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PodRocket - A web development podcast from LogRocket

PodRocket covers everything you need to know about frontend web development on a weekly basis. Join LogRocket cofounder Ben Edelstein, the LogRocket engineering team, and more, as they interview experienced developers about all the libraries, frameworks, and tech industry issues they deal with every day.
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Episodes

This Dot Media with Tracy Lee

Tracy Lee is the CEO of This Dot Labs, a Google Developer Expert, a Microsoft MVP, and a member of the RxJS Core Team. She joins us to talk about hiring developers, building community, and some exciting things she has planned for the future. Links https://twitter.com/ladyleet (https://twitter.com/ladyleet) https://www.thisdot.co (https://www.thisdot.co) https://www.youtube.com/ThisDotMedia (https://www.youtube.com/ThisDotMedia) https://twitter.com/ThisDotMedia (https://twitter.com/ThisDotMedia) ...

Oct 08, 202125 min

Svelte with Rich Harris

We interview Rich Harris about Svelte's position in the landscape of frameworks, how other popular frameworks are becoming more Svelte-like, how Svelte handles state, how SvelteKit works, and more! Links https://twitter.com/Rich_Harris (https://twitter.com/Rich_Harris) https://svelte.dev (https://svelte.dev) https://kit.svelte.dev (https://kit.svelte.dev) https://github.com/sveltejs/svelte (https://github.com/sveltejs/svelte) https://github.com/sveltejs/kit (https://github.com/sveltejs/kit) http...

Oct 05, 202141 min

Tailwind CSS and Inertia.js with Jonathan Reinink

Jonathan Reinink joins us to get us up to speed on Tailwind CSS, Tailwind UI, and Inertia.js. Links https://tailwindcss.com (https://tailwindcss.com) https://tailwindui.com (https://tailwindui.com) https://inertiajs.com (https://inertiajs.com) https://twitter.com/reinink (https://twitter.com/reinink) https://github.com/reinink (https://github.com/reinink) Contact us https://podrocket.logrocket.com/contact-us (https://podrocket.logrocket.com/contact-us) @PodRocketpod (https://twitter.com/PodRocke...

Oct 01, 202149 min

Fine dining with Wes and Scott

We talk to Wes Bos and Scott Tolinski about ad reads, food-themed content, and why we love Syntax.fm. Links https://syntax.fm (https://syntax.fm) https://twitter.com/wesbos (https://twitter.com/wesbos) https://twitter.com/stolinski (https://twitter.com/stolinski) https://wesbos.com/courses (https://wesbos.com/courses) https://leveluptutorials.com (https://leveluptutorials.com) https://www.youtube.com/LevelUpTuts (https://www.youtube.com/LevelUpTuts) https://www.youtube.com/wesbos (https://www.yo...

Sep 28, 202144 min

Founder Friday: Akash Khanolkar of Octane

Octane enables software companies to offer usage-based billing and helps companies meter customer usage, price according to flexible plans, and bill customers through payment gateways. Learn more from Octane co-founder, Akash Khanolkar, in this month's Founder Friday episode. Links https://www.getoctane.io (https://www.getoctane.io) https://www.getoctane.io/careers-design-lead (https://www.getoctane.io/careers-design-lead) team@getoctane.io (mailto:team@getoctane.io) akash@getoctane.io (mailto:a...

Sep 24, 202120 min

Creating YouTube tutorials with Leigh Halliday

We interview Leigh Halliday, Senior Engineering Manager at Wrapbook, about his YouTube channel, creating tutorials, and his Next.js course. Links https://www.youtube.com/leighhalliday (https://www.youtube.com/leighhalliday) https://twitter.com/leighchalliday (https://twitter.com/leighchalliday) https://www.leighhalliday.com (https://www.leighhalliday.com) https://github.com/leighhalliday (https://github.com/leighhalliday) https://rubyonrails.org (https://rubyonrails.org) https://blog.logrocket.c...

Sep 21, 202135 min

GitHub, open source, and pizza with bdougie

We sit down with the Director of Developer Advocacy at GitHub, Brian Douglas, also known as bdougie, to talk about developer content, Open Sauced, creating a personal brand, and pizza. Links https://twitter.com/bdougieYO (https://twitter.com/bdougieYO) https://www.tiktok.com/@bdougieyo (https://www.tiktok.com/@bdougieyo) https://www.youtube.com/c/bdougie (https://www.youtube.com/c/bdougie) https://www.heavybit.com/library/podcasts/jamstack-radio (https://www.heavybit.com/library/podcasts/jamstac...

