Ryan Carniato joins Amal & Nick to discuss Solid with a major focus on Signals , which are the cornerstone of reactivity in Solid. Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 11 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: Clerk – Clerk is a complete suite of embeddable UIs, flexible APIs, and admin dashboards to authenticate and manage your users. CrabNebula Cloud – CrabNebula Cloud is here! Distribute Tauri apps and Electron apps with best in class up...
Apr 25, 2024•1 hr 28 min
Kelvin Omereshone is here to get you excited about boring, reliable tech. He believes a combination of Sails, Inertia, Tailwind & your frontend rendering library of choice are a great combo for building web apps. Tune in to find out why. Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 10 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: Speakeasy – Instantly create SDKs that make API integration easy for your users. Create your first SDK for free! today. Clerk –...
Apr 18, 2024•45 min
How does Google build Search? What about YouTube and Google Drive? We rely on Chrome’s Lighthouse scores when optimizing our websites, but what does Google prioritize? Recently the Angular and Wiz teams announced their intention to responsibly merge their internal frontend framework, Wiz, with Angular to bring some of Wiz’s best ideas to Angular. We’re chatting with Minko from Angular and Jatin from the Wiz team to learn about how Wiz has been used in Google historically, what it’s good at, and ...
Apr 11, 2024•55 min
Jerod, KBall & Nick discuss the latest news: Devin, Astro DB, The JavaScript Registry, Tailwind 4 & Angular merging with Wiz. Oh, and a surprise mini-game of HeadLIES! Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 5 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: PowerSync – Build local-first web apps — Give users instantly reactive UX with an in-browser database that keeps itself in sync with any backend Postgres. No need to wait for network requests, c...
Mar 28, 2024•1 hr 6 min
Alex & James Moore, founding members of the Open Web Advocacy (OWA), join Amal to talk about the critical work the OWA has been doing to ensure users have browser choice and that web apps can be first-class citizens on mobile devices. We learn about how an ad-hoc group of software engineers worked with regulators, legislators & policymakers to help drive some of the most impactful legislation curbing anti-competitive behaviors on the web for tech giants such as Apple, Google & Micros...
Mar 14, 2024•2 hr 3 min
This week, Amal and Nick are joined by Rick Viscomi and Annie Sullivan from the Chrome team to dive into Core Web Vitals, a set of performance metrics geared towards helping developers surface web page quality signals that are key to delivering great user experiences. We deconstruct the different vitals and learn how they are helpful, as well as introduce the newest vital to hit the scene, Interaction to Next Paint (INP). Join us for a fun and nerdtastic discussion as we dive into the humbling u...
Mar 07, 2024•1 hr 24 min
Nick delves into the intricacies of technical book writing with authors Adrienne Braganza Tacke and Dylan Hildenbrand. We talk about the process of working with a publisher, coming up with an outline, actually writing the book, and everything that comes after the book is finished. Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 2 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: Fly.io – The home of Changelog.com — Deploy your apps and databases close to your users....
Feb 29, 2024•57 min
Apple kills EU web apps, Amazon launches a JS runtime optimized for serverless workloads & we play a game of 20 (15) questions to welcome Jessica Sachs to the party! Join the discussion Changelog++ members get a bonus 4 minutes at the end of this episode and zero ads. Join today! Sponsors: Vercel – Zero configuration for over 35 frameworks Vercel is the Frontend Cloud makes it easy for any team to deploy their apps. Today, you can get a 14-day free trial of Vercel Pro, or get a customized En...
Feb 22, 2024•1 hr 13 min
KBall & Amal dive deep with the “Dazzle of Zebras” (possible future band name), Angular team members Jessica Janiuk & Mark “Techson” Thompson. Along with an absolute riot of puns, they cover topics such as Angular’s new deferrable views feature, how the Angular core team handles change, and lessons learned from the AngularJS-Angular 2 debacle that allow Angular to now move fast without breaking things. Join the discussion Changelog++ members get a bonus 5 minutes at the end of this episo...
Feb 15, 2024•1 hr 11 min
The week Amal & guest co-host Eric Clemmons talk to Dan Abramov all about React Server Components. We learn about why they were created, what problems they solve & how they work to improve application performance. We also dive into the rollout and current support status, the origin story, the community response & walk through the 10+ years of React history which have forever shifted the world of web development. Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 6 minutes on this episode b...
