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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

AgnosticUI with Rob Levin

AgnosticUI is a set of UI primitives that work in React, Vue 3, Angular, and Svelte. AgnosticUI creator, Rob Levin, joins us today to talk about design technology, component libraries, and more. Links https://twitter.com/roblevintennis https://www.agnosticui.com https://developtodesign.com/agnosticui-examples https://github.com/AgnosticUI/agnosticui/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md https://github.com/AgnosticUI/agnosticui https://mobile.twitter.com/heyaustingil Review us Reviews are what help us grow...

Apr 01, 202230 min

Replay with Jason Laster and Mark Erikson

Mark Erikson and Jason Laster join us to talk about Replay, a time travel debugger that lets you record a browser session to produce a shareable replay for collaborative debugging. We talk about sessions, Redux, and even walk through a Replay demo. You can watch the video recording of the Replay demo here (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byoT2GH6Vh0). Links https://twitter.com/jasonlaster11 https://twitter.com/acemarke https://www.replay.io https://podrocket.logrocket.com/redux https://redux.js....

Mar 30, 202242 min

SPAs, island architecture, and the future of development with Ryan Carniato and Dylan Piercey

Ryan Carniato joined us back in September to talk about SolidJS, a declarative, efficient, and flexible JavaScript library for building user interfaces, and Dylan Piercey joined us in February to share about Marko, a declarative, HTML-based language that makes building web apps fun. Today, both Ryan and Dylan join us for a special episode where we cover trends in web development. Links https://markojs.com https://twitter.com/RyanCarniato https://twitter.com/dylan_piercey https://twitter.com/mark...

Mar 29, 202251 min

Solo.io with Brian Gracely

Brian Gracely, VP of Product Strategy at Solo.io and co-host of The Cloudcast, joins us to talk about service mesh management, podcasting, and what a career in Product Strategy looks like. Links https://twitter.com/bgracely https://www.solo.io https://www.thecloudcast.net 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:...

Mar 25, 202231 min

LogRocket Mobile with Pascal Kriete

We have published over 100 episodes without talking about the company behind PodRocket. So we decided to bring LogRocket's VP of Engineering, Pascal Kriete, on the podcast to talk about how LogRocket works, LogRocket Mobile, and what it was like building a mobile product with a team of web developers. Links https://logrocket.com https://logrocket.com/features/mobile https://logrocket.com/careers#open-roles Review us Reviews are what help us grow and tailor our content to what you want to hear. G...

Mar 23, 202224 min

Open-source supply chain security with Feross Aboukhadijeh

Feross Aboukhadijeh is the creator of WebTorrent, StandardJS, and Wormhole. We talked to Feross about Wormhole back in June and he joins us now to talk about Socket.dev, a new security company that can protect your most critical apps from supply chain attacks. Links https://twitter.com/feross https://socket.dev https://socket.dev/npm/category/removed https://socketdev.notion.site/Join-the-Socket-Team https://webtorrent.io https://standardjs.com https://wormhole.app https://podrocket.logrocket.co...

Mar 22, 202244 min

Polaris: The Shopify design system with Alex Page and Yuraima Estevez

Polaris is Shopify's design system that helps Shopify build a great experience for all of its merchants. Alex Page and Yuraima Estevez join us to talk about their work on the Polaris design system, why we need design systems, React components, and more. Links https://twitter.com/alexpage_ https://twitter.com/yurm04 https://polaris.shopify.com https://www.shopify.com https://changelog.com/jsparty/190 Solution analysis for Polaris Foundations (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1rxrRTlbNWiLVu-...

Mar 18, 202251 min

Final Form with Erik Rasmussen

Final Form is framework agnostic, high performance, subscription-based form state management. Erik Rasmussen creator of Final Form, joins us to talk about state management, why you should not use Redux Form, and more. Use the discount code PODROCKET to get Centered Premium free for one month https://centered.app/podrocket Links https://twitter.com/erikras https://final-form.org https://redux-form.com https://www.centered.app https://www.reactathon.com Review us Reviews are what help us grow and ...

Mar 16, 202242 min

Kernel (with an E L) with Angela Gilhotra

Kernel is a custom web3 educational community. Angela Gilhotra joins us to talk about Kernel, creator economies, Convo (a convivial tool that helps Kernel grow environments for dialogue by easing the coordination required), how to correctly spell Kernel, and more. Links https://kernel.community/en https://www.trybonfire.xyz https://convo.kernel.community https://epns.io https://ipfs.io Review us Reviews are what help us grow and tailor our content to what you want to hear. Give us a review here ...

Mar 15, 202233 min

Accessibility with Ben Myers

Ben Myers is an accessibility advocate, a Software Engineer at Microsoft, host of Some Antics (a weekly Twitch show), and a moderator on both the Lunch Dev Discord and the Frontend Horse Discord. Ben joins us on PodRocket to talk about all things accessibility, streaming, and more. Links https://twitter.com/BenDMyers https://www.w3.org/WAI/standards-guidelines/wcag https://twitter.com/search?q=%23a11y https://benmyers.dev https://www.twitch.tv/SomeAnticsDev https://twitter.com/marcysutton https:...