Sep 17, 202139 min

Vercel and Next.js with Guillermo Rauch

We interview Guillermo Rauch, CEO of Vercel and creator of Next.js. We cover how to improve the developer experience and user experience, how Vercel and Next.js are leaning into the e-commerce space, the future of Vercel, Next.js Conf, and more. Links https://twitter.com/rauchg (https://twitter.com/rauchg) https://vercel.com (https://vercel.com) https://nextjs.org (https://nextjs.org) https://twitter.com/vercel (https://twitter.com/vercel) https://nextjs.org/commerce (https://nextjs.org/commerce...

Sep 14, 202156 min

Swiz tech with Swizec Teller

Swizec Teller is a Senior Software Engineer at Tia, a healthcare company for women, as well as a speaker, instructor, and author. Swizec created the course React for Data Viz (https://reactfordataviz.com/) and wrote Serverless Handbook for Frontend Engineers (https://serverlesshandbook.dev/) and the Senior Mindset series (https://seniormindset.com/). You can watch the video recording of this interview on our YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qimJb8ANfVY). Links https://twitter.com...

Sep 10, 202142 min

The TanStack with Tanner Linsley

We interview Tanner Linsley, the creator of the TanStack, which includes popular tools like React Query and React Table. Tanner is also the Co-Founder and VP of UI/UX at Nozzle. Links https://twitter.com/tannerlinsley (https://twitter.com/tannerlinsley) https://tanstack.com (https://tanstack.com) https://react-query.tanstack.com (https://react-query.tanstack.com) https://react-table.tanstack.com (https://react-table.tanstack.com) https://react-charts.tanstack.com (https://react-charts.tanstack.c...

Sep 07, 202146 min

SolidJS with Ryan Carniato

Ryan Carniato tells us all about SolidJS, a declarative, efficient, and flexible JavaScript library for building user interfaces. Be sure to check out the video version of this recording on our YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70w-UoEu3Ss). Links https://twitter.com/RyanCarniato (https://twitter.com/RyanCarniato) https://discord.com/invite/solidjs (https://discord.com/invite/solidjs) https://twitter.com/solid_js (https://mobile.twitter.com/solid_js) https://www.solidjs.com (https...

Sep 03, 202138 min

QuickTok with James Q. Quick

We talk to James Q. Quick, Developer Media Manager at Auth0, about building a personal brand, the future of DevRel, and TikTok. Listen wherever you get your podcasts and be sure to check out the video recording on our YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbKrQRf1RHs). Links https://twitter.com/jamesqquick (https://twitter.com/jamesqquick) https://www.twitch.tv/jamesqquick (https://www.twitch.tv/jamesqquick) https://twitter.com/samjulien (https://twitter.com/samjulien) https://learn.s...

Aug 31, 202146 min

Founder Friday: Ustin Zarubin of Batch

It's Founder Friday on PodRocket where we highlight founders of startups in the dev tools space. In this episode, we talk with Ustin Zarubin, CEO and cofounder of Batch, a platform of SaaS tooling for event driven systems. Links https://batch.sh (https://batch.sh) https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/batch (https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/batch) https://github.com/uzarubin (https://github.com/uzarubin) https://martinfowler.com/eaaDev/EventSourcing.html (https://martinfowler.com/eaaDev/Eve...

Aug 27, 202129 min

Epic React, quality content, and office hours with Kent C. Dodds

We sat down with Kent C. Dodds to talk about his mission to improve the world with quality software. Kent has content on Egghead.io and Frontend Masters he also created Testing JavaScript and Epic React. In this episode, we talk about what it's like to teach software development, and, one of our favorite topics of discussion, creating quality content. Listen wherever you get your podcasts and be sure to check out the video recording on our YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efw1wQ9...

Aug 24, 202151 min

Writing audio apps in JavaScript with Nick Thompson

We interview Nick Thompson, creator of Elementary Audio, a JavaScript runtime based on Node.js for writing native audio applications, as well as a library and framework for composing audio signal processes. NOTE: In this episode, Nick takes us through a demo of Elementary. You can check out the video for this recording on our YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0-LW8vQjfQ). Links You can watch the video recording of this podcast here (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0-LW8vQjfQ) ht...