Feb 08, 2024•2 hr 7 min
KBall & Amal interview Alex & Pavel from the Angular Signals team. They cover the history, how the Angular team decided to move to signals, what the new mental model looks like, migration path & even dive into community integrations and future roadmap. Join the discussion Changelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: Fly.io – The home of Changelog.com — Deploy your apps and databases close to your users. In minutes yo...
Feb 01, 2024•1 hr 7 min
Shaundai Person joins Jerod & Nick for a fascinating discussion of her transition from a sales position to Senior Software Engineer at Netflix. Along the way, we discuss sales as a superpower, how to build confidence in yourself & even sneak a little TypeScript talk in there because you know who… Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 5 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: Vercel – With zero configuration for over 35 frameworks, Vercel’...
Jan 25, 2024•55 min
Jerod, Adam Argyle & the CompressedFM crew hang out prior to their Fronted Feud battle! They discuss CSS as a programming language, Apple’s walled garden, how nobody is on the same social media sites anymore, how to choose tech, the community’s sentiment shift on GraphQL & a whole bunch more. (This episode is for Changelog++ ears only.) Join the discussion Changelog++ members get a bonus 47 minutes at the end of this episode and zero ads. Join today! Sponsors: Changelog++ – You love our ...
Jan 20, 2024•6 min
Una & Adam from The CSS Podcast defend their Frontend Feud title against challengers James & Brad from CompressedFM . Let’s get it on! Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 5 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: Vercel – With zero configuration for over 35 frameworks, Vercel’s Frontend Cloud makes it easy for any team to deploy their apps. Today, you can get a 14-day free trial of Vercel Pro, or get a customized Enterprise demo from th...
Jan 18, 2024•49 min
Carson Gross (creator of htmx) & Alex Russell (Mr. Web Platform 3000) join Amal for an EPIC discussion on web architectures, the evolution of rendering patterns & the advantages of hypermedia and htmx. We dive deep on why modern web app best practices are falling short & explore how htmx gives devs an HTML-first approach to use tech that’s over 20 years old. Tune in to learn a new way to do something old, so you can simplify your code & use JavaScript when/where it’s uniquely abl...
Jan 12, 2024•1 hr 45 min
It’s our 5th annual New Year’s party! Jerod & the gang review our predictions from last year, discuss what’s trending in the web world, make a few predictions for 2024 & even set some new resolutions for this year. Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 3 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: Socket – Secure your supply chain and ship with confidence. Install the GitHub app , book a demo or learn more Fly.io – The home of Changelog.com —...
Jan 04, 2024•1 hr 12 min
Daniel Ehrenberg (software engineer at Bloomberg, web standards author / champion & VP of ECMA International) joins us to discuss new features that have landed in JavaScript and to preview what’s cooking in various standards bodies across the web platform. We cover a wide array (get it?) of topics from improvements to built-ins such as Promises, Maps & Sets, as well as new primitives like Records, Tuples & Temporal. We round out this epic discussion with a look at cross-project stand...
Dec 20, 2023•1 hr 41 min
Gregg Tavares (author of WebGL/WebGPU Fundamentals) joins Jerod & Amal to give us a tour of these low-level technologies that are pushing the web forward into the world of video games, machine learning & other exciting rich applications. Join the discussion Changelog++ members get a bonus 16 minutes at the end of this episode and zero ads. Join today! Sponsors: Socket – Secure your supply chain and ship with confidence. Install the GitHub app , book a demo or learn more React Jam – React...
Dec 07, 2023•59 min
Amal, Nick & special guest Laura Kalbeg geek out over the remarkable growth and evolution of the XState project and its team in recent years. Laura also tells everyone about Stately.ai , a SaaS platform that uses AI to create seamless state management solutions compatible with various tools like XState, Redux & zustand . Join the discussion Changelog++ members get a bonus 6 minutes at the end of this episode and zero ads. Join today! Sponsors: Changelog News – A podcast+newsletter combo ...
Nov 30, 2023•1 hr 14 min
Una Kravets, web platform ambassador & lead of the Google Chrome UI Developer Relations Team, joins Amal & Nick to take them CSS to school as they start this podcast in CSS kindergarten and end it with a Level-Up CSS Diploma. (LUCD?) We explore all the amazing features which have recently landed in CSS — enabling super-charged user experiences with no JavaScript. Don’t forgot to check out all the epic links & demos in the show notes — and hold on to your butts, kids, this one is a ri...
