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BONUS: How to get Freelance Clients to Come to You
Charles Max Wood explains how he landed his first 4 freelance clients that took him through a few years of freelancing with only 3 years of experience and a few hundred podcast listeners. Funnily enough, they actually came to him, not the other way around.
He explains how he made himself attractive to them and then turned it into a mutually profitable relationship once he had their attention.
Panel
* Charles Max Wood
Sponsors
* This Dot Labs
* Raygun | Click here to get started on your free 14-day trial
* Dev Heroes Accelerator
Feb 23, 2021
RRU 134: How to be a Top 5% Developer
Charles Max Wood rejoins the show to discuss the things that help people take their careers from a job to a calling. The panel goes into publishing content, how to learn, meeting other people, and working with others. Chuck also advocates for having a plan for your career and taking deliberate steps each day to achieve what you wish for. Panel
* Charles Max Wood
* Paige Niedringhaus
* TJ VanToll Sponsors
* This Dot Labs
* Dev Heroes Accelerator Links
* Syntax.
* Wes Bos React Course
* Web Development & Design Tutorials
* Wes Bos Advanced React Course Picks
* Charles- Dev Heroes Accelerator | Devchat.tv
* Charles- Personal retreat
* Charles- The Umbrella Academy | Netflix
* Paige- Sunbeam heated blankets
* Paige- Amazon : Sunbeam Heated Blankets
* TJ- The Divine Cities Trilogy by ROBERT JACKSON BENNETT
Feb 17, 2021
RRU 133: React with Christopher Chedeau and Jordan Walke
This is a repeat episode of the JavaScript Jabber 146. Here's the original link https://devchat.tv/js-jabber/146-jsj-react-with-christopher-chedeau-and-jordan-walke/
Sponsors
* Dev Heroes Accelerator
* Raygun | Click here to get started on your free 14-day trial
Feb 5, 2021
BONUS: Measuring Apps and Entrepreneurship with John-Daniel Trask
John-Daniel Trask, founder and CEO of Raygun, talks about his experience building a monitoring company and about how to measure the speed and quality of your code.
Feb 5, 2021
BONUS: Measuring Apps and Entrepreneurship with John-Daniel Trask
John-Daniel Trask, founder and CEO of Raygun, talks about his experience building a monitoring company and about how to measure the speed and quality of your code.
Feb 2, 2021
RRU 132: What is a Top 5% Developer?
This is a repeat episode of Ruby Rogues 485
The Rogues dive into who are top 5% developers, what they're doing and how to recognize them. They start out discussing how mid-level developers can move up and how developers can grow in more ways that technical skills. Panel
* Charles Wood
* Dave Kimura
* John Epperson Sponsors
* Next Level Mastermind
* Raygun | Click here to get started on your free 14-day trial Links
* Devchat.tv | Dev Rev Picks
* Charles- The 360 Leader: Developing your Influence from Anywhere in the Organization by John C. Maxwell
* Charles- The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell
* Charles- Building a StoryBrand: Clarify Your Message So Customers Will Listen by Donald Miller
* Dave- Ruby on Rails Link
* Dave- Track Lights
* John- Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It by Chris Voss
* John- How to write an effective developer resume: Advice from a hiring manager
* John- Yoichi Single Malt Whisky
Jan 19, 2021
RRU 131: Data Visualization at Scale with Andrey Goncharov
Software Engineer Andrey Goncharov joins the React Round Up crew to discuss how his company Hazelcast has approached visualizing hundreds of data points on potentially hundreds of computers in a way that makes sense to users. Dust off your math skills - it gets a little technical along the way as they discuss graphs, charts, performance optimizations and bottlenecks, and even handling accessibility of these data-intensive graphs. If you ever have to debug system failures and anomalies, this will be a worthwhile episode to check out.
Panel
* Paige Niedringhaus
* TJ VanToll
Guest
* Andrey Goncharov
Sponsors
* Next Level Mastermind
* Raygun | Click here to get started on your free 14-day trial
Links
* Hazelcast | The Leading In-Memory Computing Platform
* Chart.js | Open Source HTML5 Charts for your Website
Picks
* Andrey- Designing Data-Intensive Applications by Martin Kleppmann
* Paige- Netflix Series | The Queen’s Gambit
* TJ- City of Stairs: A Novel (The Divine Cities) by Robert Jackson Bennett
Jan 12, 2021
RRU 130: How to Manage 80K Lines of Code as a Solo Developer
On this episode of React Round Up we talked to Dragos Bulugean about starting your own business, and managing really big apps. Dragos created Archbee, a service for helping companies manage documentation. We talked about the tech behind Archbee, as well as how he managed to build a business by himself—and how you can do the same.
Panel
* TJ VanToll
Guest
* Dragos Bulugean
Links
* archbee | Ultrafast Documentation Tool
* Express- Node.js web application framework
* Redis
* Elastic Search
* Next,js by Vercel
* Emotion- Introduction
Picks
* TJ- Throw Throw Burrito by Exploding Kittens
* Dragos- Kids
Jan 5, 2021
RRU 129: All Things Jamstack with James Quick
This week we chatted with James Quick from Auth0 about all things Jamstack. We discussed what the Jamstack is, and walked through a ton of interesting tools and frameworks–including Gatsby, Next.js, Auth0, Sanity, and a whole lot more. Listen for a number of helpful tips & tricks around building sites with the jam stack and more.
Panel
* TJ VanToll
Guest
* James Quick
Sponsors
* Raygun | Click here to get started on your free 14-day trial
Links
* Cloudinary | Image and Video Upload , Storage, Optimization and CDN
* Gatsby
* Next.js by Vercel- The React Framework
* Netlify: All-in-one Platform for Automating Modern Web Projects
* The Ultimate Content Platform-Sanity.io
* Auth0: Secure Access For Everyone. But Not Just Anyone
Picks
* James- Daily.dev
* James-Sports: Golf
* TJ- Mario Kart 8
* TJ- Mario Kart Live: Home Circuit
Jan 1, 2021
BONUS: How to Crush Your Biggest Goals in 2021
Get the 2020 Goal Setting Workshop + Success Accelerator Deal HERE
(Coupon Code: GOALS for a massive discount)
Mani Vaya joins Charles Max Wood to walk him through the 6 pillars of success that lead to meeting your goals.
Mani has read thousands of books on success, setting and achieving goals, and personal growth and has distilled these 6 principles from the books and then figured out how to put them into practice.
He and Chuck walk through the principles and strategies that create success and allow you to set goals that will bring you the things you want during the next year or so.
Listen to this episode to learn how to crush your biggest goals in 2021.
Get the 2020 Goal Setting Workshop + Success Accelerator Deal HERE
(Coupon Code: GOALS for a massive discount)
Dec 22, 2020
RRU 128:Web Components with Ben Farrell
On this episode we chatted with Ben Farrell, author of Web Components in Action, about all things web components. We talked about the status of web components, the best way to get started today, and a whole lot more. Panel
* Paige Niedringhaus
* TJ VanToll Guest
* Ben Farrell Sponsors
* Audible.com
* Raygun | Click here to get started on your free 14-day trial Links
* LitElement
* Polymer Project
* Open Web Components
* Web Components in Action
* Modern Web Web Dev Server
* Rollup.js bundler
* Web Component Bytes Picks
* Paige - All Recipes
* TJ - Getting canvas prints of pictures we have taken when we traveled
* Ben - Sassy Justice
Dec 8, 2020
REACT 127: Building Component Libraries with Kathryn Grayson Nanz
Senior Frontend Engineer Kathryn Grayson Nanz joins the React Round Up team to talk about all things component libraries. Kathryn shares her experiences building not one but two component libraries, as well as tips and tricks on the benefits of shared libraries, how to get buy in from product and developer teams, the best way to set up libraries and keeping them up-to-date. She also shares pitfalls to try and avoid when getting started with building a new library. Definitely a good listen for anyone debating whether an existing library or a brand new, custom one is the way to go for a project.
Panel
* TJ VanToll
* Paige Neidringhaus
Guest
* Kathryn Grayson Nanz
Links
* UI audit background from Brad Frost
* Storybook
* BubbleUp
* http://kgrayson.com/
Picks
* TJ - Strava
* Paige - Tresanti Standing Desk
* Kathryn - Notion
* Kathryn - Rocketbook
Dec 2, 2020
REACT 126: A Gentle Introduction to Serverless Apps With React with Joe Karlsson
On this episode of React Round Up we chatted with Joe Karlsson from MongoDB. We talked about all things serverless, from how to get started, to which sort of apps are good fits for serverless services, to how incredibly confusing AWS and Azure’s pricing pages are. It was a fun conversation, and is a great listen if you’re curious about serverless but aren’t sure where to start.
Panel
* Paige Niedringhaus
* TJ VanToll
Special Guest
* Joe Karlsson
Sponsors
* Raygun | Click here to get started on your free 14-day trial
* Audible.com
Links
* MongoDB Realm
* Latency Numbers Every Programmer Should Know
* https://github.com/JoeKarlsson/mongodb-stitch-todo-tutorial
Picks
* Paige - Doctor Who
* TJ - Schitt’s Creek
* TJ - React Wednesdays
* Joe -Star Trek Deep Space Nine
* Joe - The Original Prusa i3 MK3S+ 3D Printer
Nov 27, 2020
BONUS: How to do LARGE Volumes of HIGH Quality Work - While Spending Fewer Hours Working
Get the Black Friday/Cyber Monday "Double Your Productivity by 5pm Today" Deal
Coupon Code: "DEEP" for a GIANT discount
Mani provides us with strategies and tactics to get Deep Work time and how to get our minds into that focused state for hours at a time.
He has read hundreds of books that have taught him the secrets to getting more done by getting into this state.
He starts by telling us how he was passed over for a promotion at Qualcomm in favor of someone younger and less experienced and how that inspired him to figure out what the other guy was doing differently. He learned that he needed to get more done with the time he was spending on his projects.
The trick? Deep Work!
Deep Work is the ability to spend uninterrupted, focused time on a task to bend your entire mind toward the goal.
Other developers call it "Flow" or "the Zone."
Mani provides us with strategies and tactics to get Deep Work time and how to get our minds into that focused state for hours at a time.
Get t…
Nov 17, 2020
RRU 125: Put Down the JavaScript & Learn the Web Fundamentals with Colby Fayock
Colby Fayock, lead developer, book author and speaker, joins the React Round Up team to discuss why developers should focus on more than just leveling up their JavaScript skills. Understanding HTML, CSS, config tools that help power applications and more can be really helpful – especially when it comes to debugging issues during development. He also talks JAMStack and how it continues to evolve and democratize the ability for more people to put their thoughts online for all the world to see. Definitely a must listen for anyone interested in improving their dev skills. Panel
* Paige Niedringhaus
* TJ VanToll Guest
* Colby Fayock Sponsors
* Raygun | Click here to get started on your free 14-day trial
* Audible.com
* CacheFly Links
* React Leaflet
* 50 React Projects for React & the Web
* Jamstack Handbook
* Vercel site (creators of Next.js)
* https://github.com/colbyfayock/next-wordpress-starter Picks
TJ VanToll:
* Hello Fresh
Paige Niedringhaus:
*…
Nov 10, 2020
RRU 124: What's New in React with Shawn Wang
In this episode of React Round Up, we talked with Shawn Wang, a prolific React author, speaker and teacher, about the future of React. We discussed what’s new in React Core, the React routing world, React DevTools (webpack, rollup, parcel, etc), CSS, and a whole lot more. Panel
* TJ VanToll Guest
* Shawn Wang Sponsors
* Raygun | Click here to get started on your free 14-day trial
* Audible.com
* CacheFly Links
* Beyond React 16 by Dan Abramov – JSConf Iceland
* Concurrent React from scratch
* React testing recipes
* React Distrosand The Deployment Age of JavaScript Frameworks
* https://github.com/vitejs/vite
* TypeScript cheatsheets Picks
TJ VanToll:
* Fall Guys
* DevReach Online
Shawn Wang:
* Transistor.fm
* Cobra Kai
Follow React Round Up on Twitter > @reactroundup
Oct 27, 2020
RRU 123: React Query, React Table, the TanStack and More with Tanner Linsley
In this episode of React Round Up, Tanner Linsley, co-founder of startup Nozzle.io, and most known lately for his OSS project React Query, joins the panel today to discuss how he was inspired to create React Query to simplify data-fetching and state management in React applications. Just a few months after releasing React Query to the dev community, it’s already making waves and garnering the attention of notable React thought leaders and large companies alike, and part of the secret to Tanner’s success is that the majority of his popular OSS projects come from him needing to solve a need for his company, Nozzle.io. Learn about if React Query (or other projects) might be something to incorporate into your own React applications, as well as tips for getting involved in (and making the case for) working on OSS projects. Panel
* Paige Niedringhaus
* TJ VanToll Guest
* Tanner Linsley Sponsors
* Faithlife | Now Hiring Software Developers
* Raygun | Click here to get start…
Oct 13, 2020
RRU 122: Error Reporting and Bug Monitoring with James Smith
In this episode of React Round Up we chatted with James Smith from Bugsnag. We talked about the importance of error monitoring and reporting, and how to actually implement those workflows in your production apps. James shared a number of tips for React developers, like what are the most common errors and how you can help prevent them (hint: linters help a lot). We also got into mobile, and what developers can do to protect against third-party SDK errors. Panel
* TJ VanToll Guest
* James Smith Sponsors
* Faithlife | Now Hiring Software Developers
* Raygun | Click here to get started on your free 14-day trial
* Audible.com
* CacheFly Picks
TJ VanToll:
* https://www.amazon.com/What-Doesnt-Kill-Environmental-Conditioning
James Smith:
* Fall Guys
Follow React Round Up on Twitter > @reactroundup
Oct 6, 2020
RRU 121: DeFi-ing Expectations in React with Alex Thomas
In this episode of React Round Up, we talk with Alex Thomas, an open source enthusiast with hundreds of npm packages to his name. We talk about moving from React Native to React, and Alex’s prolific work in the open source world. We also chat about Ethereum, and Alex’s background in the decentralized finance world.. Panel
* Paige Niedringhaus
* TJ VanToll
* Thomas Aylott Guest
* Alex Thomas Sponsors
* Faithlife | Now Hiring Software Developers
* Audible.com
* CacheFly Links
* react-native-quiet
* Sofia Github repo
* Gitcoin Picks
Thomas Aylott:
* Once Upon a Word: A Word-Origin Dictionary for Kids―Building Vocabulary Through Etymology, Definitions & Stories
TJ VanToll:
* The Floor is Lava
