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title: Hacktoberfest 2020 - Getting started with Stripe and open-source Q&A
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description: In this edition of Stripe Developer Office hours, we review some basics for getting started with Stripe, then visit with open-source contributors in the Stripe ecosystem.  ### Presenters  CJ Avilla - https://twitter.com/cjav_dev Nick DeJesus - https://twitter.com/Dayhaysoos Jofferson Tiquez - https://twitter.com/jrtiquez Jerome Leclanche - https://twitter.com/Adys  ### Table of contents  00:05 Introduction 00:46 Stripe at a glance 06:12 Getting started with Stripe 08:12 Code sample walk through 18:00 Q&A with maintainers  ### Support  If you have a question, please feel free to reach out to our support team on Discord at https://stripe.com/go/developer-chat.  ### Updates  Sign up to stay updated with developer news: https://go.stripe.global/dev-digest  ### Feedback  If you have any feedback about this or other episodes, let us know: https://forms.gle/VjNqzRhotM2snYo88.  #Stripe #OpenSource #Stripe #Payments
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# Hacktoberfest 2020 - Getting started with Stripe and open-source Q&A

*Published: October 13, 2020*
*Views: 1370*

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## Description

In this edition of Stripe Developer Office hours, we review some basics for getting started with Stripe, then visit with open-source contributors in the Stripe ecosystem.

### Presenters

CJ Avilla - https://twitter.com/cjav_dev
Nick DeJesus - https://twitter.com/Dayhaysoos
Jofferson Tiquez - https://twitter.com/jrtiquez
Jerome Leclanche - https://twitter.com/Adys

### Table of contents

00:05 Introduction
00:46 Stripe at a glance
06:12 Getting started with Stripe
08:12 Code sample walk through
18:00 Q&A with maintainers

### Support

If you have a question, please feel free to reach out to our support team on Discord at https://stripe.com/go/developer-chat.

### Updates

Sign up to stay updated with developer news: https://go.stripe.global/dev-digest

### Feedback

If you have any feedback about this or other episodes, let us know: https://forms.gle/VjNqzRhotM2snYo88.

