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Found out that the government of Canada is using my project

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I recently found out that an open source software from Canadian Digital Services (CDS) is using one of my personal projects, which I found pretty cool. Github allows you to see a list of repos that depend on your project in the insights view, and while the list is often fairly limited since it just shows public repos, I still like to scroll through the list every once in a while because I sometimes see some interesting projects.

My project is https://github.com/lukasbach/react-complex-tree, a React tree library for building feature rich tree views without making assumptions on looks, similar to file-based tree views you might expect in the sidebar of your IDE. I saw that CDS is using it in a public form builder app https://github.com/cds-snc/platform-forms-client (integration: https://github.com/search?q=repo%3Acds-snc%2Fplatform-forms-client%20react-complex-tree&type=code).

If you are also interested in trying out react-complex-tree, the code and links to documentation is available on the github repo: https://github.com/lukasbach/react-complex-tree

It's always exciting when I see other people or organizations use my library, I've seen some very interesting and unique integrations of react-complex-tree, and am just as honored to see it being used by government services. Let me know what you think :)

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jytechdevops
wow, that is pretty cool. probably can be used as a great conversation starter :)
dangrossman
It's a great feeling, right? It's been a decade plus since I've written any popular open source code, but I still run into my old work on occasion. I found a date picker I made being used on the NHTSA website, a hotel booking site, and in software my wife used to register as a vendor for events this year.
phito
That must feel pretty good. Congratulations!
freitzkriesler2
Great post. A few days ago I was feeling lonely on a trip and I looked at the stuff around me. I realized everything around me was built with human hands and engineers. Each one of them went through design reviews and each one of their inputs lead to a product. For some reason, I didn't feel so lonely anymore.

At least for now, we know everything around us had some human's input and guidance. It'll be a sad day when AI fully designs and iterates human devices without any human input.

Maken
By that time, I doubt we will be around to see it.
freitzkriesler2
Automobiles were considered inferior in 1903 to horses and buggies and then come the 30s, they exploded in popularity. You will see AI becomes better and better to the point it eliminated creative industry jobs like entertainment and software coding.
anadem
> everything around me was built with human hands and engineers

Same when your plan comes in for a landing over a city .. it's all been made by us, every big and tiny piece down to the screws holding the bits together.

inSenCite
Congrats it's an awesome thing to see your stuff out in the wild like that!
icdedposts
"Those who come after rest in the shade of the react-complex-tree planted by those who have come before."

-A slightly minced Chinese proverb