* 3.5mm Headphone Extension Cable, CableCreation 3.5mm Male to Female Stereo Audio Extension Cable Adapter with Gold Plated Connector
Paige Niedringhaus:
* Ultimate Beastmaster on Netflix
Alex Thomas:
* https://harrypotterwithguns.com/
Follow React…
Sep 29, 2020
RRU 120: Building An Internal Component Library With Dana Yudelevich
In this episode of React Round Up, Dana Yudelevich shares her experiences of building internal component libraries. Dana explains in detail how she has built components in her previous jobs and the challenges she has faced in maintaining them. She also talks about how you can stand out at your current job by setting goals for yourself and becoming a “do-veloper” Panel
* Paige Niedringhaus
* Carl Mungazi Guest
* Dana Yudelevich Sponsors
* Faithlife | Now Hiring Software Developers
* Raygun | Click here to get started on your free 14-day trial
* Audible.com
* CacheFly Links
* https://snyk.io/
* Atomic design methodology
* Twitter article on Components
* https://storybook.js.org
* Good article on snapshot testing by Kent C Dodds
* Percy.io – visual review platform
* Becoming a DO-veloper
* Using Percy with Cypress
* https://www.npmjs.com/package/classnames Picks
Dana Yudelevich:
* http://1linelayouts.glitch.me/
Carl Mungazi:
* diff.blo…
Sep 22, 2020
RRU 119: Building Web and Mobile Apps with Ely Lucas
Ionic’s own Ely Lucas joins the React Round Up panel to discuss building the Ionic framework to work with React under the hood. Ely talks through how the team’s been hard at work making Ionic easy to pick up for any JavaScript developer with experience in React, as well as some of the benefits it can provide over straight React or React Native. Some of the biggest benefits are having just one shared codebase to power iOS, Android, Electron and PWAs, access to React Hooks and over 100 ready-to-use, easy to customize UI components on install. If you’ve heard about Ionic but want to learn more about it, and it’s newest offering Ionic React, this is the episode for you. Panel
* Paige Niedringhaus
* Charles Max Wood Guest
* Ely Lucas Sponsors
* Audible.com
* Raygun | Click here to get started on your free 14-day trial
* CacheFly Links
* ionicframework.com
* https://stenciljs.com/
* Ionic React documentation
* Web animations API documentation
* Ionic’s…
Sep 15, 2020
RRU 118: Creating Live Trippy Visuals with WebGL and Web Audio with Alex Kempton
In this episode of React Round Up, Alex Kempton joins us to talk about Hedron, a tool he built for enhancing live audio shows with cool visuals. We chat about MIDI, WebGL and web audio, and how Alex wrapped those all up into an app he uses for live performances. Panel
* TJ VanToll
* Thomas Aylott Guest
* Alex Kempton Sponsors
* Audible.com
* CacheFly Links
* Hedron
* MIDI API
* https://workshop.chromeexperiments.com/examples/gui/#1–Basic-Usage
* three.js examples
* https://github.com/react-spring/react-three-fiber
* Web audio API
* https://twitter.com/polyopuk
* React-three-fiber Picks
Alex Kempton:
* Just JavaScript
TJ VanToll:
* Stratechery
Thomas Aylott:
* roamresearch.com
Follow React Round Up on Twitter > @reactroundup
Sep 8, 2020
RRU 117: Making Frontend Developers Fullstack with Prisma with Nikolas Burk
In this special episode of React Round Up, guest Nikolas Burk delves into the Prisma database and why it’s worth checking out. Panel
* James Brenton Guest
* Nikolas Burk Sponsor
* CacheFly Links
* www.prisma.io Picks
Nikolas Burk:
* Follow Nikolas on Twitter > @nikolasburk
* Prisma Day Recordings
* Chess app
James Brenton:
* Scrabble® GO – New Word Game
Follow React Round Up on Twitter > @reactroundup
Sep 1, 2020
RRU 116: Building a Meet.up Competitor and Teaching React with Chris Achard
When meetup.com announced last year that it wanted to charge users $2 for using the platform, a number of users expressed their strong opposition to the proposal. Developer Chris Achard was one of them and he built meetingplace.io in response to users who were looking for alternatives. In today’s episode, Chris, who is also an egghead.io instructor, explains how he built an MVP in a week using Ruby, React and other technologies. He also shares his tips on how to find consulting jobs and teach others online. Panel
* Paige Niedringhaus
* TJ VanToll
* Carl Mungazi Guest
* Chris Achard Sponsor
* CacheFly Links
* Meetingplace.io
* Dev.to
* https://recoiljs.org/ Picks
Chris Achard:
* https://twitter.com/chrisachard
* A case study of how Chris used the Twitter thread educational posts to grow his following
TJ VanToll:
* VergeCast
* React Wednesdays on Twitch
Paige Niedringhaus:
* Trakt.tv
* DEV Community – Google Play Store
* Apple App Store
Ca…
Aug 25, 2020
RRU 115: Frontend Application Bundles with Glen Maddern
In this episode of React Round Up, Glen Maddern joins us to talk about a new tool he’s been working on called Frontend Application Bundles, or FABs. We chat about how FABs allow you to write server-side logic in a vendor-agnostic way, as well as some of the other interesting problems FABs solve. Panel
* Paige Niedringhaus
* TJ VanToll
* Carl Mungazi Guest
* Glen Maddern Links
* Cloudflare Workers
* Frontend Application Bundles (FABs)
* NPM FAB
* Remix Picks
Glen Maddern:
* The discovery of GIF animation
Paige Niedringhaus:
* The Deno Handbook
TJ VanToll:
* Fort Magic
Carl Mungazi:
* Calibre
* Basic virtual-dom algorithm
* Matt-Esch virtual-dom
Follow React Round Up on Twitter > @reactroundup
Aug 4, 2020
RRU 114: Decentralized React: ThreadsDB, IPFS, Filecoin with Carson Farmer
In this episode of React Round Up, Carson Farmer joins us to talk about the decentralized web. We discuss what the decentralized web actually is, and some interesting new way the web could work. Panel
* Paige Niedringhaus
* TJ VanToll Guest
* Carson Farmer Sponsors
* G2i | Enjoy the luxuries of freelancing React Native Remote Conf 2020
Links
* IPFS
* Textile
* CRDT
* ThreadDB
* Carson’s “Bring Your Own Data” talk
* Filecoin Picks
Carson Farmer:
* Follow Carson on Twitter > @carsonfarmer
* Let my People go surfing
* IPFS: interplanetary file system on Reddit
TJ VanToll:
* Recoil
* David McCabe’s talk about Recoil at React Europe
Paige Niedringhaus:
* Killing Eve
Follow React Round Up on Twitter > @reactroundup
Jul 21, 2020
RRU 113: Typed Functional Programming in TypeScript with fp-ts with Robin Pokorny
Functional programming can be tricky to start with, especially in TypeScript aps. In today’s show, Robin Pokorny shares tips on how to start with functional programming, and how you can integrate functional programming into the apps you’re building today. He also shares tips on libraries to help make functional programming with TypeScript easier, including fp-ts. Panel
* TJ VanToll Guest
* Robin Pokorny Sponsors
* G2i | Enjoy the luxuries of freelancing React Native Remote Conf 2020
Links
* fp-ts
* Redux
* Elm
* io-ts
* Pragmatic Bookshelf: By Developers, For Developers Picks
Robin Pokorny:
* Follow Robin on Twitter > @robinpokorny
* Cracking the Cryptic
* signup-form-react-native-web - CodeSandbox
TJ VanToll:
* Oculus Quest
* AltspaceVR | Be there, together.
Follow React Round Up on Twitter > @reactroundup
Jul 7, 2020
RRU 112: From Pulling Teeth to Pull Requests with Meghna Srivastava
Dr. Meghna Srivastava joins React Round Up to share how she transitioned from a dentist in her native country of India to a software developer today in Berlin, Germany. Although she practiced for a few years after graduating dental school, Meghna wasn't completely satisfied with her career choice, and things at work began to feel stale to her. At the same time, she saw the flexibility her partner enjoyed as a backend developer, and began dabbling in Python to see if coding might be something she was interested in pursuing as well. Fast forward a year, and Meghna found herself in Germany due to her partner's job, and unemployed, giving her the time she needed to really focus on learning to code, and she discovered she enjoyed JavaScript's browser-focused interactions more than backend languages. Then she progressed on to the React framework as she began to build up her portfolio. Panel
* Charles Max Wood
* Paige Niedringhaus
* TJ VanToll Guest
* Meghna Srivastava Sponsors…
Jun 23, 2020
RRU 111: React Tools, Codebase Management, and More with Brice Ayres
React Native Remote Conf
July 28th to 31th
Brice Ayres is a Youtube video author talking about programming and React. This is a wide ranging conversation across the spectrum of React tools, libraries like react-bootstrap, and the state of styling and state management in React. Panel
* Charles Max Wood
* Paige Niedringhaus
* TJ VanToll
* Carl Mungazi Guest
* Brice Ayres Sponsors
* G2i | Enjoy the luxuries of freelancing
"The MaxCoders Guide to Finding Your Dream Developer Job" by Charles Max Wood is now available on Amazon. Get Your Copy Today!
Links
* Ant Design
* BEM Picks
Brice Ayres:
* Follow Brice on Twitter > @codelife_io, Youtube
* phoenix_live_view
Charles Max Wood:
* Board Game Arena
* React Native Remote Conference 2020
Paige Niedringhaus:
* Houseparty app
TJ VanToll:
* SF Bay Coffee
Carl Mungazi:
* A visual guide to React Mental models | Obed Parlapiano
Follow React Round Up on Twitter > @reactroundup
Jun 9, 2020
RRU 110: Game Development in React & Typescript with Maksim Ivanov
Front end developer Maksim Ivanov talks about working for Mojang, the company behind the ridiculously popular game Minecraft. As it turns out, Maksim uses React to build different pieces of the game, and runs the code through a custom renderer to make it work in the game world. In addition to his day job, he also found time to write a book about TypeScript after realizing how much easier getting familiar with new code bases could be if TypeScript was used instead of JavaScript. The panel has used TypeScript to varying degrees themselves, but nobody's gone all in, and they talk about the pros and cons of it, including the initial learning curve and how it can help prevent bugs in the code. Maksim's book covers many aspects of TypeScript in great detail, and it sounds like a good read for anyone just picking up the language. Panel
* Charles Max Wood
* Paige Niedringhaus
* TJ VanToll Guest
* Maksim Ivanov Sponsors
* G2i | Enjoy the luxuries of freelancing
"The MaxCoders Gu…
May 26, 2020
RRU 109: SVGS in React with Elizabet Oliviera
If you’ve tried using SVGs in your application, chances are you’ve found it tricky or difficult. In today’s show, Elizabet Oliviera shares some tips on how you can begin using SVGs to create scalable illustrations and animations. She also shares her experiences of building a library of SVG animations Panel
* Carl Mungazi
* Paige Niedringhaus
* TJ VanToll Guest
* Elizabet Oliveira Sponsors
* G2i | Enjoy the luxuries of freelancing
"The MaxCoders Guide to Finding Your Dream Developer Job" by Charles Max Wood is now available on Amazon. Get Your Copy Today!
Links
* Figma
* gregberge/svgr
* svg/svgo: Node.js tool for optimizing SVG files
* Exploring audio with React and SVGs: Create amazing audio projects - Elizabet Oliveira
* React Kawaii Picks
Elizabet Oliveira:
* Follow Elizabet on Twitter > @miuki_miu, Github, LinkedIn
* Women of React Conf
Paige Niedringhaus:
* Coolors - The super fast color schemes generator!
Carl Mungazi:
* Excalidraw…
May 12, 2020
RRU 108: Web Workers & Multi-threaded JavaScript with Majid Hajian
JavaScript Remote Conf 2020
May 13th to 15th - register now!
Despite JavaScript being a single-threaded language, you can now leverage multi-threaded computing thanks to modern browser features such as web workers, workouts and service workers. In this show, Majid explains how these features work and what problems they solve. We also discuss the strategies you can use to introduce them to production codebases and give your users a much more enjoyable experience on your web app. Panel
* Paige Niedringhaus
* Carl Mungazi
* Charles Max Wood
* TJ VanToll Guest
* Majid Hajian Sponsors
* G2i | Enjoy the luxuries of freelancing
"The MaxCoders Guide to Finding Your Dream Developer Job" by Charles Max Wood is now available on Amazon. Get Your Copy Today!
Links
* Comlink makes WebWorkers enjoyable
* Workbox
* Figma
* The AssemblyScript Book
* Houdini: Demystifying CSS Picks
Majid Hajian:
* Follow Majid on Twitter > @mhadaily
* Deep Work - Cal Newport
Carl…
Apr 28, 2020
RRU 107: Remote Work with Vladimir Novick
JavaScript Remote Conf 2020
May 13th to 15th - register now!
Vladimir Novick is a work from home veteran. He talks through the situation with COVID-19, having kids at home, and working from home. The rest of the panel chimes in and discusses their experience—some short and some long—working from home. Panel
* Charles Max Wood
* Paige Niedringhaus
* TJ VanToll Guest
* Vladimir Novick Sponsors
*
G2i | Enjoy the luxuries of freelancing
"The MaxCoders Guide to Finding Your Dream Developer Job" by Charles Max Wood is now available on Amazon. Get Your Copy Today!
Links
* Enabling breakout rooms – Zoom Help Center Picks
Vladimir Novick:
* Follow Vladimir on Twitter > @VladimirNovick, Twitch, Website
* Event Loop
* Krisp | Noise Cancelling App
* Keyboard Maestro
* Stream Deck
* Notion
Charles Max Wood:
* ASUS 15.6" Full HD 1920x1080 IPS USB Portable Monitor
* The Chronicles of Narnia Adult Box Set Audiobookm
Paige Niedringhaus:
* ShiftIt fo…
Apr 14, 2020
RRU 106: React Socks for Easy Responsive Design with Paige Niedringhaus
JavaScript Remote Conf 2020
May 13th to 15th - register now!
Paige Niedringhaus talks about the ever increasing need for developers and designers to be thinking about responsive web design as they build apps in today's world; a quick recap of a conference talk she gave at Connect.Tech, called 'Responsive Design featuring ReactJS'. Then, she talks about two possible solutions for making responsive web apps: CSS media queries and a new, React-specific NPM package called React Socks. Both options have their benefits and drawbacks (and can be used together too!), but getting started with either is relatively simple. Considering how many different ways users could be accessing our websites today and how important a good user experience is regardless of device size, responsive design is definitely worth investigating and incorporating into you own development going forward. Panel
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Mar 31, 2020
RRU 105: ReasonML and the Reason Association with Patrick Stapfer
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Patrick Stapfer from the Reason Association joins Charles Max Wood to talk about ReasonML, functional programming, and how it fits into the React ecosystem. ReasonML is a language built and maintained by Facebook and transpiled to JavaScript using the BuckleScript project. Patrick explains when to use Reason, how to get started, and the basics of using Reason. Panel
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* ReasonML Playground
* GitHub - davidkpiano/xstate: State machines and statecharts for the modern web.
