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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

Design System Culture with Ben Callahan

In this episode, Ben Callahan joins us to talk about design and how organizational culture plays into design systems. Links https://bencallahan.com https://sparkbox.com https://sparkbox.com/foundry/compatabilityoforganizationalcultureanddesignsystemteamsubcultureimportanttosuccesofadesignsystem https://sparkbox.com/foundry/bencallahanondesignsystemteamculturesparkbox_unconfernece https://frontendmasters.com/courses/design-systems-management Tell us what you think of PodRocket We want to hear fro...

Jul 27, 202333 min

Aaron Gustafson talks progressive enhancement, PWAs, AI, and accessibility

Aaron Gustafson joins us back on PodRocket to talk about PWAs in 2023, the opportunities for AI in accessibility, and more. Links https://www.aaron-gustafson.com https://twitter.com/AaronGustafson https://www.linkedin.com/in/aarongustafson 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 send you...

Jul 26, 202332 min

React Server Components with Sanket Sahu

Sanket Sahu, founder of GeekyAnts, comes on to talk about the intricacies of React Server Components. Links https://sanket.info https://linktr.ee/sanketsahu https://www.linkedin.com/in/sanketsahu https://twitter.com/sanketsahu https://ui.gluestack.io 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’...

Jul 25, 202325 min

ICYMI: Next.js 13, Vercel, and the future with Guillermo Rauch

In this repeat episode picked by host Sean Rayment, Guillermo Rauch, CEO and founder of Vercel, returns to PodRocket to talk about all the new Next 13 features, how Next has changed since its inception, and the future of the framework as it continues to grow. Links https://twitter.com/rauchg https://github.com/rauchg https://rauchg.com https://vercel.com https://nextjs.org 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...

Jul 22, 202350 min

The future of responsive design with Una Kravets and Adam Argyle

Una Kravets and Adam Argyle join us to talk about color spaces, vertical rhythm, progressive enhancement, interface responsiveness, fonts, and more! Links https://una.im https://twitter.com/Una https://front-end.social/@una https://www.linkedin.com/in/unakravets https://nerdy.dev https://twitter.com/argyleink https://www.linkedin.com/in/adamargyle https://web.dev/authors/adamargyle https://www.youtube.com/c/AdamArgyleInk https://developer.chrome.com/docs/web-platform/view-transitions Tell us wha...

Jul 21, 202358 min

HTTP/3 performance for JS developers with Robin Marx

Robin Marx returns to talk about how to utilize HTTP/3 as a JavaScript developer. Links https://twitter.com/programmingart https://www.linkedin.com/in/rmarx 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 send you a $25 gift card! If you’re interested, schedule a call with us (https://podrocket....

Jul 20, 202334 min

Warp in 2023 with Zach Lloyd

Warp is your command line terminal, reimagined. Zach talks about how Warp is bringing team collaboration to the terminal for the first time. We also go over Warp’s recent round of funding, the future of Warp, and more! Links https://www.warp.dev https://twitter.com/zachlloydtweets https://www.linkedin.com/in/zachlloyd https://thezbook.com https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKONdcQCTP3aozARj1ntKhw Tell us what you think of PodRocket We want to hear from you! We want to know what you love and hate a...

Jul 19, 202332 min

Typescript performance with Aleksandra Sikora

We dig into the nitty gritty of improving TypeScript performance with Aleksandra Sikora, open-source engineer at The Guild, as she discusses her recent talk, “TypeScript Performance: Going Beyond the Surface” Links https://twitter.com/aleksandrasays https://www.aleksandra.codes https://github.com/beerose 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? O...

Jul 18, 202326 min

Understanding CSS in 2023 with Kevin Powell

CSS Evangelist, Kevin Powell joins us to talk about container queries, the :has() selector, learning CSS in 2023, and more! Links https://www.kevinpowell.co https://www.youtube.com/kevinpowell https://www.twitch.tv/kevinpowellcss https://twitter.com/kevinJPowell https://discord.com/invite/9Rc6WNhNGJ 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 pr...

Jul 17, 202338 min

Tom Preston-Werner, Next.js, and Zod and tRPC

In this week’s roundup, hear snippets from our discussions with Tom Preston-Werner about React Server Components, our panel on the success of Next.js, and Tejas Kumar on the benefits of Zod and tRPC when working with TypeScript. Links Apple Tom Preston-Werner talks React Server Components and the future of RedwoodJS: https://apple.co/3poFcIk Stack Overflow survey, React Server Components, and Google Domains: https://apple.co/3PzzCNS Zod and tRPC with Tejas Kumar: https://bit.ly/46ydKsi Google To...

Jul 14, 202313 min

Server components vs. client components with Atila Fassina

Want to know the difference between how server components and client components work? Atila Fassina, Senior Developer Experience Engineer at Xata, joins the podcast to go in-depth on how each works and how they can actually work in tandem as well as separately. Links https://atila.io https://twitter.com/AtilaFassina https://www.linkedin.com/in/atilafassina https://www.youtube.com/AtilaIO https://mas.to/@atila Tell us what you think of PodRocket We want to hear from you! We want to know what you ...

