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JS Party: JavaScript, CSS, Web Development

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Your weekly celebration of JavaScript and the web. Current panelists: Jerod Santo, Kevin Ball (KBall), Nick Nisi, Chris Hiller, Amal Hussein & Amy Dutton. Past panelists: Suz Hinton, Feross Aboukhadijeh, Amelia Wattenberger, Divya Sasidharan, Alex Sexton, Rachel White, Emma Bostian, Ali Spittel, Mikeal Rogers & Jessica Sachs. We talk about the web platform (Chrome, Safari, Edge, Firefox, Brave, etc), front-end frameworks (ReactJS, SolidJS, Svelte, VueJS, AngularJS, etc), JavaScript and TypeScript runtimes (Node, Deno, Bun), web animation, SVG, TailwindCSS, robotics, IoT, and much more. If JavaScript and/or the web touch your life, this show’s for you. Some people search for JSParty and can't find the show, so now the string JSParty is in our description too.
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Episodes

Ahoy hoy, JSNation & React Summit!

Nick went to Amsterdam for JSNation & React Summit 2022 and he joins Jerod to report on all the goodness! He also sits down with two special guests involved with the confs to talk Jest Preview and GraphQL Cache Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 4 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: Square – Develop on the platform that sellers trust. There is a massive opportunity for developers to support Square sellers by building apps for today’s b...

Jun 24, 20221 hr 11 min

ESLint and TypeScript

Josh Goldberg joins Nick, Chris & a very nasally-sounding KBall for a fun conversation around TypeScript ESLint. They discuss why we need ESLint when we have TypeScript, some useful rules in typescript-eslint, how it works, and a few hot takes along the way! Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 3 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: Sentry – Working code means happy customers. That’s exactly why teams choose Sentry. From error tracking to...

Jun 17, 20221 hr 3 min

WTF, JS?

KBall, Ali & Nick explore a new type of segment: “WTFJS” talking about wild and wooly “it’s not a bug it’s a feature” examples in the JavaScript language. They also dive into code maintainability, and end by discussing the whiplash shift in the tech industry from “hottest market for engineers in history” to “oh noes everything is stopping!” Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 5 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: Retool – The low-code p...

Jun 10, 20221 hr 3 min

Live from Remix Conf!

Ali & Divya recorded seven (!) awesome conversations all about Remix and the web ecosystem live on-stage at the first-ever Remix Conf after-party! Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 5 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: Raygun – Never miss another mission-critical issue again — Raygun Alerting is now available for Crash Reporting and Real User Monitoring, to make sure you are quickly notified of the errors, crashes, and front-end perfo...

Jun 03, 20221 hr 17 min

JS logging & error handling

Nick and Chris welcome back Mik and Bret to discuss logging and error handling in Node and JavaScript and the subtleties and intricacies that extend far beyond console.log! Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 4 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: Square – Develop on the platform that sellers trust. There is a massive opportunity for developers to support Square sellers by building apps for today’s business needs. Learn more at changelog.com...

May 27, 20221 hr 12 min

The third year of the third age of JS

In 2020, Shawn (swyx) Wang wrote: Every 10 years there is a changing of the guard in JavaScript. I think we have just started a period of accelerated change that could in thge future be regarded as the Third Age of JavaScript. We’re now in year three of this third age and Swyx joins us to look back at what he missed, look around at what’s happening today, and look forward at what might be coming next. Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 4 minutes on this episode because they made the ad...

May 20, 20221 hr

A JS framework for startups: Redwood goes 1.0

KBall interviews TPW about the 1.0 release of Redwood - what it provides, why they’ve repositioned as a “JavaScript framework optimized for startups”, and what’s coming next. Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 5 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: Retool – The low-code platform for developers to build internal tools — Some of the best teams out there trust Retool…Brex, Coinbase, Plaid, Doordash, LegalGenius, Amazon, Allbirds, Peloton, and ...

May 13, 20221 hr 12 min

Were SPAs a big mistake?

Let the debate begin (again)! This time we’re arguing whether or not single-page apps were a big mistake. This premise was inspired by Chris Ferdinandi’s SPAs were a mistake post. Divya & Nick represent Team Yep and KBall goes solo on Team Nope. Jerod, as per our usual arrangement, is on Team Winner. Join the discussion Changelog++ members get a bonus 6 minutes at the end of this episode and zero ads. Join today! Sponsors: Raygun – Never miss another mission-critical issue again — Raygun Ale...

May 06, 202255 min

Nick's big rewrite

Nick rewrote our JS Danger game board app from Dojo to React for his talk at React Global Online Summit about componentizing application state with React and XState. On this episode Jerod, KBall, and Feross chat with Nick about the entire process and what he learned along the way. Oh, we also play an epic round of Pro Tip Time! Join the discussion Changelog++ members get a bonus 8 minutes at the end of this episode and zero ads. Join today! Sponsors: Sentry – Working code means happy customers. ...

