Oluwaseun Raphael Afolayan is the Co-Founder of MyTherapist.ng, Technical Author, Fullstack Mobile Engineer, and eSports Gamer. He joins the show to talk about Firebase. He discusses the services that Firebase offers and why he chose it. Sponsors Chuck's Resume Template Raygun - Application Monitoring For Web & Mobile Apps Become a Top 1% Dev with a Top End Devs Membership Links Firebase Socials LinkedIn: Oluwaseun Raphael Afolayan Picks Jack - Insta360 X3 – Waterproof 360 Action Camera Paig...
Jun 07, 2023•25 min
Hosts from the JavaScript Jabber podcast, AJ O'Neal and Dan Shappir join this week's crossover episode. They begin by giving a brief introduction of themselves. They talk about how to become a web developer and their perspective on being a web developer. Additionally, they discuss creating open-source projects. On YouTube What It Takes To Be A Web Developer: Part 2 - RRU 222 Sponsors Chuck's Resume Template Developer Book Club Become a Top 1% Dev with a Top End Devs Membership Socials LinkedIn: ...
May 31, 2023•1 hr
Hosts from the JavaScript Jabber podcast, AJ O'Neal and Dan Shappir join this week's crossover episode. They begin by giving a brief introduction of themselves. They talk about how to become a web developer and their perspective on being a web developer. Additionally, they discuss creating open-source projects. Sponsors Chuck's Resume Template Developer Book Club Become a Top 1% Dev with a Top End Devs Membership Socials LinkedIn: AJ O'Neal Twitter: @coolaj86 LinkedIn: Dan Shappir Twitter: @DanS...
May 24, 2023•56 min
Chirag Dugar is a Software Development Engineer - II at Javis. He begins the show by talking about transitioning from being a college student to a Software Developer. He also shares his past learnings in coding and making connections during his internship. Moreover, he discusses his React projects, his experiences in creating those and his challenges. Sponsors Chuck's Resume Template Raygun - Application Monitoring For Web & Mobile Apps Become a Top 1% Dev with a Top End Devs Membership Soci...
May 17, 2023•43 min
Sami Jaber is a Software Engineer at Builder.io. He joins the show to discuss " Implementing CSS Style Inheritance in React Native ". He starts by talking about the inspiration behind the article's concept. He also talks about Mitosis, how to use it, and its features. Sponsors Chuck's Resume Template Raygun - Application Monitoring For Web & Mobile Apps Become a Top 1% Dev with a Top End Devs Membership Links Implementing CSS Style Inheritance in React Native A Quick Guide to Mitosis Socials...
May 03, 2023•48 min
Bruce A. Tate is a Founder at Groxio, Elixir Expert, and a Technical Author. He joins the show alongside Charles Max Wood to talk about his book, " Seven Languages in Seven Weeks" . He also delves into some of the preparations and anticipations that come with reading the book. Links Seven Languages in Seven Weeks grox.io Socials LinkedIn: Bruce Tate Twitter: redrapids Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy Become a supporter of th...
Apr 28, 2023•32 min
Levan Katsadze is a React.js TypeScript developer and Author of VS Code extension "Blockman". He joins the show alongside Jack, Paige, and TJ to talk about Blockman. He starts off by defining it and describing how it functions. He also talks about the reason why he built the VS Code extension and the process of creating it. Sponsors Chuck's Resume Template Raygun - Application Monitoring For Web & Mobile Apps Become a Top 1% Dev with a Top End Devs Membership Links Blockman - Highlight Neste...
Apr 19, 2023•43 min
Are you dissatisfied with your job? Sam Feeney helps organizations improve employee engagement, increase retention, and reinvent hiring while helping individuals (re)discover career satisfaction in their current roles. He joins the show alongside Chuck Wood to tackle altering the way you perceive your job and talk about Career satisfaction. On YouTube How Do You Stop Hating Your Job? - BONUS Socials LinkedIn: Sam Feeney Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: h...
Apr 12, 2023•45 min
Simon Grimm is a Creator, Indie Maker & Solopreneur. He is currently working at The Ionic Academy . He joins the panel to talk about React Native and Capacitor. He starts by explaining how a "Capacitor" contributes to your web application. They talk about how to build web applications with a capacitor and how it differs from using a React Native. On YouTube Creating Apps with Capacitor and React Native - RRU 217 Sponsors Chuck's Resume Template Raygun - Application Monitoring For Web & M...