#Stripe #OpenSource
#Stripe #Payments

## Transcript

[Music] welcome to hacktoberfest hacktoberfest is a virtual event open to everyone you know all backgrounds and skill levels are encouraged to participate and whether you're a developer still learning to code or a company of any size you can help drive the growth of open source and make positive contributions to an ever-growing community it's really a celebration open to everyone in the global community and if you're just getting started you can head over to hacktoberfest.digitalocean.com and sign up so in today's hacktoberfest flavored stripe developer office hours episode i'm joined by three awesome open source contributors nick jefferson and jerome who've all created or maintained open source tools that enable the community to take advantage of the stripe api and ultimately build real applications and businesses that are generating real value all right so here's the plan we're going to take a quick look at stripe from a super high level talk about how to get quickly spun up on the stripe api we'll show a quick demo and then we'll get some insights from our guests about their experiences working on open source and building on the stripe api at stripe we're on a mission to increase the gdp of the internet practically speaking organizations of every size from new startups to non-profits to big huge public companies use our software to accept payments and manage their business online we are a nine-year-old company launching back in 2011. today we're now processing payments for millions of businesses and if we look at it from sort of the infrastructure side we now handle more than 250 million api requests every day and we deploy the api more than 4 000 times per year we also maintain more than 500 distinct api endpoints on our public api so for those of you who aren't very familiar with stripe chances are you've already used stripe multiple times one of the most important and gratifying things about stripe is that we serve the fastest growing tech companies and the most ambitious developers in the world like many of you here today stripes platform combines payment infrastructure with business applications that are seamlessly integrated and constantly improving our center of gravity remains payments but stripe's core payments infrastructure is engineered around the most ambitious businesses today with a focus on global coverage automation and data access and seamless custom integration so from there we've built an entire suite of products that sits on top of a deep technology stack you know these applications that solve the most common business needs and save teams from reinventing the wheel we want to write code that allows you to delete code here's a guided tour through some of the tools that i'd want to know about if i were getting started on stripe today so for developers an important square one is getting a sense of your business model are you planning to take one time or recurring payments are you building a platform which will collect payments on behalf of other users will your software support in-person payments will you issue cards to couriers or something similar like that do you plan to implement a mobile app so these are all questions that will help in deciding which stripe apis you'll want to integrate with from there you can dive into the docs for that specific product and work through either an integration builder or a quick start guide you'll notice that as you're digging through the docs we support seven languages on the server officially and you'll see code snippets for each of those languages so hopefully your lingua franca is covered and we also have examples on the client in html and vanilla js for web applications or web integrations and possibly we might also have some react examples and when appropriate we show examples for ios and swift and objective-c and for android in both java and kotlin and you know just another quick note if i were starting an integration today i uh either you know to take one time or recurring payments i would really definitely recommend taking a look at stripe checkout and that's what we'll kind of poke around in uh in the demo today paired with the docs you might also stumble upon stripe samples this is a github organization with over 50 open source repositories which show full end-to-end example integrations with various stripe products and you know worth noting is that in addition to stripe samples stripe has several other open source projects that you might want to check out including the stripe cli client libraries sorbet and others and furthermore the the open source contributors we have chatting with us today have built some really awesome projects in used shopping cart which gives you shopping cart state and logic for stripe in react or the viewed stripe checkout project which is a view plugin for stripe checkout and also dj stripe it's like also known as django plus stripe made easy so yeah today we're going to show you how to install and run one of these stripe samples locally to test but also there's tons of opportunities to jump in for hacktoberfest and contribute in various different ways we have multiple teams across the company continuously talking to and learning from users including ux research teams product managers deployment teams you know support engineers developer experience teams in fact we encourage everyone within stripe to talk to our users in whatever capacity they operate and we maintain ongoing lists of the top asks from businesses of all sizes and across all geographies to provide a total view on how our platform needs to evolve and based on these you know user inputs last year we released the stripe cli is a command line tool that helps you build and test your stripe integration so here are three of the stripe sealizer of greatest hits commands for a really powerful testing and building a stripe integration we'll go through each of these in today's demo all right so today we're going to be using the stripe cli to show a couple of quick examples if you want to look at how to install the cli we have these docs here at stripe dot com slash doc strat slash stripe cli and you can install with homebrew apt-get yum or with other other binaries it's also supported by docker i installed with homebrew with this brew install command and now the next step is to link the stripe cli with my stripe account i can do that by saying stripe login and that will open a browser once i press enter here and confirm that i do want to allow access to my stripe account from the cli and i can click allow access and now we're done in the browser we can go back to the terminal so now that we have linked our stripe account with the