Jul 13, 202341 min

Git with Derrick Stolee

Derrick Stolee is a Principal Software Engineer at GitHub working on Git. We talk about Git 2.41, Scalar (a built-in repository manager for large repos), and more. Links https://twitter.com/stolee https://mastodon.online/@stolee https://git-scm.com https://github.blog/author/dstolee https://github.blog/2023-06-01-highlights-from-git-2-41 https://github.blog/2022-10-13-the-story-of-scalar Tell us what you think of PodRocket We want to hear from you! We want to know what you love and hate about th...

Jul 12, 202338 min

Temporal in 2023 with Ryland Goldstein

Temporal is a platform for developers to build highly reliable and scalable applications. Head of Product at Temporal, Ryland Goldstein talks to us about how Temporal helps developers write code that is simple and durable. Listen now to learn more. Links https://temporal.io https://temporal.io/replay https://twitter.com/taillogs https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryland-goldstein (https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryland-goldstein-3467b710a/) Tell us what you think of PodRocket We want to hear from you! We w...

Jul 11, 202342 min

Fly.io with Dov Alperin

Dov Alperin joins us to talk about Fly.io, a platform that lets you run full-stack apps and databases all over the world with no ops required. We talk about running applications close to your users, how Fly.io works, and more! Links https://fly.io https://twitter.com/dovunderscore https://dov.dev https://fly.io/phoenix-files 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 ...

Jul 07, 202330 min

Zod and tRPC with Tejas Kumar

Our very own PodRocket host, Tejas Kumar, comes onto the show to talk about his latest talk, “Zod and tRPC for the rest of us” from the CanariasJS conference. Links https://github.com/tejasq https://twitter.com/tejaskumar_ https://www.youtube.com/@tejask https://tej.as/ 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 y...

Jul 05, 202333 min

Zod with Matt Pocock (Repeat)

Originally published on January 17, 2023. We are taking some time off from production. We will be back with new episodes on July 5th, 2023. We welcome back TypeScript’s “it” guy, Matt Pocock, onto the podcast to talk about Zod, how it aids in working with TypeScript, and how to use it. Links https://totaltypescript.com https://www.mattpocock.com https://twitter.com/mattpocockuk https://github.com/mattpocock https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCswG6FSbgZjbWtdf_hMLaow What does LogRocket do? LogRocke...

Jul 04, 202329 min

ICYMI: Making typesafe APIs easy with tRPC with Trash Dev (Repeat)

In this repeat episode picked by host Noel Minchow, Chris Bautista, Senior Software Engineer at Netflix, also known as Trash Dev online and to his Twitch community, joins us to go through his recent Next.js Conf talk, “Making typesafe APIs easy with tRPC.” Links https://twitter.com/trashhdev https://m.twitch.tv/trashdev/home https://www.youtube.com/@trash_dev https://discord.com/invite/WjZhvVbFHM https://github.com/bautistaaa https://trpc.io Tell us what you think of PodRocket We want to hear fr...

Jul 01, 202324 min

Svelte 4, Kent C. Dodds, and Matteo Collina

In this week’s roundup, hear snippets of our discussions about the recent release of Svelte 4 with Geoff Rich, Kent C. Dodds explains his newest stack, The Epic Stack, and Matteo Collina explains modular monoliths. Links Apple Svelte 4 with Geoff Rich: https://tinyurl.com/2tht8bu3 Matteo Collina on modular monoliths, Platformatic, and Pino: https://bit.ly/3CFD4id The Epic Stack with Kent C. Dodds: https://bit.ly/3qMQGFG Google Svelte 4 with Geoff Rich: https://tinyurl.com/uw2295f4 Matteo Collina...

Jun 30, 202313 min

Stack Overflow survey, React Server Components, and Google Domains

We’re back with our panel episode to talk about the recent release of the Stack Overflow developer survey, issues with React Server Components and how they’re shaping the development landscape, and the recent acquisition of Google Domains. We’re joined by panelists Shruti Kapoor, Colby Fayock, and Jason Lengstorf. Links Shruti Kapoor https://twitter.com/shrutikapoor08 https://www.youtube.com/@shrutikapoor08 https://shrutikapoor.dev https://www.linkedin.com/in/shrutikapoor08 Colby Fayock https://...

Jun 29, 202337 min

Speed up React apps with less JavaScript with Miško Hevery

Miško Hevery, creator of Angular, Qwik, and CTO of Builder.io, comes on to talk about how too much JavaScript can slow apps down and how to rectify it. Links http://misko.hevery.com https://twitter.com/mhevery https://www.linkedin.com/in/misko-hevery-3883b1 https://qwik.builder.io https://stackblitz.com/edit/qwik-starter?file=README.md 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 d...

