Join the “You Don’t Know JS Yet” 30-day CHALLENGE SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT at the end of this episode. Don't miss it. Kyle Simpson, author of the You Don't Know JS Yet series joins the JavaScript Jabber panel to discuss the origins and approach to his book series. The discussion varies to the basic parts of JavaScript, the parts you should know, and how to learn them.Panel AJ O’Neal Aimee Knight Charles Max Wood Steve Edwards Dan Shappir Guest Kyle Simpson Sponsors G2i | Enjoy the luxuries of freela...
Jun 30, 2020•1 hr 21 min
React Native Remote Conf July 28th to 31th Jonathan Sampson hops into the Jabber session to talk about the Brave Browser. He and the panel wander through the topics of privacy, browser design, and features.Panel AJ O’Neal Aimee Knight Charles Max Wood Steve Edwards Dan Shappir Guest Jonathan Sampson "The MaxCoders Guide to Finding Your Dream Developer Job" by Charles Max Wood is now available on Amazon. Get Your Copy Today! PicksJonathan Sampson: Follow Jonathan Sampson on Twitter > @BraveSam...
Jun 23, 2020•1 hr 25 min
React Native Remote Conf July 28th to 31th What is MongoDB? How does it work? How is it different than a standard relational database? How does it fit into a modern web app? This week, the panel gets the answers to these questions and more when they talk to Joe Karlsson, Software Engineer and Developer Advocate at MongoDB.Panel AJ O’Neal Aimee Knight Steve Edwards Guest Joe Karlsson Sponsors G2i | Enjoy the luxuries of freelancing Remote Work: Get a Job or Make a Career Working From Home "The Ma...
Jun 16, 2020•59 min
The panel is joined by Travis Tidwell, co-founder and CTO of Form.io , a ME*N stack platform that incorprates a form builder with automatically generated REST API endpoints. Travis discusses the history of Form.io , how it’s built and works, and lays the smackdown on panelist and noted NoSQL database skeptic AJ O’Neal by showing how MongoDB is the appropriate DB for storing form data in JSON format.Panel Steve Edwards AJ O’Neal Aimee Knight Guest Travis Tidwell Sponsors G2i | Enjoy the luxuries ...
Jun 02, 2020•1 hr 8 min
Gil Tayar gave a presentation recently on ES modules in Node. He joins the panel to discuss how to use and think about ES modules. With considerable pushback from AJ, Gil explains how to start using modules and what the tradeoffs are between modules, script tags, and build tools.Panel AJ O’Neal Aimee Knight Charles Max Wood Steve Edwards Dan Shappir Guest Gil Tayar Sponsors G2i | Enjoy the luxuries of freelancing Remote Work: Get a Job or Make a Career Working From Home "The MaxCoders Guide to F...
May 19, 2020•43 min
JavaScript Remote Conf 2020 May 13th to 15th - register now! Noam Rosenthal has worked in both web and native technologies. He leads off with a discussion of the history of the web, browsers, and specifically webkit. The panel then goes into how browsers and built and discuss the differences between the different browsers.Panel AJ O’Neal Aimee Knight Steve Edwards Dan Shappir Guest Noam Rosenthal "The MaxCoders Guide to Finding Your Dream Developer Job" by Charles Max Wood is now available on Am...
May 12, 2020•52 min
JavaScript Remote Conf 2020 May 13th to 15th - register now! Joe Karlsson is a developer advocate at MongoDB. He and the panel walk through the different approaches, uses, and libraries for building IoT with JavaScriptPanel Aimee Knight Charles Max Wood AJ O’Neal Dan Shappir Steve Edwards Guest Joe Karlsson 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 Cylon.js ...
May 05, 2020•58 min
JavaScript Remote Conf 2020 May 13th to 15th - register now! The JSJ panel talks with Morad Stern from Wix about personal branding; what it is, why it’s important for developers, and how to build it.Panel Steve Edwards AJ O’Neal Dan Shappir Guest Morad Stern Sponsors Taiko Educative.io | Click here for 10% discount "The MaxCoders Guide to Finding Your Dream Developer Job" by Charles Max Wood is now available on Amazon. Get Your Copy Today! Links Obama asks America to learn computer science Confi...
Apr 28, 2020•53 min
JavaScript Remote Conf 2020 May 13th to 15th - register now! Matt Crook joins the conversation to talk with the JavaScript Jabber panel to talk about his experience going through Nashville Software School. The panel discusses and asks questions about getting into programming, working through the bootcamp, and what prospects are for bootcamp graduates.Panel AJ O’Neal Aimee Knight Charles Max Wood Steve Edwards Dan Shappir Guest Matt Crook Sponsors Taiko Educative.io | Click here for 10% discount ...
