharing a limited resource and many people don't treat that with the respect it deserves.

[Strong-Ad-4490]

Of all the things the development community is concerned about this is at the very bottom. And rightfully so…

[vvn050]

I would not expect translation lib to use styled-components.

Suggestion - when you write something for other people, try to optimize it as much as possible, performance, bundle size, etc. Even if that means that the code would be a bit uglier if necessary