Aug 20, 202134 min

RxJS with Ben Lesh

In this episode, we sit down with Ben Lesh, RxJS Project Lead. We wanted to know more about observables, use cases, and common pitfalls when using RxJS. Learn more in this episode. Links https://twitter.com/BenLesh (https://twitter.com/BenLesh) https://benlesh.com (https://benlesh.com) https://github.com/benlesh (https://github.com/benlesh) https://rxjs.dev (https://rxjs.dev) https://tc39.es (https://tc39.es) https://github.com/ReactiveX/rxjs (https://github.com/ReactiveX/rxjs) Contact us https:...

Aug 17, 202140 min

Envelop, GraphQL, and The Guild with Uri Goldshtein

In this episode, we talk to the founder of The Guild, Uri Goldshtein. We discuss Envelop (a new GraphQL plugin system) as well as other projects The Guild is working on. Links https://twitter.com/UriGoldshtein (https://twitter.com/UriGoldshtein) https://the-guild.dev (https://the-guild.dev) https://twitter.com/theguilddev (https://twitter.com/theguilddev) https://www.graphql-code-generator.com (https://www.graphql-code-generator.com) https://www.envelop.dev (https://www.envelop.dev) https://www....

Aug 10, 202149 min

Expo: Part 2 with Brent Vatne

Ben interviews Brent Vatne, Engineering Manager at Expo, to talk about Expo SDK 42, React Native, and we also have a special announcement about LogRocket! Links https://twitter.com/notbrent (https://twitter.com/notbrent) https://github.com/brentvatne (https://github.com/brentvatne) https://expo.dev (https://expo.dev) https://podrocket.logrocket.com/expo (https://podrocket.logrocket.com/expo) https://twitter.com/ji (https://twitter.com/ji) https://blog.expo.dev/expo-sdk-42-579aee2348b6 (https://b...

Aug 06, 202134 min

Professional YouTubing with Jessica Chan

Jessica Chan joins us for a second interview to talk about her decision to focus on YouTubing full time. Jessica shares the importance of YouTube thumbnails, the future of YouTube tutorials, and more. Links Coder Coder (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzNf0liwUzMN6_pixbQlMhQ) https://www.instagram.com/thecodercoder (https://www.instagram.com/thecodercoder/) https://twitter.com/thecodercoder (https://twitter.com/thecodercoder) https://podrocket.logrocket.com/5 (https://podrocket.logrocket.com/5)...

Aug 03, 202144 min

Rust with Luca Palmieri

In the episode, Ben and Kaelan interview Luca Palmieri, author of Zero To Production In Rust (https://www.zero2prod.com/). They talk about the Rust ecosystem, Rust frameworks, and telemetry for Rust APIs. Links https://twitter.com/algo_luca (https://twitter.com/algo_luca) https://www.lpalmieri.com (https://www.lpalmieri.com) https://www.zero2prod.com (https://www.zero2prod.com) https://actix.rs (https://actix.rs/) https://rocket.rs (https://rocket.rs/) https://diesel.rs (https://diesel.rs/) http...

Jul 30, 202128 min

vanilla-extract with Mark Dalgleish

In this episode, Ben interviews Mark Dalgleish about CSS Modules and vanilla-extract, which is basically “CSS Modules-in-TypeScript” but with scoped CSS variables. Listen to this episode to learn more about vanilla-extract and how to use it in your next project. Links https://twitter.com/markdalgleish (https://twitter.com/markdalgleish) https://github.com/markdalgleish (https://github.com/markdalgleish) https://github.com/css-modules/css-modules (https://github.com/css-modules/css-modules) https...

Jul 27, 202131 min

Remotion with Jonny Burger

Remotion gives you the tools for video creation, but the rules of React stay the same. Ben interviews Jonny Burger, creator of Remotion, to talk about how developers can create videos programmatically using React. Links https://twitter.com/JNYBGR (https://twitter.com/JNYBGR) https://www.remotion.dev (https://www.remotion.dev) https://github.com/remotion-dev/remotion (https://github.com/remotion-dev/remotion) https://www.remotion.dev/docs/three (https://www.remotion.dev/docs/three) https://www.re...

Jul 20, 202125 min

Shawn Swyx Wang: swyxtape vol. 2

Curious about all of the hype around Svelte? Swyx joins us on this episode of PodRocket to talk about Svelte and all of the work he has been doing at Svelte Society. Links https://twitter.com/swyx (https://twitter.com/swyx) https://www.swyx.io (https://www.swyx.io) https://podrocket.logrocket.com/swyx (https://podrocket.logrocket.com/swyx) https://twitter.com/SvelteSociety (https://twitter.com/SvelteSociety) https://github.com/svelte-society (https://github.com/svelte-society) https://sveltesoci...

