Micro frontends are the topic of discussion again, this time with Grgur Grisogono, Principal Consultant at Modus Create and co-author of the Manning book "Ext JS in Action". In particular, Grgur explains the new module federation capabilities introduced by Webpack, and describes how they can be used to construct micro frontends in a much more streamlined and modular fashion.Panel AJ O'Neal Charles Max Wood Dan Shappir Steve Edwards Guest Grgur Grisogono Sponsors Dev Influencers Accelerator Raygu...
Apr 20, 2021•1 hr 15 min•Transcript available on Metacast Charles Max Wood discusses several opportunities that came his way early in his podcasting career and other opportunities that have come to other people after only a couple of podcast episodes. He explains why that happens and how you can use this to create more influence as a developer.Panel Charles Max Wood Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/javascript-jabber/donations Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com...
Apr 16, 2021•21 min•Transcript available on Metacast Ethan Garofolo is the author of Practical Microservices with Pragmatic Programmers. He starts out debunking the ideas behind pulling parts of a monolith into a different services and change function calls into HTTP calls. Instead, it's an approach that keeps things moving for development teams that solves several productivity issues. He breaks down the ways to move functionality around and which approaches make sense for breaking your application up into pieces that are easy to work on and appro...
Apr 13, 2021•1 hr 18 min•Transcript available on Metacast Charles Max Wood started podcasting because it sounded fun and because he wanted to talk about technology. He learned pretty quickly that it got him access to people who understood the things he wanted to learn. The reasons changed over the years, as Charles explains before he talks about the big payoff he gets now from doing the podcasts.Panel Charles Max Wood Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/javascript-jabber/donations Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy Become ...
Apr 09, 2021•31 min•Transcript available on Metacast The infamous Jake Archibald, member of the Chrome Team, an author of the Service Worker spec, and host of the HTTP 203 Podcast takes us on a whirlwind tour of recent and upcoming browser standards including Portals, iframes, App Cache, Service Workers, HTML, Browser History and more - why they are the way they are, why we can't have nice things, and how we might get nice things anyway in the future. Lots of good back and forth and only a little name calling… jaffa…Panel Aimee Knight AJ O'Neal Da...
Apr 06, 2021•1 hr 25 min•Transcript available on Metacast Jason Weimann started out as an enthusiast of the Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game, Everquest. After becoming a software developer and building a collaborative community playing the game, learn how he used his connections to get a job working for the company that made the game, even if it wasn't a job working as a game developer and how that led to a career working on one of the most popular online games of the time.Panel Charles Max Wood Support this podcast at — https://redcircle...
Apr 02, 2021•39 min•Transcript available on Metacast If you're building a website or web-app, there's a good chance that you want people to find it so that they will access it. These days this mostly means that you want it to appear in the relevant search engine results pages (SERP). In this episode we are joined by Martin Splitt, DevRel at Google for the Search & Web ecosystem, who explains in detail how search engines work, and what developers and SEOs need to know and do in order to be on their good side.Panel Aimee Knight AJ O'Neal Dan Sha...
Mar 30, 2021•1 hr 3 min•Transcript available on Metacast Chuck outlines how he's used his podcasts to find mentors to continue his learning journey over 12 years of podcasting. Some mentors have been long lived relationships while others have lasted only a few months or even days. This episode shares Chuck's experience learning from the top people in the development community as a programmer and podcaster.Panel Charles Max Wood Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/javascript-jabber/donations Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/priv...
Mar 26, 2021•30 min•Transcript available on Metacast If you're building a website or web-app, there's a good chance that you want people to find it so that they will access it. These days this mostly means that you want it to appear in the relevant search engine results pages (SERP). In this episode we are joined by Martin Splitt, DevRel at Google for the Search & Web ecosystem, who explains in detail how search engines work, and what developers and SEOs need to know and do in order to be on their good side.Panel Aimee Knight AJ O'Neal Dan Sha...
Mar 23, 2021•59 min•Transcript available on Metacast In recent years the term DevOps has become ubiquitous - you'll find DevOps engineers in most every tech organization. But what does DevOps actually mean, and how does it differ from previously existing System and Network engineering and DBAs? In this episode our own Aimee Knight, who is currently expanding her role into DevOps, answers these questions, and provide further information about it.Panel Aimee Knight AJ O'Neal Dan Shappir Sponsors Dexecure Raygun | Click here to get started on your fr...
Mar 16, 2021•1 hr 7 min•Transcript available on Metacast Having done a three-part series on the things JavaScript developers MUST know, Dan now leads a panel discussion on the things that JavaScript developers SHOULD know. These are things that devs can get by without knowing, but that will improve their abilities if they do know and understand. Subjects covered include: passing functions args by value vs by reference, sparse arrays, property descriptors, event capture, and more.Panel Aimee Knight AJ O'Neal Dan Shappir Steve Edwards Sponsors Dexecure ...
