Frontend Coffee Break - Podcast

Did you know we have both this and a different internal FE podcast? The internal podcast started first and gave us the idea to start one on YouTube. Tune in to know how it all began and what we learned along the way. Follow us: - Chucho Castañeda https://twitter.com/honupo - Ricard Torres https://ricard.social/@dev

What is Accessibility? What's your experience with Web Accessibility? What does it mean a website is accessible? Keyboard navigation? Labels? These and more in today's episode. https://accessibility.day/ https://www.w3.org/WAI/ https://dynomapper.com/blog/27-accessibility-testing/273-wcag-the-web-content-accessibility-guidelines-explained Follow us: - Chucho Castañeda https://twitter.com/honupo -...

What's your take on Web Components? What are the best use cases? Should you use them for regular AEM projects? What's the best thing about Web Components? Check out a performance comparison of different frameworks and techniques to create Web Components: https://webcomponents.dev/blog/all-the-ways-to-make-a-web-component/ Follow us: - Chucho Castañeda https://twitter.com/honupo - Ricard Torres htt...

SPA? MPA? Are these still relevant in 2024? When would you use an SPA vs a regular MPA? Have you heard about the new View Transitions API? Follow us: - Chucho Castañeda https://twitter.com/honupo - Ricard Torres https://ricard.social/@dev

FE Manager, FE Lead... there are many names for what we think might be the same thing. We discuss what a FE Lead is accountable for. What to expect from a FE Lead? Types of leaderships. Join the conversation and tell us what's the your ideal type of FE Lead. Follow us: - Chucho Castañeda https://twitter.com/honupo - Ricard Torres https://ricard.social/@dev

We discuss UI, UX, design and the role of the frontend developer.  Reading recommendations Links https://www.nngroup.com/articles/ https://www.nngroup.com/articles/usability-101-introduction-to-usability/ Books by Donald Norman The design of Everyday Things Emotional Design Books by Jakob Nielsen Usability Engineering Designing Web Usability Eyetracking Web Usability Books by Steve Krug Don't make...

Today we're joined by Dragan Filipovic, Senior Front-end Software Engineer at Cognizant Netcentric. We talk how he spearheaded the initiative to open source our FE Build. A Frontend build system that can be used in both AEM and non-AEM projects. Try it out here: https://github.com/Netcentric/fe-build Follow us: - Chucho Castañeda https://twitter.com/honupo - Ricard Torres https://ricard.social/@de...

When creating web components for content editors, do you give them all the options? or take decisions that will work best for development and maintenance? We discuss headless vs server-side rendering as well. Ricard loves JSON files. Chucho? Maybe not. Follow us: - Chucho Castañeda https://twitter.com/honupo - Ricard Torres https://ricard.social/@dev

What is the Impostor Syndrome? How to fight it? Why is it more common than we think in Frontend development? We discuss this and offer some tips that have worked for us! Follow us: - Chucho Castañeda https://twitter.com/honupo - Ricard Torres https://ricard.social/@dev

We talk about GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, phind, and Bard. We share how we use it for coding. How about you? Follow us: - Chucho Castañeda https://twitter.com/honupo - Ricard Torres https://ricard.social/@dev

How can you find time for your career development? ⏱️ Here’s our take on it:    In the latest episode of the hit Frontend Coffee Break podcast, we discuss the strategies that frontend leads and managers employ to make room for growth amidst their daily responsibilities. Follow us: - Chucho Castañeda https://twitter.com/honupo - Ricard Torres https://ricard.social/@dev

Is the mobile-first mindset still relevant in the world of development? 🧐 Here’s the deal: Today we discuss the best practices and approaches for developing websites and apps for mobile devices. Chucho mentions Ricard's library for Two Way Data Binding, here it is: https://github.com/quicoto/two-way-data-binding Follow us: - Chucho Castañeda https://twitter.com/honupo - Ricard Torres https://rica...