Apr 21, 2020•1 hr 12 min
JavaScript Remote Conf 2020 May 13th to 15th - register now! Join us as we talk to Joyce Lin, a developer relations advocate with Postman, and we talk about this amazing tool for interacting with APIs. We discuss it’s more well-known features, and also learn about other less well known, but very powerful features that allow users to greatly increase the usefulness of the tool, both for front end and back end developers.Panel Aimee Knight Steve Edwards Guest Joyce Lin Sponsors G2i | Enjoy the lux...
Apr 14, 2020•41 min
JavaScript Remote Conf 2020 May 14th to 15th - register now! Dan Shappir takes the lead to explain all of the acronyms and metrics for measuring the performance of your web applications. He leads a discussion through the ins and outs of monitoring performance and then how to improve and check up on how your website is doing.Panel AJ O’Neal Aimee Knight Steve Edwards Dan Shappir Sponsors Taiko, free and open source browser test automation Educative.io | Click here for 10% discount _______________...
Apr 07, 2020•1 hr 17 min
JavaScript Remote Conf 2020 May 14th to 15th - register now! Mani Vaya joins Charles Max Wood to talk about how developers can add the enterepreneur 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 Charles Max Wood Guest Mani Vaya Sponsors Taiko __________________________________________________ "The MaxCoders Guide to Finding Your Dream Developer Job" b...
Mar 31, 2020•45 min
JavaScript Remote Conf 2020 May 14th to 15th - register now! Dave Karow is a developer evangelist for Split. He dives into how you can deliver software sustainably without burning out. His background is in performance and he's moved into smooth deliveries. He pushes the ideas behind continuous delivery and how to avoid getting paid to stay late in "free" pizzas.Panel AJ O’Neal Aimee Knight Charles Max Wood Dan Shappir Guest Dave Karow Sponsors G2i | Enjoy the luxuries of freelancing Taiko - free...
Mar 24, 2020•1 hr 14 min
Dan Shappir takes the lead and walks the panel through the history of JavaScript and a discussion on ES6, TypeScript, the direction and future of JavaScript, and what features to be looking at and looking for in the current iteration of JavaScript.Panel AJ O’Neal Aimee Knight Charles Max Wood Steve Edwards Dan Shappir Sponsors Taiko - free and open source browser test automation Split ____________________________________________________________ "The MaxCoders Guide to Finding Your Dream Develope...
Mar 17, 2020•1 hr 18 min
In this episode of JavaScript Jabber the panelists and guest delve into the advantages of the shadow dom, transitioning from polymer js polyfills to native web components when moving for SAP UI to UI5, which works within React, Vue, Angular, and others.Panel AJ O’Neal Aimee Knight Steve Edwards Dan Shappir Guest Peter Müßig Follow Peter on Twitter > @pmuessig , Github Sponsors Taiko, free and open source browser test automation ____________________________________________________________ "The...
Mar 10, 2020•43 min
The panelists discuss that latest State of JS survey. They begin talking about the merits and methods of the survey and then discuss the value you can extract from the survey. They also consider the various comparisons and trends presented by the survey and what they may mean.Panel: AJ O’Neal Aimee Knight Charles Max Wood Dan Shappir Sponsors: G2i | Enjoy the luxuries of freelancing ____________________________________________________________ "The MaxCoders Guide to Finding Your Dream Developer ...
Mar 03, 2020•51 min
Una Kravets talks to the panel about CSS and its future. We dive into what Houdini is and how much of it is implemented in the browsers. She explains how the changes outlined in Houdini will improve the user experience on the web and developer experience for web developers.Panel: Aimee Knight AJ O’Neal Charles Max Wood Guest: Una Kravets Sponsors: Split ____________________________________________________________ "The MaxCoders Guide to Finding Your Dream Developer Job" by Charles Max Wood is no...
Feb 25, 2020•1 hr 1 min
Bruce Lawson is an expert in and proponent of semantic HTML. After receiving some good natured ribbing, Bruce walks the panel through the benefits of semantic HTML. He provides several examples on how it's used and in particular how it helps with other issues like accessibility and navigability on your websites.Panel AJ O’Neal Aimee Knight Charles Max Wood Dan Shappir Guest Bruce Lawson Sponsors G2i Springboard | Promo code "JABBER" gives $500 off the job-guaranteed Course ______________________...
Feb 18, 2020•1 hr 8 min
Adam dives into how to document your application using OpenAPI (formerly Swagger) and then how to generate great documentation for your API's using Redoc. He gives us the history of Redoc, breaks down the process for building API documentation, and understanding the OpenAPI specification.Panelists Aimee Knight Dan Shappir AJ ONeal Steve Edwards Guest Adam Altman Sponsors G2i ____________________________ "The MaxCoders Guide to Finding Your Dream Developer Job" by Charles Max Wood is now availabl...