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Mar 24, 2020
RRU 104: How to Start a Side Hustle as a Programmer with Mani Vaya
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Mani Vaya joins Charles Max Wood to talk about how developers can add the entrepreneur hat to the others they wear by starting a side gig. They discuss various ideas around entrepreneurship, the books they got them from, and how they've applied them in their own businesses. Panel:
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Mar 10, 2020
RRU 103: Do the Work
Charles Max Wood monologues about how to get what you want and making a plan. The main focus of his discussion is about sticking it out through the boring or lonely parts and continuing to work for the career and life you’re looking for. Panel
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Mar 3, 2020
RRU 102: UI Components-Open Source vs. Paid with TJ VanToll
TJ VanToll hops on the Round Up to discuss when and where it makes sense to use open source UI components versus paying for them. The tradeoffs wind up being more subtle than you think. We dive into team make-up, pros and cons, and the approaches to making the right decision on which library to pick up. Panel:
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* Stranger Things
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Feb 25, 2020
RRU 101: Military Veterans, How to Learn, and With You With Me with Travis Ralph
Travis Ralph works with With You With Me to help veterans transition from military service to IT jobs. He discusses the process of making the move from military service to software development, why they use React as part of their curriculum, and how to learn new skills. Panel:
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* Amplify.io React & React Native Docs
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* Loupe
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Feb 18, 2020
RRU 100: 100 Round Ups and more!
Chuck and Thomas get together to discuss their favorite parts of the React Round Up. They talk about origins, favorite episodes, and the history of React. Panel
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Feb 11, 2020
RRU 099: Scale: In a React Code Base with Tejas Kumar
Tejas, Thomas, and Chuck talk about what Design Systems are, how they're used, and what goes into building them. The compare them to some UI libraries that don't quite meet the mark and talk about how they fit into the development ecosystem and people's career paths. Panelist
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Feb 4, 2020
RRU 098: Accessibility Made Easy with Brittany Feenstra
Brittany is a software engineer for Formidable Labs. She’s a team lead for some client work and likes to poke around in their open-source stuff in her free time. Last year she gave a talk at ReactConf called ‘Accessibility is a Marathon, Not a Sprint’. She talks about her background and how she came to specialize in accessibility. Brittany believes there are a lot of small things you can do to make your website more accessible, and that following best practices in accessibility makes the website easier to navigate for the able-bodied as well. She emphasizes that having accessibility in mind from the get-go will make your website more organized overall and that making things more accessible is as easy as starting with semantic HTML. Brittany and Charles discuss the moral responsibility for businesses to make their website accessible and whose responsibility it is to enforce accessibility. Brittany feels that accessibility really isn’t that hard, but people just don’t know what…
Jan 28, 2020
RRU 097: State Management and React Component Design with Becca Bailey
Guest Becca Bailey gave a talk at ReactConf in 2019 called The State of React State in 2019 and will be giving another talk at an upcoming conference. She gives a summary of her ReactConf talk, which was inspired by her experiences she has had as a developer. In her talk, she talks about different tools and testing for state management. She and the panelists discuss how to recommend changing tools to a team instead of individuals. She shares some experiences from her job. They discuss ways to keep a work culture from turning toxic and how to start the conversation about state management. The React experts talk about strategies when you chose something for a project that ends up being the wrong decision, and prevent poor decisions like that in the future. It’s important to strike a balance between preparing for the future and anticipating it.
Becca and the panel discuss alternatives to using Redux for state management, and some of the advantages of using it. They discuss how to decid…
Jan 21, 2020
RRU 096: React Round Up at RxJS Live
In this episode of React Native Radio Charles Max Wood continues interviewing speakers at RxJS Live. First, he interviews Mike Ryan and Sam Julien. They gave a talk about Groupby, a little known operator. They overview the common problems other mapping operators have and how Groupby addresses these problems. The discuss with Charles where these types of operators are most commonly used and use an analogy to explain the different mapping operators.
Next, Charles talks to Tracy Lee. Her talk defines and explains the top twenty operators people should use. In her talk, she shows real-world use cases and warns against gotchas. Tracy and Charles explain that you don’t need to know all 60 operators, most people only need about 5-10 to function. She advises people to know the difference between the different types of operators. Tracy ends her interview by explaining her desire to inspire women and people of minority groups. She and Charles share their passion for diversity and giving…
Jan 14, 2020
RRU 095: Designing Your Life
In this episode of React Round Up Charles Max Wood hosts a solo podcast sharing his perspective on designing your perfect life. In this episode he addresses finding your dream job, building your dream life, and staying current. Start by deciding where you want to end up. Do you see yourself retiring? Working forever? Charles shares his vision for his future and discusses the retirements of others in his life.
Working back from the end of your life, Charles has you ask yourself what kind of life and career you want. Charles shares his vision for both his personal life and his career. After you pick your goal, build the skills, and knowledge to reach that goal. He uses the example of becoming a speaker at conferences. He also recommends you find a mentor or someone who has sone what you want to and get there help.
Charles explains how important it is to get out of your own way mentally. Many people find reasons real or imagined as to why they can’t reach their goal. He agrees that…
Jan 7, 2020
RRU 094: React Round Up Live at GitLab Commit 2019
In this episode of React Round Up Charles Max Wood interviews speakers at GitLab Commit 2019. Eddie Zaneski from Digital Ocean talks about "Creating a CI/CD Pipeline with GitLab and Kubernetes in 20 minutes", Shamiq Islam from Coinbase talks about "Closing the SDLC Loop- Automating Security" and Jasmine James, from Delta Airlines, discusses " How Delta Became Cloud Native-Avoiding the Vendor Lock".
Eddie, Shamiq, and Jasmine give the 5 min "elevator pitch" for the talks they gave at the conference.
In his talk, Eddie deploys a fake startup going through the whole pipeline: building the application, containerizing an application and shipping it off to Kubernetes.
Shamiq, talks about how the conventional approach to security is to consider it at the very end after all developer has wrapped up their work and why that should change.
Jasmine explains more in-depth what it means for a big corporation like Delta to be in a Vendor Lock.
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Dec 24, 2019
RRU 093: React Round Up at JAMstack Conf SF 2019
In this episode of React Round Up Charles Max Wood interviews speakers at JAMstack Conf SF. Mandy Michael gives a talk about responsive typography and variable fonts. Mandy explains what variable fonts are and how they can be used to shrink, stretch and do some very fun and creative thing with them. They discuss how to use them and Mandy explains some of the demos from her talk.
Charles asks Mandy what some of the things were that she had to cut from her talk. She had to cut a few longer demos, details and performance improvements that can be made with responsive typography. Mandy shares what she is working on now with responsive typography and explains how much fun she has had expressing herself through variable fonts. To see more of Mandy’s demos and to learn more about responsive typography and variable fonts see the links below.
Next, Charles interviews Shawn Erquhart work runs the Netlify CMS project. Charles shares his experience using Netlify and Shawn addresses…
Dec 17, 2019
RRU 092: The Future of APIs, GraphQL, and Developer Tooling with Sean Grove
Today the panel and Sean Grove are talking about the future of programming with GraphQL. GraphQL is a new way of building APIs that is more product and frontend focused. All of the panelists agree that it is easy to get exactly what they need with ease when using GraphQL. There are also benefits for backend developers too, since GraphQL lets you see exactly what fields your clients are using. You can also reach out to specific clients who have accessed specific fields before. This is possible because every GraphQL server is introspectable by a computer, and Sean explains how it works. This introspectivity is the basis for an idea he has that allows users to generate realistic fake data before signing up so they know exactly how their application will work before committing, and gives some examples of how it can be used. They all agree that GraphQL is very well formatted and that it provides solutions to real world problems,
The conversation turns to the article How OneGraph Onboards…
Dec 10, 2019
RRU 091: React Best Practices
In this week’s episode of React Round Up the panel works their way through a blog post outlining best practices for React. The first is “keeping components small and function-specific”. The panel discusses the pros of using this best practice and how it relates to the single responsibility principle. This best practice also helps with the next, “reusability is important”.
The panel considers this second best practice and points out some of its flaws. It recommends avoiding the creation of new components. The panel explains that by avoiding creating new components it saves time but can also cause problems as you adapt components to fit more projects.
The next best practice is “consolidate duplicate code”, the panel shares their philosophies on dry code and when to consolidate. The fourth best practice is comment only when necessary, Charles explains how he uses comments to help him keep track of things inside his code and the panel warns against using too many comments…
Dec 3, 2019
RRU 090: How Do I Introduce New Tech at Work?
Today the panel is discussing how to introduce new tech at work. They agree that it’s important to get input from all teams on the decision, although it will primarily affect the development team. One should also consider the different ways people make decisions, such as through discussion or quiet thinking, and give everyone time to come to a decision. The panel talks about positive and negative examples of how to introduce new tech at work. Thomas believes that it is important to acknowledge your own biases in decision making and to try to avoid them. The React experts discuss the significance of the team dynamic and the necessity of different roles in decision making or if it is better to have an organic discovery phase. This relates to Thomas’ point about personal biases, and he believes that it is important to put people in roles that are opposite of their personality. When making decisions about new technology, it is also important to note that not all decisions require the s…
Nov 26, 2019
RRU 089: Progressive Enhancements with Ire Aderinokun
In this episode of React Round Up Charles Max Wood interviews Ire Aderinokun at JAMstack conf 2019. Ire works for Buycoins, a cryptocurrency exchange for Africa. She gave a lightning talk, “Headless Chrome & Cloudinary for progressively enhanced dynamic content on the web”. After giving a brief overview of her talk to Charles, Ire defines progressive enhancement for the listeners.
Walking through how progressive enhancement works, she explains how Headless Chrome and Cloudinary helped her with the project she shared in the talk. Ire and Charles consider the blindspot that developers experience because they work on high-end devices and how using progressive enhancement helps those who use lower-end devices.
Ire shares her experience with JAMstack and explains how progressive enhancement works with JAMstack. Charles shares his experience using JAMstack. The episode ends with Ire giving advice and resources to help get started with progressive enhancement.
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Nov 20, 2019
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Nov 19, 2019
RRU 088: Frustrations with React Hooks with Paul Cowan
Paul Cowan was a painter and decorator for 30 years until he switched to front end development. He got into React because for him, much of programming didn’t make a whole lot of sense until he read about the flux model, and React Redux was one of the few frameworks that followed the flux model. Spending most of his life outside of the programming world has granted him a unique perspective frameworks like React. He talks about some of his frustrations with React hooks. Hooks can be frustrating because it’s a new paradigm to learn JS, the dependencies array can get bungled, React relies on the order in which hooks are called, and closures can be difficult. Overall, hooks come off at deceptively simple. Paul believes that we shouldn’t need external tooling to keep the dependency array on the right track. To avoid these frustrations, Paul reminds listeners that hooks have to be called in the same order each time at the beginning of your functional components. You also cannot have a h…
Nov 12, 2019
RRU 087: The why-did-you-render Library and React Performance with Vitali Zaidman
Vitali Zaidman works for the WellDone Software consultancy. He has worked with a lot of different technologies, but currently works with React. In a recent React meetup, he talked about React performance. When someone says that React is not performant, Vitali disagrees and says that it is very performant unless you do certain things. If your React application is slow, it’s down to the tools you use. The panelists all agree that premature optimization is the root of all evil. The difference between premature optimization and good architecture comes down to experience. It is important to be data driven and consider performance a business environment. Vitali believes that performance is a feature and should be treated like any other.
The panel discusses accessibility versus internationalization. Launching to one language is different than launching to one set of abilities. While you don’t need to internationalize on day one, don’t make it impossible to internationalize. They talk…
Nov 5, 2019
RRU 086: Gatsby Themes with Chris Biscardi
In this episode of React Round Up the panel interviews Chris Biscardi. Chris is now working with Gatsby. He shares a bit about his background and how he got into programming. Chris explains his move from Kubernetes and Docker over to Gatsby. His overall drive is to increase leverage for other people and what drew him to these projects.
Chirs explains what Gatsby is and what it has to offer to React developers. Gatsby is like a creat react app which is attached to a static site generator that has an API that allows you to pull in data from anywhere. Also, by using Gatsby developers do not have to operate alone, they get the whole Gatsby ecosystem to help them.
The panel considers Gatsby and if it would be a good way for developers to learn React. Chris explains with Gatsby’s documentation it would be great for learning React. The panel believes it would be a good place to learn because of the hands-on goal-oriented work engaged in when using Gatsby. Chris shares what developers…
Oct 29, 2019
RRU 085: Building Resilient Architecture with Monica Lent
Monica Lent has been interested in software from a very young age, and made her first domain name when she was 9 years old. She studied legacy languages Latin and Ancient Greek in university, but ended up keeping her college development job and going into software. She recently left her job and founded a startup, analytic tool designed for bloggers designed around affiliate marketing. She talks about some of the lessons she’s learned, including how to sift through data and how to make it useful for people.
Monica gave a talk at React Finland and she first applies some of her principles from that talk to what she’s learned founding a startup. One of the main differences she’s found is a small startup has different needs and levels of stability than a business. In early stage business, you have to decide where you want to invest in quality and where you shouldn’t be investing. For example, her primary focus is on her algorithm that runs the tool, and UI is less of a priority.…
Oct 22, 2019
RRU 084: What Makes a 10x Engineer?
In today’s show, Chuck talks about the recent Twitter thread about 10x engineers. He goes through each of the points in the tweet and talks about each of them in turn. There are only two points he sort of agrees with, and believes the rest to be absolute garbage. One of the issues with this tweet is that it doesn’t define what a 10x engineer is. Defining a 10x engineer is difficult because it is also impossible to measure a truly average engineer because there are many factors that play into measuring productivity.
Chuck turns the discussion to what a 10x engineer is to him and how to find one. A 10x engineer is dependent on the organization that they are a part of, because they are not simply found, they are made. When a 10x engineer is added to a team, the productivity of the entire team increases. Employers have to consider firstly what you need in your team and how a person would fit in. You want to avoid changing the entire culture of your organization. Consider also that a 1…
Oct 15, 2019
RRU 083: Reactive Programming with Storybook with Dean Radcliffe
Dean Radcliffe has been web developing since the table tag was the new hotness. His interests include his wife and two kids, music, sports, and he likes to say he helps people make whatever they can dream of. Since starting to move towards the frontend, React has been his weapon of choice, which he got started with in 2014.
