Looking for maintainers

Hi folks!

I started working on React Flip Move about 2.5 years ago, in January of 2016. Since then, this library has become widely used, getting dowloaded over 100,000 times a month on NPM (!!!). That means about 1% of React downloads also include React Flip Move.

Unfortunately, since then, I’ve also started work on lots of other side-projects, and I feel like I’m spreading myself a bit too thin. My primary focus right now (in addition to my full-time day job) is on Guppy, to make front-end web dev more approachable for folks from untraditional backgrounds.

If anyone is interested in carrying the torch for this project, it’d be super appreciated. Ideally, this would be one of Flip Move’s current collaborators, or someone with experience managing an open-source project, but let’s chat even if that doesn’t apply to you.

For folks reading this and worrying because their app depends on React Flip Move, don’t worry too much; even if we don’t find a new maintainer, I’m going to try and provide baseline levels of support for this project. That said, at some point in the future, React might deprecate findDOMNode, and if they do, significant refactoring would need to happen to this project… so it may be wise to consider switching to something like react-flip-toolkit, which is actively under development.

[xcv58]

@joshwcomeau what’s your usual way to bump the version publish in npm https://www.npmjs.com/package/react-flip-move?

I can set up a GitHub action to do it: https://docs.github.com/en/actions/publishing-packages/publishing-nodejs-packages

Do you mind setting the NPM token so that we can bump the version to catch fixes?

[mahaveer0496]

Hey @joshwcomeau I would like to be a part if possible 😃