Building great open-source libraries

The hard part about successful open-source development is not putting the first version of your source code on GitHub. The hard part is what comes next. First of all, there are community aspects - making sure that the project fits well with other work in the area, engaging the community and contributors, planing future directions for the project and so on. Secondly, there is an infrastructural side - making sure that there is a package (on NuGet in the F# world), easy to run and useful tests and also up-to-date documentation and tutorials.

In this article, I want to talk about the infrastructural side, which is easier of the two, but nevertheless, difficult to get right! Fortunately, the F# community made an amazing progress in this direction, so let's have a look at some of the tools that make this possible...

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