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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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PartyKit with Sunil Pai

Sunil Pai was formerly on the React core team, he built a popular css-in-js library called glamor and built the Cloudflare Workers CLI. Sunil has worked at multiple companies like Yahoo, Visa, Flipkart, Oculus/Facebook/Meta, JP Morgan, and Cloudflare, he also co-created babel macros and has made a number of contributions to the JavaScript ecosystem. Sunil joins us today to talk about his experience as well as his latest project, PartyKit. Links https://twitter.com/threepointone https://m.webtoo....

Apr 17, 202336 min

Migrating to NoSQL with Michael Lynn

On today’s episode, Michael Lynn joins us to talk about migrating databases, NoSQL, MongoDB, and more. Links https://landing.mdb.link/podrocket https://twitter.com/mlynn https://medium.com/@mlynn https://www.linkedin.com/in/mlynn 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 gif...

Apr 14, 202335 min

React Hooks broke my tests with Daniel Afonso

React Hooks can seem great, but when it comes time for testing, they can point out issues. Daniel Afonso, Dev Advocate at OLX, teaches us how to reconfigure how to test React applications to work better with React Hooks. Links https://twitter.com/danieljcafonso https://www.danieljcafonso.com https://github.com/danieljcafonso https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-afonso-523a13155 https://danieljcafonso.medium.com Tell us what you think of PodRocket We want to hear from you! We want to know what you ...

Apr 12, 202332 min

Refactoring large JavaScript codebases with Michele Riva

We welcome back Michele Riva, co-founder and CTO of Orama Search, to discuss how developers can easily refactor large JavaScript codebases. Links https://twitter.com/MicheleRivaCode https://www.micheleriva.dev https://micheleriva.medium.com https://github.com/MicheleRiva https://www.linkedin.com/in/MicheleRiva95 https://twitter.com/OramaSearch https://oramasearch.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 yo...

Apr 11, 202327 min

Node.js runtimes with Erick Wendel

With JavaScript runtimes like Deno and Bun becoming increasingly popular, Node.js core team member Erick Wendel comes on to talk about how he created his own Node.js runtime and why he did it. Links https://twitter.com/erickwendel_ https://linktr.ee/erickwendel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCh84012dEUE076wM2CVFN9A https://blog.erickwendel.com.br/ https://github.com/ErickWendel https://cursos.erickwendel.com.br Tell us what you think of PodRocket We want to hear from you! We want to know what ...

Apr 07, 202329 min

Polypane with Kilian Valkhof

Kilian Valkhof created a browser made for developers. We talk to Kilian about Polypane, developer experience, and more! Links https://twitter.com/kilianvalkhof https://kilianvalkhof.com https://polypane.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 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 inter...

Apr 05, 202334 min

Writing (really) good tests with Markus Oberlehner

Markus Oberlehner, software architect, speaker, and open source contributor, comes onto the show to talk about how to better write tests with test-driven development. Links https://twitter.com/MaOberlehner https://markus.oberlehner.net https://markus.oberlehner.net/blog http://twitch.tv/webdevexplorer https://github.com/maoberlehner https://goodvuetests.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 ...

Apr 04, 202328 min

Your UI/UX questions answered

You had questions about UI and UX design, and we answered. We go through your questions with our panel of experts, Adam Argyle, Stephanie Eckles, and Stacy Kvernmo. Links https://twitter.com/Emilykketner https://moderncss.dev https://twitter.com/5t3ph https://thinkdobecreate.com/links https://github.com/5t3ph https://codepen.io/5t3ph https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8qc2AyBbNmvgIky6236nHA https://www.twitch.tv/5t3phdev https://nerdy.dev https://twitter.com/argyleink https://github.com/argyleink...

Mar 31, 202346 min

Faster frontends with Remix with Chance Strickland

Chance Strickland, Senior Software Engineer at Shopify, returns to the pod to talk about how Remix helps developers create faster frontends from the backend. Links https://www.linkedin.com/in/chaance https://twitter.com/chancethedev https://github.com/chaance https://www.polywork.com/chance https://fronttoback.dev https://podrocket.logrocket.com/remix 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 m...

Mar 29, 202329 min

Qwik with Yoav Ganbar

Yoav Ganbar is a DevRel at Builder.io and host of the FedBites podcast. Yoav joins us to talk about Builder.io, using React inside Qwik, and more. Links https://www.builder.io/blog/resumable-react-how-to-use-react-inside-qwik https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/fedbites https://twitter.com/HamatoYogi https://www.hamatoyogi.dev https://www.builder.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...

