Dimitrius Clark joins us to drop some good nuggets on building community. We talk about his meetup Reactadelphia, tips for finding the best Code Bootcamps, and how to supercharge your career after graduation — using all the corniest career advice. Featuring Domitrius Clark — twitter , github , egghead chantastic — twitter , github , egghead Links Chance the Dev podcast Domitrius’ Egghead profile Cloudinary — efficiently manage, optimize, and deliver images, videos and other media across every de...
May 07, 2020•57 min•Ep. 93
Chance Strickland (@chancethedev) and chantastic talk about Reach UI and building flexible libraries for the web. They talk about separation of logic with statecharts, the cascading complexity of accessibility, unopinionated approaches to styling, and the career effects of great open source. Featuring Chance Strickland — Twitter , GitHub , Website chantastic — Twitter , GitHub , Website Links Reach UI — An accessible foundation of your React-based design system. ListBox Component Menu Button Com...
Apr 30, 2020•49 min•Ep. 92
Dominic Nguyen joins us to talk about visual regression testing for design systems with chromatic — the important differences between snapshot testing and visual testing, why the component construct was the missing piece, and how chromatic gives teams confidence. Chromatic’s free plan will be hitting shelfves next week. We are ahead of it by just a few days. But if you want to try it out today , Start a 30-day trial and switch to the new, free plan next week. Featuring chantastic — Twitter , Git...
Apr 23, 2020•1 hr•Ep. 91
This week on React Podcast our guest is… me! Max Stoiber takes the host seat to ask about my journey from unemployment line to React Podcaster. Nothing is off limits. We talk faith, family, cancer, death, and finding a place in tech… Thanks Max for dreaming up this episode and convincing me to do it. Featuring chantastic — Twitter , Website , GitHub Max Stoiber — Twitter , Website , GitHub Links Waiting for Autumn — Memories of You on YouTube — A super embarrassing song and slideshow by by early...
Apr 16, 2020•57 min•Ep. 90
Laurie Barth joins us to talk about building a career you’ll love, networking you won’t hate, and a proven strategy to beat imposter syndrome. Featuring Laurie Barth — Twitter , Website , Github , egghead chantastic — Twitter , Website , GitHub , egghead Notes and Links The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. One should […] be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined t...
Apr 09, 2020•56 min•Ep. 89
Adam Wathan tells us what it takes to make your own money. He’s a prolific author, podcaster, educator, open source creator, and true fullstack developer. He shares a look into what it took to make Refactoring UI and Tailwind CSS smash hits. Featuring Adam Wathan — Twitter , Website , Github , egghead chantastic — Twitter , Website , GitHub , egghead Links tailwindcss — A utility-first CSS framework for rapidly building custom designs [tailwindui] (https://tailwindui.com/) — Beautiful UI compone...
Apr 02, 2020•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 88
Chris Biscardi and I talk about using the platform — what happened in the browser while we were webpacking all-the-things-in-js. We talk about the future of JavaScript meta frameworks, a return to Rails, serverless provider lock-in, and the value of content creation in an economic downturn. Featuring Chris Biscardi — Twitter , Website , Github , egghead chantastic — Twitter , Website , GitHub , egghead Links Gatsby — build blazing fast websites and apps Wordpress MDX — Markdown for the component...
Mar 26, 2020•58 min•Ep. 87
We learn from Maggie Appleton about mental models, conceptual metaphor theory, culture, creative thinking, drawing a box, and how it all comes together in her incredible Egghead course artwork. Featuring Maggie Appleton — Twitter , Website , Dribbble chantastic — Twitter , Website , GitHub Links egghead Build an App with React Suspense — my suspense course on egghead iconfactory justjavascript.com State Monad in JavaScript on egghead Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracting World by...
Mar 19, 2020•53 min•Ep. 86
This week we chat with Michael of React Training and learn everything we need to know about React Router v6 — what's in store, how to update, and what he's learned about empathy in the process. Featuring Michael Jackson — Twitter , Website , GitHub chantastic — Twitter , Website , GitHub React Suspense Course Get up to speed fast on React Suspense in my crash course at reactsuspense.com ! Links 75: Sunil Pai on The Future of UI Frameworks React Training react-router reach-ui history on npm Chanc...
Mar 12, 2020•1 hr 31 min•Ep. 85
We sit down with Max Stoiber and find out what it takes to find luck in open source. Max is the creator of react-boilerploit and the co-creator of styled-components and spectrum.chat. Featuring Max Stoiber — Twitter , Website , GitHub chantastic — Twitter , Website , GitHub Links GitHub Gatsby spectrum styled-components react-boilerplate left-pad hackernews I want you to contribute to open source — Max's Talk at React Rally 2017 Stripe open source Nick Graph Jed Watson thinkmill Glen Madden CSS ...
