Laurie Voss is the Co-founder/COO of npm. He’s traveling the world and telling developers about npm and the future of JavaScript. Chantastic asks about his bold predictions for 2019, what the future brings for React, and how React could beat web components. They talk about fresh npm commands and security features, why teams are picking Vue or Ember, some sad truths about maintaining a diverse company, and the lgbtq.technology slack. Featuring Laurie Voss — Twitter , Github , Website Michael Chan...
Dec 19, 2018•48 min•Ep. 33
Vincent Riemer is the creator of io808.com and react-native-dom. He loves working on projects that challenge assumptions and inspire play. Chantastic asks him about his shoes, the inspiration behind and execution of io808.com and his mad scientist adventures with react-native-dom. They discuss the importance of exploration, the worthlessness of linters, and how to steal the platform. Featuring Vincent Riemer — Twitter , Github , Website Michael Chan — Twitter , Github , Website Links Roland 808 ...
Dec 12, 2018•39 min•Ep. 32
Ryan Florence is the co-creator of React Router and creator of accessibility-first React libraries Reach Router and Reach UI. Chantastic sits with him to talk about Hooks on the night before they're announced. They talk about React's API growth, if Suspense has taken React to framework-land, what caches and resources mean for developers, and the rebirth of mixins as Hooks. Featuring Ryan Florence — Twitter , Github , Website Michael Chan — Twitter , Github , Website Help Gabe Get Healthy Gabe Gr...
Dec 04, 2018•44 min•Ep. 31
React Holiday Season two starts December 1st. Signup here ! Christina is a developer at Google and speaker at React Conf 2018. Chantastic asks her about her cloud development process. They talk about changing careers, building brains, cheating imposter syndrome, speaking at conferences, and all the services you'll need to create your next app with with less software and fewer servers. Featuring Christina Holland — Twitter , Github , Writing Michael Chan — Twitter , Github , Website Links Talk Vi...
Nov 28, 2018•32 min•Ep. 30
Jared Palmer is a passionate JavaScript developer, pushing developer ergonomics in React with projects like formik and react-fns. Chantastic asks about what Suspense and Hooks mean for existing apps and what we should know to migrate our code sanely. They discuss why doing away with render props is a good thing, why Hooks are up to the task, and how Hooks and Suspense will impact libraries like formik, react-fns, and the-platform. Featuring Jared Palmer — Twitter , Github , Consultancy , Website...
Nov 20, 2018•48 min•Ep. 29
Jason Lengstorf is a developer advocate at Gatsby and productivity speaker/author. Chantastic asks about what the Gatsby team is up to, why Gatsby makes sense, and how their team is growing a vibrant JavaScript community. They talk about GraphQL, why there’s no site that couldn’t be static assets, connecting Gatsby to your existing API, and productivity tips for staying fresh and capable at work. Featuring Jason Lengstorf — Twitter , Github , Website Michael Chan — Twitter , Github , Website Not...
Nov 14, 2018•53 min•Ep. 28
The React core team sits down with Michael Jackson to discuss React today and tomorrow. They talk Concurrent Mode, Suspense, Hooks, the new profiler tab, scheduling in the browser, React Fire, React Fusion, becoming more framework-y, appearing less JavaScript-y, and why you shouldn’t worry about the second argument of useEffect. Featuring Sebastian Markbåge — Twitter , Github , Medium Sophie Alpert — Twitter , Github , Website Dan Abramov — Twitter , Github , Medium Andrew Clark — Twitter , Gith...
Oct 31, 2018•59 min•Ep. 27
Brad Frost is the author of Atomic Design, renowned speaker, and consulting designer. Chantastic asks him about his recent experience learning React and the difficulty he found entering the realm of React. They talk about team communication, developing portable solutions, organizational therapy through design, and creating a virtuous cycle between product, design, development, and systems creating. They address the challenges of learning UI design in an industry being consumed by JavaScript, the...
Oct 23, 2018•1 hr•Ep. 26
Diana and Emily create design systems at Github. Chantastic asks them about the story of design at Github, what role React will play in future systems, and what community tools that make their job easier. They talk Rails, Lerna, monorepos, Figma, component APIs, and the importance of supporting your design system by supporting designers and engineers. It’s a great discussion for everyone looking to improve processes in a legacy application. Featuring Diana Mounter — Twitter , Github , Website Em...
Oct 16, 2018•41 min•Ep. 25
Chantastic asks Burke Holland about Five Things, VS Code can do that?!, and what brought him to computers. They discuss Windows 98 UI, React at Microsoft, the gateway drug to TypeScript, React Food Truck, and how how he discovered the identity of horse_js. Featuring Burke Holland — Twitter , Medium Michael Chan — Twitter , Github , Website Notes & Links Five Things — a show about JavaScript, Node and all things web. VS Code can do that?! — All the best things about Visual Studio Code that no...