stripe cli we have access to do several things so for instance we could list customers we could say stripe customers list and that would pull a json list of customers so we can sort of interact with the stripe api directly in the command line this is super helpful really nice for debugging so the very first thing i wanted to do was pull down a stripe sample so one of the commands you can use with the stripe cli is samples list so stripe samples list will give us a list of all the stripe samples that are supported by the cli so we have examples here for you know developer office hours and showing how to do a connect standard oauth integration there's several that show how to build integrations with checkout but i want to just go to the very top here and start with an accept a card payment and show you how this works so we can say stripe stripe samples create and then the name of the sample we can alternatively give it like an alias so like my card payment if we wanted to name the project that we're gonna we're about to create otherwise we can just paste in the name of the stripe sample and hit enter and this is going to walk us through a dialog where we can choose what type of integration what we want the client to use what we want the server to use in terms of languages and frameworks so today i'm going to use with web hooks we're not building or android or ios we'll just use the web and then maybe we take a look at this node server with typescript and now we can just change directory into this accept a card payment directory and then from here if we can we can cd into this server directory install some dependencies and then fire up the local server and that's really all that you need to get going with this stripe sample so we can now say npm start and that starts up a server that is running on port 4242. let's head over to the browser and open up localhost 4242 and take a look at the sample so here we're just prompted with a the very simple card element and if we wanted to we could enter in a uh you know an sca test card here and click pay this will open a modal that walks us through the experience for paying with secure customer authentication or when the payment requires a 3d secure authentication so we can say complete authentication and then we get the payment results so that's kind of like the entire demo very small in scope but that is what a stripe sample sort of looks and feels like so if we stop the server here we can open up the source and look at server.ts so this is going to be kind of like our implementation on the server side with the typescript types in stripe node and it's really really really simple right we have like a couple of get routes we have one post route here to create a payment intent where we are creating an instance of a stripe in payment intent create params passing in an amount and a currency and then we're creating an instance of that payment intent here and then passing its client secret back to the client to be confirmed again all of this code is here for you so that you can sort of spin up a local copy of an example and play around with it locally let's take a look at another one so if we go back out here and we say stripe samples create checkout one time payments this is going to create another stripe sample and in this case there's only one integration but we get to pick our front end we want to use react or just html so we'll use react here and then we'll select python we've got a dj stripe in the house so we'll let's do a little python example so if we jump into checkout one-time payments this doesn't use django on the back end or dj stripe but uh just to show you how like you might set up a stripe sample with python here we can say python three will set up a little virtual environment and then we want to activate that so we can say so bend bin activate pip install our requirements and then we can start up the server now by default most of the stripe samples use really these really simple micro frameworks like express and flask and sinatra so that we can keep the example code really concise and tight and so that you can see exactly how a stripe integration might fit into your own stack so let's see so now we can say python server.pi and this will fire up another example on localhost four two four two so localhost four two four two uh this four two four two port is a kind of a meme based on the the four two four two card it's really easy to type in all those four twos so you'll notice that in this stripe sample it says buy for zero so there's actually one other step in order to configure this stripe sample and that is that when we when we pull down a stripe sample with the stripe cli one of the reasons we're able to play around with it is that the api keys are set for us by the stripe cli they are all populated in this dot end file so here you see like the a publishable key a web hook secret and a stripe secret key this is an actual restricted key in test mode for one of my accounts um so you don't want to share these with anyone and if i don't i don't recommend opening this file in a screen chair i'm going to go roll these keys right after this but one thing that we need to set for the one time the checkout one-time payments demo is a price id so here rather than price one two three four five this is kind of a placeholder where it expects that you would enter an id of a price that you've created either through the dashboard or through the api um i have a price already here that i can use so i'm going to set that and then restart the server go back over here refresh the page and now that i now i see buy for 200 euros and that's populated correctly i can set how many copies i want of this photo apparently it's a quite an expensive photo at 200 a pop but i will click on buy and now we're redirected to stripe checkout and we can kind of see what this whole entire flow feels like so yeah again you can either use the 4242 test card or an sca test card while you're in test mode and then it's really just a matter of changing out those api keys to go from test to live mode okay so i'll just enter in some more details here you also notice that google pay is uh available there's a bunch of awesome features coming to check out so um again highly recommend looking at checkout as sort of like a first step and trying to like evaluate whether or not your business model fits into the the features that checkout supports and now we get the you know your payment succeeded and we see the check out the json data for the checkout in the response so if we go open up server.pi we can take a look at the python code here it is using a flask app and loading environment variables but again it's really simple right we have