Apr 06, 2023•50 min
Hosts of the Adventures in Angular podcast, Chuck Wood and Lucas Paganini, join the React Round Up Panel on this week's episode crossover. They begin the episode by contrasting the two frameworks and offering their own viewpoints on React and Angular. Additionally, they explain each of the frameworks' strong points. Sponsors Chuck's Resume Template Developer Book Club Become a Top 1% Dev with a Top End Devs Membership Educational Links react.dev Article by Lucas Paganini Video by Lucas Paganini ...
Mar 29, 2023•1 hr 5 min
Sean Austin is the CEO and Co-Founder of Helios . It is pioneering speech analytics for Wall Street. He joins the show to explain more about his company's background, how it got started and some of the factors they consider that have an impact on the company. He also discusses the services they can provide to their clients. Sponsors Chuck's Resume Template Developer Book Club Become a Top 1% Dev with a Top End Devs Membership Links Helios Markets Slammed With Noise, Investors Trust Tone to Set t...
Mar 08, 2023•50 min
Jack, Paige, and TJ join this week's panelist episode to tackle all things React and their take on different frameworks. They start off by talking about the pros and cons of "Create React App". They also discuss the Typescript 5.0 features and the SvelteKit, which was just released. On YouTube The React Universe - RRU 214 Sponsors Chuck's Resume Template Developer Book Club Become a Top 1% Dev with a Top End Devs Membership Links Create React App Announcing TypeScript 5.0 Beta SvelteKit @astrojs...
Feb 15, 2023•48 min
Giulio Zausa is a Software Engineer at Flux. They build next-generation collaborative tools for hardware design. He joins the show to talk about his projects on Flux. He also shares some of his tips and experiences on how to improve your application performance. Moreover, he dives into what the react-three-fiber library is all about and its functions. About This Episode Chrome Profiler Performance Testing Using React in building apps THREE.js and react-three-fiber library Sponsors Chuck's Resume...
Feb 08, 2023•53 min
Alex Olivier is a Product Lead at Cerbos . It is a self-hosted, open-source authorization layer that separates your authorization logic from your core application code. He joins the show to talk about the company in more detail and what it can offer to its users. Additionally, he explains the process of Testing and Setting it up. About this Episode How authorization enables a company to scale, win enterprise clients, and meet regulatory requirements The ongoing shift in decoupling applications i...
Feb 01, 2023•46 min
Sam Magura is a Software developer at Spot. He joins the show alongside, Jack and TJ to talk about his article, "Why We're Breaking Up with CSS-in-JS". He was the second most active maintainer of Emotion , a widely-popular CSS-in-JS library for React. But realized it came with a big performance cost and added unnecessary complexity. He describes the specific inefficiencies that he has encountered while using it and how he came to realize them. Moreover, he talks about his solution to these perfo...
Jan 25, 2023•43 min
Jack Franklin is working on Chrome DevTools as a Frontend Engineer at Google. He joins the show to talk about his article, " Why I don't miss React: a story about using the platform ". He explains why he wrote his article and about his experience working with ChromeDevTools. Additionally, he dives into the advantages of Web components and its difference from React. He tackles all of the key points of his article. Sponsors Chuck's Resume Template Developer Book Club starting with Clean Architectu...
Jan 18, 2023•49 min
Talking about their 2023 Hot Takes and predictions, Jack, Paige, and TJ tackle this week's Panelist episode. They discuss their hopes for this year as well as potential improvements to the various languages and technologies. Additionally, they also dive into some of the software development tools and share their recommendations and expectations for them. Sponsors Chuck's Resume Template Developer Book Club starting with Clean Architecture by Robert C. Martin Become a Top 1% Dev with a Top End De...
Jan 11, 2023•46 min
Collin Pfeifer, writer, software engineer, and student at Indiana University joins the React Round Up panel to discuss the intricacies and pitfalls in Create React App, the roadmap of being a self-taught developer, and how the computer education system has changed over the years. Sponsors Chuck's Resume Template Developer Book Club starting with Clean Architecture by Robert C. Martin Become a Top 1% Dev with a Top End Devs Membership Links Why Create React App is Outdated in 2022 Collin Pfeifer ...
Jan 04, 2023•47 min
Chromatic developer experience engineer Shaun Evening joins the React Round Up hosts to talk about all the new features rolling out with the release of Storybook 7. Have you ever wanted to combine your Storybook integration with Material UI , Ant Design, or any other component library? Well, Storybook's making it easier than ever, and that's just the beginning. A new offering called Integrations allows users to add all sorts of plugins to their Storybook workflows for even more functionality, an...
Dec 22, 2022•52 min
Sebastien Lorber, Docusaurus maintainer at Meta and This Week in React newsletter creator, joins the React Round Up panel to discuss the latest and greatest in React 18, including lesser-known hooks and features that are making the framework more useful and performant than ever before. He also deep dives into why Docusaurus (maintained by Meta/Facebook) has become such a popular static site generator for companies and dev teams in all industries to document their products, APIs, software, and mo...