Mar 28, 202333 min

The state of JS frameworks with Chris Ferdinandi

Chris Ferdinandi joins us on PodRocket to talk about JavaScript frameworks, the transitional web, and why more is not always better. Links https://gomakethings.com/podrocket https://twitter.com/chrisferdinandi https://vanillajsacademy.com https://www.youtube.com/@gomakethings 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, an...

Mar 24, 202327 min

Developer Experience with Nuxt with Anthony Fu

Nuxt, Vue, and Vite core team member Anthony Fu joins us to talk about the recent implementation of Nuxt’s dev tools and how they benefit developers. Links https://antfu.me https://github.com/antfu https://twitter.com/antfu7 https://m.webtoo.ls/@antfu https://www.youtube.com/anthonyfu7 https://github.com/antfu/ni https://podrocket.logrocket.com/vitest-and-vueuse 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...

Mar 22, 202328 min

TypeScript in Nuxt and Vue with Daniel Kelly

Daniel Kelly, teacher and content creator at the Vue School, joins the show to talk about how TypeScript has evolved when working within Nuxt and Vue. Links https://twitter.com/danielkelly_io https://github.com/danielkellyio https://danielkelly.io https://danielkelly.io/courses https://danielkelly.io/talks https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielkellyio https://vueschool.io https://nuxt.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 p...

Mar 21, 202323 min

Living on the Edge with Anthony Campolo

In this episode, Anthony Campolo returns to PodRocket to talk about the Edge, what it is, and why you are hearing about it so much. Links https://twitter.com/ajcwebdev https://dev.to/ajcwebdev https://www.linkedin.com/in/ajcwebdev https://dev.to/opensauced https://docs.edg.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, an...

Mar 17, 202334 min

Building Elk with Daniel Roe

With the increase usage of Mastodon as a Twitter alternative, Daniel Roe, part of the Nuxt core team, returns to talk about building Elk, a Mastodon client, using Nuxt. Links https://roe.dev https://twitter.com/danielcroe https://github.com/danielroe https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-roe https://podrocket.logrocket.com/nuxt-3 https://podrocket.logrocket.com/how-vite-makes-nuxt-possible https://www.regexmagic.com Tell us what you think of PodRocket We want to hear from you! We want to know what ...

Mar 15, 202333 min

Streaming server rendering with Suspense with Shaundai Person

Shaundai Person, Senior Software Engineer at Netflix, joins us to talk about React 18 and streaming server rendering using React Suspense. Links https://twitter.com/shaundai https://linktr.ee/shaundai https://www.tsforjs.com https://dev.to/shaundai https://www.linkedin.com/in/shaundai https://github.com/shaundai 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...

Mar 14, 202324 min

Gatsby is joining Netlify with Kyle Mathews

Gatsby founder, Kyle Mathews, joins us on PodRocket to talk about Netlify’s recent acquisition of Gatsby and what this means for the future. Links https://twitter.com/kylemathews https://www.gatsbyjs.com https://twitter.com/GatsbyJS https://www.netlify.com https://twitter.com/Netlify 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 ...

Mar 10, 202331 min

Fully Typed Web Apps with Kent C. Dodds

Kent C. Dodds has a blog post for everything, and in today’s episode he returns to PodRocket to talk about his blog post, “Fully Typed Web Apps.” Links https://www.epicweb.dev https://kentcdodds.com https://twitter.com/kentcdodds https://www.linkedin.com/in/kentcdodds https://github.com/kentcdodds 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 prod...

Mar 08, 202331 min

Product design with Adam Wiggins

Co-Founder and former CTO of Heroku, Adam Wiggins, joins us to talk about product design, research, remote work, and productivity. Listen now. Links https://twitter.com/adamwiggins https://mas.to/@adamwiggins https://adamwiggins.com https://adamwiggins.com/making-computers-better https://www.inkandswitch.com https://www.heroku.com https://museapp.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 mo...

Mar 07, 202341 min

Nuxt in 2023 with Alexander Lichter

What’s new in Nuxt 3? What is Nitro? What does island architecture mean in Nuxt? Alex Lichter answers these questions for us in this episode. Links https://twitter.com/TheAlexLichter https://blog.lichter.io https://github.com/manniL https://hachyderm.io/@manniL 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 w...

Mar 03, 202334 min

Vercel Edge Functions, Next.js, and AI apps with Hassan El Mghari

Hassan El Mghari is a Senior Developer Advocate at Vercel, he joins us today to talk about some of his projects and how he has been using Vercel Edge Functions and Next.js to build them. Links https://twitter.com/nutlope https://www.elmghari.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/nutlope https://github.com/Nutlope https://www.npmjs.com/~nutlope 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...