Mar 05, 2020•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 84
David Khourshid is the man bringing statecharts to the frontend. We talk about XState, model-based testing with xstate-test, and the future designer/coder integration For the month of february, we're chatting exclusively with Reactathon speakers. You can hear more from David on the topic state-charts for UI development this march. Reactathon is a top React conference in the heart of San Francisco. David and I will be there, chewing people's ears off about better designer tooling. Get a ticket at...
Feb 27, 2020•50 min•Ep. 83
Today we chat with Becca Bailey about Refactoring — how to make your React code a little more liveable, human-friendly, and ready for anything. You can hear more from Becca this march, on finding joy in refactoring. Reactathon is a top React conference in the heart of San Francisco. Becca and I will be there, passing out high fives and excited to meet you. Get a ticket at reactathon.com. Featuring Becca Bailey — Twitter , Website , GitHub chantastic — Twitter , Website , GitHub Links Formidable ...
Feb 20, 2020•42 min•Ep. 82
Today we chat with Evan Bacon about Expo and delivering on the elusive promise of "write once. run anywhere." For the month of february, we're chatting exclusively with Reactathon speakers. You can hear more from Evan on the topic of using Expo for universal React development this march. Reactathon is a top React conference in the heart of San Francisco. Evan and I will be there, having a good time and happy to chat with you. Get a ticket at reactathon.com . Featuring Evan Bacon — Twitter , GitH...
Feb 13, 2020•46 min•Ep. 81
Today we chat with Daria Caraway and learn how to build considerate React components with TypeScript. For the month of february, we're chatting exclusively with Reactathon speakers. You can hear more from Daria on this topic of developing considerate React components on the Reactathon this march. Reactathon is a top React conference in the heart of San Francisco. Daria and I will be there, high-fiving people and having a good time. Get a ticket at reactathon.com . Featuring Daria Caraway — Twitt...
Feb 06, 2020•49 min•Ep. 80
Conferences are a big part of the React ecosystem. This year, there's a conference that stands out from the rest: Render(ATL). Render(ATL) is a new conference in Atlanta that promises to introduce React developers to the voice and culture of the south. Today we sit with Justin E. Samuels to hear his vision for the conference, how much he loves his city, and what amazing things await attendees in Atlanta this year. Featuring Justin E. Samuels — Twitter , Instagram , GitHub chantastic — Twitter , ...
Jan 30, 2020•57 min•Ep. 79
Every few months, I like to explore professions that are adjacent to programming. Today we're exploring captioning and its impact on our industry. Our guide for this industry is the fabulously giften Norma Miller of White Coat Captioning. I was captivated by her work at last year's React Rally and wanted to share with you what I learned from her. Her company does primarily technical events, which gives her an interesting vantage point into tech conference culture. We talk about typing in excess ...
Jan 23, 2020•49 min•Ep. 78
We're kicking off a new decade by going back in time time to 1999, just 10 years after the birth of the internet. Our guest today is Lee Byron. He takes us on a tour of the early web and personal home pages. And connects the dots between PHP and technologies like React and GraphQL. His work — inside Facebook during a critical pivot to mobile — provides a unique vantage point on the progress of web technologies over the past 20 years. Featuring Lee Byron — Twitter , Website , GitHub chantastic — ...
Jan 16, 2020•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 77
Today we sit down with award winning cartoonist, a book apart author, web animations expert, new member to the React Core Team, and all round lovely human Rachel Nabors. We talk about her journey to React, the Woman at the Heart of React zine (from this year's React Conf), and her charter to make React and React Native documentation friendly, powerful, and inclusive. Featuring Rachel Nabors — Twitter , GitHub , Website chantastic — Twitter , Website , GitHub Links React Conf 2019 Women at the He...
Dec 12, 2019•1 hr•Ep. 76
React Core Team member Sunil Pai in the chair today. React is a complicated project. It's open source but lead by facebook. That's a hard pill for many to swollow. But, for it, we get a framework that's battle-tested at facebook scale — every experimental API tested by billions of users. Today, Sunil and I dive into the future of React as a UI framework, how Concurrent mode marks a shift in focus from developer experience to user experience, and what it'll take to finally get better designer too...
Dec 05, 2019•48 min•Ep. 75
I'm so grateful for you. This is just a short thank you from me to you, an update on my React Suspense course, and what you can expect from React Podcast in 2020. Featuring chantastic — Twitter , Website , GitHub Links reactsuspense.com — An ugly site with links to my new React Suspense course and newsletter Sponsors Linode Linode : Instantly deploy and manage an SSD server in the Linode Cloud. Get a server running in seconds with your choice of Linux distro, resources, and node location. Get a ...