Oct 09, 2018•37 min•Ep. 24
Chantastic talks with Sunil Pai about Facebook, Oculus, and what the future holds for the JavaScript community. They discuss Sunil’s early adventures in programming, the power of a great manager, why firebug changed everything, why he scowls at models, the ways we protect ourselves from criticism, being “evil by accident”, and becoming The CSS Guy for the rest of eternity. Featuring Sunil Pai — Twitter , Github Michael Chan — Twitter , Github , Website Notes & Links The “Something” Statement...
Oct 02, 2018•44 min•Ep. 23
Chantastic talks with Ryan Florence about Reach UI and why accessibility is important for everyone. They discuss the balance of physical and mental activity, Ryan’s foray into programming and entrepreneurship, the inspiration behind his accessibility-first component library, and why none of us are really full-stack developers. Featuring Ryan Florence — Twitter , Github , Website Michael Chan — Twitter , Github , Website Notes & Links reach.tech Reach UI — The accessible foundation of your Re...
Sep 26, 2018•52 min•Ep. 22
Chantastic talks with Kent C Dodds about his adventures in React development and why we should be optimizing code for delete-ability. They discuss React Rally, managing your career, taming your ego, keeping healthy and happy on Twitter, tools for composing components well and when to use them, and what’s next for React. Featuring Kent C. Dodds — Twitter , Github , Website Michael Chan — Twitter , Github , Website Notes & Links downshift — 🏎 Primitive to build simple, flexible, WAI-ARIA comp...
Sep 18, 2018•50 min•Ep. 21
Chantastic talks with Devon about her adventures in web development and why she organizes the ReactJS San Francisco Bay Area meetup. They discuss how to foster vibrant and inclusive communities, why React Rally is so special, and what it means that Apple is sponsoring a React conference. Featuring Devon Lindsey — Twitter , Github , Website Michael Chan — Twitter , Github , Website Notes & Links ReactJS San Francisco Bay Area meetup Contributing Vapor lightning talk at React.js Conf 2016 A ha...
Sep 11, 2018•32 min•Ep. 20
Chantastic talks with Michael about his journey into open source and how he's building a business to sustain open source development. They discuss frontend libraries (then and now), the link between business and open source, the genesis of unpkg.com (a CDN for NPM), and the future of modules in the browser. Featuring Michael Jackson — Twitter , Github , Website Michael Chan — Twitter , Github , Website Notes & Links Shadowbox.js — Michael's first open source project React Router UNPKG — A CD...
Sep 04, 2018•47 min•Ep. 19
Chantastic talks with Nikolai about Prepack — a tool for making JavaScript code run faster. They discuss the goals and challenges before Prepack, why it makes global JavaScript faster, and how it could dramatically improve time to interactive performance in large React apps. Featuring Nikolai Tillmann — Twitter , Github Michael Chan — Twitter , Github , Website Notes & Links Prepack Prepack repl...
Aug 28, 2018•23 min•Ep. 18
Chantastic talks with Alex Reardon about his project react-beautiful-dnd. They discuss the physics of drag and drop, accessibility in any language, tricks and tactics for performance tuning UI, and engineering health in open source. Checkout Alex’s free egghead.io course Beautiful and Accessible Drag and Drop with react-beautiful-dnd ! Featuring Alex Reardon — Twitter , Github , Medium Michael Chan — Twitter , Github , Website Notes & Links Atlaskit Tweet announcing react-beautiful-dnd 8.0 D...
Aug 21, 2018•37 min•Ep. 17
Michael and Michael talk with Ken about the good, bad, and ugly of open source. Ken shares the pain and frustration he's felt as an open source developer and what keeps him coming back for more as the Director of Open Source at Formidable Labs. They talk GraphQL, Reason, React, and the best tweet Ken ever tweeted... Featuring Ken Wheeler — Twitter , Github , Website Michael Jackson — Twitter , Github , Website Michael Chan — Twitter , Github , Website Notes & Links Formidable Labs: Open Sour...
Aug 14, 2018•52 min•Ep. 16
Michael Jackson, Michael Chan talk with Shirley Wu about D3 and React, creative data visualization, her freelance work, and how she's helping React developers love D3. Featuring Shirley Wu — Twitter , Github , Website Michael Jackson — Twitter , Github , Website Michael Chan — Twitter , Github , Website Notes & Links data sketch|es A Nadieh & Shirley collaboration. An Interactive Visualization of Every Line in Hamilton Analyzing 21,000 words for relational and thematic insights. Film Flo...
Aug 07, 2018•39 min•Ep. 15
Michael, Michael, and Harrison talk VX, Charting with D3, Airbnb engineering, and designing unopinionated component in React. Featuring Harrison Shoff — Twitter , Github , Medium Michael Jackson — Twitter , Github , Website Michael Chan — Twitter , Github , Website Notes & Links vx | visualization components My Airbnb story ReasonML React Sketch.app react-dates...