Dean works at G2.com, a software review site. They are developing a review form, which requires the code to react to events. For example, a person’s position in the company would affect what questions they see, so the form needs to react to which box is checked. Dean talks about the use cases for building a reactive form and what kind of things are going to happen when you fill in an input. For his form, the input will be remembered, and they want to increase the user’s involvement with the form through incentives. To accomplish this, Dean uses component driven development with Storybook.
Storybook is a tool available for React and other frameworks, which le…
Oct 8, 2019
RRU 082: Progressive SSR with Dinesh Pandiyan
Dinesh Pandiyan is a developer from India. He started as a backend engineer and then moved to frontend. Currently he is working for ThinkMill in Sidney, Australia. Today Dinesh and the panel are talking about devtools and progressive SSR.
Dinesh got started with React Redux. The panelists talk about their experiences using primarily Redux for projects. Dinesh talks about his transition from backend to frontend and how it’s a totally different world. On the backend he was working in Java and it ran on a server, but on the frontend, code runs in a browser and the browser is very different for each user. Frontend development is tricky because you don’t know where your code is going to run.
One of the trickiest parts of frontend development is debugging something in production. Unless you have good logging tools, you won’t know what’s going on. Debugging this stuff when it’s running on client browsers is hard, but when you’re in development mode your own browser you’ve got…
Oct 1, 2019
RRU 081: NX and Monorepos with Jeffrey Cross and Victor Savkin
Jeffrey Cross and Victor Savkin are the cofounders of NRWL. They used to work together at Google on the Angular team and started NRWL so that people could use Angular 2 well. Victor talks about NRWL’s tool NX, which came from the desire to help people develop like the tech giants. Companies like Google and Facebook develop in the same repository so that people can collaborate. NX is an open source tool for this collaborative development, known as a monorepo.
Monorepo style development is a way to develop applications such that you develop multiple projects in the same repository and you use tooling to orchestrate development. The tooling connects everything, makes the experience coherent, and ultimately makes the monorepo style work. The benefits of monorepo development are that the tool chain enables you to interact with different projects in the same fashion, collaboration is more effective, and multiple apps can be refactored at once.
The panel discusses what situations are…
Sep 24, 2019
RRU 080: Navigating React Navigation with Zain Sajjad
Zain Sajjad is a frontend developer at his company Peekaboo Guru, an app built in React. The show begins with Zain explaining why he chose to build Peekaboo Guru in React. Ultimately, he chose React for its composability and reusability. He talks about how much data is shared between his React and React Native applications.
Zain explains what he means by a container since he is not talking about Docker, and how he has the app organized. He talks about the differences between routing and navigation between React and React Native. When approaching these differences, he breaks things down into components, containers, and platform, paying careful attention to how they work together. This differentiation can actually help a lot with testing as well.
The panel asks Zain about choosing between React navigation and React Native navigation, but Peekaboo Guru uses both React navigation and React Native navigation, but on different platforms. They use each on different platforms because React…
Sep 17, 2019
RRU 079: State Machines and State Charts with Farzad Yousef Zadeh
Episode Summary
Today’s guest is Farzad Yousef Zadeh, a developer from Iran with a unique path into computer programming. He started by studying astrophysics and aerospace engineering in college, then dropped out in his last semester because it wasn’t the right path. He then taught himself to code, working mostly in web programming and frontend development. Despite his change in course, Farzad remains passionate about observing the night sky.
Farzad is here today to talk about the ideas in his talk Explicitness and Consistency in UI, where he talks about the difficulties of developing a user interface and how the experience can be improved by using state machines and state charts. He talks about his inspiration for the talk and how he has implemented state machines and state charts into his work.
The panel backtracks and talks about the definition of state machines and state charts. A state machine, from an academic background, is a model for computing something. It's for ma…
Sep 10, 2019
RRU 078: The Uncanny Valley with Håkon Krogh
Episode Summary
Today’s guest is Håkon Krogh, and the panel is discussing his talk on lightning fast SSR React apps given at React Amsterdam. He gives a brief overview and defines his use of the Uncanny Valley (called the Valley of Lies in his talk). In this instance, the Uncanny Valley in programming occurs when everything in a website or application looks great, but none of the buttons work or users simply can’t connect. This is especially common when users try to connect to a site or app with their cell phone rather than a computer.
The panel discusses what can be done. It’s important to begin by measuring the lag in your applications. Designing the progressive loading experience first is suggested as a solution, as well as organizing what loads first and using React and HTML for different parts of the app. It’s important to realize that some tools don’t work in every situation. The panel talks about the merits of Next.js.
Next they talk about what kinds of applicati…
Sep 3, 2019
RRU 077: Reusing Code Responsibly with Andrey Okonetchnikov
Episode Summary
Andrey Okonetchnikov is a specialist in frontend architecture and design systems. He runs his own consultancy and made the package lint-staged. Andrey has been in programming for 20 years and talks about his background, how he got into React, and why he started component-driven.io. Andrey has always been interested in design tools and design systems, it just wasn’t the right time because the right tools weren’t available.
Since Andrey has been working in frameworks for 20 years and has watched them come and go, Lucas asks Andrey how he has seen the communication between developers and business owners evolve over that time. Andrey reflects on his first conference talk and believes that not much has changed, even if the tools have. His perfect interaction between developers and business owners would be codeless, and would instead draw his design on a napkin.
This idea ties into Andrey’s ideas of creating things in primitives instead of wireframes. He relates…
Aug 27, 2019
RRU 076: Ignite and the React Community with Jamon Holmgren
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With special guest: Jamon Holmgren Episode Summary
Today’s guest is Jamon Holmgren from Oregon. Jamon is the the CTO for Infinite Red, a consultancy that designs and builds mobile apps. The show starts with Jamon talking about his background in coding, which goes all the way back to when he was 12 years old. The panel brings up his React Finland presentation on building a community around Ignite. Ignite is a plugins and boilerplate maker for React that can speed up app creation. Jamon talks about how it works and how it came about. The panel believes this to be an excellent product that will contribute to code quality and doesn’t contribute to the jumble of boilerplates out there.
Since Infinite Red engineers work on both web and mobile applications, Ja…
Aug 20, 2019
RRU 075: Animations and React Morphe with Bruno Lorenco
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With special guest: Bruno Lourenco
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Bruno is a developer specializing in multimedia. He is currently building websites with React and the creator of React Morph, an animation library. Bruno talks about what React Morph is, how it originated, and the flip animation technique. React Morph is uniquely designed to be compatible with many platforms. Bruno talks about his goal to make everything simpler, from having animations on your website, to making things easier for users of the application.
The panel discusses the importance of animation and how it relates to user accessibility. They discuss how animation is interpreted in the brain to create meaning and purpose. On the other hand, it can be easy to go overboard with animation and can eve…
Aug 13, 2019
RRU 074: Learning React and TypeScript in Public with Shawn "swyx" Wang
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With special guest: Shawn Wang
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Today’s guest Shawn Wang is a career changer starts off the show about how he got from finance to programming. The panel talks about how they each got started in programming. Shawn explains his Learn In Public manifesto. They discuss the benefits of learning in public and how concepts like Cunninham’s Law and lampshading can be a good thing. Shawn talks about the differences between inbound and outbound marketing. The two biggest benefits of learning in public is that people will come to help you, it helps you to build capital, and it os the fastest way to learn. They discuss the balance between sharing too little and oversharing.
Leslie brings up some possible safety concerns, and the panel discusses ways to stay safe while learning in pu…
Aug 6, 2019
RRU 073: TypeScript and ReasonML Christoffer Niska
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With special guest: Christoffer Niska Episode Summary
Christoffer Niska has been in web development for over a decade and works with mainly PHP and JavaScript, but knows about 8 different languages, often working in multiple languages simultaneously. The panel discusses the affect learning another language has on how you write the code you’re working on. They talk about TypeScript and Christoffer shares how he got into it. They discuss the prevalence of TypeScript and some of the tools available for it, like Fable.io. TypeScript is a very beneficial language because it can help with refactoring and automation. Christoffer believes that it is better to write libraries in TypeScript. He shares how to release an NPM package with Typescript. They talk about more tools that work with TypeScript.
The panel talks about…
Jul 30, 2019
RRU 072: React Hooks for Global State and More Custom Hooks with Daishi Kato
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Thomas Aylott
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David Ceddia
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Lucas Reis
With special guest: Daishi Kato Episode Summary
Todays guest Daishi Kato is a freelance programmer and has many open source libraries. He starts off by talking about how he got from tail call optimization to Redux and global state. Daishi talks about his definition of global state, how it differs from a regular state, and why it is a problem with the current context implementation. Thomas talks about his work with Android and how React has helped solved some of the problems they encountered. They talk about when different rendering issues they’ve encountered. Daishi shares his unique approach to solving rendering issues and how it applies to his libraries. His solution is to combine the system in React with proxy based tracking to solve issues with rendering. Daishi exp…
Jul 23, 2019
RRU 071: The Importance of Moderation and Chaos
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Thomas Aylott Episode Summary
Today, Lucas and Thomas discuss how companies enforce what technology gets used, especially when companies get really large. Thomas talks about his experience with Facebook’s an ‘all carrots, no sticks’ approach, and says that if Facebook hadn’t given its employees the freedom to use whatever technology they needed, React would have never come about. Thomas talks about how he built his 2018 React Conference talk. He says that the hard part of being a programmer is not the technical aspect, it’s the social aspect and balancing the old and new. Lucas talks about his experience as a consultant, the path from analyst to manager, and how things change. Thomas brings up Facebook’s philosophy of “abstraction through extraction”. Thomas and Lucas agree that in the real world, it’s really difficult to have l…
Jul 16, 2019
RRU 070: Drawing the Line Between 3rd Party and Custom Code with Glenn Reyes
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Lucas Reis
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David Ceddia
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Leslie Cohn-Wein
With special guest: Glenn Reyes Episode Summary
Special guest Glenn is a software programmer based in Vienna, Austria and has been working in programming since 2013. He is the creator of the Graphpack library. Today the panel discusses how to choose between picking a 3rd party or handcraft component in React. They discuss the popular notion to avoid “reinventing the wheel” and always using 3rd party components. Glenn gives advice on approaching the decision between 3rd party components or making it yourself, including considering time constraints, risks of using premade components, and the popularity of the library and how up-to-date it is. It is also important to understand the big picture of your project and know what already exists that could be of use. The panel di…
Jul 9, 2019
RRU 069: The State Machines in React with David Khourshid
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David Ceddia
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Lucas Reis
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Thomas Aylott
With special guest: David Khourshid
Episode Summary
David Khourshid is the author of a library called Xstate, He has been a developer for 7 years, currently works for Microsoft, his passion is frontendTalks a. In college, he actually studied piano performance, and so he talks about how he got into programming and where he started. The panel discusses his unique husky animation and how he came up with the idea for it and went about programming it.
The panel discusses what a state is in React. David defines a state as a moment in time. States can change, when they do, that’s a state transition. They talk about the utility of states and thinking about your app as a state machine. They agree that describing your code as a state machine makes it easier to communicate and c…
Jul 2, 2019
RRU 068: Design Systems with Varya Stepanova
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Leslie Cohn-Wein
With special guest: Varya Stepanova Episode Summary
Today’s guest is Varya Stepanova, who started her career in programming as a front end developer in Russia for Yandex. Now she is an independent consultant specializing in design systems. For Varya, a design system is a systematic approach to providing coherent products under the same brand. The necessity of a design system for a company is dependent upon how large it is and how quickly it is developing. Varya talks about how a component library turns into a design system and shares some of her experience. She talks about how the concepts in a design system are influenced and created by the existing interface.
The panel discusses the importance of design system ownership. They all agree that the design system should be…
Jun 25, 2019
RRU 067: CSS, CSS-in-JS, and Future of the Frontend
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Lucas Reis
Summary
The panel shares their first experiences with CSS and compares CSS and CSS-in-JS. The best ways to learn CSS is considered. The panel shares some coding tips; considering when to use libraries and when to use homegrown solutions. Nader Dabbit shares his predictions for the future of frontend technology. The panel discusses these predictions and shares some of their own.
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https://www.facebook.com/React-Round-Up
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Nader Dabbit:
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21 Lessons for the 21st Century
Dave Ceddia:
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CSS Mastery: Advanced Web Standards Solutions
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https://conference.convertkit.com/
Lucas Reis:
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https://workflowy.com/
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https://www.futureme.org/
Jun 18, 2019
RRU 066: Accessibility is not a “React Problem” with Leslie Cohn-Wein
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* Dave Ceddia
* Thomas Aylott
Joined by Special Guest: Leslie Cohn-Wein Summary
Leslie Cohn-Wein joins the panel to discuss accessibility. She explains how she got passionate about accessibility. The panel discusses what you have to do to become accessible. Leslie brings up divs and explains how these get in the way of accessibility. The panel discusses roles; Leslie explains what roles does and how to use roles. Accessible testing is discussed and Leslie shares some resources for testing your sites for accessibility. The panel discusses ways to make sites more accessible and how doing something is better than doing nothing. Leslie advises having an accessibility champion on your team whose job it is to think about how to make sites and apps for accessible. The panel discusses the importance of accessibility and ho…
Jun 11, 2019
RRU 065: useEffect The Good, the Bad, and the Gotchas
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* Lucas Reis
* David Ceddia
* Thomas Aylott
* Justin Bennett Summary
The panel starts by discussing if useEffect is a good API or a bad API. The problems that useEffect solves are considered. The panel agrees it is a much better abstraction where subscriptions are concerned. Suspense and data fetching is discussed, the panel considers what the react team has in store concerning data fetching. The panel discusses what it was like to be a beginner to React and how using React is not an intuitive language. The panel shares some of their mistakes with useEffect, and try to consider useEffect from a beginners perspective. The panel gives advice for using hooks. Links
* https://twitter.com/ryanflorence/status/1125041041063665666 Picks
Lucas Reis:
* https://github.com/kkuchta/css-only-chat
David Ceddia:
*…
Jun 4, 2019
RRU 064: Optimizing for Performance in React with Aggelos Arvanitakis
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* Netlify
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* CacheFly Panel
* Nader DAbit
* Justin Bennett
* David Ceddia
Joined by Special Guest: Aggelos Arvanitakis Summary
Aggelos Arvanitakis shares things he has learned from his mistakes in his blog posts. The panel discusses the most common problems in react that causes poor performance. Aggelos gives a lot of advice on how to fix or avoid these problems and how to optimize performance. The panel discusses using CSS to optimize performance. The new React API’s are discussed and their effect on performance. Vue state and vue reducer are compared and Aggelos gives tips for maintain state. The episode ends with Aggelos sharing techniques for using redux. Links
* https://www.orfium.com/
* https://itnext.io/@aggelosarvanitakis Picks
Nader Dabit:
* https://twitter.com/Eli_White
* https://devchat.tv/react-native-radio/react-na…
May 28, 2019
RRU 063: Fullstack Development with React
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Nader Dabit
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Lucas Reis
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David Ceddia
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Thomas Aylott
Episode Summary
On today’s show the panel discusses what what jobs should be delegated to the front and backend when doing fullstack development with React. They talk about where the data fetching starts coming into play in a react app and the big changes from the old web to the modern web in data fetching. They discuss how much interaction with the backend there is when working with front end applications, but also the importance of properly separating backend and frontend teams.