Mar 09, 2021•1 hr 22 min•Transcript available on Metacast Steve and A.J. talk with Chris Mather, the creator of the Elements framework, a new monolith-style web framework for generating web apps. They discuss the reason for adding YAF (Yet Another Framework), the pieces that are used to build the framework, and how it all works together.Panel AJ O'Neal Steve Edwards Guest Chris Mather Sponsors Dexecure Raygun | Click here to get started on your free 14-day trial Dev Heroes Accelerator Links Elements GitHub | elementscode/application Picks AJ- Ubiquiti ...
Mar 02, 2021•1 hr 18 min•Transcript available on Metacast Anthony Campolo joins the conversation to lead the discussion of RedwoodJS. RedwoodJS is a full-stack framework that provides a way of building a fast and secure front-end that JAMstack gives you with the power and flexibility of a backend.It doesn't have an official ORM, instead it uses GraphQL through Prisma. This discussion goes deep into the history and implementation of RedwoodJS.Panel Aimee Knight AJ O'Neal Dan Shappir Steve Edwards Guest Anthony Campolo Sponsors Dev Heroes Accelerator Lin...
Feb 23, 2021•54 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode, the panel discusses the final list of things that developers need to know and how and when they're important. These topics include: Duck typing TypeScript Various programming terms and concepts: recursion, garbage collection, MVC, etc. JS number and Math system (NaN, precision, BigInt, …) At least one framework At least one testing framework A bundler (WebPack or Rollup or Parcel etc) Panel Aimee Knight AJ O'Neal Dan Shappir Steve Edwards Sponsors Dexecure Raygun | Click here to...
Feb 16, 2021•1 hr 13 min•Transcript available on Metacast You're working on planning and executing your professional and technical journeys, but what about your psychological journey? The reality is that without taking better care of yourself, you are potentially setting yourself up for failure, and potentially also putting your health and wellbeing at risk. We are joined by Wei-Ming Lam, a coach and Yoga Instructor who provides practical advice for constructing and tuning your psychological stack.Panel AJ O'Neal Dan Shappir Steve Edwards Guest Wei-Min...
Feb 09, 2021•1 hr 21 min•Transcript available on Metacast John-Daniel Trask, founder and CEO of Raygun, talks about his experience building a monitoring company and about how to measure the speed and quality of your code. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/javascript-jabber/donations Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/javascript-jabber--6102064/support ....
Feb 05, 2021•50 min•Transcript available on Metacast This is the follow on to the episode first recorded regarding JavaScripts iterators and generators. Dan takes the lead and picks up from last time. The panel discusses how JavaScript uses and implements iterators and where people are likely to see them. Then they dive into generators and briefly discuss the concept and their uses.CODE: x = {[Symbol.iterator]() {let i = 0;return {next: () => ({done: i >= 10,value: i++})};}}; for (const v of x) console.log(v); console.log([…x]); console.log(...
Feb 02, 2021•1 hr 18 min•Transcript available on Metacast Use the code DEVCHAT at https://devchat.tv/fast to get double the capacity and traffic from Dexecure.Inian Parameshwaran is the CEO of Dexecure and an expert in speeding up websites. Inian walks Charles Max Wood through the intricacies of measuring website speed and explains which metrics matter and for which concerns. He goes over the benefits to SEO and user experience and then does a deep dive on how to begin speeding up your website so Google will rank it higher and your users don’t lose int...
Jan 29, 2021•42 min•Transcript available on Metacast Iterators and generators were introduced into JavaScript way back in 2015, yet they remain an underused and often misunderstood features of the language. In this episode Dan describes the purpose of iterators, how they're implemented in JavaScript, and why you're using them even if you aren't aware that you are, via the spread operator for example. The panel then discusses the pros and cons of iterators in JavaScript, and why most devs don't explicitly use them.Panel Aimee Knight AJ O’Neal Dan S...
Jan 26, 2021•1 hr 4 min•Transcript available on Metacast Luis Atencio jabbers about enjoying and using JavaScript. He enjoys the multi-paradigm nature of the language. The discussion ranges over the nature of JavaScript and how it's object-oriented, and how the paradigms can be blended to provide powerful functionality. They also dive into how to break down problems in JavaScript and how the language enables this.Panel Aimee Knight AJ O'Neal Dan Shappir Steve Edwards Guest Luis Atencio Sponsors Dexecure Raygun | Click here to get started on your free ...
