03 Aug
We decide sails into the open-source sea by our flag. Our leads and boarding members of Zero One IT Desarrollos decide moving forward and allow us to go as our own.
Expressive Tea moves out of the umbrella of Zero One IT Desarrollos to be a separate project and entity, but don’t be taking wrong this movement. As this is a separation is not a break up with Zero One IT Desarrollos as Engineer and Developers will continue actively develop central core and features of Expressive Tea.
To Explain more a little bit about this change, We have here Diego Resendez Founder of Zero One IT Desarrollos and Team Lead on Expressive Tea that already answers the next questions to clients and developers panel.
Why move as own product instead of being a company product?
To me, it is essential to create our image and recognized as a separate project with our own space and dedicated resources to this project. This creates transparency, allows the community to participate better, and brings more sponsorship and backers.
Diego
Is not too soon this move as Expressive Tea is barely new?
Well, yes and not, the outer founders and I discussed this many times to analyze the pros and cons as merely this project released about one year ago. Yes, it is soon because Zero One IT Desarrollos needs to restructure teams, budget, as you know corporation stuff; also No because this is the perfect time to doing this, the project is growing by little, We just released our first stable version almost a year, so basically this is just a baby compare with our competitors out there, and that allows us to do the movement.
Diego
You talked about budget, that means Zero One IT Desarrollos will not fund Expressive Tea?
No, Zero One IT Desarrollos will invest in this project. We will still provide infrastructure, developers, and money, just not in the old boring corporation-ish way but as an open-source sponsor company.
Diego
Also, you mentioned Expressive Tea is growing by little. What do you mean?
Outside, there are terrific and very mature frameworks like Nest that mentioned an example, so as a new entry framework. Of course, we need to climb the mountain, that is a reality. Also, we are on the way to assigning a team to this project as I was the only developer and unique contributor, and all my responsibilities did not allow me to work at 100% on this as I want to do it.
Diego
With other well-established frameworks, what Expressive Tea will offer?
Our framework’s primary focus is going to small or medium companies who not need it something heavy-weight but something clean and robust. The main framework’s philosophy is to provide simplification at the architecture and flexible enough as every company, group, or individual can create their flavors.
Also, we maintain this shareable; what I mean with this I can create a plugin to setup WebSockets in one server, and then if I need this in another project, I can reuse the plugin as private or public NPM package.
Diego
That sounds awesome, but, Expressive Tea is not popular. Do you have a plan for that?
You right, that is because, before this announcement, it was a one-person effort to develop and plan new features and resolve bugs. I recognize that I did not put much effort into promoting and do the social, marketing, advertising of this project.
But now I want to do it better; I will start a series of videos of tutorials to promote our project in some streaming platforms, invite other developers, and maybe find some influencers to help us. In the end, there is a plan somehow now is not depends totally on me, which is better for me.
Diego
So, are you talking about the good stuff here. When will we see these changes?
Some of them already started. We are restructuring the open-source department in Zero One IT Desarrollos to provide a dedicated team. Also, as I explained on the last question, I am preparing streaming material to introduce in a better way Expressive Tea, write tutorials, and promote this in a better way.
There is some task already completed; we have a separate domain name, web page, email system, and some infrastructure and some etcetera here. And some other tasks will take time like migrate our repositories in one place. I can’t give you more details because it could take a lot of time to explain; however, as a short answer, I can tell you we will have everything ready by January 2021.
Diego
One last question, Expressive Tea some somewhat weird name for a framework, Can you explain why?
You know many people ask me that it is funny, to be honest, is just a wordplay to represent the two bases of this framework: ExpressJS and Typescript. But also it represents the primary motivation of the framework to create more Expressive server applications with the use of Decorators, easily configure and less code in the architecture and take a cup of tea to relax.
Maybe this disappoints many of you that expect something more complicated. When I started to code this project, I just said enough to configure ExpressJS from the beginning and just started coding and experimenting with Typescript and learning in the process. Before I think this more as a framework, I thought this to be more a template with the time I figure out this has the potential to be a framework and take the faith leap.
Diego
In conclusion, Expressive Tea is doing one step further to be an independent project without losing everything. In the end, Zero One IT Desarrollos will provide help to continue developing Expressive Tea’s central core and considerate the project as a separate entity. As Diego explains, this can be a little challenging, but this is the time to do it.
We appreciate reading this, once more, hopefully, this clarifies many things and at least giving you an insight into what happened in the next days. Also, you will found the primary contact of our Lead Developer at the end of this article.
Of course, you can always review our current repository, raise issues tickets and ask for new features, also if you like to contribute to this project, please follow this document and follow the rules from our code of conduct. For now, please follow us down the time to our new journey.
Days to new sail…
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