They discuss the pros and cons of separating the front and backend teams, and agree that the problem space between both back and frontend is the user interface. They talk about where middlewares fit in. The panel notes that it is important to ensure that your new app can still…
May 21, 2019
RRU 062: Image Lazy Loading in React
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* Justin Bennett
* Thomas Aylott
* Dave Ceddia Notes
Today’s show has the panel discussing image lazy loading in React. Image lazy loading is the notion that images that are below the fold (rendered outside of your browser view when you initially load a page) are deferred and loaded later, so that your page loads faster. As you scroll down the page and things get close, then they are loaded in. This is a commonly suggested performance optimization, but often it doesn’t work well in React. The panelists talk about their experiences with lazy loading and different methods they’ve seen on other sites.
They discuss the tradeoff between having a lot of images and slower loading and the importance of communicating with the design team. Since lazy loading is a unique challenge in React, they give recommendations for implementing lazy loading and tools for tracking site usage. T…
May 14, 2019
RRU 061: Should Companies Have a Dedicated Frontend Team?
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Lucas Reis
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Thomas Aylott
Episode Summary
Today the panel is discussing the necessity of companies having a dedicated frontend team. They begin by discussing the technologies that might be used by a dedicated frontend team. According to the panel, the necessity of a frontend team is determined by the size of the company. When you try to have a frontend team too soon, it ends up being a huge debacle, but once you get bigger and have multiple teams, it gets more useful. A company is ready for a dedicated frontend team when it is able to build with a common set of components.
The panel discusses the concept of ownership in a company. Nader believes that things should be run where there is a team that’s in charge of building a component, and once the component has shipped, they are no…
May 7, 2019
RRU 060: Linked lists in the Wild: React Hooks with Conlin Durbin
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* Nader Dabit
* Justin Bennett
* Lucas Reis
* Dave Ceddia
* Charles Max Wood
Joined by Special Guests: Thomas Aylott, Conlin Durbin
Episode Summary
Conlin Durbin is a front end software engineer for a company called Lessonly and occasionally writes about React. Thomas Aylott is a web guy from the 90’s who was briefly on the React team, and he makes thingsthatdostuff.com and groovytiesquad.com. The panel discusses Conlin’s article Link Lists in the Wild: React Hooks. They begin by talking about the relationship between linked lists and React hooks. Linked lists are used under the hood to render hooks every time that they’re created and maintain integrity of the hook chain.
They discuss the importance of knowing what goes on under the hood share their methods of learning. They give tips for le…
Apr 30, 2019
RRU 059: React Native's New Architecture with Parashuram
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* CacheFly Panel
* Justin Bennett
* Lucas Reis
Joined by Special Guest: Parashuram Summary
Parashuram (aka Ram) and the panel compares various frameworks including the differences between React Native and NativeScript. Ram discusses what it’s like introducing react native to mobile teams which leads to a panel discussion of web app developer experience compared to mobile app developers. Ram shares the changes that are being made to React Native and what this means for its developers. Some of the things to look forward to are a leaner and more browser-like React Native. The episode ends with Ram sharing a little of his story. Links
* http://artsy.github.io/blog/2017/07/06/React-Native-for-iOS-devs/
* http://artsy.github.io/artsy-x-react-native.html
* https://github.com/necolas/react-native-web
* https://github.com/vince…
Apr 23, 2019
RRU 058: React.js and WebAssembly to Rewrite Native Apps with Florian Rival
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Lucas Reis
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Charles Max Wood
Special Guest: Florian Rival
Episode Summary
Florian is a software engineer working for Facebook. He has previously worked with React Native making apps. He has also created an open source game creation software called GDevelop. Florian talks about his inspiration for GDevelop. He delves into the nature of GDevelop as a desktop app built on the web. Florian talks about his decision to not go full JavaScript in his app and to redo the interface. He ultimately decided to combine C++ and JavaScript, and top it with a React interface.
Florian discusses how C++ is used in this web application and how it connects to react. The panel discusses the use cases for WebAssembly and the performance quality. They discuss the bundle sizes in WebAssembly compared to other languages and compatibility with different browsers.
Florian talks about how WebAssembl…
Apr 16, 2019
RRU 057: Playing with Polyhedra with Nat Alison
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Lucas Reis
Joined by Special Guest: Nat Alison
Summary
Nat Alison shares with the panel her work in translating Reactjs. Lucas Reis thanks her for her work in this very important project. Nat updates the panel on how the translation is going and discusses some of the specifics of updating, changing language direction and how it all got started. The panel moves on to discussing Nat’s work with her Polyhedra application. Nat discloses what she learned while creating this app, how she tested the app and why she used the react framework for this project. The panel discusses suspense features and what they could do for this app. Nat ends the episode by sharing her inspiration for this app.
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https://github.com/reactjs/reactjs.org-translation
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https://reactjs.org/languages
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https://isreacttranslat…
Apr 9, 2019
RRU 056: React Conf 2018 with Adam Laycock
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* CacheFly Panel
* Charles Max Wood
* Nader Dabit
* Justin Bennett
Joined by Special Guest: Adam Laycock Summary
Adam Laycock describes his experience at React conf 2018, the atmosphere, the people and the talks. The panel shares how the approach conferences, taking notes, getting to know people, accessing information and getting out of their comfort zone. Adam shares some of the major topics covered at including, hooks, suspense, and concurrent rendering. The panel considers these topics and React conferences they look forward to attending. The episode ends with the panel comparing Angular and React, conferences, upgrades, and routers for React. Links
* https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/build
* https://medium.com/curated-by-versett/talks-worth-watching-react-conf-2018-bfbdd40922aa
* https://reactjs.org/community/conferences.html
* https://twitter.…
Apr 2, 2019
RRU 055: Building Static Sites with Gatsby with Ajay NS
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* Lucas Reis
* Justin Bennett
* Charles Max Wood
Special Guest: Ajay NS Episode Summary
In this episode of React Round Up, the panel talks with Ajay NS, a Computer Engineering student at National Institute of Technology Surat who is passionate about frontend development and design. Ajay talks about his article Why you should use GatsbyJS to build static sites on Medium and why he felt the need to write it. After attending the Plone Conference in Tokyo where he gave a talk about GatsbyJS, he realized that compared to React or Angular, Gatsby helped new developers learn about frontend development without facing too many complications. Ajay explains that he decided to write the article and share his experiences with Gatsby to help ease the learning process for new developers who are curious about frontend development. They discuss best cases to use Gatsby fo…
Mar 26, 2019
RRU 054: GraphQL and React – Even Better together with Chris Toomey
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* Lucas Reis
* Justin Bennett
* Charles Max Wood
Joined by special guests: Chris Toomey Episode Summary
In this episode of React Round Up, Chris Toomey introduces himself, talks about his work and his podcast and moves on to explaining the differences between a React vs GraphQL centric application. Justin explains in detail how the Relay framework works, and Chris describes the scenarios where GraphQL stands out in the process of building an application and also throws some light on the benefits of choosing it over other APIs such as REST.
The panel then discusses how GraphQL is advantageous in the documentation context since it has a good schema, and also in data modeling. Chris shares some past examples of creating React applications where GraphQL and Apollo made things much simpler, and also elaborates on the trade-offs and challenges associated with it. Links
* The Bike S…
Mar 19, 2019
RRU 053: Framer X and Web Development of the Past with Thomas Aylott
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* Lucas Reis
* Nader Dabit
* Charles Max Wood
Joined by special guest: Thomas Aylott Episode Summary
In this episode of React Round Up, Thomas Aylott, Founder at Things That Do Stuff, gives an overview of Framer X, explains what it is used for and how it can be beneficial for web designers. The panelists then discuss the timeline and usage of different design and developer tools along with their compatibility with various platforms. Thomas shares his front-end development experiences from 2005, the kind of technologies he learnt and how, with interesting and fun anecdotes, and also talks about about his time at Facebook.
They discuss the fact that how Ruby on Rails has brought about a significant change in web development, work-life balance in general, and in the end, the importance of making checklists and taking ownership. Links
* Things That Do Stuff
* Thomas’s website…
Mar 12, 2019
RRU 052: React Suspense with Jared Palmer
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Joined by special guest: Jared Palmer Episode Summary
In this episode of React Round Up, Jared Palmer, Lead Engineer at Palmer Group, gives the listeners an overview of React Suspense, how it helps to resolve conflicts with resource scheduling and how it differs from current practices. He mentions that it is developed completely by the React team and talks about some of its applications, especially in handling images. He explains how React Suspense will reduce code size for loading states, the mechanism of parallel execution and how complexity in logic can be simplified with it. Jared also mentions some modules where Suspense can already be integrated with and advises on where it is not recommended to be used yet. The panelists then discuss server-side rendering with Suspense and their approach in technology adoption, which is incremental. Finally…
Mar 5, 2019
RRU 051: FaunaDB & JAMStack with Chris Anderson
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In this episode of React Round Up, Justin Bennett speaks with co-founder of Couchbase, Chris Anderson. Chris has been working with NoSQL databases for approximately a decade, and is currently working on FaunaDB, doing development outreach, while writing codes to connect with the different eco systems: Serverless, JAMStacks and React Native. He is also a blogger on a platform he calls ‘Serverless’ and enjoys decoding web applications and converting them to mobile.
Chris elaborates on the particulars and functions of JAMstacks, FaunaDB, React Native, Expo, Firebase and Netlify along with their databases. He tells of his journey with FaunaDB and explains what led to its introduction. He also gives a detailed explanation on Serverless functions, Multi-cloud deployment and extends advice to apprentices in the similar field. Links
* https://ser…
Feb 26, 2019
RRU 050: Celebrating the 50th Episode of React Round Up!
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* Sentry use the code “devchat” for $100 credit
* Netlify
* Triplebyte
* CacheFly Panel
* Lucas Reis
* Justin Bennett
* Nader Dabit
* Charles Max Wood Episode Summary
In this 50th episode of React Round Up, the panelists start with talking briefly about themselves, their work, as well as their side projects. Lucas Reis is a Senior Frontend Engineer at Zocdoc, and is working on the Zocdoc website, specifically on performance and SEO. He is also involved in sharing frontend knowledge throughout the company. Justin Bennett is a Senior Engineer at Artsy and focuses on web performance along with several open source projects. He is also interested in release processes and continuous integration. Nader Dabit is with Amazon Web Services as a Developer Advocate, working on GraphQL, React to React Native, Vue and is involved in community work too. Charles Max Wood is mainly focused on making this podcast better that includes things like getting sponsors, dealing…
Feb 19, 2019
RRU 049: Azure Devops with Donovan Brown LIVE at Microsoft Ignite
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* TripleByte
Panel:
Charles Max Woods
Special Guests: Donovan Brown
In this episode, the Charles speaks with Donovan Brown. He is a principal DevOps Manager with Microsoft with a background in application development. He also runs one of the nation’s fastest growing online registration sites for motorsports events DLBRACING.com. When he is not writing software, he races cars for fun. Listen to today’s episode where Chuck and Donovan talk about DevOps, Azure, Python, Angular, React, Vue, and much, much more! Links:
* Donovan Brown’s GitHub
* Donovan Brown’s Twitter
* Donovan Brown
* Donovan Brown – Channel 9
* Donovan Brown – Microsoft
* Azure
* YoTeam
* Azure.com/devops
* GitHub
* Azure DevOps’ Twitter Picks:
Charles
* Jet Blue
* Beta Testers
Donovan
* YoTeam
* VSTeam Powershell Module
Feb 12, 2019
RRU 048: Using and Teaching React with Kay Plößer
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* Netlify
* Sentry use the code "devchat" for $100 credit
* CacheFly Panel
* Lucas Reis
* Nader Dabit
* Charles Max Wood
Special Guest: Kay Plößer Episode Summary
In this episode of React Round Up, the panel talks with Kay Plößer, describing their experiences learning React. Kay is a software developer from Stuttgart, Germany and the author of the book React from Zero. They discuss the best approach to learning React from scratch. Kay describes the process of writing and producing his book 'React from Zero'. Initially he started with tutorials and lessons and then turned those into a book. It is constructed in two sections: basic and advanced and it's purpose is to help developers learn React without being overwhelmed. He has received great feedback from the people who have bought the book.
Kay then describes his experiences teaching React to developers and talks about his blog post React Hooks Demystified which became really popular. The panel then abo…
Feb 11, 2019
RR 399: Jets Ruby Serverless Framework with Tung Nguyen
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Feb 5, 2019
RRU 047: Expo with Charlie Cheever
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* KendoUI
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* TripleByte $1000 signing bonus
* Cachefly
Panel:
* Nader Dabit
* Justin Bennett
* Charles Max Wood
Special Guest: Charlie Cheever
Notes:
This episode of React Round Up has the panelists talking to Charlie Cheever, a former Facebook employee, who currently works on Expo. The panel discusses Charlies article called “Should we be using React Native?”, Airbnb sunsetting their React Native app, and the nature of the Expo app. Charlie describes Expo as the easiest way to do React Native using just JavaScript, and making it as easy and powerful as possible. Expo works kind of like a web browser for JavaScript, and is available on iOS, Android, and and Google app stores. Expo CLI has replaced Create React Native CLI because Expo is more user friendly. Many features are already included in Expo, including OTA updates, dealing with fonts, video player, Facebook ad and Google ads, barcode scanner…
Jan 29, 2019
RRU 046: GraphQL vs REST APIs with Max Desiatov
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* KendoUI
* Sentry use the code “devchat” for $100 credit
* TripleByte
* Cachefly Panel
* Lucas Reis
* Justin Bennett
* Charles Max Wood
Joined by Special Guest: Max Desiatov Summary
Max Desiatov shares his experience transitioning from REST to GraphQL. The panel discusses Max’s migration strategy and other strategies. REST and GraphQL are compared, the problems with both are discussed. The panel shares their favorite things about GraphQL including workflow and data modeling. The solutions for GraphQL problems are discussed and the things the panel would like to see are mentioned. Max Desiatov and Justin Bennett share the different tools they use including Apollo and Graphiql. Charles Max Wood steers the conversation to the adoption of GraphQL by companies. Links
* https://sailsjs.com/
* https://graphql.org
* https://spring.io/understanding/HATEOAS
* https://www.graphile.org/postgraphile/
* https://www.apollographql.com/docs/react/
* https…
Jan 23, 2019
RRU 045: React Hooks with Dave Ceddia
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* KendoUI
* Sentry use the code “devchat” for $100 credit
* TripleByte
* Cachefly Panel
* Charles Max Wood
* Lucas Reis
* Justin Bennett
Joined by Special Guest: Dave Ceddia Summary
Dave Ceddia introduces hooks and what they let you do. The panel discusses how hooks work and how they will clean up the code. Dave explains what react does behind the scenes when hooks are being used. Hooks are simple to use but hard to explain, so the panel asks Dave how he would teach hooks. Dave explains there is a learning hump and shares what trips most developers up.
