48: Open Source It with Jon Rohan

Jon Rohan is an Engineer on the Design Systems Team at Github, building tooling for Octicons and Primer — their React component library.

Chantastic asks about his 6 year tenure at GitHub, the inspiration behind his primer.css slam poem, how their using CSS-in-JS and Lerna to structure their work, and his project Figma Actions for seamlessly building icons from Figma design files.

They discuss design apps, Monorepos, GitHub Actions, CSS-in-JS, and why you should open source your systems.

Featuring

• Jon Rohan — Twitter, Github, Website
• Michael Chan — Twitter, Github, Website

Links

• 25: Make Brilliant Messes with Diana Mounter and Emily Plummer — Previous React Podcast episode with on Design Systems at Github
• Design Systems at GitHub — by Diana Mounter
• Primer — Resources, tooling, and design guidelines for building interfaces with GitHub’s design system
• Github Primercss.io slam poem — a pem about Primer by Jon Rohan
• Styled System — Style props for rapid UI development
• Emotion — CSS-in-JS library designed for high performance style composition
• styled components — Visual primitives for the component age
• Github Octicons — Your project. GitHub's icons
• FAMFAMFAM — Silk
• Figma — A better way to design
• Figma Developer API
• GitHub Actions — Focus on what matters: code
• Figma Action — GitHub action for exporting Figma components
• lerna — 🐉 A tool for managing JavaScript projects with multiple packages
• Monorepo — a software development strategy where code for many projects are stored in the same repository
• Primer Community on Spectrum

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