What benefits frontend developers the most: working on long-term projects, or switching every six months?  🤝 We discuss the FOMO (Fear Of Missing Out) on new technologies in the changing world of frontend development. Follow us: - Chucho Castañeda https://twitter.com/honupo - Ricard Torres https://ricard.social/@dev

Looking for a better way to optimize and improve your project’s web performance? 🚀 We’ve got you covered: Today Chucho and Ricard are joined by Ines Akrap, Senior Web Performance Engineer, for insights into Core Web Vitals in 2023. Follow us: - Chucho Castañeda https://twitter.com/honupo - Ricard Torres https://ricard.social/@dev Additional resources: 🔗 https://github.com/Netcentric/progux

Are you a web developer or designer passionate about creating visually stunning, high-performance websites? 🤩 We review the optimal ways how to upload images in 2023. Follow us: - Chucho Castañeda https://twitter.com/honupo - Ricard Torres https://ricard.social/@dev Additional resources: - https://web.dev/learn/images - https://squoosh.app

Today we react! It's not necessary but it would give you more context if you watched first Rich Harris' video before listening to the episode. If not, that's ok too, we'll try to give you as much context as possible. Rich Harris' video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXCipjbcQfM Follow us: - Chucho Castañeda https://twitter.com/honupo - Ricard Torres https://ricard.social/@dev

There is one question on the minds of web developers and tech enthusiasts everywhere: How 𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘭𝘺 relevant is progressive enhancement and graceful degradation in 2023? In the latest episode of the Frontend Coffee Break podcast, we spill the tea on whether these approaches are still worth it, as well as the best techniques to get the most out of them according to the device you’re using. Follow us: -...

We talk about what we look for on a website when it comes to web performance. What are the basic things we first check? What tools do we use? FE developers even if not web performance experts need to be able to identify issues and how to solve them. At Cognizant Netcentric we've written some articles about web performance, have a look: https://www.netcentric.biz/insights/2019/01/web-font-performan...

Time to get real: Should you 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 document your code? We’re breaking it down in the latest episode of the Frontend Coffee Break podcast. Our resident experts, Jesús and Ricard, weigh in on whether you should document your code, how often this should be done, and why every developer should use JSDoc on a daily basis.   What's your take on this topic? Any recommendations we might’ve missed? Follow...

Take a moment to consider your current JavaScript debugging process.  Thankfully, we're dropping some hot tips to make things run smoothly. In the latest episode of the hit Frontend Coffee Break podcast, Ricard and Chucho delve into the most effective ways to debug JavaScript in 2023, which’ll save every developer loads of time and frustration. What’s your preferred way to debug JavaScript? Any ti...

How do you know what to learn next? What's the required skills to move to the next level of your career?  Do the skills in job offers reflect what you do on your day to day? Today we discuss that and how we've implemented for FE at Cognizant Netcentric. Here some roadmaps to get inspired: https://frontendmasters.com/guides/learning-roadmap/ https://roadmap.sh/frontend What do you recommend? Follow...

Ricard loves unit testing! Chucho will challenge it, is it worth it? A waste of time? Who's going to win today's fight? Do you write unit tests in your projects? Follow us: - Chucho Castañeda https://twitter.com/honupo - Ricard Torres https://ricard.social/@dev

We've been interviewing for a very long time, now that we only do remote interviews we share our tips, do's, best stories and some horrors too. Share with us what was your best interview, or any tips you can give the rest of the listeners. Follow us: - Chucho Castañeda https://twitter.com/honupo - Ricard Torres https://ricard.social/@dev

We love to build side projects, to learn something new, have fun, or just solve a problem. Today we discuss what these are and some tips, as well as ideas. Question for you: do you usually do side projects? Share the latest you've done! Follow us: - Chucho Castañeda https://twitter.com/honupo - Ricard Torres https://ricard.social/@dev

We give you our take on why we think knowledge sharing is important and some of the ways we do it at Cognizant Netcentric. What's your experience with public speaking? Follow us: - Chucho Castañeda https://twitter.com/honupo - Ricard Torres https://ricard.social/@dev