The panel considers the switch from life cycles to effect and the mindset shift it requires. The difficulties of hooks are explored, such as there are now three ways to share functionality in react components. Dave shares the advantages of using array destructing instead of object destructing. The panel considers how hooks change the react framework and whether it is worth going back and refactoring eve…
Jan 15, 2019
RRU 044: TypeScript with Spencer Miskoviak
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* KendoUI
* Sentry use the code “devchat” for $100 credit
* TripleByte
* CacheFly Panel
* Charles Max Wood
* Nader Dabit
* JC Hiatt
Joined by Special Guest: Spencer Miskoviak Summary
In this episode, Spencer Miskoviak shares his experience and answers questions about using typescript in React. Spencer starts by answering why react developers tend to use es6 and what the tradeoff is using typescript instead. The panel contemplates the advantages and disadvantages of using typescript and its gaining momentum in the React community. Spencer discusses how they are using typescript at Handshake and how it has paid off. Create react app and its support of typescript is discussed. The episode ends with Spencer answering questions about using dot notation with typescript and how it works. Links
* https://webpack.js.org/
* https://parceljs.org/
* https://medium.com/@skovy/using-component-dot-notation-with-typescript-to-create-a-set-of-components-b0b2aad489…
Dec 25, 2018
RRU 043: Testing React Apps Without Testing Implementation Details with Kent C. Dodds
Panel:
* Lucas Reis
* Justin Bennett
* Charles Max Wood
Special Guest: Kent C. Dodds
In this episode, the panelist talk with today’s guest, Kent C. Dodds who works for PayPal, is an instructor, and works through open source! Kent lives in Utah with his wife and four children. Kent and the panel talk today about testing – check it out!
Show Topics:
0:00 – Kendo UI
0:32 – Chuck: Hello! My new show is TheDevRev – please go check it out!
1:35 – Panel: I want all of it!
1:43 – Chuck: Our guest is Kent C. Dodds! You were on the show for a while and then you got busy.
2:06 – Guest.
3:09 – Panel: The kid part is impressive.
3:20 – Guest: Yeah it’s awesome, but the kid part is my wife!
4:09 – Panel: 10 years ago we weren’t having any tests and then now we are thinking about how to write better tests. It’s the next step on that subject. What is your story with tests and what sparked these ideas?
4:50 – Guest.
7:25 – Panel: We have a bunch o…
Dec 18, 2018
RRU 042: React at Product Hunt with Radoslav Stankov
Panel:
* Lucas Reis
* Nader Dabit
Special Guest: Radoslav Stankov
In this episode, the panelists talk with today’s guest, Radoslav Stankov, who is a senior developer at Product Hunt. The panel and the guest talk about React, jQuery, Backbone, and much more! Check it out!
Show Topics:
0:00 – Kendo UI
0:31 – Nader: Hello! Our guest today is Radoslav.
4:02 – Nader: What is your role and what are your main responsibilities?
4:10 – Guest answers.
4:39 – Panel: Can you tell us the story of how you started to use React?
4:55 – Guest: We started 4 years ago.
The guest answers the question and mentions jQuery and Backbone.
9:01 – Panel: That’s nice – so you are trying to use a simpler application but the React server still need to be separated right?
9:14 – Guest: Yes, we tried to keep it as simple as possible.
10:38 – Panel: How was the adoption of React and how painful was it? You mentioned that you were used Flux and others, so was it messy and compl…
Dec 11, 2018
RRU 041: Design Patterns with Soumyajit Pathak
Panel:
* Lucas Reis
* Charles Max Wood
* Justin Bennett
Special Guest: Soumyajit Pathak
In this episode, the panelists talk with Soumyajit Pathak (India) who is a full-stack developer and cybersecurity enthusiast. The panel and the guest talk about design patterns and designing simpler code for clarity and less confusion. Check out today’s episode!
Show Topics:
0:00 – Kendo UI
0:31 – Chuck: Our panelists are and our guest is Soumyajit! Introduce yourself please! Are you doing React on the side?
1:02 – Guest: I am a master’s student and I am doing freelancing.
1:42 – Panel.
1:49 – Guest.
2:10 – Chuck: I am feeling very up-to-date. Woo! Universities are teaching this and that and they are focused on theory. The flipside is that they are going to write real code for real systems.
3:10 – Panel: I like your well-written blog posts. You talk about design patterns.
3:50 – Guest: The design patterns at the university had to do with real JavaScript applicat…
Dec 4, 2018
RRU 040: Mastermind Groups and Staying Current with Sean Merron
Panel:
* Charles Max Wood
* Aaron Frost
* Shai Reznik
* Divya Sasidharan
* Joe Eames
* Lucas Reis
Special Guest: Sean Merron
In this episode, The panelist of React Round-Up, View on Vue, Adventures in Angular, Ruby Rogues, and JavaScript Jabber speak with Sean Merron about Mastermind Groups of Startups and much more. Sean is the founder of today's topic and product “Mastermind Hunt.” This product is design to skillfully find a mastermind to take your business and skills to the next level.
Show Topics:
0:00 – Advertisement: AngularBootCamp.Com
3:00 – Webinar announcement January 3rd, 2p EST.
4:10 - Sean talks about the importance of a Mastermind and his evolvement in mastermind groups. Sean breakdowns what exactly what a mastermind is about.
6:10 - Charles ask the panelist if they have engaged in Masterminds. Shai talks about his experience and seeing one-sidedness in Masterminds. Sean talks about how to avoid this issue and staying on track. Sean shares…
Nov 27, 2018
RRU 039: Lambda School with Ben Nelson
Panel:
* Nader Dabit
* Lucas Reis
* Charles Max Wood
Special Guests: Ben Nelson
In this episode, the panelists talk with Ben Nelson who is a co-founder and CTO of Lambda School. The panelists and Ben talk about Lambda School, the pros & cons of the 4-year university program for developers, and much more. Check it out!
Show Topics:
0:00 – Kendo UI
0:33 – Chuck: We have Nader, Lucas, and myself – our special gust is Ben Nelson!
0:50 – Guest: Hi!
0:54 – Chuck: Please introduce yourself.
0:58 – Guest: I love to ski and was a developer in the Utah area.
1:12 – Chuck: Let’s talk about Lambda School, but I think explaining what the school is and how you operate will help. Give us an elevator pitch for the school.
1:36 – Guest: The school is 30-weeks long and we go deep into computer fundamentals. They get exposed to multiple stacks. Since it’s 30-weeks to run we help with the finances by they start paying once they get employed. It’s online and students…
Nov 20, 2018
RRU 038: Azure Pipelines with Ed Thomson LIVE at Microsoft Ignite
Panel:
Charles Max Wood
Special Guests: Ed Thomson
In this episode, the React Round Up Charles speaks with Ed Thomson who is a Program Manager at Azure through Microsoft, Developer, and Open Source Maintainer. Ed and Chuck discuss in full detail about Azure DevOps! Check out today’s episode to hear its new features and other exciting news!
Show Topics:
0:59 – Live at Microsoft Ignite
1:03 – Ed: Hi! I am a Program Manager at Azure.
1:28 – Rewind 2 episodes to hear more about Azure DevOps!
1:51 – Ed: One of the moves from Pipelines to DevOps – they could still adopt Pipelines. Now that they are separate services – it’s great.
2:38 – Chuck talks about features he does and doesn’t use.
2:54 – Ed.
3:00 – Chuck: Repos and Pipelines. I am going to dive right in. Let’s talk about Repos. Microsoft just acquired GitHub.
3:18 – Ed: Technically we have not officially acquired GitHub.
3:34 – Chuck: It’s not done. It’s the end of September now.
3:55…
Nov 13, 2018
RRU 037: Make Backend Devs Jealous of Your Test Suite with Carly Litchfield
Panel:
* Nader Dabit
* Lucas Reis
* Justin Bennett
Special Guests: Carly Litchfield
In this episode, the panelists talk with Carly Litchfield who is a Full-stack engineer of React and React Native. The panel and Carly talk about frontend and backend developing and the issues that teams could face day-in and day-out. Listen to today’s episode to hear about that and much more!
Show Topics:
0:00 – Kendo UI
0:30 – Nader: Welcome! Our panel is Justin, Lucas, myself, and our guest is Carly. Welcome to the show! Thanks for joining us. Introduce yourself please.
0:56 – Carly: I am a fullstack engineer at a company called Zocdoc. I have been there for 4 years, and we use C# framework.
1:17 – Nader: C# interesting!
1:26 – Nader: You can do game development and other stuff.
1:33- Carly: I haven’t gotten into game development at all, just using C# for web development.
1:50 – Nader.
1:55 – Carly.
2:08 – Nader: The topic for today is: being a frontend developer…
Nov 6, 2018
RRU 036: Signal R with Brady Gaster LIVE at Microsoft Ignite
Panel:
Charles Max Wood
Special Guest: Brady Gaster
In this episode, Chuck talks with Brady Gaster about SignalR that is offered through Microsoft. Brady Gaster is a computer software engineer at Microsoft and past employers include Logical Advantage, and Market America, Inc. Check out today’s episode where the two dive deep into SignalR topics.
Show Topics:
0:00 – Advertisement: AngularBootCamp.Com
0:56 – Chuck: Hello! We are going to talk about SignalR, which is an offering through Microsoft.
1:09 – Guest: It started in 2011 that’s when I got involved, but I wasn’t with Microsoft, yet, at that point. I was working on the technology, though.
Effectively you can do real time HTMP but what they did (Damon and David) let’s create a series of abstractions but not we have for Java. They basically cam up this idea let’s do web sockets and then go back to pole / pole / pole. It’s to see what the server and the client can support.
Guest talks about Socket.io, too.…
Oct 30, 2018
RRU 035: Optimizing React Virtual DOM Explained Article with Alexey Ivanov and Andy Barnov
Panel:
* Lucas Reis
* Justin Bennett
Special Guests: Alexey Ivanov and Andy Barnov
In this episode, the panelists talk with Alexey Ivanov and Andy Barnov. They all discuss Alexey’s article titled: “Optimizing React Virtual DOM.” Listen to today’s episode to hear all the details about this article, the guests’ backgrounds and much, much more!
Show Topics:
0:32 – Panel: Thanks for joining us and talking about this article.
0:52 – Guest: Thanks for having us on your podcast!
The guest talks about his community of developers and the offices are in San Francisco, Russia and other places. He talks about how the company helps their customers and how they can scale. Some of their companies are Groupon and Ebay.
2:39 – Alexey.
3:09 – Panel: The article is here.
What is JSX how does it boil down to? It’s all supposed to help people and help them understand.
3:45 – Alexey: It’s about how to structure your state, etc.
4:15 – Panel: This keeps things small.…
Oct 23, 2018
RRU 034: “Progressive Web Apps” with Aaron Gustafson / Live at Microsoft Ignite
Panel:
* Charles Max Wood (DevChat T.V.)
Special Guests: Aaron Gustafson
In this episode, the Chuck talks with Aaron Gustafson who is a web standards and accessibility advocate working at Microsoft. Aaron and Chuck talk about PWAs and the ins and outs of these progressive web apps. Check out today’s episode to hear more!
Show Topics:
0:36 – Chuck: Our guest is Aaron, say HI!
0:41 – Aaron: Hi! I have been working on the web for 20 plus years. I am working on the Edge team for accessibility among other things. I have done every job that you can do on the web.
1:08 – Chuck: That is one of OUR publications?
1:14 – Aaron: No the communities. I joined the staff as editor in chief for 1.5 year now. It’s a nice side project to do.
1:36 – Chuck: I thought it was a commercial thing.
1:40 – Aaron: No it’s volunteer.
1:52 – Chuck: Talk about your web background?
2:02 – Aaron: I remember the first book I got (title mentioned). My first job on the web (cash) I was…
Oct 16, 2018
RRU 033: "Finding Your Dream Job" with Panelists
Panel:
* Charles Max Wood (DevChat T.V.)
* Nader Dabit
* Justin Bennett
* Lucas Reis
In this episode, the panel talks amongst themselves about: What is THE dream job? How do you define YOUR dream job? And how do you GET your dream job? Check out today’s episode to find out more!
Show Topics:
1:02 – What does a dream job even mean?
1:08 – Nader: It means that you wake-up and you are excited to go to work instead of dreading it.
1:34 – Lucas: Dream jobs I think change depending on your life’s moments. It changes from person-to-person and from time-to-time. After some months there you are feeling like you are always growing as a person and as a professional.
2:24 – Chuck.
2:38 – Justin: My idea is that it has some impact on the people in your world. What is my impact on the world – what is my footprint – what am I doing? My last job was advertisement, and my job was to drive eyeballs to ads. That wasn’t what I wanted to do anymore.
3:49 – Charles: Wh…
Oct 9, 2018
RRU 032: "The most important lessons I've learned after a year of working with React" with Tomas Eglinskas
Panel:
* Charles Max Wood (DevChat T.V.)
* Nader Dabit (Poland)
Special Guests: Tomas Eglinskas
In this episode, the panel talks with guest speaker, Tomas Eglinskas, and the panel talks to him about an article he wrote via Free Code Camp Medium. Currently, Tomas is a software developer at Zenitech. The panel and the guest dive-into lessons that not only apply to being a developer, but great life lessons that everyone can learn from. Check-out today’s episode!
Show Topics:
1:18 – Chuck: Our special guest is Tomas Eglinskas. We want to talk to you about your article you wrote on the Free Code Camp Medium. How do you get something posted/published there?
1:29 – Tomas – It’s not that hard to get something published there. You can send your articles via email and they will publish it. You can get feedback and resend it, and perhaps they will publish it.
2:06 – Chuck: Quincy and you are besties, right?
