Dan Shappir takes the lead in explaining React's core design, and how it's enabled by the Virtual DOM (VDOM). The panel discusses what the VDOM is, and how it differs from the actual browser DOM. Also how React leverages the VDOM and its reconciliation mechanism. Understanding these concepts is important in order to properly understand and make the best use of React.Panel AJ O'Neal Charles Max Wood Dan Shappir Steve Edwards Sponsors Top End Devs Coaching | Top End Devs Picks AJ- Jordan Walke - R...
Dec 07, 2021•1 hr 12 min
Steve and AJ catch up with Jonathan Reinink, the creator of InertiaJS, a utility for seamlessly connecting front end Javascript frameworks with back ends to create a seamless and performant web app monolith. They discuss TailwindCSS and Jonathan’s work at Tailwind Labs, and then get into InertiaJS, how it works, and many of the different features. They also discuss the new SSR capability currently in private beta, and Inertia’s growing inclusion into other frameworks, such as Laravel Breeze and ...
Nov 30, 2021•1 hr 20 min
Get the Black Friday/Cyber Monday "Double Your Productivity by 5pm Today" Deal Coupon Code: "DEEP" for a GIANT discountMani 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 th...
Nov 24, 2021•47 min
Yoav Ganbar joins the Jabber crew to discuss Dev FOMO. He leads the panel through a discussion about adopting technologies and knowing about new niches. The panel discusses how to stay on top of the movements in our ecosystem and when we should prioritize other things.Panel Aimee Knight AJ O'Neal Charles Max Wood Dan Shappir Steve Edwards Guest Yoav Ganbar Sponsors Shortcut (formerly Clubhouse.io) Top End Devs Coaching | Top End Devs Links GitHub: Yoav Ganbar ( hamatoyogi ) LinkedIn: Yoav Ganbar...
Nov 23, 2021•1 hr 20 min
Mordy Oberstein joins the JavaScript Jabber panel to discuss SEO and how what seems like a marketing concern is relevant and exciting for developers. SEO is working with a black box with regards to Google since Google and other search engines don't tell you anything about how they adjust their search algorithms.Mordy walks through how developers can contribute to the issues around showing up in search engine results.Panel AJ O'Neal Dan Shappir Steve Edwards Guest Mordy Oberstein Sponsors Shortcu...
Nov 16, 2021•1 hr 8 min
Assaf Krintza joins the JavaScript Jabber panel to discuss the various approaches and uses for state management in web applications. Some of the focus is on React, but many of the tools and approaches work in or have similar options in the other web frameworks.Panel AJ O'Neal Dan Shappir Steve Edwards Guest Assaf Krintza Sponsors Shortcut (formerly Clubhouse.io) Dev Influencers Accelerator Level Up | Devchat.tv Links Livecycle LinkedIn: Assaf Krintza Twitter: Assaf Krintza ( @krinssaf ) Picks AJ...
Nov 09, 2021•1 hr 4 min
Ian Johnson is a former Google UX engineer and data visualization engineer with ObservableHQ building data visualizations with JavaScript. He works on both the tools and the visualizations built with D3 on the web. He discusses how to use tools like D3 to tell a story using your data.Panel Dan Shappir Steve Edwards Guest Ian Johnson Sponsors Shortcut (formerly Clubhouse.io) Raygun | Click here to get started on your free 14-day trial Dev Influencers Accelerator Links Observable Drawing with Data...
Nov 02, 2021•59 min
Filipe Névola is the CEO of MeteorJS. He jumps in to discuss the changes and updates to Meteor over the last several years.He explains what Meteor is, what its history is, and how it lands within the current JavaScript ecosystem. You can use it to build web and mobile apps and is a mature option to use for your applications.Panel Aimee Knight AJ O'Neal Charles Max Wood Dan Shappir Steve Edwards Guest Filipe Névola Sponsors Shortcut (formerly Clubhouse.io) Dev Influencers Accelerator Level Up | D...
Oct 26, 2021•7 min
This week, the JavaScript Jabber panel discusses the various "Creeds of Craftsmanship" from the programming languages out there. They discuss the different principles and the unifying concepts they all have alongside the ethos of what makes each language's approach to programming unique.Panel AJ O'Neal Charles Max Wood Steve Edwards Sponsors Dev Influencers Accelerator Raygun | Click here to get started on your free 14-day trial Level Up | Devchat.tv Picks AJ- Creeds of Craftsmanship AJ- Zeskit ...
Oct 19, 2021•1 hr 4 min
Niall Crosby, creator of AgGrid, joins the panel to discuss the journey from building an open source data grid used all over the world to providing support and enterprise features and running a successful business based on that same open source software.Panel AJ O'Neal Charles Max Wood Dan Shappir Steve Edwards Guest Niall Crosby Sponsors JavaScript Error and Performance Monitoring | Sentry PodcastBootcamp.io Level Up | Devchat.tv Links React Data Grid: React UI Why The World Needed Another Angu...