a get route for returning some html we have a config route which is just rendering back a couple of settings from our environment variables and then we have a route for retrieving the checkout session on success and a route for creating the checkout session and this is really where the magic happens you can modify and configure this checkout session right here by modifying um and and adding arguments in the code right here so this is how you create the checkout session the instance of the checkout session and then we're just rendering the id of the checkout session back to the client and allows us to redirect to that stripe hosted checkout session page so that is a stripe sample one of the things that i wanted to point out was that we have this web hook route which is going to receive post requests directly from stripes api uh no users ever actually see this route is purely for api access and in the in the web hook route down here we have an event type we're checking to see like it was the event type checkout session completed if it is then we're gonna just log out to the server log that payment succeeded and so i want to demo quickly if we restart the server here we can fire up a um we can use that stripe listen command that i showed earlier to forward events that are happening on our stripe account to this local endpoint so this removes the need to set up ngrok tunneling or some sort of like uh tunnel mechanism for you to receive post requests to your local machine so instead of having to set any of that infrastructure up it all comes built into the stripe cli so we can say stripe listen forward to localhost four two four two slash web hook is it web hook or web hooks i think it's uh web hook probably maybe okay so this is gonna print out your web hook secret this is already populated in my dot n file and now we are listening we're waiting for events to trigger on our stripe account so if we were to go back through the demo restart the demo we click buy we go back through here and enter in some test card details uh and click pay you'll notice that we start to receive events in the logs here okay and one of those is this checkout.session.compleatedevent so we were redirected back to localhost 4242 for success and we received this checkout.session.compleated event now if we look in the server log we see that we did indeed receive a payment and that succeeded and so these are just some really powerful tools for testing your stripe and stripe cli one other that i wanted to show was that you can say stripe trigger and then pass in an event type there's like a set of supported event types here so you can say checkout.session.compleated and that will make all of the api calls required to result in a checkout session completed event and so if we look at the log again we can see checkout session completed this is a way to really automate your process and trigger events uh without having to like sort of walk through and enter in those test details as you're building really powerful uh really powerful tool for for building both the samples the stripe samples and the stripe cli are all open source they're all public you can go take a look and dig through we would welcome you to do that and hopefully it's useful when you are building your stripe integration now that you're fully equipped to pull and run a stripe sample locally give that a shot please as always let us know the feedback you have in the form that's below i'm excited to dive into our q a with the guests today so that you can get to know these fine folks so let's get started hey jerome can you tell us the story uh about your first open source commit and you know tell us more about how you got started in open source that was a long time ago my first actual open source code was a world of warcraft add-on i was i was big into the game at the time i even i started messing about with python because i was contributing to a wiki and i wanted to write like some wikibots and then i started messing with with lua for the game and my actual open source contributions my first serious ones uh they were online right the windows compatibility layer for linux i became a huge fan of the project i was using it to play on linux uh and i wanted to fix everything right it was uh it was even written in c i was not comfortable in c uh so quite the challenge yeah that's awesome i think a lot of times um you know working on games or working on like in communities working on open source projects in communities that you're already in is uh is one of the ways that one of the really common ways that people get started jefferson same question to you you know like how did you uh tell us about your first open source contributions [Music] if i remember it correctly my first commit was from a project called angular http assist it's an injectable provider for angular 1. so basically it's just a rest helper for angular and uh at first it was only for personal use but then i started to notice that there are a few developers who who actually started using it and i feel kinda happy actually even though it only got three stars so uh yeah i think uh that's that's that's about it and after that i started making uh more projects on github yeah that's awesome i remember those old angular 1 injectors um and so yeah thank you for your your contributions to angular i was i worked with angular 1 a lot uh at a previous company so that's um uh yeah resonates with me uh so that's awesome jefferson nick um yeah tell us about when you got when you got started with open source uh i got started with open source like maybe halfway through 2019 which is it's been interesting because a lot of people assume that when you're an open source you've been doing it like forever i just sort of you know fell into it i didn't i didn't really have any plans to be part of an open source community i didn't think that i would be a maintainer of anything so it's been pretty interesting so far um seeing how people react to like finding out that it probably it hasn't even really been a year for me yet yeah i think that speaks volumes to the fact that like really you don't have to be super late in your career and you can really jump in and start getting involved with open source pretty early on and pretty quickly so that's awesome to hear thank you so much for sharing that i know sometimes like folks want to like pump them so pump themselves up and say you know i've been in open source for decades and decades and um that's you know uh it's not the case that everyone is decades into their career and so jumping in um you know at any point is super helpful and really appreciated so that's awesome yeah so nick maybe right back to you can you talk about why you