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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

Figma with Dylan Field

CEO and Co-Founder of Figma, Dylan Field, joins us to talk about the collaborative design tool, the importance of design, the early stages of Figma, and more. Links https://twitter.com/zoink https://twitter.com/figma https://www.figma.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 know, and if you talk with us, we’ll send you ...

Dec 07, 202246 min

Making typesafe APIs easy with tRPC with Trash Dev

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 from you! We want to know what you love and hate about...

Dec 06, 202224 min

The future of Angular with Minko Gechev

In this episode, we talk to Minko Gechev, Angular Product Lead, about what is new in Angular v15 and what to expect from Angular in the future. Links https://twitter.com/mgechev https://twitter.com/Angular https://blog.mgechev.com https://www.youtube.com/Angular https://angular.io https://guess-js.github.io https://blog.tensorflow.org/2021/05/speed-up-your-sites-with-web-page-prefetching-using-ml.html Tell us what you think of PodRocket We want to hear from you! We want to know what you love and...

Dec 02, 202229 min

A guide to React rendering behavior with Mark Erikson

Mark Erikson, Senior Frontend Engineer at Replay and Redux maintainer, rejoins the pod to talk about his latest conference talk, “A guide to React rendering behavior,” where he goes in-depth about React rendering and issues that can appear while attempting it. Links https://twitter.com/acemarke https://blog.isquaredsoftware.com/2020/05/blogged-answers-a-mostly-complete-guide-to-react-rendering-behavior https://twitter.com/replayio https://podrocket.logrocket.com/replay https://podrocket.logrocke...

Nov 30, 202240 min

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

Hot off the Next.js 13 announcement, Guillermo Rauch 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 do you want to hear more about? Who do you...

Nov 29, 202250 min

Deno and Fresh with Luca Casonato (Repeat)

Originally published on August 23rd, 2022. We are taking some time off from production. We will be back with new episodes on November 29th. Deno is a simple, modern, and secure runtime for JavaScript, TypeScript, and WebAssembly. Today, we talk with Luca Casonato, member of the Deno core team and creator of Fresh, a full stack modern web framework for JavaScript and TypeScript developers. What is Fresh? How do we pronounce Deno? We answer these questions and more in this episode! Links https://t...

Nov 25, 202230 min

Remix and React Router with Michael Jackson (Repeat)

Originally published on August 9th, 2022 We are taking some time off from production. We will be back with new episodes on November 29th. Remix is a full-stack web framework that lets you focus on the user interface. We talk to Michael Jackson, co-founder of Remix and creator of React Router, about Remix, nested routes, improving UI, and more. Links https://twitter.com/mjackson https://remix.run https://reactrouter.com https://reacttraining.com https://github.com/remix-run Tell us what you think...

Nov 23, 202233 min

SuperTokens with Advait Ruia and Rishabh Poddar

On today's episode, we talk to the creators of SuperTokens. SuperTokens is an open-source authentication solution offering features like different types of login, access control, session control, and more. It's quick to implement and easy to customize. Learn more about SuperTokens in this episode. Links https://supertokens.com https://supertokens.com/discord https://twitter.com/supertokensio https://twitter.com/rishpoddar https://twitter.com/advait_ruia Tell us what you think of PodRocket We wan...

Nov 22, 202228 min

The future of Jamstack is composable with Tim Benniks

Tim Benniks, principal developer advocate at Uniform, joins us to talk about his latest talk from this year’s Jamstack Conf, “The future of Jamstack is composable.” Links https://twitter.com/timbenniks https://links.timbenniks.dev https://uniform.dev uniform.to/discord 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 yo...

Nov 18, 202240 min

Qwik and Qwik City with Miško Hevery

Qwik is a new kind of web framework that can deliver instant loading web applications at any size. Miško Hevery is the creator of Angular and Qwik and CTO of Builder.io. Miško joins us today to talk about Qwik and Qwik’s meta-framework, Qwik City. Links https://twitter.com/mhevery https://twitter.com/qwikdev Qwik.new (https://stackblitz.com/edit/qwik-starter?) 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 ...

Nov 17, 202238 min

The Edge is cool, but what about the data? With Obinna Ekwuno

We talk to Developer Advocate Obinna Ekwuno about his most recent talk, “The Edge is cool, but what about the data?” from this year’s Jamstack Conf. Links https://twitter.com/Obinnaspeaks https://linktree.obinnaspeaks.dev https://www.obinnaspeaks.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, and if you talk with us, we’...