Feb 11, 2020•46 min
Today’s guest is Ben Collins, who creates online courses, writes tutorials, and teaches workshops around G Suite and App Script. Apps Script is a scripting platform developed by Google for light-weight application development in the G Suite platform. It is an implementation of JavaScript with the express purpose of extending Google apps. App Script was started 10 years ago as a side project, and it eventually took on its own life. Ben talks about some of the different things that App Script can ...
Feb 04, 2020•50 min
In this episode of JavaScript Jabber the panel interviews security expert, Kevin A. McGrail. He starts by explaining what security frameworks and what they do. The panel wonders how to know if your developers are capable of self-auditing your security or if you need help. Kevin shares recommendations for companies to look at to answer that question. Aimee Knight explains the hell she has been in making changes to be compliant with CCPA. The panel considers how policies like this complicate secur...
Jan 28, 2020•1 hr 30 min
Burke Holland works for Microsoft on the Azure team in developer relations. He starts the show talking about how he got started in serverless. He’s careful to note that just because things are marketed as serverless doesn’t always make them so. In order for something to be serverless, it must be sufficiently abstracted in terms of technology, only require payment for what is used, and infinitely scalable. He talks about the statelessness of serverless, and the panel discusses what it means to be...
Jan 21, 2020•1 hr 18 min
In this episode of JavaScript Jabber the panel interviews Sean Grove from OneGraph; asking him questions about GraphQL tooling and common complaints about GraphQL. Sean starts by explaining what GraphQL is and how it benefits frontend developers. GraphiQL is a frontend open sourced tool produced by OneGraph, Sean explains how this handy tool simplifies GraphQL. Authentication and authorization are one of the biggest criticisms of GraphQL. Sean walks the panel through the solution, getting a sche...
Jan 14, 2020•1 hr 21 min
Maximiliano Firtman is a mobile web developer from Buenos Ares, Argentina. He has been a developer for 24 years and his most recent focus has been on progressive web apps, or PWAs. Steve and Max reflect on the technologies they were using when they first got started in web development and talk about their experience with mobile development. One area that Max emphasized was bringing the web into the mobile space. They discuss the progression of web access on mobile and some of the available tools...
Jan 07, 2020•40 min
In this episode of JavaScript Jabber 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 define...
Dec 31, 2019•41 min
In this episode of JavaScript Jabber Charles Max Wood does interviews at RxJS Live. His first interview is with Hannah Howard at RxJS Live about her talk. Hannah is really enthusiastic about RxJS especially when it comes to frontend development. Her talk is about how to architect full-scale apps with RxJS. Hannah gives a brief summary of her talk. Charles having met Hanna previously at Code Beam asks her how functional programming and reactive programming work together in her mind. Hannah descri...
Dec 24, 2019•37 min
Noah, a.k.a. Svelte Master, is from Indiana and recently moved to San Francisco. He has been given title Computational Linguist by SoundHound. He starts the show by talking about his Youtube channel all about Svelte. Svelte is a JavaScript framework similar to React and Vue. When you write components, Svelte will compile it into Vanilla JS, CSS, or HTML, and create a small bundle that will be sent to the client. Svelte is a ‘disappearing framework’, so your bundles come out as DOM APIs and there...
Dec 17, 2019•49 min
Daniel Caldas is calling from Singapore. He currently works as a software engineer for Zendesk and has also worked in Portugal and Germany. He has worked primarily on the frontend with Node and JavaScript. He talks about his experience testing JavaScript, how he got started with Jest, and why he likes it. Daniel finds Jest very easy to use and straightforward. He likes that Jest has a single reference page for documentation. He feels that Jest is largely complete out of the box and has only made...
Dec 10, 2019•1 hr
Today the panel is discussing iterating on open source projects. Aimee and AJ recall a conversation they had in the past on this subject and AJ talks about some of his experience iterating with open source. AJ believes that we have an obligation to capture the value of what you create so that we can reinvest and create more value, though he admits that making money in open source is a unique challenge because donations only really work if you have a project that gets billions of downloads a mont...
Dec 03, 2019•59 min
Today the panel discusses the difference between Swagger and Open API with Josh Ponelat. Josh details the difference between the two. Swagger is a set of protocols around describing restful APIs. Swagger was taken over by a company called SmartBear, who donated the donated the specification to the Open Linux Foundation, and that became the Open API. Swagger is the tooling surrounding these specifications. Open API is a standardized way to describe a restful API in a YAML file. Once you’ve got a ...
Nov 26, 2019•46 min
