I recently realized that a lot of popular node open source libraries are quite business focused or are used by their athors to build a business. Don‘t get me wrong. There‘s nothing wrong with this and making money with what you‘ve build should be everyone’s right. However, a business approach introduces certain threats for the technology for the average dev. E. g. the library turning into an upselling play. I‘m referring to:Hapi: Author turned the library into consulting business that was basically driven by one man onlyMongoDB (not really node, I know): introduced pro and community version & becoming cloud hosting companyPrisma: Just raised 12 mio. $ without being very transparent what kind of company they want to build with this investmentNestJS: similar to Hapi. Mainly driven by one person who turned library into consulting firmI’m not sure if it’s the same in other languages & frameworks but it would be interesting to hear what you guys think of this approach and what it means for devs working with these libraries?
Submitted July 01, 2020 at 07:46AM by memo_mar
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