built uh use shopping cart i mean like what what drove you to build this in the first place at the very start of everything like even my coding career i am a gamer i started i wanted to learn how to code so i can make an app for a fighting game community of tekken players and so long story short i've been having really good success with that i've got an app with over 30 000 users and i figured that it was time to build a swag store and through that journey of trying to build a swag store from scratch uh because i was being too stubborn to like use shopify or whatever i realized just how much pain there is in just trying to like roll your own thing and and that was really just the shopping cart logic that was giving me a hard time and so you know especially like now during this whole um pandemic i feel like making money online is way more important than it's ever been and and i think it's important that like parts of the e-commerce space is open sourced right like the e-commerce and product selling and money making uh online money making tech stack is pretty elusive you have to commit to a platform one way or another and so and i think that that's not very accessible or equitable at the end of the day so uh what's pushing me to keep going is basically the at the idea of you know if people did want to roll things on their own you know as inconvenient or as much as much more difficult as that could be you know it's it's becoming uh easier with something like you shopping cart that's um that's available yeah that's awesome like making by making your open source project you're making the ability to build some sort of e-commerce platform and collect money easier to do so that is awesome that's great like what an awesome reason to create something um yeah so jefferson same question over to you right uh i guess maybe for me it's always because of reusability because you know as programmers we're always thought to work smart right and and for me as someone who's been working with a lot of projects in the past it came to a point where my work became repetitive and that's when i thought that maybe i can also create one of those libraries in bower and npm so i just started out with some small plugins and you know the idea of other people using your project it's just so efficient you know so you have to code it once and uh imagine that thousands of other people can use it so yeah that's that's pretty much it i guess reusability yeah you had a noble yet another like really noble reason right you like you want to build something that other people can use like this is this is like a great reason to build and work on open source stuff so jerome i know that you were uh coming into the dj stripe project maybe like a little bit after it was created and started to work on that i'm curious like what were some of the reasons why you wanted to get involved with dj stripe so the dj strike project already existed for a couple years before i joined it was super useful project very promising but extremely extremely frustrating to work with at the time um quickly started working on a bunch of changes alexander helped me a lot like to upstream everything but in the process i had touched top of the good base wow that's huge uh the fact that you know that also like speaks to mentorship right like when you jump in on an open source project and you're ready to help out one of the ways might be that you you find something confusing or hard to use and so you can participate by trying to simplify and make it easier for those new developers who are picking up a project and trying to work with it make their experience even better so that is uh another awesome reason to get involved um so yeah glad to hear that you got that you jumped in and were participating on dj stripe uh cleaning it up sounds like you've touched a huge chunk of the code base and have had a really big impact on the direction of dj stripe so yeah huge kudos there and yeah folks are thinking about maybe ways they might get involved in an existing project that's a great place to start you know like thinking about if something is difficult to use how to simplify that how to communicate that better to developers and improve the experience for developers so awesome thanks jerome so yeah back to you jerome since you were able to speak to like how to get how you got started with dj stripe i'm curious if you have some recommendations about ways that others might be able to get uh get started contributing to dj stripe um i really wish we had a better new interview experience so that that's what we're prioritizing right now uh above everything else um if you're starting to use dj stripe uh super useful to us uh to get feedback on your expectations right so the things you wanted to do but couldn't or anything you had to do differently um any feedback is going to be useful uh the other ways to get started contributing right so the first one is obviously help with the documentation and also improving our test suite right so that's that's actually a very easy part of the of the code base to get into but it's a lot of work uh to to just keep up with stripe keep up with all the new features keep up with the pace right so tests are often the first to get signed yeah i can definitely speak to the fact that the stripe api moves really quickly you know internally for the the stripe client libraries we've started using the open api spec to generate many of the new features because it is quite a bit to maintain long term so that's a great place to get started with dj stripe jumping in with it sounds like documentation helping with writing some tests and just generally trying to keep up with this the pace of development that uh that is underway at stripe and with the stripe api um yeah i would love to pass it right back to nick so nick what are some ways that folks can get ready and uh jump in on um use shopping cart for hacktoberfest so use shopping cart has some undocumented apis that you can take a look at i made an issue labeling some of them i didn't really label what they do yet but i would love to see contributions where people are just going through updating the doc site creating a little mdx example um like the interactive examples that i have going on there and yeah like i would be happy to walk anyone through going through that process another thing i'd like to see is maybe examples so if you wanted to sort of make your own little example with you shopping cart and a different implementation i think the only examples we have right now are with create react app and gatsby i would like to see a next example i'll probably make one myself i'd like to see multiple next or gatsby examples it doesn't really matter it'd