Mar 11, 202239 min

Developer Platform Experience at Slack with Mike Brevoort

Mike Brevoort is the Head of Product, Developer Platform Experience at Slack. Mike joined Slack through the acquisition of a company he created called Missions, which was a mission-based workflow system. Mike has gone through different roles at Slack including IC roles as well as managing teams. We cover his journey, developer experience, and product management in this episode. Links https://twitter.com/mbrevoort https://slack.com Review us Reviews are what help us grow and tailor our content to...

Mar 09, 202232 min

Composing layouts with Travis Waith-Mair

Travis Waith-Mair joins us to talk about Bedrock Layout Primitives -- foundational layout building blocks for your React app. We talk about design patterns, how Bedrock is "the Lodash of web layouts", and more. Links https://twitter.com/travisWaithMair https://www.bedrock-layout.dev https://www.newline.co/courses/composing-layouts-in-react https://www.twitch.tv/buildingbedrocklayout https://discord.com/invite/lunchdev https://non-traditional.dev https://podrocket.logrocket.com/chantastic https:/...

Mar 08, 202241 min

Streaming blockchain data with Alexandre Bourget

StreamingFast is a blockchain API company that makes it possible to stream real-time state updates, conduct fast searches, and provide irreversible transaction guarantees by using a simple API call. StreamingFast Co-Founder and CTO, Alexandre Bourget, joins us to talk about streaming blockchain data, the Graph, and more. Links https://twitter.com/bourgetalexndre https://streamingfast.io https://thegraph.com/en https://thegraph.com/blog/core-dev-grant https://forum.thegraph.com/t/introducing-the-...

Mar 04, 202246 min

Hyperscaling and engineering management with Dave Hauenstein

Dave Hauenstein, VP of Engineering at Particle Health, joins us to talk about managing engineering teams, strategies around building an organization, what it's like scaling teams quickly, career ladders, and more. Links https://twitter.com/davehauenstein https://www.particlehealth.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/davehauenstein 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://...

Mar 02, 202240 min

NuxtJS with Alex Lichter

Nuxt is a meta-framework based on Vue.js that makes developers' lives easier and makes developing full-fledged applications a breeze. NuxtJS core maintainer, Alex Lichter, joins us to talk about Nuxt, Vue 3, and making the web snappy. Links https://twitter.com/thealexlichter https://www.developmint.de https://nuxtjs.org https://v3.nuxtjs.org https://blog.lichter.io Review us Reviews are what help us grow and tailor our content to what you want to hear. Give us a review here (https://ratethispodc...

Mar 01, 202246 min

Fastify and Pino with Matteo Collina

Matteo Collina is Chief Software Architect at NearForm, a member of the Node.js Technical Steering Committee, and the creator of Fastify and Pino. In this episode, we talk about making Node applications faster, Fastify v4, ORMs, npm downloads, and much more. Links https://twitter.com/matteocollina https://www.fastify.io https://www.fastify.dev https://getpino.io https://www.nearform.com Review us Reviews are what help us grow and tailor our content to what you want to hear. Give us a review here...

Feb 25, 202230 min

Slinkity with Ben Holmes

Slinkity is a tool that you add to an Eleventy site to bring in React components, Vue components, Svelte components, and a lot of other things that you need help bundling into your static site. Ben Holmes, the creator of Slinkity, joins us on this episode to tell us more about how Slinkity works. Links https://twitter.com/BHolmesDev https://slinkity.dev https://www.11ty.dev https://github.com/slinkity/slinkity https://twitter.com/slinkitydotdev Review us Reviews are what help us grow and tailor ...

Feb 23, 202233 min

Git and monorepos with Derrick Stolee

We talk to Derrick Stolee, Principal Software Engineer at GitHub, about monorepos, finding pain points of Git, Git performance at scale, what Git will look like in the future, and more. Links https://twitter.com/stolee https://staffeng.com/book https://github.blog https://github.blog/author/dstolee 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/conta...

Feb 22, 202241 min

Stytch with Julianna Lamb

Authentication can be frustrating for users and developers alike. Julianna Lamb joins us to talk about how Stytch is working to change that. Links https://twitter.com/juliannaelamb https://stytch.com https://stytch.com/products/webauthn https://stytch.com/pricing https://twitter.com/stytchauth https://podrocket.logrocket.com/clerk 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 http...

Feb 18, 202229 min

Airplane.dev with Ravi Parikh

Ravi Parikh, Co-Founder of Airplane and Heap, joins us to talk about Airplane.dev -- a developer platform for quickly building internal tools and automating internal workflows and processes. If you're an engineer and you find yourself constantly running the same SQL query over and over again, or the same script, or on-call runbook, Airplane wants to make it easy to take that one off script, or SQL query, or whatever operation that you're bottlenecked on and turn that into a robust, reusable, int...

