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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

Web3 101 with Noah Hein

Curious about Web3 but not sure where to start? Noah Hein joins us to share some blockchain and Web3 fundamentals. Links https://twitter.com/NHeinDev https://twitter.com/QuickNode https://www.quicknode.com https://www.quicknode.com/guides Review us Reviews are what help us grow and tailor our content to what you want to hear. Give us a review here (https://ratethispodcast.com/podrocket). Contact us https://podrocket.logrocket.com/contact-us @PodRocketpod (https://twitter.com/podrocketpod) What d...

Jan 19, 202241 min

Framer Motion and Motion One with Matt Perry

Framer Motion is a production-ready motion library for React and Motion One is a new animation library, built on the Web Animations API for the smallest file size and the fastest performance. We speak to Matt Perry about Framer Motion, Motion One, animations, and open source. Links https://www.framer.com/motion https://motion.dev https://twitter.com/mattgperry Review us Reviews are what help us grow and tailor our content to what you want to hear. Give us a review here (https://ratethispodcast.c...

Jan 18, 202240 min

Founder Friday: Chris Burns of Everfund

Chris Burns is one of the hosts of the FSJam podcast and also the Cofounder and CEO of Everfund, a plug-and-play donation solution making donations easier. He joins us today to tell us about Everfund, what technologies he used to create it, and lessons learned in the process of starting his own company. Links https://twitter.com/BurnedChris https://everfund.io https://twitter.com/_everfund https://twitter.com/everfunddevs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVcsvhq4kQI https://podrocket.logrocket.co...

Jan 14, 202239 min

Community is the future with Rosie Sherry

Rosie Sherry, Community Lead at Orbit, is an expert at community building. Rosie joins us to talk about how she created and grew the Ministry of Testing community, the future of communities, and much more. Links https://twitter.com/rosiesherry https://www.ministryoftesting.com https://orbit.love https://rosie.land https://twitter.com/ministryoftest https://twitter.com/RosielandHQ https://twitter.com/orbitmodel https://discord.com/invite/kQpqkNwtbF Review us https://ratethispodcast.com/podrocket ...

Jan 11, 202243 min

Anvil with Meredydd Luff

Anvil is a way to build full-stack web apps with nothing but Python. It's easy enough for beginners, but powerful enough for pros. Meredydd Luff joins us to talk about creating web apps with Python, accessibility, the future of Anvil, and more. Links https://twitter.com/meredydd https://anvil.works https://anvil.works/pricing https://twitter.com/anvil_works Review us https://ratethispodcast.com/podrocket Contact us https://podrocket.logrocket.com/contact-us @PodRocketpod (https://twitter.com/Pod...

Jan 07, 202243 min

Rocket Surgery: 2021 year in review and 2022 predictions

Happy New Year! In this episode, we revisit the predictions we made last year for 2021, we reflect on the most significant trends in web development in 2021, including updates, dev tooling, programming languages, and more. We also make some predictions for 2022. Links https://podrocket.logrocket.com/4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpCf6H8mMMU https://v3.vuejs.org https://recoiljs.org https://yew.rs https://github.com/yewstack/yew https://seed-rs.org https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/apps/aspn...

Jan 04, 202257 min

Alpine.js with Caleb Porzio (Repeat)

Originally published on March 2nd, 2021 We are taking some time off from production. We will be back with new episodes on January 4th. We talk to Caleb Porzio about Alpine.js and what to expect in 2021. We also get into some of Caleb’s other creations like Laravel Livewire and makevscodeawesome.com. Links https://calebporzio.com https://twitter.com/calebporzio https://github.com/alpinejs/alpine https://twitter.com/Alpine_JS https://twitter.com/youyuxi/status/1262075462651609088 https://github.co...

Dec 31, 202131 min

Component-driven development with Zoltan Olah (Repeat)

Originally published on January 12th, 2021 We are taking some time off from production. We will be back with new episodes on January 4th. Ben Edelstein sits down with the CEO and Founder of Chromatic, Zoltan Olah. Ben and Zoltan discuss frontend testing, the philosophy of component-driven development, Storybook, and more. Links https://www.chromatic.com https://storybook.js.org https://www.chromatic.com/blog/component-driven-development https://twitter.com/zqzoltan Review us https://ratethispodc...