Oct 12, 2021•1 hr 16 min
Steve and AJ talk with Max Kordek, founder of his startup Lisk, which is geared towards helping JavaScript developers use the blockchain to develop new applications for new industries. We delve deep into the origins and base technologies of the blockchain, how it has been used, and how it can be used in the future. They also discuss Lisk, it’s purpose, and how Max hopes their SDK will be used by developers to explore the blockchain and find brand new applications for it.Panel AJ O'Neal Steve Edw...
Oct 05, 2021•1 hr 15 min
Our very own Will Button from Adventures in DevOps joins us to discuss DevOps in JavaScript. Will also hosts his own YouTube channel discussing DevOps for Developers and is a consultant helping early stage startups getting their applications set up and scaling.He joins the panel to help the Jabber panel understand how to make Node and JavaScript deploy, scale, and grow.Panel Aimee Knight AJ O'Neal Steve Edwards Guest Will Button Sponsors JavaScript Error and Performance Monitoring | Sentry Dev I...
Sep 28, 2021•46 min
Bianca and Sumitra from Raygun join the panel to talk about Core Web Vitals and how tools like Raygun can help keep tabs on and monitor your performance stats as you change your web application to get you better results on Google.Panel Aimee Knight AJ O'Neal Charles Max Wood Dan Shappir Steve Edwards Guest Bianca Grizhar Sumitra Manga Sponsors Dev Influencers Accelerator Raygun | Click here to get started on your free 14-day trial PodcastBootcamp.io Links CrUX and Core Web Vitals – What to Measu...
Sep 21, 2021•1 hr 25 min
The JavaScript Jabber panel teams up to discuss their favorite moments and episodes over the last nearly 10 years of the show. They discuss where things are at and where they're going next.Panel Aimee Knight AJ O'Neal Charles Max Wood Dan Shappir Steve Edwards Sponsors JavaScript Error and Performance Monitoring | Sentry Level Up | Devchat.tv PodcastBootcamp.io Links JSJ 478: Browser Standards Rampage: Can We Have Nice Things? Live Pull Request Review, Review: Pushback (kindly) when appropriate....
Sep 14, 2021•1 hr 5 min
The panel gets together to discuss how they learn new things and what things are important to learn.They start out discussing how to learn new things. They they go into how to keep up on the never-ending releases within the JavaScript ecosystem.Panel Aimee Knight AJ O'Neal Charles Max Wood Dan Shappir Sponsors Dev Influencers Accelerator Raygun | Click here to get started on your free 14-day trial PodcastBootcamp.io Picks Aimee- The Cloudflare Blog AJ- Crockford on JS AJ- Beyond Code Project Ide...
Aug 31, 2021•1 hr 16 min
Priscila Oliveira and Mark Story join the panel to discuss the recent transition at Sentry from vanilla JavaScript to React and TypeScript.The show starts out with the panelists nerding out over Sentry and how they use it, then they dive into the code transition and the things that they learned from their conversion to TypeScript.Panel Aimee Knight AJ O'Neal Dan Shappir Steve Edwards Guest Mark Story Priscila Oliveira Sponsors JavaScript Error and Performance Monitoring | Sentry Dev Influencers ...
Aug 24, 2021•1 hr 8 min
Caleb is the maintainer of several popular open source projects and frameworks including Alpinejs and Livewire, and is also an avid user of GitHub's CoPilot. Also, he's living the dream - writing open source full time. We talk about declarative, imperative, moving from SPAs and APIs back to simpler server-oriented design, design architecture, code style and linting, and how Caleb's achieved the near-impossible task of monetizing open source in a way people love.Panel Aimee Knight AJ O'Neal Guest...
Aug 17, 2021•1 hr 5 min
Sam Sycamore joins the podcast to tell his story of transitioning into programming after listening to the podcast episode we recorded with Danny Thompson.Danny told his story about how he went from gas station attendant to programmer in a very short timeframe.Sam has now made a similar journey from landscape construction to programming and what inspired him to make the switch.Panel Aimee Knight AJ O'Neal Charles Max Wood Dan Shappir Steve Edwards Guest Sam Sycamore Guest JavaScript Error and Per...
Aug 10, 2021•1 hr 16 min
Dan Shappir takes the lead this week to discuss Core Web Vitals and how Google is pushing the web to be faster.He leads Chuck, Aimee, and AJ through the ways that developers can measure and improve the performance of websites based on the statistics specified by Google as components of Google rankings.Panel Aimee Knight AJ O'Neal Charles Max Wood Dan Shappir Sponsors DigitalOcean Raygun | Click here to get started on your free 14-day trial Dev Influencers Accelerator Links Web Vitals Picks Aimee...
Aug 03, 2021•1 hr 14 min
Allen Wyma, host of the Flying High with Flutter podcast, joins the Jabber panel to discuss building mobile applications with Flutter.The discussion includes an exploration of Flutter, how to get started, how it's different from other platforms, and who should consider using it.Panel Charles Max Wood Steve Edwards Guest Allen Wyma Sponsors Dev Influencers Accelerator JavaScript Error and Performance Monitoring | Sentry Links Flying High with Flutter pub.dev Twitter: Plangora ( @Plangora ) Twitte...