Dec 14, 2022•50 min
The React Round Up panel joins the show as Jack takes the lead to talk about the various improvements made in the React Ecosystem. Additionally, they offer their thoughts and insights on these updates and share their potential value to the developers. They also talk about whether these features have an impact when used in apps. About this Episode Different React upgrades Advantages and disadvantages of these new tools in your apps Benefits when using these features Sponsors Chuck's Resume Templa...
Dec 07, 2022•51 min
Get the Black Friday/Cyber Monday "Focus Blocks Bundle" Deal Coupon Code: "THRIVE" for a GIANT discount Are you looking at all the layoffs and uncertainty going on and wondering if your company is the next to cut back? Or, maybe you're a freelancer or entrepreneur who is trying to figure out how to deliver more value to gain or retain customers? Mani Vaya joins Charles Max Wood to discuss the one thing that both of them use to more than double their productivity on a daily basis. Mani has read 1...
Nov 24, 2022•1 hr 12 min
Returning guest, Ian Lavery from Picovice.ai , joins the hosts to talk all things voice recognition. He dives into new languages the company has tackled over the last year (and what languages it plans to tackle next year), how they train their models, and how Picovoice is actually running speech recognition in the browser instead of in the cloud, making things like captioning live streams and real-time chats possible with some of its newer tech Cheetah and Leopard . He also shares how he wrote a...
Nov 16, 2022•50 min
Nirmalya Ghosh joins the React Round Up panelists in this episode to talk about how he migrated a monolithic Ruby on Rails application to React. What was estimated to take 3 -6 months ended up taking about 2 years, and Nirmalya shares all the hard-won lessons he learned along the way for any listeners who might be preparing to make a similar upgrade. Additionally, he talks about the company he currently works for and how they're trying to become the one-stop shop for anyone looking for a good AP...
Nov 09, 2022•52 min
Software engineer Pierre Hedkvist joins the React Round Up panelists to share some spicy (controversial) coding decisions he's made and then written about. The first hot topic is using React state to store filter setting in query parameters with the help of a custom Hook, and the second is migrating an app to rely more heavily on React Query instead of Redux. If you've been considering doing something similar, give this episode a listen to hear Pierre's strategies and advice for anyone looking t...
Nov 02, 2022•42 min
Return guest Vijit Ail joins the cast of React Round Up to talk all things Supabase. If you've ever used Firebase and wished it was open source, this is the episode for you. Vijit espouses all the cool things Supabase offers like schema definitions, edge functions, data streaming, and more. There's so much good info chocked into this episode, listen to learn how to get started with Supabase today. Sponsors Top End Devs Coaching | Top End Devs Links Vijit Ail GitHub: vijitail Twitter: @AilVijit P...
Oct 26, 2022•32 min
In our 200th episode of React Round Up, the panelists take a look back at how their first appearances on RRU and how they came to be on the show. In addition to advice on how they got to where they are now, they also highlight some of their favorite guests who've graced RRU with all sorts of great React knowledge over the years and offer advice on how you can get started on your own tech podcast or (hopefully) be invited to join an existing one. Here's to 200 more episodes! Sponsors Top End Devs...
Oct 19, 2022•50 min
Gleb Bahmutov, who worked with the Cypress.io team for 4 years, joins the panelists to talk all things testing. You may be familiar with Cypress as a popular JavaScript end-to-end testing framework, but did you know it recently began offering component testing as well? This may be just the incentive you need to ditch Jest and Testing Library for unit/integration tests and go all in on Cypress for all your testing needs. Listen up and let us know if you're convinced. Sponsors Top End Devs Coachin...
Sep 28, 2022•49 min
Today we talk with Fred Schott , the co-creator of Astro, a web framework focused on improving performance. Built around island architecture, it leverages HTML over javascript where it’s an option. Astro is a great option for those who focus on content, marketing, or personal blogs, and it is a great option to use with React. In this episode we talk about when it makes sense to use Astro, and how to implement it. Sponsors Top End Devs Raygun | Click here to get started on your free 14-day trial ...
Sep 21, 2022•50 min
In today's all panelist episode we address web development controversies: state management tools, CSS in JS, GraphQL or REST, and, of course, tabs versus spaces. And the rule is: there's no saying "It depends." Listen to the panelists take hard line stances on things that matter (and things that don't), and try to defend their choices. It's a fun episode for everyone, and we'd love to hear about your own controversial coding decisions. Sponsors Top End Devs Coaching | Top End Devs Links Discord ...
Sep 14, 2022•54 min