Nov 27, 2019•4 min•Ep. 74
Brian Vaughn joins us for an update on React Developer Tools. We talk about Fast Refresh for the web, New developer convienciences around codemods, And new React Dev Tools features to help you profile, suspend component trees, and find your way around unfamiliar React apps. This chat is guaranteed to help you be a quicker, happier, more productive React developer. Featuring Brian Vaughn— Twitter , Website , GitHub chantastic — Twitter , Website , GitHub Links Introducing the New React DevTools o...
Nov 21, 2019•1 hr•Ep. 73
Today we're talking with Kitze about his transition from open source to product, what his development browser Sizzy has taught him about business, and the dangers of our hype-driven development cycles. We discuss what we think is wrong with the culture of web development today and how to keep focused on skills that won't be consumed by designer/developer robots. Featuring Kitze— Twitter , Website , GitHub chantastic — Twitter , Website , GitHub Links React Live — Amsterdam Navigating the Hype Dr...
Nov 14, 2019•54 min•Ep. 72
In the immortal words of TLC, "Don't go chasing waterfalls". Turns out they're really easy to find in React today. Joe Savona joins us to talk about avoiding waterfalls in your React code. He's here for our 2nd of 6 React Conf 2019 interviews to talk about data-fetching strategies with Suspense. Joe has spent the last year working with the React team in developing a relay-suspense integration for the new facebook.com. He shares the lessons and patterns they've learned and how they're baking grea...
Nov 07, 2019•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 71
Today we kick off our first of 6 React Conf interviews. We start with Andrew Clark to learn what this React Conf 2019 means for us — our libraries and apps. He's a core team member who cut his React teeth on the fiber re-write and he's been deep in Concurrent React for 3 years. We chat about future features, prerelease channels, and how Suspense is preparing the way for others to bring cooperative concurrency to their libraries, applications, and frameworks. Featuring Andrew Clark — Twitter , Gi...
Oct 31, 2019•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 70
This week is React Conf! And I suspect that Suspense and Concurrent Mode will have a good showing. So — in anticipation and excitement — I asked friend of the show, Swyx, to join me for a Suspense/Concurrent React rundown episode — covering everything you need to know so far and what we hope to see at this year's event. Neither of us have priviliged info. We're just two nerds who like to keep abreast of React's most exciting future feature. Featuring swyx (Shawn Wang) — Twitter , Website , GitHu...
Oct 22, 2019•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 69
Today we sit with Lara Schenck to discuss CSS Algorithms and my favorite term of the year: Turd Driven Development. She's brilliant, obviously. And It's a real treat to chat with someone who shares my affinity for CSS and a stoic acceptance of how crappy our codebases are. But she offers hope, to teams that prioritize the work of design engineering. Do not miss her talk CSS Algorithms. It's — hands down — my favorite talk of 2019. Featuring Lara Schenk — Twitter , Website , GitHub Michael Chan —...
Oct 17, 2019•58 min•Ep. 68
This week we sit with Swizec Teller and learn how to get more done in every day. Swizec has an incredible work ethic — regularly blogging, vlogging, live streaming, and writing books on your favorite web technologies React and D3. How does he do all that and keep a full-time job at a startup? Today, we try to find out what his secret is and how to mimic that focus. Featuring Swizec Teller — Twitter , Website , GitHub Michael Chan — Twitter , Website , GitHub Swizec's projects es6cheatsheet.com N...
Oct 10, 2019•57 min•Ep. 67
This week we continue our discussion with Jonathan Cutrell about the future of work. This time, we're talking about teamwork. We tackle a few important questions. How do you invest in a team that is separated by hundreds of miles? How do you find moments to spark trust where serendipity is at a minimum? And how do you make sure everyone is heard and feels good about their work? If you work remote — or hope to work remote — these questions are at the forefront of your mind as you decide whether o...
Oct 03, 2019•51 min•Ep. 66
This week we sit down with Jonathan Cutrell. He's the host of the beloved podcast Developer Tea and co-found of Spec, the very podcast network that this show belongs to. When podcasters get together and talk. They talk... for hours. So this is part one of a two-parter. Today, we learn from Jonathan's transition from musical performer to developer. We discover how constrained systems like music primed him for life as a developer, and the ways in which all systems being infused with our humanity. ...
Sep 26, 2019•43 min•Ep. 65
This week we sit down with Chris Toomey and address all the holy wars: Elm vs React, TypeScript vs JavaScript, product vs development, and even VS Code vs Vim. This is a pragmatic look at how type systems can improve the way you build and talk about product. In the right hands — these tools can make teamwork a dream. But in the wrong hands, well... Let's just listen close and make sure your hands are the right ones. Featuring Chris Toomey — Twitter , Website , GitHub Michael Chan — Twitter , Web...
Sep 19, 2019•53 min•Ep. 64