Dec 28, 202126 min

Continuing education with Eve Porcello (Repeat)

Originally published on June 1st, 2021 We are taking some time off from production. We will be back with new episodes on January 4th. In this episode, we talk to Eve Porcello about her experience teaching web development. We also talk about Moon Highway, a training and curriculum development company she runs with her husband, Alex Banks. Links https://twitter.com/eveporcello https://moonhighway.com https://www.linkedin.com/learning https://graphqlworkshop.com https://www.howtographql.com https:/...

Dec 24, 202141 min

Cloudflare with Jon Kuperman

Jon Kuperman, Developer Advocate at Cloudflare, takes us through Cloudflare's product portfolio, including the DNS provider, DDoS protection, Cloudflare workers, video streaming, and more. Links https://www.cloudflare.com https://twitter.com/jkup https://workers.cloudflare.com Review us https://ratethispodcast.com/podrocket Contact us https://podrocket.logrocket.com/contact-us @PodRocketpod (https://twitter.com/PodRocketpod) What does LogRocket do? LogRocket combines frontend monitoring, product...

Dec 21, 202143 min

Web3 with Nader Dabit

Nader Dabit, DevRel at Edge and Node, joins us to talk about crypto, Web3, the Developer DAO, and The Graph - an indexing protocol for querying networks like Ethereum and IPFS. Links https://twitter.com/dabit3 https://www.youtube.com/NaderDabit https://thegraph.com (https://thegraph.com/en) https://solana.com https://hadriencroubois.com https://twitter.com/developer_dao https://twitter.com/saniyamore https://confirmsubscription.com/h/j/54CBD26EB3AE7C4B https://twitter.com/futurealisha https://ww...

Dec 17, 202142 min

Developer Tea with Jonathan Cutrell

Developer Tea is a podcast for developers designed to fit inside your tea break. Jonathan Cutrell started the podcast in 2015 and now has hosted over 1000 episodes. We interview Jonathan Cutrell about the early days of Developer Tea, Spec.fm, developer content, and more. Links https://jonathancutrell.com https://twitter.com/jcutrell https://spec.fm/podcasts/developer-tea https://designdetails.fm https://spec.fm https://twitter.com/chantastic https://developertea.com https://twitter.com/Developer...

Dec 14, 202146 min

Migrating to Next.js with Cory Etzkorn

Have you been thinking about migrating to Next.js? Cory Etzkorn joins us to talk about how his team migrated the Notion marketing site to Next.js. He covers why they wanted to migrate, why Next.js was the best solution for them, and the results of the migration. Links https://www.notion.so/onboarding (https://www.notion.so/onboarding) https://twitter.com/NotionHQ (https://twitter.com/NotionHQ) https://www.notion.so/blog/migrating-notion-marketing-to-next-js (https://www.notion.so/blog/migrating-...

Dec 10, 202144 min

Vue and Vite with Evan You

Evan You joins us on PodRocket to talk about Vue and Vite. What motivated the shift to Vue 3? What is Vite? Do you think Vite will replace Nuxt's webpack default at some point? If you had to start over what would be the biggest rework you would do? Evan answers all of these questions in this episode. Listen now. Links https://twitter.com/youyuxi (https://twitter.com/youyuxi) https://v3.vuejs.org (https://v3.vuejs.org) https://vitejs.dev (https://vitejs.dev) Contact us https://podrocket.logrocket...

Dec 07, 202148 min

Philosophical CSS discussions with Adam Argyle

Adam Argyle, Chrome CSS Developer Advocate at Google and co-host of the CSS podcast, joins us to talk about CSS, design, edge case wrangling, and more. Links https://twitter.com/argyleink (https://twitter.com/argyleink) https://thecsspodcast.libsyn.com (https://thecsspodcast.libsyn.com) https://www.youtube.com/GoogleChromeDevelopers (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNYkxOF6rcIAaV1wwI9540OC_3XoIzMjQ) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TheDesignofEverydayThings (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The...

