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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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Rachel Nabors talks React, layoffs, and career growth

Rachel Nabors is an author, speaker, teacher, and former React core team member. Rachel joins us to talk about React documentation, the recent layoffs in tech, career growth in 2023, and more! Links https://twitter.com/rachelnabors http://rachelnabors.com https://wigglygoose.substack.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/rachelnabors https://www.renderatl.com https://berlin.cityjsconf.org https://abookapart.com/products/animation-at-work Tell us what you think of PodRocket We want to hear from you! We...

Jun 09, 202334 min

Cloudflare Pages with Greg Brimble

Greg Brimble is a Software Engineer at Cloudflare working on Cloudflare Pages in the Emerging Technologies and Incubation department. Greg joins us to talk about Pages and some of the exciting things announced at Cloudflare Developer Week. Links https://gregbrimble.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/gregbrimble https://twitter.com/GregBrimble https://github.com/gregbrimble https://blog.cloudflare.com https://www.cloudflare.com https://twitter.com/Cloudflare https://github.com/cloudflare Tell us wha...

Jun 08, 202328 min

The future of Svelte with Simon Holthausen

Svelte Core Team Member, Simon Holthausen, joins us to talk about what to expect from Svelte 4 and Svelte 5. Links https://twitter.com/dummdidumm_ https://www.linkedin.com/in/simon-holthausen-2501428a https://github.com/dummdidumm https://twitter.com/SvelteJs https://svelte.dev Tell us what you think of PodRocket We want to hear from you! We want to know what you love and hate about the podcast. What do you want to hear more about? Who do you want to see on the show? Our producers want to know, ...

Jun 07, 202328 min

React, TypeScript, and ESLint with Josh Goldberg

Josh Goldberg, open-source maintainer, speaker, and educator, comes onto the show to talk about linting in relation to React and TypeScript. Links https://astro.build https://docs.astro.build https://twitter.com/astrodotbuild https://bholmes.dev https://twitter.com/BHolmesDev https://github.com/bholmesdev https://www.linkedin.com/in/bholmesdev https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfFNverFDMdWDQGBBC7Zw https://wtw.dev Tell us what you think of PodRocket We want to hear from you! We want to know what ...

Jun 06, 202330 min

Astro 2.0 with Ben Holmes (Repeat)

Originally published on January 31st, 2023. In this repeat episode, Ben Holmes, Software Developer at Astro, joins us to tell us everything you need to know about Astro 2.0. Links https://astro.build https://docs.astro.build https://twitter.com/astrodotbuild https://bholmes.dev https://twitter.com/BHolmesDev https://github.com/bholmesdev https://www.linkedin.com/in/bholmesdev https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfFNverFDMdWDQGBBC7Zw https://wtw.dev Tell us what you think of PodRocket We want to hea...

Jun 03, 202338 min

Supabase in 2023 with Jon Meyers

Jon Meyers talks to us about Supabase Edge Runtime, Resumable Uploads, Supabase Auth, and more! Listen now. Links https://jonmeyers.io https://www.linkedin.com/in/jon-meyers https://twitter.com/jonmeyers_io https://supabase.com https://database.new https://www.youtube.com/supabase Tell us what you think of PodRocket We want to hear from you! We want to know what you love and hate about the podcast. What do you want to hear more about? Who do you want to see on the show? Our producers want to kno...

Jun 02, 202319 min

Your React questions answered

You sent us your questions about React and our panel of experts answered. Listen to Shaundai Person, Senior Software Engineer at Netflix, and Ben Holmes, Software Developer at Astro, answer questions about dealing with issues in React, React Server Components, wishlists, and more. Links Apple https://twitter.com/bholmesdev https://www.youtube.com/@bholmesdev https://www.tiktok.com/@bholmesdev https://wtw.dev https://astro.build https://twitter.com/shaundai https://github.com/shaundai https://www...

May 31, 202339 min

SolidStart with Ryan Carniato (Repeat)

Originally published on January 6th, 2023. In this repost from January, Ryan Carniato comes back on PodRocket to talk about SolidStart, the Solid app framework. We talk about the Solid ecosystem, server-side rendering in JavaScript, and how Vite was a game changer for Ryan. Listen now. Links Apple https://start.solidjs.com https://www.solidjs.com https://discord.com/invite/solidjs https://twitter.com/solid_js https://twitter.com/RyanCarniato https://dev.to/ryansolid https://podrocket.logrocket.c...