Feb 16, 202230 min

Vest with Evyatar Alush

Evyatar Alush, Frontend Engineer at Facebook, joins us to talk about Vest, a declarative validations framework he created that is inspired by unit testing libraries. How do you have a declarative validation library that also is inspired by testing frameworks like Jest and Mocha? Find out in this episode. Links https://twitter.com/evyataral https://ealush.com https://github.com/ealush https://vestjs.dev https://github.com/ealush/vest https://discord.gg/WmADZpJnSe Review us Reviews are what help u...

Feb 15, 202243 min

Supabase: Part 2 with Jon Meyers

It's our 100th episode of PodRocket! Jon Meyers, Developer Advocate at Supabase joins us to talk about the open-source alternative to Firebase, updates since we talked to Supabase CEO, Paul Copplestone, what to look for in 2022, and more. Links https://twitter.com/jonmeyers_io https://supabase.com https://www.madewithsupabase.com https://supabase.com/blog/2021/03/05/postgres-as-a-cron-server https://supabase.com/docs https://egghead.io/courses/build-a-saas-product-with-next-js-supabase-and-strip...

Feb 11, 202236 min

Benthos and blobfish with Ash Jeffs

We talk to Ash Jeffs about Benthos, a declarative data streaming service with a unique mascot and documentation that is both informative and entertaining. In this episode, we discuss stream processing, burnout, and the blobfish. Links https://twitter.com/jeffail https://www.benthos.dev https://www.benthos.dev/blobfish https://github.com/Jeffail https://www.youtube.com/c/Jeffail https://github.com/Jeffail/benthos Review us Reviews are what help us grow and tailor our content to what you want to h...

Feb 09, 202242 min

Modern React with Paige Niedringhaus

Paige Niedringhaus, Staff Software Engineer at Blues Wireless and author of the Modernizing React Apps course, joins us to talk about keeping your React application up to date, challenges React developers are experiencing, VS Code extensions that you should try, career changes, and more. Links https://twitter.com/pniedri https://blues.io https://reactroundup.com https://prettier.io https://eslint.org https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=pnp.polacode https://marketplace.visualstudi...

Feb 08, 202250 min

Building technical, open-source, and inclusive communities with Hannah Neil

We talk to Hannah Neil, Senior OSS Community Manager at NGINX and former Technical Community Manager at Postman, about creating a career in community management for API-focused products, the difference between community stewardship and community management, and inclusion in technical communities. Links https://twitter.com/palindromeotter https://www.nginx.com https://www.postman.com https://twitter.com/NGINX https://twitter.com/getpostman https://twitter.com/hashtag/blacktechtwitter https://ngin...

Feb 04, 202236 min

Marko with Dylan Piercey

There are a lot of reactive frontend frameworks out there, but Marko is built with an MPA architecture in mind. In this episode, we talk to Dylan Piercey, Platform Engineer at eBay and core team member of Marko, about the features of Marko, how it works, and how Marko is trying to both optimize multi-page applications and give the developer experience of a single-page application. Links https://markojs.com https://twitter.com/dylan_piercey https://github.com/marko-js/marko https://twitter.com/Ma...

Feb 01, 202244 min

RapidAPI with Pratham Kumar and Nirmalya Ghosh

We talk to Pratham Kumar, Developer Advocate at RapidAPI, and Nirmalya Ghosh, Senior Developer Programs Engineer at RapidAPI, about how RapidAPI Hub is more than just buying and selling APIs, features of RapidAPI for Teams, challenges with API testing, and more. Links https://twitter.com/Prathkum https://twitter.com/NirmalyaGhosh_ https://rapidapi.com https://rapidapi.com/hub https://twitter.com/Rapid_API https://rapidapi.com/blog/category/tutorial https://rapidapi.com/guides https://rapidapi.co...

Jan 28, 202222 min

MUI with Olivier Tassinari

MUI (formerly Material-UI) provides a robust, customizable, and accessible library of foundational and advanced components. The creator of MUI, Olivier Tassinari joins us to talk about MUI, UI design, React components, MUI's open-source library, and design tools. Links https://twitter.com/olivtassinari https://mui.com https://mui.com/core https://mui.com/x https://mui.com/pricing https://mui.com/careers Review us Reviews are what help us grow and tailor our content to what you want to hear. Give...

Jan 26, 202232 min

Clerk.dev with Colin Sidoti

The authentication strategy of the past isn't optimized for the new world of development. Colin Sidoti and his team at Clerk are building authentication for the modern web. Links https://twitter.com/tweetsbycolin https://clerk.dev https://github.com/clerkinc https://clerk.dev/startups https://apply.workable.com/clerk-dev 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://podroc...

Jan 25, 202232 min

Getting started with Golang with Johnny Boursiquot

Johnny Boursiquot hosts the Go Time podcast, runs Go Meetups, and is super involved in the Go community. Today he joins us to talk about how to get started with Go, how Go compares to Rust, and his current role as a Platform Observability Engineer at Heroku. Links https://twitter.com/jboursiquot https://gotime.fm https://www.heroku.com https://go.dev https://go.dev/doc/effective_go https://gobyexample.com https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/CodeReviewComments https://twitter.com/gotimefm https://t...

Jan 21, 202242 min
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