Jul 16, 202149 min

DevRel, community management, and marketing with Kim Maida

Which department should DevRel report to? How do you get started in a career in DevRel? Kim Maida, VP of Developer Relations at Ionic, joins us to answer all of your questions about DevRel. Links https://twitter.com/KimMaida (https://twitter.com/KimMaida) https://github.com/kmaida (https://github.com/kmaida) https://twitter.com/mhartington (https://twitter.com/mhartington) https://dev.to/kimmaida (https://dev.to/kimmaida) Contact us https://podrocket.logrocket.com/contact-us (https://podrocket.l...

Jul 13, 202150 min

Cypress with Gleb Bahmutov

In this episode, Ben interviews Gleb Bahmutov, Senior Director of Engineering at Mercari and former Distinguished Engineer at Cypress. Gleb joins us to talk about testing, Cypress, and how companies can successfully introduce end-to-end tests into their workflows. Links https://twitter.com/bahmutov (https://twitter.com/bahmutov) https://glebbahmutov.com (https://glebbahmutov.com) https://www.cypress.io (https://www.cypress.io) https://docs.cypress.io (https://docs.cypress.io) https://docs.cypres...

Jul 09, 202128 min

The state of coding bootcamps with Monarch Wadia

In this episode, Brian and Kate talk to Monarch Wadia, cofounder of Mintbean. They talk about challenges bootcamp grads face, what the future of coding bootcamps look like, the process of hiring developers, and more. Links https://twitter.com/monarchwadia (https://twitter.com/monarchwadia) https://mintbean.io (https://mintbean.io) https://twitter.com/be_haki/status/1407971610636738564 (https://twitter.com/be_haki/status/1407971610636738564) https://www.linkedin.com/posts/monarchwadia_motivation-...

Jul 06, 202151 min

Vue with Ben Hong

Ben Hong shares how he got involved with Vue starting back in 2017(when everyone was talking about React). Learn about Ben Hong's experience with Vue, his thoughts on the framework wars, and more about Vue 3. Links https://twitter.com/bencodezen (https://twitter.com/bencodezen) https://www.bencodezen.io (https://www.bencodezen.io) https://twitter.com/bencodezen/status/1220768789463293952 (https://twitter.com/bencodezen/status/1220768789463293952) https://v3.vuejs.org (https://v3.vuejs.org) https...

Jun 30, 202132 min

Rome and Rome Tools, Inc. with Sebastian McKenzie and Jamie Kyle

It's pretty common to see a fair amount of skepticism when open-source projects raise venture money and Rome was certainly not immune from the skepticism. In this episode, Ben and Kaelan talk to Sebastian McKenzie and Jamie Kyle about Rome Tools, Inc., the roadmap for Rome, and the experience getting funding as an open-source tool. Links https://twitter.com/sebmck (https://twitter.com/sebmck) https://twitter.com/buildsghost (https://twitter.com/buildsghost) https://twitter.com/rometools (https:/...

Jun 29, 202140 min

Founder Friday: Fred Schott of Astro

Why is it still difficult to build a website that's fast? Fred Schott returns to PodRocket to talk about Astro, a new kind of static site builder that delivers lightning-fast performance with a modern developer experience. Learn more in this episode. Links https://twitter.com/FredKSchott (https://twitter.com/FredKSchott) http://fredkschott.com (http://fredkschott.com) https://astro.build (https://astro.build) https://www.snowpack.dev (https://www.snowpack.dev) https://www.skypack.dev (https://ww...

Jun 25, 202130 min

Gatsby with Kyle Mathews

In this episode, Ben interviews Kyle Mathews, Founder and CTO of Gatsby. They cover v3, Functions, Gatsby Cloud, and Gatsby's goals for the future (including faster builds). Links https://www.gatsbyjs.com (https://www.gatsbyjs.com) https://twitter.com/kylemathews (https://twitter.com/kylemathews) https://www.gatsbyjs.com/products/cloud (https://www.gatsbyjs.com/products/cloud) https://www.gatsbyjs.com/products/concierge (https://www.gatsbyjs.com/products/concierge) https://blog.logrocket.com/wha...

Jun 22, 202133 min
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