2:11 – Chuck: We should get Quincy on this show.
2:21 – Chuck…
Oct 2, 2018
RRU 031: "Real-time Editable Datagrid In React" with Peter Mbanugo
Panel:
* Charles Max Wood
* Lucas Reis
* Justin Bennett
Special Guests: Peter Mbanugo
In this episode, the panel talks with guest speaker, Peter Mbanugo. Peter is a computer software specialist who works with Field Intelligence and writes technical articles for Progress Software and a few others. He studied at SMC University and currently resides in Nigeria. They talk about his creation, Hamoni Sync, and article, Real-time editable data grid in React. Also, other topics such as Offline-First, Speed Curve, Kendo UI are talked about, too. Check out today’s episode
Show Topics:
1:30 – Chuck: Let’s talk about what you built and how it works. Topic: Real-time editable data grid in React.
1:40 – Peter: Real time editing. It allows you to edit and have the data go across the different devices. Synchronizing your applications. For the
2:47 – I saw that you built also the...
2:58 – Peter: Yes, I built that with Real-time.
Most of the time I have to figure out ho…
Sep 25, 2018
RRU 030: "React State Museum" with Gant Laborde
Panel:
* Charles Max Wood
* Lucas Reis
* Justin Bennett (guest host)
Special Guests: Gant Laborde
In this episode, the panel talks with Gant who has been programming for twenty years. In the past, he has been an adjunct professor and loves to teach. Finally, he talks at conferences and enjoys sharing his ideas. The panel talks about the React State Museum, among many other topics, such as: React Native, Flux, Redux, Agile, and XState.
Show Topics:
1:24 – Chuck: What do you do?
2:02 – Chuck and Gant: We met at React Rally at 2016.
2:17 – Gant: I have my own sticker branding with a friend in Japan who is genius. She draws all these characters. They are my business card now.
2:41 – Chuck: React State Museum- talk about its brief history and what it is?
2:54 – Gant: React is this beautiful thing of passing these functional capsules around and managing them. Once you start creating another component, the question is how do you actually manage all of these components…
Sep 18, 2018
RRU 029: Christopher Buecheler: "Getting Ready To Teach? Lessons learned from building an 84-tutorial software course"
Panel:
* Charles Max Wood
* Lucas Reis (NY)
* Nader Dabit
Special Guests: Christopher Buecheler
In this episode, the panel talks with Christopher Buecheler who is a web developer and moved into JavaScript in 2000. Christopher runs his own business, and records and edits videos among many other responsibilities. He also has a lot of hobbies, and guitars are one of them. Check out today’s episode where the panel and Christopher talk about how to form a tutorial course from start to finish.
Show Topics:
2:38 – Chuck: I always am fascinated by how there are a lot of programmers who are musicians.
3:00 – Panelist: Yes, I agree. Coding takes creativity. People who are programmers are surprisingly into different arts where it asks for the person’s creativity.
3:17 – Panelist: Video games, music, cocktails, etc.
4:05 – Guest: Yes, for a while I liked to make beer. My current kitchen doesn’t allow for it now, though.
4:25 – Chuck: So your 84/86 tutorial course...…
Sep 11, 2018
RRU 028: “Microstates.js – Composable State Primitive” with Taras Mankovski & Charles Lowell
Panel:
* Charles (Chuck) Max Wood
* Lucas Reis
Special Guests: Charles Lowell & Taras Mankovski
In this episode, the panel talks with two special guests Charles and Taras. Charles Lowell is a principle engineer at Frontside, and he loves to code. Taras works with Charles and joined Frontside, because of Charles’ love for coding. There are great personalities at Frontside, which are quite diverse. Check out this episode to hear about microstates, microstates with react, OM, Redux, and much more!
Show Topics:
2:32 – Chuck: Why do we need it (microstates) and why do we need another state library?
2:42 – Charles answers Chuck’s question. Charles goes to explain that if you need to increment the number, you don’t need to do it with microstates.
3:41 – Another suggestion is given on this topic.
5:13 – The application isn’t hard in-of-itself.
6:45 – Chuck makes comments, and asks: It seems to be more like object-oriented approach?
7:44 – Objects compose much…
Sep 4, 2018
RRU 027: "Why I Prefer Functional Components" with Josh St. Jacque
Panel:
* Charles Max Wood
* Nader Dabit
Special Guests: Josh Saint Jacque
In this episode, the panel talks with Josh St. Jacque who is married with two kids and with one on the way. He is a professional product manager and software engineer. Ruby on Rails got him started on his career path and journey. Check-out today’s episode where the panel discusses functional and class components, among many other things!
Show Topics:
2:12 – Let’s have a conversation about functional components.
3:20 – Chuck to Nader: “What is your preference between class and functional components?”
4:18 – Nader to Josh: “What is your take on pure components”
5:20 – Who makes these architectural decisions at T-Mobile?
5:46 – Josh: It really depends on the team and the project depending on how they want to proceed. Josh mentions Angular among other things.
7:38 – Chuck to Josh: It seems that through your post you are trying to make code easier?
8:01 – Josh’s background…
Aug 28, 2018
RRU 026: Building React Applications in a Monorepo with Luis Vieira
Panel:
* Charles Max Wood
* Nader Dabit
* Lucas Reis
Special Guests: Luis Vieira
In this episode, the React Round Up panelists talk to Luis Vieira about his “Building large scale react applications in a monorepo”. Luis works in Portugal at a company called FarFetch as a front-end architect where he works mostly on JavaScript and infrastructure. They talk about the rationale behind his article, shared components, and what Lerna is and what is does. They also touch on Semantic Versioning, the difference between monolithic application and a monorepo, and more!
In particular, we dive pretty deep on:
* Luis intro
* Front-end architect at FarFetch
* Works with JavaScript
* Rationale behind his article
* Dividing a project in multiple packages
* Sharing components between multiple applications
* Editing shared components
* Working in a monorepo
* Simplifies managing between different projects
* Requires more tooling
* What is Lerna?
* If you put multiple…
Aug 21, 2018
RRU 025: 2 Years of React Native at Artsy with Orta Therox
Panel:
* Nader Dabit
* Sia Karamalegos
* Lucas Reis
Special Guests: Orta Therox
In this episode, the React Round Up panelists talk to Orta Therox about his 2 years of experience with React Native at Artsy. Orta has about 15 years of native Mac and iOS development experience and about 2 ½ years ago, his team decided to start writing their iOS app in React Native. They talk about the different popular blog posts about React Native, why his team decided to switch over to React Native, and the effects of team size on the success of the fit of React Native in each company’s app. They also touch on professional growth, how they have trained their employees, and more!
In particular, we dive pretty deep on:
* Orta intro
* React Native and JavaScript
* React Native at Artsy blog post
* React Native at Airbnb blog post
* Suspense
* Web engineering
* Taking different approaches
* Being a better way to build an iOS app
* Adoption coming from a native perspective
*…
Aug 14, 2018
RRU 024: Webamp with Jordan Eldredge
Panel:
* Sia Karamalegos
* Lucas Reis
Special Guests: Jordan Eldredge
In this episode, the React Round Up panelists talk to Jordan Eldredge about his project Webamp. Jordan’s first introduction to programming had to do with music which led him to work both as a singer to now being an engineer. They talk about how common it is for programmers to have diverse backgrounds, especially in front-end developers, what Webamp and Winamp are, and what he originally wrote Webamp in. they also touch on his inspiration for creating this project, his journey in creating Webamp, and more!
In particular, we dive pretty deep on:
* Jordan intro
* Studied music (opera) in college
* Forced himself to learn PHP and MySQL
* Common in front-end developing to have people with diverse backgrounds
* Why do you think it’s so common to have diverse backgrounds?
* Front-end web development is very young
* Self-taught developers
* What is Webamp?
* Reimplementation of Winamp in JavaSc…
Aug 7, 2018
RRU 023: High-Performance GraphQL on Postgres with Hasura Tanmai Gopal
Panel:
* Nader Dabit
* Sia Karamalegos
Special Guests: Tanmai Gopal
In this episode, the React Round Up panelists talk to Tanmai Gopal. Tanmai is the founder at Hasura, where they have been building a GraphQL tooling that helps accelerate being able to use GraphQL for app developers. They talk about what Hasura is and what inspired him to build it, what Haskell does to Postgres, and query variables in GraphQL. They also touch on the importance of being aware of the database, how authorization works, and more!
In particular, we dive pretty deep on:
* Tanmai intro
* Founder of Hasura
* Has been building applications for about a decade
* Focus on functional programming
* How did you get into React?
* Using Redux and GaphQL
* How long has Hasura been around?
* What inspired you to build Hasura?
* Eliminating the middle layer
* The elevator pitch of Hasura
* Do you offer a database as a service?
* Slightly different than writing your own resolvers
* What H…
Jul 31, 2018
RRU 022: RxJS and redux-observable with Tracy Lee, Jay Phelps, and Ben Lesh
Panel:
* Nader Dabit
* Sia Karamalegos
Special Guests: Tracy Lee, Jay Phelps, and Ben Lesh
In this episode, the React Round Up panelists talk to Tracy Lee, Jay Phelps, and Ben Lesh about RxJS and redux-observable. Tracy, Jay, and Ben are the RxJS ThisDot Media group and where they do support contracts for RxJS, staff augmentation, developer relations, and put on events. They talk about what observables are and what they are trying to solve, the most common use cases for getting started with observables, and what Promises and Async/Await are. They also touch on what they like most about RxJS, how versatile it is, and more!
In particular, we dive pretty deep on:
* Tracy, Jay, and Ben intro
* ThisDot
* RxJS
* What is an observable?
* What problems are observables trying to solve?
* JavaScript
* Learn observables
* Making everything functional in the library
* Means of encapsulating values you want pushed at you later on
* Downside to observables
* Little bit…
Jul 24, 2018
RRU 021: Building SharePoint Extensions with JavaScript with Vesa Juvonen LIVE at Microsoft Build
Panel:
Charles Max Wood
Special Guests: Vesa Juvonen
In this episode, the React Round Up panel talks to Vesa Juvonen about building SharePoint extensions with JavaScript. Vesa is on the SharePoint development team and is responsible for the SharePoint Framework, which is the modern way of implementing SharePoint customizations with JavaScript. They talk about what SharePoint is, why they chose to use JavaScript with it, and how he maintains isolation. They also touch on the best way to get started with SharePoint, give some great resources to help you use it, and more!
In particular, we dive pretty deep on:
* Vesa intro
* What is SharePoint?
* Has existed since 2009
* People either know about it and use it or don’t know what it is
* Baggage from a customization perspective
* Why JavaScript developers?
* Modernizing development
* SharePoint Framework
* Microsoft Ignite Conference
* Is there a market for it?
* System integrators
* Angular Element and React…
Jul 17, 2018
RRU 020: How to Get a Job (Especially for New Developers) with Charles Max Wood
Panel:
* Charles Max Wood
* Lucas Reis
* Sia Karamalegos
In this episode, the React Round Up panelists talk about finding a job as a developer. Charles is getting ready to release a course on finding a job and he finds that he is always getting asked about how new developers can find a job. They talk about how they all found their first coder job, picking your target company, and understanding what you want in a job. They also touch on Charles’ upcoming course, the importance of showing initiative, and more!
In particular, we dive pretty deep on:
* Sign up to chat with Charles at DevChat.tv/15Minutes
* Why they want to touch on this topic
* Get used to failure
* CodeSchool
* Hack Night meetup
* Going to meetups to slowly start networking
* Making friends with developers in your community
* Networking before you need a job
* Learning and helping mindset
* Don’t be afraid to ask if people are hiring
* How did you figure out what your target company was…
Jul 10, 2018
RRU 019: Error Tracking and Troubleshooting Workflows with David Cramer LIVE at Microsoft Build
Panel:
* Charles Max Wood
* Alyssa Nicholl
* Ward Bell
Special Guests: David Cramer
In this episode, the React Round Up panelists talk to David Cramer about error tracking and troubleshooting workflows. David is the founder and CEO of Sentry, and is a software engineer by trade. He started this project about a decade ago and it was created because he had customers telling him that things were broken and it was hard to help them fix it. They talk about what Sentry is, errors, workflow management, and more!
In particular, we dive pretty deep on:
* David intro
* Founder and CEO of Sentry
* What is Sentry?
* Working with PHP
* De-bugger for production
* Focus on workflow
* Goal of Sentry
* Triaging the problem
* Workflow management
* Sentry started off as an open-source side project
* Instrumentation for JavaScript
* Ember, Angular, and npm
* Got their start in Python
* Logs
* Totally open-source
* Most compatible with run-time
* Can work with a…
Jul 3, 2018
RRU 018: Evolving Patterns in React with Alex Moldovan
Panel:
* Charles Max Wood
* Lucas Reis
* Nader Dabit
Special Guests: Alex Moldovan
In this episode of React Round Up, the panel discusses the article Evolving Patterns in React with its author, Alex Moldovan. Alex is from Romania and works at Fortech as an engineering manager where he works mostly with the front-end development. He also is one of the co-founders of JSHeroes, which is the biggest JavaScript conference in Romania that also has a growing international community behind it. They answer some of Charles questions about React, talk about his article, their thoughts on the new changes, and more!
In particular, we dive pretty deep on:
* Lucas was on React Round Up Episode 11
* Lucas intro – works for Zocdoc as a senior front-end developer
* Alex intro
* At Fortech as an engineering manager
* Co-founder of JSHeroes
* His article Evolving Patterns in React
* React.createClass rather than ES6 class
* Started working with React in 2015
* React and Redu…
Jun 26, 2018
RRU 017: Cloud-Hosted DevOps with Ori Zohar and Gopinath Chigakkagari LIVE at Microsoft Build
Panel:
* Charles Max Wood
Special Guests: Ori Zohar and Gopinath Chigakkagari
In this episode, the React Round UP panelists discuss Cloud-Hosted DevOps with Ori Zohar and Gopinath Chigakkagari at Microsoft Build. Ori is on the product team at VSTS focusing on DevOps specifically on Azure. Gopinath is the group program manager in VSTS primarily working on continuous integration, continuous delivery, DevOps, Azure deployment, etc. They talk about the first steps people should take when getting into DevOps, define DevOps the way Microsoft views it, the advantages to automation, and more!
In particular, we dive pretty deep on:
* Ori and Gopi intro
* VSTS – Visual Studio Team Services
* VSTS gives developers the ability to be productive
* Developer productivity
* What’s the first big step people should be taking if they’re getting into DevOps?