Jul 31, 2018•33 min•Ep. 14
Michael, Michael, and Kurt talk Gatsby, GraphQL, debugging Node, gaining buy-in on big teams, and the future of Gatsby. Featuring Kurt Kemple — Twitter , Github , Website Michael Jackson — Twitter , Github , Website Michael Chan — Twitter , Github , Website Notes & Links Implementing GraphQL at Major League Soccer NODESOURCE 5 things they don't want you to know about React-Apollo GraphQL NYC I'm fucking depressed, but it's going to be okay Up and Running with Universal Components Lona Tools ...
Jul 18, 2018•50 min•Ep. 13
Sara Vieira is easily one of the most entertaining people we've ever had on this show. She has been working with React over the past few years and has recently been traveling around Europe and giving free workshops on React in London and at React Finland. Featuring Sara Vieira — Twitter , Github , Website Michael Jackson — Twitter , Github , Website Michael Chan — Twitter , Github , Website Notes Make Frontend Shit Again Awesome Talks The destructured horse!...
Jun 05, 2018•55 min•Ep. 12
Sophie Alpert is a core contributor to React and is currently the engineering manager for the React team at Facebook. She has been contributing to React for over 3 years now, making her first contributions while she was working as an engineer at Khan Academy. Featuring Sophie Alpert — Twitter , Github , Website Michael Jackson — Twitter , Github , Website Michael Chan — Twitter , Github , Website Notes React v16.0 React 16 rewrite Improving the React repo infrastructure Hi, I'm trans....
May 29, 2018•42 min•Ep. 11
Ives van Hoorne is the creator of Codesandbox; an online code editor written completely in React. Although Codesandbox is written in React, it can be used to build applications for any front-end framework. Featuring Featuring Ives van Hoorne — Twitter , Github , Website Michael Jackson — Twitter , Github , Website Notes Codesandbox codesandbox-client Cerebral...
May 22, 2018•34 min•Ep. 10
Kye Hohenberger is the author of the Emotion JavaScript library, a popular choice among React developers who prefer using CSS-in-JS to traditional CSS stylesheets. In this episode we discuss his work on Emotion including where he got the initial inspiration for the project and his motivation for creating it. We also discuss the future of the project and what may be in store for the future of CSS-in-JS. Featuring Kye Hohenberger — Twitter , Github Michael Jackson — Twitter , Github , Website Note...
May 15, 2018•56 min•Ep. 9
Nitin Tulswani is a prolific developer and the creator of react-perf-devtool, a library that helps with profiling the performance of your React components since react-addons-perf was deprecated in React 16. In this episode we discuss Nitin's approach to writing code and the motivation behind several of his open source projects. Featuring Kurt Kemple — Twitter , Github Michael Jackson — Twitter , Github , Website Notes react-perf-devtool redocx, A docx renderer for React terminal-in-react...
May 08, 2018•39 min•Ep. 8
James Long is a prolific blogger and the author of several open source libraries including Prettier. He has recently started developing Actual, a budgeting app built in React and Electron. In this episode we talk about James' approach to business, as well as take a peek behind the scenes at how he works with React. Featuring James Long — Twitter , Github , Website Michael Jackson — Twitter , Github , Website Michael Chan — Twitter , Github , Website Jed Watson — Twitter , Github , Website Notes ...
Apr 24, 2018•59 min•Ep. 7
Andrew Clark is a developer on the React core team at Facebook who has been working on asynchronous rendering. In this episode we do a deep dive on some of the decisions behind the implementation of async mode in React 16 as well as talk about how applications can benefit from using it. Featuring Andrew Clark — Twitter , Github Michael Jackson — Twitter , Github , Website Notes Preview of Async Features in React 16 react-basic - core concepts of React Update on Async Rendering in React...
Apr 10, 2018•46 min•Ep. 6
In this episode Michael Jackson talks with David Khourshid about State Machines. David is a developer on the Visual Studio Live Share team at Microsoft. Recently, he's been exploring methods of using finite state machines together with React to create predictable flows through applications that are easy to follow and test. Featuring David Khourshid — Twitter , Github , Website Michael Jackson — Twitter , Github , Website Notes xstate Statecharts: A Visual Formalism for Complex Systems...
Apr 03, 2018•37 min•Ep. 5
In this episode Michael Jackson talks with Henry Zhu, maintainer of the hugely popular Babel project, about open source sustainability and what's coming next for the Babel project. Featuring Henry Zhu — Twitter , Github , Website Michael Jackson — Twitter , Github , Website Notes Babel is a JavaScript compiler Support the development of Babel on Henry's Patreon page...
Mar 30, 2018•46 min•Ep. 4
