The Alby team officially released a nice new tool last week. PkgZap gives a way for NodeJS developers to easily fund the packages they're relying upon for their project. Indeed, it is a common software development practice to rely on open source packages and libraries that handle a specific set of tasks (say, for example, generating QR codes from text) instead of reinventing the wheel every time. Although it isn't without tradeoffs, some languages such as Javascript usually rely more or less extensively on using third party packages. For example NodeJS (let's say it's a "flavour" of Javascript) has a tool called NPM (Node Package Manager) to easily import and use existing packages into a project.

NPM already has a funding tool allowing package developers to indicate the link to their donation page, and other developers can see the donation links of all the packages their project depends on in just one command. If a package developer puts a Lightning Address as their donation link, then potential funders can see it, but they still have to manually donate to each package. Alby is taking this a step further with this new tool: as a supporter you can now connect your wallet to the the PkgZap once using Nostr Wallet Connect (NWC), set the total amount you wish to donate, and it will automatically be split and sent to all the packages that feature a Lightning Address as their donation method. Neat!

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