Mar 01, 202321 min

Your testing questions answered

In our first-ever mailbag episode, testing experts Debbie O’Brien, Gleb Bahmutov, and Kent C. Dodds answer your questions about testing. Links https://kentcdodds.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/kentcdodds https://github.com/kentcdodds https://twitter.com/kentcdodds https://kentcdodds.com/s/test https://glebbahmutov.com https://twitter.com/bahmutov https://www.linkedin.com/in/bahmutov https://github.com/bahmutov https://www.cypress.io/blog/author/gleb https://twitter.com/debs_obrien http://youtub...

Feb 28, 202336 min

Vuetify 3 with John Leider

John Leider, the creator of Vuetify, a UI Library with beautifully handcrafted Vue Components, comes onto the show to talk about the latest release, Vuetify 3. Links https://vuetifyjs.com https://twitter.com/zeroskillz https://twitter.com/vuetifyjs https://github.com/vuetifyjs/vuetify https://github.com/johnleider https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-leider-626183a2 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...

Feb 24, 202338 min

WASM with Shivay Lamba

Shivay Lamba joins us to talk about server-side WASM, common misconceptions about WASM, and more. Links https://shivaylamba.me https://twitter.com/howdevelop https://github.com/shivaylamba https://webassembly.org https://www.tensorflow.org https://mastodon.social/@shivaylamba 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, an...

Feb 23, 202328 min

SvelteKit 1.0 with Rich Harris

Rich Harris joins us on this episode to talk about SvelteKit 1.0, Vercel, the future, and more! Links https://kit.svelte.dev https://svelte.dev/chat https://twitter.com/Rich_Harris https://github.com/Rich-Harris https://svelte.dev https://vercel.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’l...

Feb 22, 202333 min

CockroachDB with Aydrian Howard

DevRel at CockroachDB, Aydrian Howard, joins us to talk about how CockroachDB gives all of your apps effortless scale, bulletproof resilience, and more. Links https://twitter.com/itsaydrian https://beacons.ai/aydrian https://www.twitch.tv/itsaydrian https://twitter.com/cockroachdb https://www.cockroachlabs.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 s...

Feb 21, 202327 min

The Launch Pad with Lindsay Wardell and Tejas Kumar

We’re back with episode three of the Launch Pad with Lindsay Wardell and Tejas Kumar, as we cover the latest acquisition of Gatsby, what we should do with Create React App, and what we think of the Astro 2.0 release. Links Lindsay Wardell https://twitter.com/lindsaykwardell https://www.lindsaykwardell.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/lindsaykwardell/ https://github.com/lindsaykwardell https://dev.to/lindsaykwardell Tejas Kumar https://tej.as https://twitter.com/TejasKumar_ https://github.com/tej...

Feb 17, 202341 min

Prisma with Alex Ruheni

Developer Advocate, Alex Ruheni, joins us to talk about database workflows with Prisma, database access on the edge, and Prisma 4.9. Links https://ruheni.dev https://twitter.com/ruheni_alex https://hachyderm.io/@ruheni https://twitter.com/prisma https://www.prisma.io https://www.prisma.io/docs https://www.youtube.com/@PrismaData https://slack.prisma.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 ...

Feb 16, 202325 min

Using Svelte and Tailwind to build reactive interfaces with Chris Simmons

Chris Simmons is the creator of Skeleton, a UI toolkit for Svelte and Tailwind. We talk to Chris today about how he got started with Svelte and how to build reactive interfaces using Svelte and Tailwind. Links https://twitter.com/endigodesign https://github.com/endigo9740 https://endigodesign.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-simmons-8a523a23 https://www.skeletonlabs.co https://www.skeleton.dev https://github.com/skeletonlabs Tell us what you think of PodRocket We want to hear from you! We w...

Feb 15, 202326 min

Enhancing FWAs with web components with Brian LeRoux

Brian LeRoux, founder of Begin, comes to talk about their conference talk, “Enhance your functional web apps with web components” from last year’s CascadiaJS conference. Links https://enhance.dev https://github.com/enhance-dev https://discord.com/invite/J8bUSfKs8W https://fosstodon.org/@enhance_dev https://twitter.com/brianleroux https://brian.io https://github.com/brianleroux https://www.npmjs.com/~brianleroux Tell us what you think of PodRocket We want to hear from you! We want to know what yo...

Feb 14, 202335 min
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