Jan 19, 2021•50 min•Transcript available on Metacast Christian Nunciato works on a system called Pulumi, which is a system that allows you to build infrastructure with code. This is usually aimed at the cloud and allows us to use tools to manage infrastructure and do setups and updates.Panel Aimee Knight AJ O’Neal Steve Edwards Guest Christian Nunciato Sponsors Dexecure Octopus Deploy Pty. Ltd Picks Aimee- GitHub- networktocode/awesome-network-automation AJ- Bound- Audiobook Player AJ- GitHub- videolan/vlc-ios AJ- gitdeploy | webinstall.dev Christ...
Jan 12, 2021•1 hr 14 min•Transcript available on Metacast Micro-services have been very popular on the backend for a while now. But can this architecture be applied to the front-end as well? Should it be applied to the front-end? Michael Geers, who literally wrote the book on micro-fronts ends, explains what they are and why they can be a powerful architectural pattern especially when implementing large-scale projects. He also describes how Web Components can be used to enable this type of application architecture.Panel Dan Shappir Steve Edwards Guest ...
Jan 05, 2021•44 min•Transcript available on Metacast Get the 2020 Goal Setting Workshop + Success Accelerator Deal HERE (Coupon Code: GOALS for a massive discount)Mani Vaya joins Charles Max Wood to walk him through the 6 pillars of success that lead to meeting your goals.Mani has read thousands of books on success, setting and achieving goals, and personal growth and has distilled these 6 principles from the books and then figured out how to put them into practice.He and Chuck walk through the principles and strategies that create success and all...
Jan 01, 2021•55 min•Transcript available on Metacast Components have become the go-to method for structuring and composing UIs on the Web. Usually this means relying on a JavaScript framework such as React, Vue, or Angular. But it turns out that there is a standard mechanism for creating components built into browsers. Ben Farrell who wrote a book on this mechanism - Web Components - joins the panel to explain what they are, how they work, and why they are a great, light-weight alternative to JavaScript frameworks.Panel Aimee Knight AJ O’Neal Dan ...
Dec 29, 2020•14 min•Transcript available on Metacast Steve and AJ talk with Gareth Brown, author of the recently released Manning video course “Building Web Applications with Firebase”. They discuss what Firebase is, the services it offers, and how it is used in different types of applications, both large and small.Panel AJ O’Neal Steve Edwards Guest Gareth Brown Sponsors Raygun | Click here to get started on your free 14-day trial Links Building a notes API with Firebase Functions - Part 1 Simple Class List Picks AJ- Zelda Plush Doll AJ- Bokoblin...
Dec 23, 2020•59 min•Transcript available on Metacast Learn to Build Your Own Games with Jason's Course (Get 10% Off with Code DEVCHAT)Over the years, I've had dozens of developers tell me that they got into programming because they wanted to build video games. Today, it's easier and more approachable than ever. This episode dives into how to get started with game development.Jason Weimann has built games for big studios and has been teaching others to build video games with the Unity game engine. Jason talks through his journey into game developme...
Dec 11, 2020•31 min•Transcript available on Metacast Testing JavaScript Applications by Lucas da Costa (Coupon for 40% off: podjsjabber19)Lucas da Costa literally wrote the book on testing JavaScript. He's also maintainer on ChaiJS and Sinon. The podcast follows a three part structure for testing: Entrance tests, integration tests, and structural tests. These form a pyramid of testing that has the entrance tests at the base and the structural and system tests at the top. The episode also covers TDD and approaches to different kinds of JavaScript t...
Dec 08, 2020•1 hr 10 min•Transcript available on Metacast Go Check Out ButterCMS to Add Content to Your Apps! Do you need to add a content engine like a blog or podcast to your product’s website? Don’t want to maintain a separate WordPress installation? Why not use a Headless CMS?Jake Lumetta from ButterCMS joins Charles Max Wood to discuss how Headless CMS’s work and how they can add functionality to your application with a minimum of effort and very little maintenance. They also compare Headless CMS’s to the alternatives and explain when one choice i...
Dec 04, 2020•23 min•Transcript available on Metacast The panel continues its discussion of various JavaScript programming topics, and whether or not they are required knowledge for JavaScript programmers. This time the debate gets even more heated with topics such as promises and async / await, regular expressions (regex), the DOM and Service Workers. Ultimately we conclude that some you must indeed know to be successful at JavaScript development, but some you just need to know enough about to know to stay away from them.Panel AJ O’Neal Aimee Knig...
Dec 01, 2020•1 hr 13 min•Transcript available on Metacast Get the Black Friday/Cyber Monday "Double Your Productivity by 5pm Today" Deal Coupon Code: "DEEP" for a GIANT discountMani provides us with strategies and tactics to get Deep Work time and how to get our minds into that focused state for hours at a time.He has read hundreds of books that have taught him the secrets to getting more done by getting into this state.He starts by telling us how he was passed over for a promotion at Qualcomm in favor of someone younger and less experienced and how th...
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