Nov 16, 202229 min

Retool engineering with Snir Kodesh

Snir Kodesh is the Head of Engineering at Retool and previously the Director of Engineering at Lyft. We talk to Snir about how Retool allows you to build internal tools remarkably fast, the state of developer experience, Retool Mobile, and more. Links https://retool.com https://twitter.com/retool https://twitter.com/snirkodesh 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 wan...

Nov 15, 202245 min

Redwood, startups, and the future with Tom Preston-Werner (Repeat)

Originally published on July 19th, 2022. We are taking some time off from production. We will be back with new episodes on November 15th. In this episode, we talk to Tom Preston-Werner, creator of RedwoodJS, Jekyll, and cofounder of GitHub, about why he wanted to create RedwoodJS, how it benefits startups, and the future of investing in startups. Links https://twitter.com/mojombo https://redwoodjs.com https://redwoodjs.com/docs/tutorial/foreword Follow us. Get free stickers. Follow us on Apple P...

Nov 11, 202247 min

Cloudflare Workers with Jacob Evans

Jacob Evans is a fullstack engineer working on Cloudflare Workers. Jacob joins us to talk about the Wrangler CLI, cloud functions, and the future of Cloudflare Workers. Links http://cloudflare.com https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/wrangler https://discord.com/invite/cloudflaredev https://twitter.com/JacobMGEvans https://www.youtube.com/c/JacobEvans887 https://dev.to/jacobmgevans Tell us what you think of PodRocket We want to hear from you! We want to know what you love and hate about the...

Nov 09, 202225 min

Speed up your CI and save the environment with Juri Strumpflohner

We welcome back Juri Strumplohner, Director of Dev Experience and Director of Engineering at Nrwl, to talk about how to not only speed up your CIs with monorepos, but also how it can help the environment. Links https://dev.to/nx https://nx.dev/getting-started https://twitter.com/juristr https://twitter.com/nxdevtools https://www.youtube.com/nrwl_io https://www.youtube.com/c/JuriStrumpflohner Tell us what you think of PodRocket We want to hear from you! We want to know what you love and hate abou...

Nov 08, 202238 min

What is an island and why is it in my website? With Rach Smith

We have been hearing about island architecture a lot lately. Rach Smith comes on to talk about islands, why they are in your website, and how they are architected. Links https://rachsmith.com https://twitter.com/rachsmithtweets https://codepen.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’ll s...

Nov 04, 202231 min

Remix and the web’s next transition with Kent C. Dodds

Kent C. Dodds is a speaker, teacher, and trainer. Kent joins us to talk about how he rebuilt his website using Remix, how the industry is transitioning to a new and improved architecture for building web applications, and more. Links https://twitter.com/kentcdodds https://kentcdodds.com https://testingjavascript.com https://epicreact.dev https://www.epicweb.dev https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCz-BYvuntVRt_VpfR6FKXJw https://egghead.io/q/resources-by-kent-c-dodds https://remix.run Tell us what y...

Nov 02, 202242 min

Tauri with Daniel Thompson-Yvetot

Tauri is a toolkit that helps developers make applications for major desktop platforms. We talk about Tauri, how Tauri is built with Rust, and how to get started with it. Links https://twitter.com/TauriApps https://tauri.app https://github.com/tauri-apps/tauri https://discord.com/invite/tauri 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...

Nov 01, 202240 min

Azure security with Sarah Young

Sarah Young is a Senior Cloud Security Advocate at Microsoft. Sarah joins us today to talk about Azure security, Zero Trust principles, and important investments in the security ecosystem. Links https://twitter.com/_sarahyo https://www.sarahyoung.io https://ignite.microsoft.com https://azure.microsoft.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? ...

Oct 28, 202237 min

Introducing LogRocket’s Galileo

Today, we have a message from LogRocket, the company behind PodRocket. LogRocket CEO, Matthew Arbesfeld, and Senior Engineering Manager, Renzo Lucioni, sit down to talk about LogRocket's new machine learning layer Galileo. Galileo cuts through the noise of traditional monitoring and analytics tools, proactively scanning your applications to surface the most critical issues impacting your users. Links https://logrocket.com/features/galileo (https://logrocket.com/features/galileo) https://lp.logro...

Oct 27, 20228 min

Gatsby 5 with Khaled Garbaya

Gatsby 5 is coming soon! Khaled Garbaya joins us to talk about what’s new in Gatsby 5, how partial hydration is implemented, and more. Links http://khaledgarbaya.net https://twitter.com/khaled_garbaya https://www.linkedin.com/in/kgarbaya https://github.com/Khaledgarbaya https://realworldjamstack.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 pr...