* The definition of DevOps
* The people and the processes as the most important piece
* DevOps as the best practices
*…
Jun 19, 2018
RRU 016: React, Redux, and JavaScript Architecture with James Sinclair
Panel:
* Charles Max Wood
* Sia Karamalegos
* Nader Dabit
Special Guests: Jared Palmer
In this episode of React Round Up, the panel discusses the article React, Redux, and JavaScript Architecture with the author James Sinclair. James is a web developer in Australia and he works at Squiz were he focuses on building a digital web place. They talk about his article and why he chose to write it, where he falls on the whole Redux debate, how to convince people to come to Redux, and much more!
In particular, we dive pretty deep on:
* James intro
* React, Redux, and JavaScript Architecture
* Why were the people you are working with wary of leaving JavaScript?
* jQuery
* Great article on explaining why we use React
* Why React can be fast
* Is your team now moving to React or have they already moved over?
* Where do you fall on the Redux debate?
* Redux’s “disadvantages” are actually advantages
* What is your current stack of choice?
* Downshift
* Condi…
Jun 12, 2018
RRU 015: Visual Studio Code with Rachel MacFarlane and Matt Bierner LIVE at Microsoft Build
Panel:
* Charles Max Wood
Special Guests: Rachel MacFarlane and Matt Bierner
In this episode, the React Round Up panelists discuss Visual Studio Code with Rachel MacFarlane and Matt Bierner, who are both developers on Visual Studio Code. They talk about what the workflow at Visual Studio Code looks like, what people can look forward to coming out soon, and how people can follow along the VS Code improvements on GitHub and Twitter. They also touch on their favorite extensions, like the Docker extension and the Azure extension and their favorite VS Code features.
In particular, we dive pretty deep on:
* Rachel and Matt intro
* Month to month workflow of Visual Studio Code
* VS Code JavaScript, TypeScript, and Mark Down support
* Working on GitHub and within the community
* Check out new features incrementally with insiders
* Community-driven work
* What is coming out in Visual Studio Code?
* GitHub helps to determine what they work on
* Working on Grid View
*…
Jun 5, 2018
RRU 014: Razzle with Jared Palmer
Panel:
* Nader Dabit
Special Guests: Jared Palmer
In this episode of React Round Up, the panel discusses Razzle and other projects with Jared Palmer. Jared is the lead engineer at The Palmer Group, where he spends his time building apps and services for companies that have been underserved by the recent technological changes. They talk about what Razzle is, the benefit of server-side rendering, and the difficulties he faced putting this project together. They also touch on why he chose to create Razzle and some of his other projects like Backpack and After.js.
In particular, we dive pretty deep on:
* Jared intro
* How he got into programming
* Fell into programming by accident
* What is Razzle?
* Create React App with server-side rendering
* Gatsby
* Goal of Razzle
* What are the benefits of adding server-side rendering?
* The power of React
* Next.js
* React can hydrate once it renders on the server
* Razzle is thin layer around 2 Webpack watch tasks
*…
May 29, 2018
RRU 013: Visual Studio Code and the VS Code Azure Extension with Matt Hernandez and Amanda Silver LIVE at Microsoft Build
Panel:
Charles Max Wood
Special Guests: Matt Hernandez and Amanda Silver
In this episode, the JavaScript Jabber panelists discuss Visual Studio Code and the VS Code Azure Extension with Matt Hernandez and Amanda Silver at Microsoft Build. Amanda is the director of program management at Microsoft working on Visual Studio and VS Code. Matt works on a mix between the Azure and the VS Code team, where he leads the effort to build the Azure extensions in VS code, trying to bring JavaScript developers to Azure through great experiences in VS Code. They talk about what’s new in VS Code, how the Azure extension works, what log points are, and much more!
In particular, we dive pretty deep on:
* Amanda intro
* Matt intro
* What’s new in VS Code?
* VS Code core
* VS Live Share
* Shared Terminal
* Now have Linux support
* Live Share is now public to the world for free
* What would you use Shared Terminal for?
* Are there other things coming up in VS Code?
* Constantl…
May 22, 2018
RRU 012: The Future of Higher Order Components and Render Props with Paul Gray
Panel:
* Nader Dabit
Special Guests: Paul Gray
In this episode of React Round Up, the panel discusses the future of higher order components and render props with Paul Gray. Paul is a software developer at an educational technology company called Learning Objects. They have a learning platform there that helps instructional designers create better contents. They talk about how he got into programming and React, when you would want to use HOCs and render props, and chainable components.
In particular, we dive pretty deep on:
* Paul intro
* React
* How long have you been working with React?
* How did you get into programming?
* TI-89 Calculators in high school
* Software engineering degree in college
* Big fan of HOCs when they came out
* Chainable components
* Chainable components API
* Promises
* Anatomy of render prop components
* TypeScript
* async/await GitHub Gist
* Use cases
* Tool to share reusable code in React
* How long has this been in th…
May 15, 2018
RRU 011: Simple React Patterns with Lucas Reis
Panel:
* Charles Max Wood
* Cory House
Special Guests: Lucas Reis
In this episode of React Round Up, the panel discusses simple React patterns with Lucas Reis. Lucas works as a senior front-end developer at Zocdoc and previously worked in Brazil for an ecommerce company called B2W. He recently wrote a blog post about simple React patterns that really took off and became popular on the web. They talk about this blog post, what defines a successful pattern, and then they discuss the different patterns that he has discovered in his years of React programming.
In particular, we dive pretty deep on:
* Lucas intro
* Tries to write blog posts as much as possible
* Simple React Patterns blog post
* React
* What does he mean by “successful” patterns?
* Three things that define good patterns
* Define successful?
* The mix component
* The Container/Branch/View pattern
* First successful pattern he has found
* Separation of concerns
* Common concern: are we wor…
May 8, 2018
RRU 010: Best Practices with React and Redux with Samuel Mendenhall
Panel:
* Cory House
* Nader Dabit
Special Guests: Samuel Mendenhall
In this episode of React Round Up, the panel discusses best practices with React and Redux with Samuel Mendenhall. Samuel has been working in web development for the past five years and was recently working for Red Hat. They talk about what has led him to React, as well as some of the most common mistakes that people make in React. They also talk about the amazing power of TypeScript and when you may not want to use Redux.
In particular, we dive pretty deep on:
* Sam intro
* jQuery, Backbone, and Angular
* React and React Native
* New role at Microsoft in commercial software engineering group
* Working a lot with React and tooling
* What have you learned since working with React?
* Shallow learning curve
* The concept of React is very simple
* What work did you do at Red Hat?
* Internal tooling
* What are some common mistakes people have made in React?
* Defensive programming
* Making…
May 1, 2018
RRU 009: Hot Reloading in Create React App with Dave Ceddia
Panel:
* Charles Max Wood
* Tara Manicsic
Special Guests: Dave Ceddia
In this episode of React Round Up, the panel discusses hot reloading with Create React App with Dave Ceddia. Dave is a React developer, blogs about React, and recently wrote a book called Pure React. They talk about what hot reloading is, when you would want to use it, and how you can set it up in your code. They also touch on ways to customize Create React App, the disadvantages to customizing, and the key points to understand about Create React App before modifying it.
In particular, we dive pretty deep on:
* Dave intro
* What is the big picture behind hot module reloading?
* Create React App
* Webpack
* How do you set this up?
* You don’t need to eject
* Is there a certain point when you need to start taking advantage of hot reloading?
* Helps to use hot reloading from the beginning
* Resources to help with using hot reloading
* Dave article
* React app rewired
* Are there any…
Apr 24, 2018
RRU 008: The Framework Summit with Joe Eames
Panel:
* Tara Manicsic
* Nader Dabit
Special Guests: Joe Eames
In this episode of React Round Up, the panel discusses The Framework Summit with Joe Eames. Joe discusses the history behind the conference and how it came to be created. They really wanted to create a conference that would include all of the frameworks, especially those that are underrepresented in the programming community, like React. He touches on why he is passionate about this project, why it is important to be open to learning new things, and the overall format of the conference.
In particular, we dive pretty deep on:
* The Framework Summit
* October 2-3, 2018 in Park City, Utah
* The history of the conference
* React
* Originally called the “Tri-conference”
* Frameworks play a major part in your code development
* “Religiousness” of which framework is the “right” or “wrong” one to use
* Opportunity to expose more people to new frameworks
* Comparing the frameworks
* The i…
Apr 17, 2018
RRU 007: Breaking up with Higher Order Components with David Atchley
Panel:
* Charles Max Wood
* Nader Dabit
* Cory House
* Kent C Dodds
Special Guests: David Atchley
In this episode of React Round Up, the panel discuss breaking up with higher-order components with David Atchley. David has been doing software development for 24 years now and has worked mostly in web development. He has worked at many places from start-ups to large companies and does client work currently for Tandem.ly. They talk about what higher-order components and render props are and when you would want to use them to help you in your code. They also touch on overuse and misuse of applications and coding tools and the difference between using render props and HOCs.
In particular, we dive pretty deep on:
* David intro
* What are higher-order components?
* What are render props?
* Higher-order components are patterned after higher-order functions
* Connect from React Redux
* React
* What are the use cases for higher-order components?
* Redux
* Would you…
Apr 10, 2018
RRU 006: Setting Up and Getting Used to Gatsby with Aman Mittal
Panel:
* Charles Max Wood
* Cory House
* Tara Manicsic
* Kent C Dodds
Special Guests: Aman Mittal
In this episode of React Round Up, the panel discuss setting up and getting used to Gatsby with Aman Mittal. Aman is a computer science graduate, has been working in web development for the past two years, and has worked with companies such as freeCodeCamp. He has been working with React for the past 6 months and started working with Gatsby in January of 2018. They talk about what Gatsby is, why you would want to use it, and what a simple Gatsby site would look like.
In particular, we dive pretty deep on:
* Aman introduction
* What is your experience with React?
* Working with Gatsby because of a client
* What is Gatsby?
* Gatsby uses React
* Has become quite mature
* Why Choose Gatsby?
* Good with small and medium business clients
* Gatsby and PWAs
* Does it rely heavily on GraphQL?
* GraphQL is useful with Gatsby but it is not necessary
* What would a…
Apr 3, 2018
RRU 005: Prisma and GraphCool with Nikolas Burk
Panel:
* Charles Max Wood
* Tara Manicsic
* Kent C Dodds
* Nader Dabit
Special Guests: Nikolas Burk
In this episode of React Round Up, the panel discusses Prisma and GraphCool with Nikolas Burk. Nikolas works as a developer at GraphCool, which is a small startup based in Berlin. Their latest product is Prisma, which is a GraphQL database proxy that turns your database into a GraphQL API. They talk about why you would want to use Prisma and the pros to utilizing GraphQL. They also touch on why they made GraphCool and Prisma open source so that more people could use it.
In particular, we dive pretty deep on:
* Nikolas introduction
* What is GraphCool?
* Prisma
* Prisma is the core technology that is powering GraphCool
* Sequel databases
* How do you communicate differences to Prisma?
* Using GraphQL as the interface to the database
* GraphQL is much simpler
* GraphQL Schema Definition Language
* Why use Prisma?
* Prisma as the database layer
* Prisma…
Mar 27, 2018
RRU 004: Redux-Bundler with Henrik Joreteg
Panel:
* Charles Max Wood
* Tara Manicsic
* Kent C Dodds
Special Guests: Henrik Joreteg
In this episode of React Round Up, the panel discusses redux-bundler with Henrik Joreteg. Henrik spoke at the first Node Conf, leans towards progressive web apps and single-page apps, and recently has gotten into independent consulting. He also has written a book called Human JavaScript and is working on his second book right now. They talk about his redux-bundler on GitHub and the ability to make changes behind the scenes without having to bother the user. He gives a general background on why he created the bundler and how you can use it in your programming to make your life easier.
In particular, we dive pretty deep on:
* Henrik introduction
* What is the redux-bundler?
* He despises using behavioral components
* If it can be local, keep it local
* Don’t bother the user if you don’t need to
* Service Workers vs redux-bundler
* Making changes behind the scenes
* He lo…
Mar 20, 2018
RRU 003: Advanced Component Patterns and Downshift with Kent C Dodds
Panel:
* Charles Max Wood
* Nader Dabit
* Kent C Dodds
* Cory House
In this episode of React Round Up, the panel discusses advanced component patterns and Downshift. They talk about different component patterns, especially render prop patters, and the fact that Downshift allows for your components to be much more useful generally for more people. They also note that the render prop patterns can help to separate logic from view, which makes things easier to develop.
In particular, we dive pretty deep on:
* Component patterns
* Downshift
* Egghead course
* What makes it advanced?
* Requires taking a step back and think about your components a little differently
* Is there a React Native version?
* React
* Render prop patterns
* Code abstraction or code re-use
* Why Downshift is powerful
* Can use regular HTML and CSS with Downshift
* Allows you to be in charge of rendering
* What other places is the render prop pattern useful?
* What is the benefit…
Mar 13, 2018
RRU 002: Webpack the Good Parts with Juho Vepsäläinen
Panel:
* Charles Max Wood
* Nader Dabit
* Cory House
Special Guests: Juho Vepsäläinen
In this episode of React Round Up, the panel discusses Webpack the good parts with Juho Vepsäläinen. He talks a lot about the book he has written on Webpack, which helps people understand Webpack and how to work with it. They also discuss the advantages to using Webpack and discuss how you can use it in your coding to your benefit.
In particular, we dive pretty deep on:
* For 10% off, use “Juho” to sign up for React Dev Summit
* What is Webpack?
* Juho’s Webpack book: SurviveJS
* React
* How can someone get into learning about Webpack if they’re not from a React background?
* It’s all about the contents behind Webpack
* How popular is Webpack and how large is it?
* You don’t need to read all 400 pages of his book
* Is there a certain way to write with Webpack?
* You can learn things as you go with Webpack
* How to approach code using Webpack
* How new…
Mar 6, 2018
RRU 001: Getting Started with React
Panel:
Charles Max Wood
Tara Manicsic
Nader Dabit
Kent C. Dodds
Cory House
Special Guests: None
In this episode of React Round Up, the panel discusses how they each got into React and they provide some great resources for people who want to learn more about React and what it’s all about. They emphasize the fact that React is a very straightforward language and can be used relatively painlessly with a little bit of learning before jumping in.
In particular, we dive pretty deep on:
* How each of the panelists got into React
* Angular beginnings
* React Native
* React Native Training
* React JS Consulting
* Node developer beginnings
* Backbone to React
* Ruby background
* How to get into React yourself
* Learn things in the right order
* React-Howto
* Beginners Guide to ReactJS
* You Don’t Know JS, ES6, and Beyond by Kyle Simpson
* CodeSandbox.io
* ES6
* Get comfortable with JavaScript first
* Biggest mistake people make when learning about…