Apr 29, 202251 min

The Type Annotations proposal

Daniel Rosenwasser and Ryan Cavanaugh from the TypeScript team at Microsoft join Nick and Boneskull to catch us up on the latest happening with the TypeScript project, including what’s exciting in the new 4.7 beta release. Then, we dive deep into the new, TC-39 stage 1 Type Annotations proposal, what it is, and what it means for the future of a not really typed JavaScript! Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 5 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Spon...

Apr 22, 20221 hr 7 min

Postgres.js

Rasmus Porsager created Postgres.js –the fastest full-featured PostgreSQL client for Node.js and Deno. Today he joins Jerod for a deep-dive on Postgres, why he created this open source library, and how you can use it to build pg-backed JavaScript applications. Join the discussion Changelog++ members get a bonus 3 minutes at the end of this episode and zero ads. Join today! Sponsors: Sentry – Working code means happy customers. That’s exactly why teams choose Sentry. From error tracking to perfor...

Apr 15, 202250 min

This is JS Party!

JS Party is a weekly celebration of JavaScript and the web so fun is at the heart of every episode. We play games like Frontend Feud… ( clip from episode #192 ) Discuss and analyze the news… ( clip from episode #213 ) Explain technical concepts to each other like we’re 5… ( clip from episode #195 ) Debate hot topics like should websites work without JS? ( clip from episode #87 ) Interiew amazing devs like Rich Harris and Una Kravets … ( clip from episode #167 ) This is JS Party! Listen and subsc...

Apr 13, 20222 min

Headlines and HeadLIES!

KBall and Jerod digest and disect recent JS community news (React 18, Redwood 1.0, MDN Plus) then sit down for yet another game of HeadLIES! Can KBall fare better than Nick Nisi did last April Fools?! Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 4 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: Retool – The low-code platform for developers to build internal tools — Some of the best teams out there trust Retool…Brex, Coinbase, Plaid, Doordash, LegalGenius, Amazo...

Apr 08, 202255 min

Making moves on supply chain security

Feross has been working on something big. He joins Chris and Nick, along with guests Bret Comnes and Mik Lysenko to discuss Socket, what it is, and its focus on the security of the JavaScript supply chain. Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 5 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: Raygun – Never miss another mission-critical issue again — Raygun Alerting is now available for Crash Reporting and Real User Monitoring, to make sure you are quick...

Apr 01, 20221 hr 4 min

Web development for beginners

Jen Looper from Web Dev for Beginners and Front-end Foxes joins Jerod and Ali to discuss the exciting (but also intimidating) prospect of getting in to web development in 2022! Where should you start? What technologies should you focus on? Is it better to go all-in on a framework or stick with the fundamentals? Stuff like that! Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 3 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: Sentry – Working code means happy custom...

Mar 25, 202253 min

Going full-time on Eleventy

Zach Leatherman recently announced he will now be working on Eleventy – his simpler static site generator – while continuing to work at Netlify. What makes Eleventy special? How’d he convince Netlify to let him do this? What does this mean for the project’s future? How many questions in a row can we type into this textarea? Tune in to find out! Join the discussion Changelog++ members get a bonus 4 minutes at the end of this episode and zero ads. Join today! Sponsors: Sentry – Working code means ...

Mar 18, 202258 min

Enabling performance-centric engineering orgs

This week Amal and Nick are joined by Dan Shappir, a Performance Tech Lead at Next Insurance , to learn about enabling a performance-first mindset within your engineering org. Dan recently left his 7+ year tenure leading performance at Wix where he and his team improved, and monitored the speed of millions of websites around the world. Join us to learn how he lead a cultural transformation that propelled Wix sites to be faster than most other React apps in the wild - including ones built with fr...

Mar 11, 20221 hr 14 min

Remix helps bridge the network chasm

Kent and our panelists dive deep on the hottest new React framework: Remix. What it does today, what makes it special, how it lured Kent away from a lucrative independent teaching career, and what’s coming up next. Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 6 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: Raygun – Never miss another mission-critical issue again — Raygun Alerting is now available for Crash Reporting and Real User Monitoring, to make sure you ...

Mar 04, 20221 hr 13 min

Vitest && Slidev

Anthony Fu && Matias “Patak” Capeletto from the Vite core team join Jerod && Nick to discuss Vitest – a blazing fast unit-test framework powered by Vite, && Slidev – presentation slides for developers. Join the discussion Changelog++ members get a bonus 1 minute at the end of this episode and zero ads. Join today! Sponsors: GatsbyConf 2022 – (March 2nd and 3rd) this conference is totally free and totally virtual so everyone can join. Day 1 is talks and day 2 is workshops ...

