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“So much writing about tech is cheerleading – really being enthusiastic and throwing around words that don’t necessarily mean the things that people think they mean.” Lin Clark is today’s guest on Software Engineering Daily, and she joins Jeff to talk about Code Cartoons, a webcomic that explains Facebook’s open source projects like Flux and The post Code Cartoons with Lin Clark appeared fir...

“The smart phone itself is turned into the browser.” Continue reading… The post Web Development in a Post-browser World with Jonathan Stark appeared first on Software Engineering Daily .

“When you have different goals – it’s impossible to say ‘we have the best practices for doing everything’. Because the web is just so versatile.” Vue.js is a lightweight front-end JavaScript framework that makes it simple to begin prototyping and building web interfaces. Vue.js provides a flexible API for MVVM data bindings, and can serve The post VueJS with Evan You appeared first on Software Eng...

“I think that anybody who’s not using universal JavaScript is wasting a ton of time and a ton of money, and it’s just a silly thing to do.” Eric Elliott is a JavaScript advocate, and the author of Programming JavaScript Applications. He is also an entrepreneur tackling social issues including homelessness and inequality in the The post The Future of JavaScript with Eric Elliott appeared first on S...

“Part of the point of Tessel is that it just works – you don’t have to worry about it. Much in the way that you would throw your app up on Heroku.” Tessel is an open-source microcontroller that is programmable in JavaScript and compatible with Node.js. Kelsey Breseman is a hardware engineer and Steering Committee The post JavaScript on Hardware with Kelsey Breseman appeared first on Software Engin...

"I have no expectation nor would this be realistic, that any one framework will ever win out. Continue reading… The post Javascript: The Bad Parts with John K. Paul appeared first on Software Engineering Daily .

“When I started React Native, everyone I talked to was like you need the primitives to be platform specific, otherwise this is too crazy, everyone’s tried the cross-platform dream – it doesn’t work.” Continue reading… The post The Future of React with Christopher Chedeau appeared first on Software Engineering Daily .

“I keep telling people that front-end and back-end shared JavaScript is a pipe dream.” Continue reading… The post JavaScript Jabber with Charles Wood appeared first on Software Engineering Daily .

“Javascript is like English – it hitched itself to the most powerful horse in the history of mankind, the web, and it has really exploded since then.” Fullstack Academy is a 13-week immersive program for students to learn software engineering. Their flagship course focuses primarily on Javascript and the associated frameworks used to build real-world web applications. Continue reading… The post Tr...

React Native enables iOS and Android development using React. Mobile devices use a virtual machine to interpret the JavaScript into native code. Tadeu Zagallo is a Facebook engineer who works on React Native for iOS. Continue reading… The post React Native with Tadeu Zagallo appeared first on Software Engineering Daily .

The Flux architecture is a compelling alternative to the modern-view-controller pattern when building modern web applications. Fluxxor is a set of tools for building JavaScript data layers using the Flux architecture. It was one of the earliest open-source implementations of Flux. Brandon Tilley is a software engineer who works at The Minerva Project. He is the creator of Fluxxor. Continue reading...

Flux's one way data flow solves several problems of MVC, but its complexity can be reduced in some cases. Redux is a predictable state container for JavaScript to use with React or any other view library. Dan Abramov currently works full time on Redux, React Hot Loader, and React Transform. Continue reading… The post Flux, Redux, and React Hot Loader with Dan Abramov appeared first on Software Eng...

React is the product of Facebook and a large open-source community. Facebook engineering has recently produced a powerful suite of loosely coupled tools for development: React, GraphQL, Relay, React Native, and Flux Architecture. Ben Alpert is an engineer on the React Core team at Facebook. Continue reading… The post React at Facebook with Ben Alpert appeared first on Software Engineering Daily .

React Router is a complete routing solution for ReactJS. It offers users a way to build full-fledged web apps from their React components. Michael Jackson works on React Router and is the founder of ReactJS Training. Continue reading… The post React Router, Flux, and Web Debates with Michael Jackson appeared first on Software Engineering Daily .

Node.js is a server-side JavaScript runtime powered by V8. Yunong Xiao is a senior engineer at Netflix. He works on the website’s Node.js front-end and middle-tier services. Topics discussed: Netflix’s Node.js components Netflix’s similarities to Spotify How to scale a node application Java vs. Node.js services Node.js event loop Solutions to callback hell How Node.js changes The...

Mattias Petter Johansson is an engineer at Spotify. He writes about JavaScript on Quora and Twitter. Questions include: How similar is Spotify’s architecture to Netflix’s? Is there anywhere we shouldn’t use JavaScript? What is important about Meteor? How does React compare to Angular? Are engineering and art separated by a false dichotomy? Links: Netflix Architecture Mattias Func...

restify is a node.js module built to enable correct REST web services. Netflix uses restify to gain performance and visibility. Yunong Xiao, senior engineer at Netflix, talks about the incident which incited Netflix’s service migration to restify. The discussion starts with an explanation of flame graphs and evolves into a conversation about restify, and the importance of choosing the correc...

TypeScript is a typed superset of JavaScript that compiles down to regular JavaScript. Jon Turner maintains the TypeScript package at Microsoft. Why is TypeScript useful? Does compile-time checking add any real efficiency? The current TypeScript compiler is written in TypeScript–how did you compile that compiler? TypeScript was created to build large, manageable JavaScript applications&#8211...

Meteor is a full-stack web framework for building isomorphic JavaScript applications. Questions include: Is Meteor the Ruby on Rails of the JavaScript world? What is full-stack data binding? Is Meteor compatible with React? Does Meteor compete with frameworks like Express? If Meteor is open source, how does the company make money? What is the future The post Meteor.js with Uri Goldshtein appeared...

React.js is a JavaScript library for building user interfaces. Facebook and Instagram maintain the open-source repository and use the technology to build front-end components. Questions include: What is a virtual DOM? How does React.js make development more modular? Why is DOM manipulation so expensive? What is Facebook’s development process of React like? What is Flux The post React.js with...