May 30, 202344 min

Lee Robinson, Tim Neutkens, and Mark Erikson

In this week’s roundup, hear snippets of our discussions with Lee Robinson about Vercel, Tim Neutkens about Next.js 13.4, and Mark Erikson about Redux Toolkit. Links Apple Vercel - https://bit.ly/3MBMtxj Next.js 13.4 - https://bit.ly/3MIiTWE Redux Toolkit - https://bit.ly/3VTK0B2 Google Vercel - https://bit.ly/3OhmyMo Next.js 13.4 - https://bit.ly/3MGCAyc Redux Toolkit - https://bit.ly/3VQTQDP Spotify Vercel - https://bit.ly/3OeU6Lh Next.js 13.4 - https://bit.ly/3MGFZwU Redux Toolkit - https://b...

May 26, 202312 min

Intelligent state management with David Khourshid

David Khourshid, founder of Stately AI and creator of XState, comes on to talk about how developers can make their state management more intelligent. Links https://twitter.com/DavidKPiano https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidkpiano https://twitter.com/statelyai https://stately.ai https://codepen.io/davidkpiano https://github.com/davidkpiano https://podrocket.logrocket.com/xstate Tell us what you think of PodRocket We want to hear from you! We want to know what you love and hate about the podcast. Wh...

May 25, 202326 min

Qwik 1.0 and Builder.io with Steve Sewell

Steve Sewell, CEO and Co-Founder of Builer.io, joins us to talk about the journey to Qwik 1.0. We cover data fetching, performance, developer experience, and more! Links https://www.builder.io https://www.builder.io/blog/qwik-v1 https://twitter.com/Steve8708 https://www.linkedin.com/in/ssewell https://github.com/steve8708 https://dev.to/steve8708 Tell us what you think of PodRocket We want to hear from you! We want to know what you love and hate about the podcast. What do you want to hear more a...

May 24, 202338 min

Security and path traversal with Liran Tal

Today, we have Liran Tal, Director of Developer Advocacy at Snyk, to talk about a security risk all developers should know about: path traversal. Links https://twitter.com/liran_tal https://lirantal.com/ https://github.com/lirantal https://lirantal.com/blog https://www.linkedin.com/in/talliran Tell us what you think of PodRocket We want to hear from you! We want to know what you love and hate about the podcast. What do you want to hear more about? Who do you want to see on the show? Our producer...

May 23, 202324 min

The state of CSS in 2023 with Adam Argyle (Repeat)

CSS all-star Adam Argyle, Chrome CSS and UI Developer Relations at Google and part of the CSS Working Group, joins us to review how CSS changed in 2022 and what we should expect in 2023. Links https://twitter.com/argyleink https://nerdy.dev https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBGr3ZMcV5jke40_Wrv3fNA https://css-tricks.com/2022-roundup-of-web-research https://2022.stateofcss.com/en-US/ https://twitter.com/leaverou/status/806936438797307904 Tell us what you think of PodRocket We want to hear from you...

May 20, 202337 min

Next.js 13.4 with Tim Neutkens

Tim Neutkens is the Next.js lead at Vercel. Tim joins us to talk about the Next.js App Router and some other new features from the latest release. Links https://twitter.com/timneutkens https://twitter.com/nextjs https://nextjs.org https://twitter.com/devagrawal09/status/1636971320138162176 Tell us what you think of PodRocket We want to hear from you! We want to know what you love and hate about the podcast. What do you want to hear more about? Who do you want to see on the show? Our producers wa...

May 19, 202339 min

Vercel with Lee Robinson

Lee Robinson, VP of Developer Relations at Vercel, joins us to talk about the suite of products launched earlier this month. We cover Vercel Storage, Vercel Secure Compute, Vercel Spaces, and more. Links https://leerob.io https://twitter.com/leeerob https://www.linkedin.com/in/leeerob https://vercel.com/docs/storage https://vercel.com/docs/security/secure-compute https://vercel.com/docs/workflow-collaboration/vercel-spaces Tell us what you think of PodRocket We want to hear from you! We want to ...