Feb 25, 202255 min

Playing it close to the Vest

Holla! This week we’re playing Story of the Week and Today I Learned before turning our focus to Vest – a very cool validations framework created by Evyatar Alush . Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 3 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: GatsbyConf 2022 – (March 2nd and 3rd) this conference is totally free and totally virtual so everyone can join. Day 1 is talks and day 2 is workshops —hear from Gatsby co-founders and leadership on speed i...

Feb 18, 20221 hr 8 min

A deep-dive on Vite

Amal and Nick load up on coffee for a not-so-vite (lame joke!) conversation with Evan You all about Vite – a batteries included next-generation frontend tooling library. Vite continues to push the ecosystem forward with even stronger defaults, super speedy local development workflows, and a highly extensible universal plugin API. Need we say more?! Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 3 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: Retool – Retool is ...

Feb 11, 20221 hr 14 min

A Solid option for building UIs

Ryan Carniato joins Jerod, Amelia, and Nick to discuss SolidjS – a declarative, efficient, and flexible JavaScript library for building user interfaces. Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 4 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: Raygun – Never miss another mission-critical issue again — Raygun Alerting is now available for Crash Reporting and Real User Monitoring, to make sure you are quickly notified of the errors, crashes, and front-end per...

Feb 04, 202255 min

What's in your package.json?

Tobie Langel, Open source strategist and Principal at UnlockOpen, joins Chris, Feross, and Amal to discuss recent widespread incidents affecting the JavaScript community (and breaking CI builds) around the globe. Two widely used npm libraries were self-sabotaged by their single maintainer, yet again, highlighting the many gaps in our OSS supply chain security, sustainability and overall practices. We explore all these topics and solution on what our ecosystem needs to be more resilient to these ...

Jan 29, 20221 hr 9 min

What Cloudflare is up to

Cloudflare has a lot more to offer than merely DDoS protection and CDN services. On this episode, Jon Kuperman joins Amal & Jerod to talk through many of their cool new things like Workers, KV, Durable Objects, and R2 Storage. Thanks to listener Matt Mannucci for requesting this episode! Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 4 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: Raygun – Never miss another mission-critical issue again — Raygun Alerting is...

Jan 21, 20221 hr 6 min

Temporal is like React for the backend

Swyx is known for learning in public, and he joins the party to teach Ali and Nick about what he’s been working on with Temporal IO, what it is, and why he’s excited about it. We also talk about his role as Director of Developer Experience, including what developer experience is, how to do it, and what goals to set. Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 3 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: Retool – Retool is a low-code platform built specifi...

Jan 14, 202258 min

New Year's Party! 🍾

It’s our 3rd annual New Year’s party! We welcome a new panelist, review our (failed) resolutions from last year, discuss what’s trending in the web world, and even set some new (failed) resolutions for this year. Join the discussion Changelog++ members get a bonus 4 minutes at the end of this episode and zero ads. Join today! Sponsors: Raygun – Never miss another mission-critical issue again — Raygun Alerting is now available for Crash Reporting and Real User Monitoring, to make sure you are qui...

Jan 07, 202254 min

Frontend Feud: React Advanced Edition

Jerod, Nick, and a node_modules -worthy collection of JS friends played an intense game of Frontend Feud at React Advanced London ’s after-party back in October. Today, you get to play along with us! Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 3 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: Retool – Retool is a low-code platform built specifically for developers that makes it fast and easy to build internal tools. Instead of building internal tools from scra...

Dec 17, 20211 hr 6 min

So much Sveltey goodness

Rich Harris joins Amal & Amelia for a Svelte deep-dive! What’s it all about? Why might you pick it over React and friends? What up with SvelteKit? Rich is working on it full-time now?! Will even more questions be answered? Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 3 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: Auth0 – The for developers, by developers identity platform built for the cloud era that secures billions of logins every year. Security, compl...

Dec 10, 20211 hr 9 min

JavaScript will kill you in the Apocalypse

Salma Alam-Naylor joins us this week to share her thesis that JavaScript is best in moderation, and is a liability when creating performant, resilient, and accessible web applications. Salma says we’re drunk on JavaScript, and it’s time we learn how to leverage this powerful web primitive to enhance our web experiences, alongside HTML and CSS, instead of purely relying on JavaScript to completely run the show. Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 4 minutes on this episode because they ma...

Dec 03, 20211 hr 7 min

From engineering to product

Liana Leahy tells Amal and KBall all about her journey from software engineer to product manager. Along the way we learn what a PM does, how to be great at it, how to know if it’s for you, why the role is in such demand these days, and much more. - It’s UNIX, I know this! Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 4 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: Auth0 – The for developers, by developers identity platform built for the cloud era that secures ...

Nov 26, 20211 hr 6 min
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