Dec 03, 202138 min

Work-life balance with Jason Lengstorf

Jason Lengstorf joins us to talk about his role as VP of Developer Experience at Netlify, building corporate communities, live streams, and how to avoid burnout. Listen now. Links https://twitter.com/jlengstorf https://www.learnwithjason.dev https://www.netlify.com https://www.partycorgi.com https://explorers.netlify.com https://jamstack.org/community https://www.jason.af Contact us https://podrocket.logrocket.com/contact-us @PodRocketpod (https://twitter.com/PodRocketpod) What does LogRocket do...

Nov 30, 202141 min

Blitz.js with Brandon Bayer (Repeat)

Originally published on January 12, 2021 We are taking this week off from production. We will be back with new episodes on November 30th. Ben and Brian talk to Brandon Bayer, creator of Blitz.js. We take a deep dive into everything Blitz has to offer. More specifically, we address how Blitz compares with other fullstack frameworks and how Blitz balances being opinionated with being flexible for each aspect of the toolchain. We also talk about community building and beyond. Links https://github.c...

Nov 26, 202122 min

Expo with Charlie Cheever (Repeat)

Originally published March 23, 2021. We are taking this week off from production. We will be back with new episodes on November 30th. Ben interviews Charlie Cheever, CEO and cofounder of Expo. They talk about the difficulties of building a cross-platform app and what Expo is doing to make that easier for developers. They also get into the state of React Native and more. Links https://expo.io https://twitter.com/ccheever https://expo.io/eas https://expo.io/tools https://expo.io/client https://med...

Nov 23, 202138 min

Learning CSS with Josh Comeau

Josh Comeau joins us to talk about all things CSS and why it doesn't suck (no matter what web dev Twitter says)! Links https://twitter.com/JoshWComeau https://css-for-js.dev https://www.framer.com/motion https://www.joshwcomeau.com https://wattenberger.com/blog https://wattenberger.com/blog/css-cascade Contact us https://podrocket.logrocket.com/contact-us (https://podrocket.logrocket.com/contact-us) @PodRocketpod (https://twitter.com/PodRocketpod) What does LogRocket do? LogRocket combines front...

Nov 19, 202137 min

HTML All The Things with Mike Karan

We talk to Mike Karan, frontend engineer and host of HTML All The Things podcast, about podcasting, freelancing, and his Svelte course. Links https://twitter.com/htmleverything https://www.htmlallthethings.com/podcast https://www.htmlallthethings.com https://twitter.com/JacobMGEvans https://www.udemy.com/course/svelte-for-beginners/?couponCode=HATTSALE Contact us https://podrocket.logrocket.com/contact-us (https://podrocket.logrocket.com/contact-us) @PodRocketpod (https://twitter.com/PodRocketpo...

Nov 16, 202134 min

Vanilla JavaScript with Chris Ferdinandi

We talk to Chris Ferdinandi about vanilla JavaScript, the modern web, newsletters, and more. Links https://gomakethings.com/podrocket http://vanilla-js.com https://preactjs.com https://alpinejs.dev https://www.npmjs.com/package/petite-vue https://css-tricks.com/radeventlistener-a-tale-of-client-side-framework-performance https://svelte.dev https://kit.svelte.dev https://astro.build https://twitter.com/jlengstorf/status/1442707241627385860 https://moderncss.dev https://smolcss.dev Contact us http...

Nov 12, 202148 min

Qwik, Partytown, and builder.io with Misko Hevery

NOTE: In this episode, Misko uses demos to share more about how Qwik and Partytown work. If you would like to follow along with the demos please check out the video recording of this interview here https://youtu.be/0wXjI_bqY9c. Misko Hevery, the creator of Angular, joins us to talk about his latest projects at builder.io including Qwik, the HTML first framework, and Partytown, a lazy-loaded 6kb library to help relocate resource-intensive scripts into a web worker, and off of the main thread. Lea...

Nov 09, 202147 min

React Podcast with Chantastic

If you are a React developer, you're probably familiar with the React Podcast. Chantastic joins us today to talk about his experience working on the React Podcast for two and a half years, how he is now spending his time building the React Podcast Discord, and much more. Links discord.gg/lunchdev (https://discord.com/invite/lunchdev) https://spec.fm https://www.meetup.com/ReactJSDallas https://twitter.com/chantastic https://reactpodcast.com https://twitter.com/reactpodcast https://twitter.com/aj...

