My talk for React Summit US 2024 was on "Maintaining a Library and a Community".
The main thesis is that maintainers do a lot more than just write features and fix bugs, and that really most of what we do involves thinking about and interacting with the users of our library. That includes answering support questions, writing docs, thinking about how versioning and backwards compatibility will impact people, and a lot more.
Hopefully this proves useful to other maintainers, and peels back the curtain on what it's like to maintain a widely-used library.
I'm linking the GitNation videos - they're placeholders for now, but they'll actually be available online in the near future.
Maintaining a Library and a Community - video
And here's the slides:
Maintaining a Library and a Community - slides
I also got to participate in a panel discussion on "The Future of React", with members of the React team and the community. This was a pretty good discussion: