JavaScript Jabber

Misko Hevery is the Chief Technology Officer at Builder.io. He is also the creator of  Angular.io , known for zone.js, and helped co-create  karma . He returns to the show to discuss "Qwik" in greater detail alongside AJ and Steve. No matter how complex your website is, Qwik provides the fastest possible page load times. In contrast to other frameworks, Qwik has special features that make it more...

Dan Moore is the Head of DevRel at FushionAuth. He joins AJ and Chuck to talk about the new API called, “WebAuthn”. Using biometric, secure authentication techniques, WebAuthn is a new approach for confirming your users' identities. He goes into detail about the usage of this API and how this is a good choice for users to validate web applications with ease and convenience.  About this Episode Fea...

Steve and A.J. welcome Fred K. Schott to the show to talk about Fred's latest project, Astro. After initially discussing some of Fred's previous projects (Snowpak, Pika) and the joys of esbuild, they dive into Astro, including how it works, its use cases, and the newly finalized dynamic SSR capability. They finish with some picks going back to the very early web, and, as always, Steve's fabulous d...

WebAssembly (WASM) is a core technology of the Web and supported by all browsers as well as various other runtimes. Yet despite this fact most Web devs don't use it and have little or no familiarity with it. This week we are joined by Istvan Szmozsanszky "Flaki" to discuss some of the significant transformations currently taking place with this tech, which could make it much more mainstream. Spons...

Maina Wycliffe is a Full-stack Software Engineer, Google Developer Expert, and Mentor who currently works at Flanksource. He is a Typescript Enthusiast and is the author of All things Typescript . He joins Chuck and Steve as he shares the reason behind starting his newsletter. His main goal is to teach developers to learn more about it and its typing system.  About this Episode How Maina handles a...

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We are joined by Yoav Abrahami, Chief Architect and Head of Velo to discuss the transformation of Wix from a Website builder to an application development platform. Wix Velo enables developers to implement code that runs either on the client-side or on Wix hosted Node server, while constructing the UI using a WYSIWYG page editor. In this way, Wix provides an interesting alternative to app developm...

Lane Wagner is the founder of a startup company called Boot.dev. He teaches backend development online in Go, Python, and JavaScript. Lane joins Chuck and Steve as they talk all things Functional Programming. They also talk about its importance and share their thoughts about it. Moreover, Lane also shares his experience with creating boot.dev and the different teaching strategies he uses on his on...

In this episode the panelists share war stories from their career and the lessons they have learned from them. They discuss things they have done back in their early days in tech, and how they now behave differently given those experiences. 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 Pi...

Shai Yalin is a freelance software architect and mentor. He specializes in teaching organizations and individuals how to use Test Driven Development (TDD) and other development methodologies and best practices. In this episode Shai joins us to explain how to use these methods in order to create software that is resilient to change, and how to refactor existing brittle code in order to clean out th...

Kent C. Dodds is a well-known JavaScript developer who has done myriad development courses and training. He's also done outreach for Remix. He's spoken at tons of conferences and his now working on creating EpicWeb.dev which helps developers become epic web developers. The Jabber crew starts out talking about learning, teaching, and EpicWeb.dev before going into the changes in the web platform and...

Diego Moura is a newer developer who has recently joined the ranks of professional developers. The panel talks to Diego about his career as a fashion designer and how he moved to Canada and go into programming.  He initially got into digital marketing and figured out that he could modify and manage pages and picked up development as a function of doing UI work on his marketing pages. From there he...

The panel goes back a few years and reviews some technology predictions that Dan made a few years ago on Quora. These include WASM, Progressive web apps, and others. Most were wrong, but one did end up being sort of accurate. Along the way, they go into some deep rabbit holes but manage to pull themselves out. As always, they end with picks, and Steve's stupendous dad jokes. Sponsors Top End Devs...

Today we talk with Netta Bondy, a front end developer at Twang and dive into a discussion about when software development becomes a craft. We discuss the challenges of practicality vs. art, and the challenges of properly crafting code vs. working with popularly adopted methods. Sponsors Top End Devs Coaching | Top End Devs Links The Story of Mel with Tomer Lichtash and David Frankiel - JSJ 544 Cre...

Today we talk with Adam Bradley, the Director of Technology at Builder.io. He previously worked at Ionix as a creator of Ionic Framework, a mobile UI interface builder for web applications, and StencilJS which powers Ionix. Currently he works on both Qwik and Partytown at Builder.io. In today’s episode we dive into Partytown, discussing the unique ways it improves website performance. When there a...

Today we talk with Misko Hevery about solving the loading speed issue for websites constructed using JavaScript frameworks. Such websites are often slow to load, which is detrimental to their ability so succeed. After 16 years at Google, where he created Angular, he now works on the Qwik framework at Builder.io, a headless visual CMS. We learn how Qwik dramatically improves page speed metrics thro...

Today we talk with Felix Arntz, a developer relations engineer at Google.  Hired on the Google WordPress team, and involved with the Sidekick plugin, we discuss some of the challenges and approaches of improving performance on WordPress sites, as well as other open source CMS’s. Sponsors Top End Devs Raygun | Click here to get started on your free 14-day trial Coaching | Top End Devs Links Core Pe...

There is no question that the volume, sophistication, and severity of software supply chain attacks is on the rise.  How do you navigate your supply chain security?  Stephen Chin joins the show today to discuss various strategies and action plans for how to best prevent and address these types of attacks. In this episode… Where do you start with supply chain security? Spotting attackers and preven...

Today’s episode is a continuation of the previous JavaScript Jabber Episode 543, where we discuss JS language features to avoid.  Do you agree with the list?  Today we talk about: for in forEach else null object.create A named function using the arrow operator  switch labels  Sponsors Top End Devs Coaching | Top End Devs Picks Charles- Orbis Charles- Diablo Immortal Charles- Richard Paul Evans Cha...

Today Steve and Charles talk about the many updates and events coming to Top End Devs, from upcoming conferences to new courses and content.  Check out the conference lineup at https://topenddevs.com/conferences .  If you are interested in building courses or would like to speak at any of the conferences, contact Charles.  We also dive into a conversation about what it really means to be a 10x dev...

Steve, Dan and A.J talk with Nick Hehr and Peter Hoddie about using JavScript with IoT devices. They cover a wide range of topics, including the XS JavaScript Engine, the only complete ECMAScript 2018 engine optimized for embedded devices (created by Moddable), and even get into the nitty gritty of how it is built and how it works. They also cover TC53 - the standards committee for JS in embedded...

Today we have special guests Tomer Lichtash and David Frankiel, a web developer and programmer behind the epic hacker folklore project The Story of Mel, a comprehensive guide to The Story of Mel.   This story, which has survived through all the changes in the internet since its birth in 1983, and has morphed through all its iterations into something almost poetic in nature.  This allegory tells th...

Today in this all panelist episode, we talk about JS features you should avoid using.  However opinions don't always align, and some come with much debate!  Although we couldn’t cover them all, today we discuss: eval  with arguments do while  for I ++ continue  classes prototypes this var with let delete Sponsors Top End Devs Raygun | Click here to get started on your free 14-day trial Coaching |...

Today we have three guests on the show, Annie Sullivan, Yoav Weiss, and Michal Mocny, all of who are engineers who work for Google on the Chrome Web platform.  Looking forward to Google’s new developments for measuring web performance, we dive deep into upcoming performance metrics Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) and Interaction to Next Paint (INP), a full page lifecycle metric.  We discuss what us...

Today, in this all-panelist episode we talk about upcoming online events and conferences.  With upcoming Top End Devs meetups and conferences, starting in August, we talk about all the benefits of being in person at an event, and the camaraderie at and after the event.  We talk about the ways that Airmeet allows for a good connection between the speakers and audience.  You’ll also pick up some tip...