Nov 05, 202148 min

Progressive web apps with Aaron Gustafson

We talk to Aaron Gustafson, author, speaker, Principal Program Manager on the Microsoft Edge team, and long-time web standards advocate, about progressive web apps. Listen now. Links https://twitter.com/aarongustafson (https://twitter.com/aarongustafson) https://www.w3.org (https://www.w3.org) https://alistapart.com (https://alistapart.com) https://www.pwabuilder.com (https://www.pwabuilder.com) https://abookapart.com/products/design-for-safety (https://abookapart.com/products/design-for-safety)...

Nov 02, 202148 min

Founder Friday: Matan Mishan of Livecycle

Livecycle is a real-time collaboration platform between coders and other stakeholders with a mission to eliminate the friction in the feedback loop. We talk to one of the founders of Livecycle, Matan Mishan to learn more. Links https://twitter.com/mishanmatan (https://twitter.com/mishanmatan) https://livecycle.io (https://livecycle.io) Contact us https://podrocket.logrocket.com/contact-us (https://podrocket.logrocket.com/contact-us) @PodRocketpod (https://twitter.com/PodRocketpod) What does LogR...

Oct 29, 202123 min

Becoming a manager, career growth, and the evolution of content with Harry Wolff

We talk to Harry Wolff, writer, YouTuber, and Director of Engineering at MongoDB, about Rust content, clickbait, creating a YouTube channel, why engineering managers fail, and so much more. Links https://twitter.com/hswolff (https://twitter.com/hswolff) https://www.youtube.com/hswolff (https://www.youtube.com/hswolff) https://github.com/hswolff (https://github.com/hswolff) https://www.hswolff.com (https://www.hswolff.com) https://www.mongodb.com (https://www.mongodb.com) https://www.mongodb.com/...

Oct 26, 202143 min

RocketJam: A PodRocket/FSJam Mashup

This is a PodRocket/FSJam Mashup. Members from both PodRocket and FSJam talk about some of their favorite episodes, how the podcasts got started, what it's like creating a podcast in the web dev space, what trends they have seen, and more. Links https://fsjam.org (https://fsjam.org) https://twitter.com/ajcwebdev (https://twitter.com/ajcwebdev) https://twitter.com/BurnedChris (https://twitter.com/BurnedChris) https://everfund.co.uk (https://everfund.co.uk) https://syntax.fm (https://syntax.fm) ht...

Oct 22, 20211 hr 2 min

Elder.js with Nick Reese

After trying multiple static site generators, Nick Reese taught himself JavaScript and built his own known as Elder.js. We talk about how Elder.js works, how it helps with SEO, and some other projects Nick is working on. Links https://twitter.com/nickreese (https://twitter.com/nickreese) https://elderguide.com/tech/elderjs (https://elderguide.com/tech/elderjs) https://elderguide.com (https://elderguide.com) https://findenergy.com (https://findenergy.com) https://github.com/Elderjs/elderjs (https...

Oct 19, 202127 min

XState with David Khourshid

XState is a framework-agnostic library for creating and using state machines and statecharts. Learn more by listening to our interview with David Khourshid, creator of XState. Links https://twitter.com/DavidKPiano (https://twitter.com/DavidKPiano) https://xstate.js.org (https://xstate.js.org) https://stately.ai (https://stately.ai) https://stately.ai/viz (https://stately.ai/viz) https://discord.gg/xstate (https://discord.gg/xstate) https://github.com/statelyai/xstate/discussions (https://github....

Oct 15, 202121 min

Creating content in the JavaScript universe with Ebenezer Don

We talk to Ebenezer Don, Developer Advocate at JetBrains, about learning new frameworks and creating content. Listen now. Links https://twitter.com/ebenezerDN (https://twitter.com/ebenezerDN) https://github.com/ebenezerdon (https://github.com/ebenezerdon) https://www.linkedin.com/in/ebenezerdon (https://www.linkedin.com/in/ebenezerdon) https://www.jetbrains.com/webstorm (https://www.jetbrains.com/webstorm) https://blog.logrocket.com/author/ebenezerdon (https://blog.logrocket.com/author/ebenezerd...

Oct 12, 202115 min
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