just be cool to see like um see it get used by different stacks and stuff like that awesome awesome yeah so it sounds like some building some examples with mdx working on some documentation maybe some examples with next gatsby those are really great ways to contribute also and so you know if folks have an open source project that you know provides some functionality provides a library one of the cool ways you can get involved is by creating examples like really simple examples that show how to use that library that's a really uh really awesome way to get started uh contributing to open source all right jefferson your turn same question what are some ways that folks can jump in and help you with viewstripe checkout well uh right so all of my projects are actually hosted on github and uh you can guys just check them out there are actually some issues that i did help and uh you can also check the code base uh for improvements the documentations uh well actually since it's hacked over this i actually started uh putting label on the issues that i need help with and uh right just just just follow the contributing guide and i'll be happy to check your pull requests awesome jefferson yeah i noticed you've got your hacktoberfest uh your oktoberfest shirt on and yeah it would be a couple things i want to mention thanks for calling out the label on issues so when you're digging through open source repositories and looking for good issues to contribute to you know if you're just getting started one um one common pattern is for open source projects to tag issues as like a good first project and during hacktoberfest the label hacktoberfest will be applied to issues that are generally like open for folks to jump in and contribute on um you know generally we want to be really mindful of an open source maintainers time and so if we're kind of flooding them with uh with prs then it can get overwhelming so making sure that you're approaching projects which have hacktoberfest labels on them will allow you to the you know will allow you to give you the confidence to know that the open source maintainer is open to getting sort of uh inundated with tons of prs and contributions so that is another sort of like awesome tip all right jefferson back to you i'm curious what your experience has been like building on top of a stripe and also maybe if you could share something that you wish you had known at the beginning right so our team in my career we were actually looking for a payment solution that's easy to integrate because at that time we were about to roll out a new feature that requires a subscription payment and so we did some research and we found stripe and uh what really made us decide to use it was the tagline i can't really remember what it was but it's something like developer first so yeah so we tried it and it's actually amazing because in just a matter of hours we already have a fully functioning subscription feature and there are also a lot of documentations and guides which were really helpful for us back then it's really convenient and uh if i wish i had known one thing at the beginning i wish i had known that stripe is existing because uh we just waited wasted a lot of time integrating with other solutions but it just got us nowhere really yeah so stripes saved us a lot of time yeah it's really amazing actually awesome yeah so that's it cool yeah huge uh yeah like a huge vote of confidence there uh so thank you thank you so much for the kind words uh jefferson yeah so jerome back to you same question what was your experience and what has your experience like generally just building on top of the the stripe api yeah so stripe is definitely one of the best apis that i've worked with ever no questions about it the they often talk about um this developer first mentality and you can really feel it right so the the in the documentation in the tools uh and keep releasing new ones right so this this web hook tool that lets you get books locally is super useful yeah okay so similar themes to what jefferson was thinking around developer first building the tools and docs and especially pointing out the uh the web hook uh tools that are available in the stripe cli that we just showed in the demo so that's awesome uh yeah thanks again so much jerome for those kind words it means a lot nick over to you what do you wish you had known at the beginning and kind of like what has your experience been like building on top of stripe building on top of stripe has been great actually i think the the most significant thing that um i got out of stripe is the fact that you know they have that really easy uh checkout feature right and so i sort of used uh redirect to checkout as a goal post as like a target right i knew that i wanted to build a shopping cart state thing but i needed to know how to like get to the point where redirect to checkout is usable right and so you know uh through the stripe documentation and stuff like that i was able to get an idea of you know what things needed to look like at the end and i was able to work backwards from there on building out the rest of the shopping cart state and logic so thank you stripe engineers for that awesome so it sounds like maybe the docs and you you kind of had like this end goal this end point in mind that you wanted to build a shopping cart or shopping cart logic that sort of preceded the step at which you would redirect to checkout and uh the docs were buttoned up enough that you could uh sort of figure out all the pieces that you needed um to get there so that's awesome to hear um and yeah thanks for sharing that's great all right so in the spirit of hacktoberfest and the spirit of celebrating open source i'm curious now from everyone what are what is your favorite open source project or open source projects other than your own uh let's go with nick first let's let's uh let's hear your favorites so i absolutely love mdx i liked mdx before right where if you go to the u shopping cart website right now use shoppingcart.com you can actually interact with the [Music] components that allow you to actually use the library so you can add stuff to carts and remove things and you should be able to hit checkout and stuff like that and so that was all done with mdx and that was really it's really cool to be able to interact with a library without even having to install it or spin something up on your own i loved mdx when i worked on black tech pipeline if you don't know what that is it's a job board slash recruiting service that my fiance paris she's running she's doing full time now and on the job board you know we were having this issue of sort of like how can we make every page for each company look unique and mdx