Jul 27, 2021•52 min
Liran Tal joins the Jabber to talk about how to secure your applications and how to check for security vulnerabilities in your application and its dependencies and infrastructure.Liran explains how to check your supply chain and your own code to make sure you're not leaving things open to malicious actors.Panel AJ O'Neal Charles Max Wood Dan Shappir Steve Edwards Guest Liran Tal Sponsors DigitalOcean Raygun | Click here to get started on your free 14-day trial Dev Influencers Accelerator Links 5...
Jul 20, 2021•1 hr 23 min
Craig Buckler joins the panel to jabber about Chrome Dev-Tools and some things you may not know you can do with them to empower your own front-end development. Some of the basics you may already know like Incognito mode. Some others you may not know like black boxing libraries you don’t control or throttling connections to simulate poor connections. He also talks through searching through network requests to see how your domain’s specific requests perform.Panel Aimee Knight AJ O'Neal Charles Max...
Jul 13, 2021•1 hr 8 min
The JAMstack has been a hot item in the web development community for a while. Initially, it was a basic implementation of front-end tools with some sort of hosted backend. Now, the tools and approaches have become much more powerful.Brian Rinaldi joins the JavaScript Jabber panel to discuss how things have evolved and what people should be looking into now to take advantage of the offerings within the JAMstack community.coupon: podjsjabber19Panel Charles Max Wood Dan Shappir Steve Edwards Guest...
Jul 06, 2021•54 min
The Jabber panel along with Vitali Zaidman jump in and discuss how your browser cache works, what the standard is, and what you can expect when you're trying to take advantage of the performance characteristics of your users' browsers.The browser cache control settings and techniques are not straightforward, so buckle up and learn how to get your browsers to load assets from memory.Panel AJ O'Neal Charles Max Wood Dan Shappir Steve Edwards Guest Vitali Zaidman Sponsors JavaScript Error and Perfo...
Jun 29, 2021•1 hr 3 min
If you wish you could just push to your git repository and then have your application automatically update itself, then you should have a look at DigitalOcean's App Platform.This offering is a sort of secret weapon that allows you to customize your application with the services you need and then simply push to deploy.There's no outsourcing to 3rd party databases, etc. It's all included in DigitalOcean's offering. So, you just pick what you need and then set the app to deploy.DigitalOcean's App P...
Jun 25, 2021•28 min
Long time friend of the show Gil Tayar joins us again this time to discussing using JSDoc for JavaScript type annotations instead of TypeScript. Turns out that you can now get all of the benefits of TypeScript types without having to adopt the entire TypeScript workflow. Gil describes the benefits of this approach, and how it could impact the future of Web development.Panel Aimee Knight Charles Max Wood Dan Shappir Steve Edwards Guest Gil Tayar Sponsors JavaScript Error and Performance Monitorin...
Jun 22, 2021•1 hr 16 min
Never underestimate the power of teaching. Ian reached out to AJ in regards to previous comments about React on the show and demonstrated that he knows a whole lot more than most of us, so we had him on to talk about his learning journey, the philosophy of react, and top tips for new developers entering the field. Huzzah!Panel AJ O'Neal Charles Max Wood Steve Edwards Guest Ian Schwartz Sponsors Dev Influencers Accelerator Raygun | Click here to get started on your free 14-day trial Links Context...
Jun 15, 2021•1 hr 21 min
Eric Simons from Stackblitz joins the JSJ panel to discuss the game changing technology announced at Google.io this year. What they demonstrated was their ability to run NodeJS in the browser using new technology called Web Containers. However, the implications go well beyond the realities of running Node in the browser. Eric and the panel dive into the implications of what this new way of working could mean for the web and application development.Panel Aimee Knight AJ O'Neal Charles Max Wood Da...
Jun 08, 2021•1 hr 19 min
Chuck dives into the 3 essentials for getting the next successful outcome you want in your career. Whether that's something simple like a raise or something more complex like going freelance, you can achieve it by working on 3 main areas.First, building skills. The most obvious type of skills you'll need is technical skills. However, don't neglect your people skills and your organizational skills as well since you're often paid for how you work with people and enhance their work and how you put ...
Jun 04, 2021•35 min
Rick Viscomi joins us from Google to talk to us about the Chrome User Experience Report (CrUX) and the HTTP Archive. He explains what it tells us about how the web is built, how it performs, and what we know about the web today.Panel Aimee Knight AJ O'Neal Dan Shappir Steve Edwards Guest Rick Viscomi Sponsors Dev Influencers Accelerator Raygun | Click here to get started on your free 14-day trial Links JSJ 334: “Web Performance API” with Dan Shappir | Devchat.tv JSJ 428: The Alphabet Soup of Per...
Jun 01, 2021•1 hr 9 min