May 17, 202340 min

Fauna with Tyson Trautmann

Tyson Trautmann is the VP of Engineering at Fauna, a new database combining document and relational models into an API. Tyson discusses how Fauna handles all database operations, freeing up enterprise dev teams to focus on scaling and innovating their applications. Links https://www.linkedin.com/in/tysontrautmann https://twitter.com/tysontrautmann https://twitter.com/Fauna https://fauna.com Tell us what you think of PodRocket We want to hear from you! We want to know what you love and hate about...

May 16, 202330 min

Modern, maintainable Node.js architecture with Juri Strumpflohner

We talk about modern Node.js architecture and how developers can better maintain it with Juri Strumpflohner, Senior Director of Developer Experience at Nx. Links https://www.youtube.com/@nxdevtools https://twitter.com/NxDevTools https://nx.dev/getting-started/intro https://twitter.com/juristr https://www.linkedin.com/in/juristr https://github.com/juristr https://www.youtube.com/c/JuriStrumpflohner https://egghead.io/q/resources-by-juri-strumpflohner Tell us what you think of PodRocket We want to...

May 12, 202330 min

Redux Toolkit with Mark Erikson

Mark Erikson, Redux maintainer and creator of the Redux Toolkit, comes on to talk about how Redux has evolved and how developers can utilize the Redux Toolkit. Links https://twitter.com/acemarke https://github.com/markerikson https://github.com/markerikson https://www.linkedin.com/in/markerikson https://twitter.com/replayio Tell us what you think of PodRocket We want to hear from you! We want to know what you love and hate about the podcast. What do you want to hear more about? Who do you want t...

May 10, 202337 min

Go in 2023 with Johnny Boursiquot

Johnny Boursiquot is back on PodRocket to update us on the state of Go in 2023. Links https://twitter.com/jboursiquot https://www.jboursiquot.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/jboursiquot https://github.com/jboursiquot https://medium.com/@jboursiquot Tell us what you think of PodRocket We want to hear from you! We want to know what you love and hate about the podcast. What do you want to hear more about? Who do you want to see on the show? Our producers want to know, and if you talk with us, we’ll ...

May 09, 202337 min

React Forget, PartyKit, and the future of web dev

Want to listen to the best episodes of the past two weeks? In this roundup, we hear snippets from recent episodes with the React Core Team, Sunil Pai, and Josh Comeau. You can listen to the full episodes in the links below. Links Apple React Forget - https://apple.co/3HGtaA1 PartyKit - https://apple.co/44H7Zrx Future of web dev - https://apple.co/42lrDHq Spotify React Forget - https://spoti.fi/44vRJcM PartyKit - https://spoti.fi/3VvVwCw Future of web dev - https://spoti.fi/3Vx4pfa Others React F...

May 05, 202313 min

The WebContainer API with the StackBlitz team

Sylwia Vargas is a Developer Relations Lead at StackBlitz and Dominic Elm is a Founding Engineer and Team Lead at StackBlitz. They are joining us today to discuss WebContainers, the WebContainer API, what you can build with the API, and more! Links https://stackblitz.com https://twitter.com/stackblitz https://www.linkedin.com/company/stackblitz https://github.com/stackblitz/core https://discord.com/invite/stackblitz https://twitter.com/SylwiaVargas https://www.linkedin.com/in/sylwia-vargas https...

May 04, 202331 min

Engineering and innovation with CTO of SoundCloud, Matthew Drooker

On today's episode, we sit down with the CTO of SoundCloud and former CTO at CNN Digital, Matthew Drooker. Matthew was at CNN Digital during a complete rewrite of the frontend. While at WarnerMedia, he did many things for March Madness. Matthew also focused on live video and VOD solutions for brands like HBO, TBS, TNT, and Turner Sports. Links https://twitter.com/matthew_cnn https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthew-drooker Tell us what you think of PodRocket We want to hear from you! We want to know ...