was basically the way we were able to pull that off so big shout out to everybody working on mdx i can't wait to do more stuff with it cool yeah big shout out to mdx and an awesome plug for the black tech pipeline thanks so much for your work around that uh same question to you jefferson what is your favorite uh open source project other than your own you know all of these uh open source projects are really awesome and i really appreciate the efforts that these authors are putting into them but if i really have to pick one as my favorite i definitely choose data venice because i don't know i mean it's it's just uh really lightweight and it's so easy to use it's just like a bundle of convenience for parsing deep you know uh yeah so that's my favorite awesome yeah uh like having convenience and bundling of functionality that is always uh something that will make developers happy stuff that they don't have to write so jerome let's hear from you favorite open source project there's so many um so i mentioned line before one of my all-time favorite projects ever it's like scaling mount everest the software equivalent re-implementing windows and linux that and it works that's the crazy part about it is it actually works um there's uh yeah there's my two favorite databases postgres and sqlite so they not just because of the software but also because of the they produce this immensely high quality codes and tests and documentation everything about these projects is like high quality and uh yeah typescript the entire developer ecosystem around typescript i'm jealous i'm i'm a python programmer uh primarily and the typescript ecosystem just gets this massive amounts of high quality tools right ds code here the language servers the bell it all kinds of stuff like that yeah i'm jealous that's awesome so wine re-implementing windows and linux we've got postgres sqlite shout out and then the typescript the entire typescript ecosystem um because of all the nice shiny bells and whistles and things that they have so yeah huge huge shout out and thank you to all the contributors to these amazing open source projects um and uh yeah it's it's great during hacktoberfest to just celebrate all the work that um that folks are doing here in the open so jerome uh let's stick uh stick with you and i'm curious you know in the light of this difficult year we've had in 2020 where we've all really been forced to innovate in unexpected ways we'd love to hear something positive that's happened around you and maybe something you'd like to shout out it could be like uh you know program charity initiative open source project just curious to hear um some positivity and would love to share some positivity around open source so uh yeah so jerome if you want to jump in on that one first i i want to give a shout out to the archive right archive. so they run the wayback machine a lot of people are familiar with um might know it as the internet archive uh but they do a lot more than that right so they store everything essentially and some of their crazier projects i can think of it's like they emulate all the ms-dos games inside the browser it's really cool stuff and during the peak of the first covid wave when all the libraries were closing down they released what they called national emergency library so that was this massive collection of books and all educational resources lots of remote centric material uh anything anything in terms of education that could help it was this huge resource available for free um do check them out if you have the opportunity archive.org donate that would be massively appreciated awesome yeah so huge shout out to archive.org thank you for everything that you did for folks during the pandemic uh creating all those resources uh and thanks jerome what a great shout out and uh yeah exactly along the lines of what we were hoping to see in terms of the positivity all right let's wrap up with nick can you tell us some some positivity maybe a shout out uh you know again it could be a program a charity anything you know initiatives or open source projects uh anything you'd love to share to sort of like uplift us in this uh this wild year that we're having here in 2020 so despite this year being absolutely wild there have been quite a lot of wins for me i think the biggest win for me this year is getting sponsored by stripe it's kind of wild like i can't believe it sometimes still that you know my work is being recognized by an organization like stripe and i think it's really important too that the fact that you know and taking that initiative and making sure open source maintainers are getting credit for their work um hopefully more companies follow suit and then there's black tech pipeline which you know if you've been following me for a while i'm always joking about being the unpaid cto of blacktech pipeline but my fiance she launched on product hunt a couple weeks ago and that's going really well she put in her notice and she's going to be pursuing it full time and the work she's doing is is extremely important um and so it's just like wins and feels good all around right uh and then there's the organization that i used to work for resilient coders it's a non-profit they're focused on bringing black and brown technologists into the tech industry and so it's a 20 week boot camp the win for them recently is it's always been a struggle getting companies to commit to hiring the boot campers before they graduate and i think this year they actually pulled it off so we have just as much commits from companies hiring companies as we do students and so i'm very excited for that cohort um and just fun fact paris came out of that uh boot camp as well so there's just like it's just really nice to see um a lot of winning for you know the diversity and inclusion space from um where i'm at yeah that feels so good um thanks paris and thanks for uh building this blacktech pipeline also resilient coders huge plug for resilient coders so these are these are awesome projects and really positive things that are happening in 2020 thanks so much nick for highlighting those um yeah that's that's so awesome thanks again for sharing that's great thank you again so much for watching we really appreciate your time and attention hopefully the q a here was useful now you are uh fully equipped to jump in and get started building on stripe we talked a little bit about the cli and the samples and of course the stripe documentation and a couple different open source projects that you might jump in and participate in yourself if you wanted to get started contributing to open source so thank you again and we'll see you next time you

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