Nov 24, 2023•1 hr 14 min
Amal & Nick are joined by Saron Yitbarek (developer, podcaster, community leader & serial entrepreneur) to catch up and discuss her latest project: Not A Designer We discuss all the ins & outs of tech entrepreneurship & the challenges of building something new in today’s saturated market. Tune in for a behind-the-scenes look at how she does it & get a sneak peek on what’s possibly next! (Spoiler Alert: we brain stormed it here) Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 4 m...
Nov 16, 2023•1 hr 2 min
JS Party listeners and panelists celebrate great moments from the last 100 episodes! You’ll hear from 14 of our favorite humans (and 1 horse) across 11 episodes. Here’s to our first 300 episodes and the next 300 as well. 🥂 Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 5 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: Socket – Secure your software supply chain in GitHub PRs! Try it for yourself today Fastly – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers fast, secure, an...
Nov 10, 2023•1 hr 23 min
Valerie Phoenix from Tech By Choice joins Amal & Kball to tell them all about her non-profit that’s passionate about helping people interested in technology, no matter their experience level. Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 4 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: Appwrite – Build Fast. Scale Big. All in One Place. Appwrite is a backend platform for developing Web, Mobile, and Flutter applications. Built with the open source community ...
Nov 03, 2023•58 min
The 2nd ever React Jam is on and poppin’, so Jerod & Nick invited the previous winners to the pod to tell us all about the 10 day online game jam. Turns out React and video games are like peanut butter and jelly, after all! Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 6 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: Convex – Convex is a better type of backend — the full-stack TypeScript development platform that lets you replace your database, server funct...
Oct 26, 2023•54 min
Prisma founder Johannes Schickling has been using the Effect library for the last couple years. Today he joins Jerod & Nick to tell us all about this very interesting tool for building robust apps in TypeScript. Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 5 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: Convex – Convex is a better type of backend — the full-stack TypeScript development platform that lets you replace your database, server functions, and gl...
Oct 19, 2023•51 min
With a name like PartyKit, you know we just had to get its founder and CEO Sunil Pai on the show! PartyKit is an open source tool that simplifies creating collaborative, multiplayer applications. Join us to learn all about it and the journey of Sunil and his team! Join the discussion Changelog++ members get a bonus 4 minutes at the end of this episode and zero ads. Join today! Sponsors: Appwrite – Build Fast. Scale Big. All in One Place. Appwrite is a backend platform for developing Web, Mobile,...
Oct 12, 2023•1 hr 24 min
Fresh off Bun’s big 1.0 launch, Jarred Sumner goes one-on-one with Jerod to discuss the all-in-one JavaScript runtime that’s captured the interest of many. We get into it all: what problem he’s solving, how it’s so fast, why no Windows support, answering the critics, the (not real) beef between Bun and Node, how the VC-backed startup will sustain & more. Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 4 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: Appwrite ...
Oct 05, 2023•54 min
Amal, KBall & Chris convene a “semi-emergency” pod to discuss the recent (deserved) hype over Bun and what it all means for Node’s community, maintainers & users. They’re joined by Node Technical Steering Committee members Matteo Collina & James Snell who are here to dispel Bun antagonism rumors, discuss the pros & cons of each runtime, explain how Node continues to thrive & even announce a VERY big upcoming feature! Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 6 minutes on t...
Sep 28, 2023•1 hr 41 min
This week, we’re joined by Ron Perris, a Security Engineer at Reddit and software security enthusiast. Together, we dive into best practices and common pitfalls, covering topics from dangerous URLs to JSON injection attacks. Tune in for an educational conversation, and don’t forget to bring your notebooks! Join the discussion Changelog++ members get a bonus 4 minutes at the end of this episode and zero ads. Join today! Sponsors: Convex – Convex is a better type of backend — the full-stack TypeSc...
Sep 21, 2023•1 hr 27 min
Love it or hate it, TypeScript is here to stay for the foreseeable future. But, what happens when widely adopted packages go completely Type free or remove TypeScript in favor of JS with type annotations? Join us to unpack these recent events with Rich Harris, creator of Svelte, as he walks us through the nuanced decision his team made for the Svelte project, and ofc, lots of laughs along the way. Join the discussion Changelog++ members get a bonus 7 minutes at the end of this episode and zero a...
Sep 14, 2023•1 hr 10 min