May 03, 202333 min

The React Core team talks React Forget and the future

Joe Savona and Sathya Gunasekaran join us to talk about the React Optimizing Compiler. We talk about design decisions and the approach to building it. We also cover what the React team has been working on including React Server Components, Offscreen Rendering, and more! Links https://twitter.com/gsathya https://github.com/gsathya https://www.linkedin.com/in/sathyagunasekaran https://twitter.com/enJS https://github.com/josephsavona https://www.linkedin.com/in/joseph-savona-9407314 Tell us what yo...

May 02, 202341 min

Node 20, React, and AI with Theo Browne, Michael Chan, and Eve Porcello

Theo Browne, Michael Chan, and Eve Porcello join us on PodRocket to talk about React in 2023, Next.js 13, Node 20, GitHub Copilot, AI, innovation, and so much more. Listen now! Links https://www.linkedin.com/in/t3gg https://t3.gg https://twitter.com/t3dotgg https://www.youtube.com/c/theobrowne1017 https://www.linkedin.com/in/chantastic https://twitter.com/chantastic https://chan.dev https://www.youtube.com/c/chantastic https://github.com/chantastic https://twitter.com/eveporcello https://www.moo...

Apr 28, 202344 min

State of the Node.js core with Colin Ihrig

With the latest release of Node 20, Colin Ihrig, member of the Node Core Technical and Steering Committees, comes to give us the state of the current Node.js core and what’s to come for Node. Links https://twitter.com/cjihrig https://github.com/cjihrig https://www.oreilly.com/pub/au/6625 https://www.amazon.com/Pro-Node-js-Developers-Colin-Ihrig/dp/1430258608 Tell us what you think of PodRocket We want to hear from you! We want to know what you love and hate about the podcast. What do you want to...

Apr 27, 202327 min

Building video games in React with Joe Hart

Ever wanted to know how to build a video game with React? Joe Hart, a web engineering consultant, teaches us how to build “Age of Empires 2” using React. Links https://twitter.com/JoeHart https://www.joehart.co.uk/ https://www.joehart.fun/ https://social.lol/@joehart https://www.linkedin.com/in/joe-hart-developer/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7Q5oFp0U3eWWXMq7x1iAEQ Tell us what you think of PodRocket We want to hear from you! We want to know what you love and hate about the podcast. What do...

Apr 26, 202330 min

Micro-frontends with Natalia Venditto

Natalia Venditto is a Principal Program Manager at Microsoft, she leads the JavaScript and Node.js end-to-end experience on Azure. Natalia joins us today to talk about micro-frontends and how they can help developers. Links https://microfrontend.dev https://twitter.com/AnfibiaCreativa https://www.linkedin.com/in/anfibiacreativa https://github.com/anfibiacreativa Tell us what you think of PodRocket We want to hear from you! We want to know what you love and hate about the podcast. What do you wan...

Apr 25, 202329 min

React's re-rendering with Ankita Kulkarni

Ankita Kulkarni joins us today to talk about how to use useMemo to help performance, how to minimize component re-renderings, and other performance tips in React. Links https://www.developertoleader.com/ https://twitter.com/kulkarniankita9 https://www.youtube.com/@Kulkarniankita https://kulkarniankita.com/goodies https://kulkarniankita.com/podrocket Tell us what you think of PodRocket We want to hear from you! We want to know what you love and hate about the podcast. What do you want to hear mor...

Apr 21, 202329 min

React and frontend development with Josh Comeau

Will AI take our jobs? Is React still a good choice? Josh Comeau joins us to talk about React, the future of web development, and more. Links https://www.joshwcomeau.com https://twitter.com/joshwcomeau https://css-for-js.dev https://www.linkedin.com/in/joshwcomeau https://www.joshwcomeau.com/css/the-importance-of-learning-css https://www.joyofreact.com Tell us what you think of PodRocket We want to hear from you! We want to know what you love and hate about the podcast. What do you want to hear ...

Apr 20, 202324 min

AI code conversion with Thomas Lopes

With the rise of AI tools, we talk to Thomas Lopes, the creator of Codeverter, a code conversion tool hosted by Vercel, about how he sees AI will build and transform tools in web development. Links https://twitter.com/thomasglopes https://www.thomasglopes.com https://github.com/TGlide https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomas-gl https://codeverter.vercel.app/ Tell us what you think of PodRocket We want to hear from you! We want to know what you love and hate about the podcast. What do you want to hear ...

Apr 19, 202325 min
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