Jun 28, 202325 min

Tom Preston-Werner talks React Server Components and the future of RedwoodJS

Tom Preston-Werner talks to us about how the Redwood team is going all in on React Server Components. Links https://twitter.com/mojombo https://www.linkedin.com/in/mojombo https://tom.preston-werner.com/2023/05/30/redwoods-next-epoch-all-in-on-rsc.html https://www.redwoodjsconf.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 more about? Who do you want to see on the show? Our producers want to kn...

Jun 27, 202340 min

Web Platform Baseline with Rachel Andrew

Baseline helps you to see whether a feature or API is safe to use in your site or web applications. Rachel Andrew joins us to talk about Baseline, browser support, CSS, and more. Links https://rachelandrew.co.uk https://twitter.com/rachelandrew https://www.linkedin.com/in/rachelandrew https://gradient.style 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...

Jun 26, 202330 min

Svelte 4 with Geoff Rich

Geoff Rich and Mike Karan talk about the stable release of Svelte 4, the new version of svelte.dev, and the future of Svelte. Links https://svelte.dev/ (https://svelte.dev/) https://svelte.dev/blog/svelte-4 (https://svelte.dev/blog/svelte-4) https://twitter.com/htmleverything (https://twitter.com/htmleverything) https://twitter.com/geoffrich_ (https://twitter.com/geoffrich_) What does LogRocket do? LogRocket combines frontend monitoring, product analytics, and session replay to help software tea...

Jun 23, 202330 min

GitHub Copilot with Rizèl Scarlett

Rizèl Scarlett joins us to talk about GitHub Copilot, how it works, what it has been trained on, and more. Links https://github.com/features/copilot https://twitter.com/blackgirlbytes https://github.com/blackgirlbytes https://www.linkedin.com/in/rizel-bobb-semple https://www.twitch.tv/blackgirlbytes1 https://hachyderm.io/@blackgirlbytes https://dev.to/blackgirlbytes 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...

Jun 22, 202320 min

Matteo Collina on modular monoliths, Platformatic, and Pino

Matteo Collina, Co-Founder and CTO of Platformatic, Node.js TSC member, and Lead Maintainer of Fastify, joins us again to talk about modular monoliths, his new backend development platform Platformatic, and many of his other projects including Pino. Links https://nodeland.dev https://platformatic.dev https://getpino.io https://www.linkedin.com/in/matteocollina https://twitter.com/matteocollina Tell us what you think of PodRocket We want to hear from you! We want to know what you love and hate ab...

Jun 21, 202330 min

Should you use React in 2023? with Tru Narla

Tru Narla, software engineer at Discord and Twitch partner, returns to talk about whether developers should continue to use React in 2023 as she delves into her latest talk from React Summit. Links https://twitter.com/trunarla https://www.mewtru.com https://www.youtube.com/c/mewtru https://www.tiktok.com/@mewtru https://www.linkedin.com/in/trushithanarla https://github.com/tnarla https://www.twitch.tv/mewtru Tell us what you think of PodRocket We want to hear from you! We want to know what you l...

Jun 20, 202327 min

Deno with Ryan Dahl (Repeat)

Originally published on December 14th, 2022. We sit down with Ryan Dahl, creator of Deno and Node.js, to talk about his experience in web development, why he created Node.js, and why he sees Deno as the next step for JavaScript runtimes. Links https://twitter.com/deno_land https://deno.com/deploy https://deno.land 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 t...

Jun 17, 202332 min

Svelte compiler, linters, and React Server Components

In this week’s roundup, hear snippets of our discussions about Svelte’s compiler, the difference between linters and formatters, and what React Server Components actually are. This episode features Svelte core team member, Simon Holthausen, open-source maintainer, Josh Goldberg, and Astro’s Ben Holmes. Links Apple The future of Svelte with Simon Holthausen - https://bit.ly/3Cv6CPE React, TypeScript, and ESLint with Josh Goldberg - https://bit.ly/3MRkTef Your React questions answered - https://bi...

Jun 16, 202311 min

The Epic Stack with Kent C. Dodds

Kent C. Dodds is back again with his newest project, the Epic Stack, a stack curated by Kent aimed at giving devs the tools they need without overwhelming them with too many options. Links https://kentcdodds.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/kentcdodds https://github.com/kentcdodds https://twitter.com/kentcdodds http://EpicWeb.dev http://EpicReact.dev http://TestingJavaScript.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....

Jun 14, 202330 min

Christopher "Vjeux" Chedeau on browser video editing

Christopher "Vjeux" Chedeau, frontend engineer at Facebook and co-creator of React Native, comes on to talk about his journey to create the first video editor for the browser, the issues he encountered along the way, and what he learned for the future of video editing. Links https://twitter.com/Vjeux https://blog.vjeux.com https://github.com/vjeux https://github.com/vjeux/video-editor https://www.crunchbase.com/person/christopher-chedeau Tell us what you think of PodRocket We want to hear from y...

Jun 13, 202322 min
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