Oct 26, 202234 min

How Vite makes Nuxt possible with Daniel Roe

We welcome back Daniel Roe, framework architect and Nuxt core team member, to discuss his latest talk from Vite Conf, “How Vite makes Nuxt possible.” Links https://roe.dev https://twitter.com/danielcroe https://github.com/danielroe https://twitter.com/nuxt_js https://modules.nuxtjs.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 do you want to hear more about? Who do you want to see on the show? Our producers want t...

Oct 25, 202252 min

The starter kit for design systems with Jonas Ulrich and Daniel Ley

kickstartDS is a low-code framework and comprehensive component library that enables development teams to create consistent and brand-compliant web frontends. Jonas Ulrich and Daniel Ley join us to talk about kickstartDS, the starter kit for Design Systems. Links https://www.kickstartds.com https://discord.com/invite/mwKzD5gejY https://twitter.com/kickstartDS https://github.com/kickstartDS https://mobile.twitter.com/tsnmp https://twitter.com/DLey_de Tell us what you think of PodRocket We want to...

Oct 21, 202234 min

Reverse engineering a private API with Joyce Lin

We sit down with Joyce Lin, Head of Developer Relations at Postman, to talk APIs, how to reverse engineer a private API, and why web developers should have this tool in their toolbox. Links https://twitter.com/PetuniaGray https://twitter.com/getpostman https://www.tiktok.com/@joycejetson https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCTbz_VyO5sXO9U1pmuxcHg https://www.linkedin.com/in/joyce-lin/ https://github.com/loopDelicious https://apithedocs.org/london-2018/joyce-lin#:~:text=Joyce%20Lin%20is%20a%20Develo...

Oct 19, 202227 min

The Launch Pad with Cassidy Williams, Michael Chan, and Alex Trost

In our first-ever panel episode, PodRocket Producer Emily brings together Cassidy Williams, Michael Chan, and Alex Trost to talk about breaking up with React, web components, and the pros and cons of using Prettier. Plus, hot takes that will make you ask, is this a web development podcast? Links Is it time to break up with React? * React I Love You, But You're Bringing Me Down (https://marmelab.com/blog/2022/09/20/react-i-love-you.html) * Dan Abromov’s response (https://twitter.com/dan_abramov/s...

Oct 18, 202251 min

Open sourcing Postgres WASM with Mark Burggraf

Supabase teamed up with Snaplet to build (and open source) postgres-wasm, a PostgreSQL server that runs inside a browser. Mark Burggraf join us to talk about how it all works. Links https://twitter.com/burggraf2 https://github.com/burggraf https://dev.to/burggraf https://supabase.com/blog/postgres-wasm 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...

Oct 14, 202234 min

Elastic with Philipp Krenn

Developer Advocate, Philipp Krenn, joins us to talk about all things Elastic including Elasticsearch and the Elastic Stack. Links https://twitter.com/xeraa https://twitter.com/elastic https://demo.elastic.co https://xeraa.net 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 ca...

Oct 13, 202241 min

Atomic design and the future of design systems with Brad Frost

Brad Frost, joins us to talk about frontend design, the importance of design systems, and more. Links https://twitter.com/brad_frost https://bradfrost.com https://atomicdesign.bradfrost.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 know, and if you talk with us, we’ll send you a $25 gift card! If you’re interested, schedule a...

Oct 12, 202250 min

Zero-dependency CLIs with Node.js with Ian Sutherland

Ian Sutherland, Node.js core contributor and Architect and Developer Experience Lead at Neo Financial, joins the pod to talk about zero-dependency CLIs, why they’re fun to build, and what they can teach us about developing other applications. Links https://twitter.com/iansu https://github.com/iansu https://iansutherland.ca 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...

Oct 11, 202230 min

The Developer Productivity Manifesto with Nnamdi Iregbulem

We welcome Nnamdi Iregbulem, Partner at Lightspeed, self-taught programmer, investor, and more, to talk about his latest conference talk, “The Developer Productivity Manifesto,” in his venture to help developers understand both the technical and economic impact of their own productivity. Links https://whoisnnamdi.com https://twitter.com/whoisnnamdi https://lsvp.com/team/nnamdi-iregbulem/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/nnamdiiregbulem/ https://www.forbes.com/profile/nnamdi-iregbulem/?sh=4812993b6190...

Oct 07, 202240 min
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