React Round Up

In today’s show, Chuck talks about the recent Twitter thread about 10x engineers. He goes through each of the points in the tweet and talks about each of them in turn. There are only two points he sort of agrees with, and believes the rest to be absolute garbage. One of the issues with this tweet is that it doesn’t define what a 10x engineer is. Defining a 10x engineer is difficult because it is a...

Dean Radcliffe has been web developing since the table tag was the new hotness. His interests include his wife and two kids, music, sports, and he likes to say he helps people make whatever they can dream of. Since starting to move towards the frontend, React has been his weapon of choice, which he got started with in 2014.  Dean works at G2.com, a software review site. They are developing a revie...

Dinesh Pandiyan is a developer from India. He started as a backend engineer and then moved to frontend. Currently he is working for ThinkMill in Sidney, Australia. Today Dinesh and the panel are talking about devtools and progressive SSR. Dinesh got started with React Redux. The panelists talk about their experiences using primarily Redux for projects. Dinesh talks about his transition from backen...

Jeffrey Cross and Victor Savkin are the cofounders of NRWL. They used to work together at Google on the Angular team and started NRWL so that people could use Angular 2 well. Victor talks about NRWL’s tool NX, which came from the desire to help people develop like the tech giants. Companies like Google and Facebook develop in the same repository so that people can collaborate. NX is an open source...

Zain Sajjad is a frontend developer at his company Peekaboo Guru, an app built in React. The show begins with Zain explaining why he chose to build Peekaboo Guru in React. Ultimately, he chose React for its composability and reusability. He talks about how much data is shared between his React and React Native applications. Zain explains what he means by a container since he is not talking about D...

Episode Summary Today’s guest is Farzad Yousef Zadeh, a developer from Iran with a unique path into computer programming. He started by studying astrophysics and aerospace engineering in college, then dropped out in his last semester because it wasn’t the right path. He then taught himself to code, working mostly in web programming and frontend development. Despite his change in course, Farzad rem...

Episode Summary Today’s guest is Håkon Krogh, and the panel is discussing his talk on lightning fast SSR React apps given at React Amsterdam. He gives a brief overview and defines his use of the Uncanny Valley (called the Valley of Lies in his talk). In this instance, the Uncanny Valley in programming occurs when everything in a website or application looks great, but none of the buttons work or u...

Episode Summary Andrey Okonetchnikov is a specialist in frontend architecture and design systems. He runs his own consultancy and made the package lint-staged. Andrey has been in programming for 20 years and talks about his background, how he got into React, and why he started component-driven.io. Andrey has always been interested in design tools and design systems, it just wasn’t the right time b...

Sponsors React Native Radio Sentry use the code “devchat” for 2 months free on Sentry’s small plan GitLab | Get 30% off tickets with the promo code: DEVCHATCOMMIT Panel David Ceddia Lucas Reis With special guest: Jamon Holmgren Episode Summary Today’s guest is Jamon Holmgren from Oregon. Jamon is the the CTO for Infinite Red, a consultancy that designs and builds mobile apps. The show starts with...

Sponsors Adventures in Devops Sentry use the code “devchat” for 2 months free on Sentry’s small plan My JavaScript Story Panel David Ceddia Thomas Aylott Leslie Cohn-Wein Lucas Reis With special guest: Bruno Lourenco Episode Summary Bruno is a developer specializing in multimedia. He is currently building websites with React and the creator of React Morph, an animation library. Bruno talks about w...

Sponsors Netlify Sentry use the code “devchat” for 2 months free on Sentry’s small plan Panel David Ceddia Thomas Aylott Leslie Cohn-Wein Lucas Reis With special guest: Shawn Wang Episode Summary Today’s guest Shawn Wang is a career changer starts off the show about how he got from finance to programming. The panel talks about how they each got started in programming. Shawn explains his Learn In P...

Sponsors Netlify Sentry use the code “devchat” for 2 months free on Sentry’s small plan Panel Thomas Aylott David Ceddia Lucas Reis With special guest: Christoffer Niska Episode Summary   Christoffer Niska has been in web development for over a decade and works with mainly PHP and JavaScript, but knows about 8 different languages, often working in multiple languages simultaneously. The panel discu...

Sponsors Netlify Sentry use the code “devchat” for 2 months free on Sentry’s small plan Triplebyte offers a $1000 signing bonus Panel Thomas Aylott David Ceddia Lucas Reis With special guest: Daishi Kato Episode Summary   Todays guest Daishi Kato is a freelance programmer and has many open source libraries. He starts off by talking about how he got from tail call optimization to Redux and global s...

Sponsors Netlify Sentry use the code “devchat” for 2 months free on Sentry’s small plan Panel Lucas Reis Thomas Aylott Episode Summary   Today, Lucas and Thomas discuss how companies enforce what technology gets used, especially when companies get really large. Thomas talks about his experience with Facebook’s an ‘all carrots, no sticks’ approach, and says that if Facebook hadn’t given its employe...

Sponsors Netlify Sentry use the code “devchat” for 2 months free on Sentry’s small plan Triplebyte offers a $1000 signing bonus Panel Lucas Reis David Ceddia Leslie Cohn-Wein With special guest: Glenn Reyes Episode Summary Special guest Glenn is a software programmer based in Vienna, Austria and has been working in programming since 2013. He is the creator of the Graphpack library. Today the panel...

Sponsors Netlify Sentry use the code “devchat” for 2 months free on Sentry’s small plan Triplebyte offers a $1000 signing bonus Panel David Ceddia Lucas Reis Thomas Aylott With special guest: David Khourshid Episode Summary David Khourshid is the author of a library called Xstate, He has been a developer for 7 years, currently works for Microsoft, his passion is frontendTalks a. In college, he act...

Sponsors Netlify Sentry use the code “devchat” for 2 months free on Sentry’s small plan Triplebyte offers a $1000 signing bonus Panel David Ceddia Lucas Reis Leslie Cohn-Wein With special guest: Varya Stepanova Episode Summary Today’s guest is Varya Stepanova, who started her career in programming as a front end developer in Russia for Yandex. Now she is an independent consultant specializing in d...

Sponsors Netlify Sentry use the code “devchat” for 2 months free on Sentry’s small plan Triplebyte offers a $1000 signing bonus CacheFly Panel Nader Dabbit Dave Ceddia Lucas Reis Summary The panel shares their first experiences with CSS and compares CSS and CSS-in-JS. The best ways to learn CSS is considered. The panel shares some coding tips; considering when to use libraries and when to use home...

Sponsors Netlify Sentry use the code “devchat” for 2 months free on Sentry’s small plan Triplebyte offers a $1000 signing bonus CacheFly Panel Dave Ceddia Thomas Aylott Joined by Special Guest: Leslie Cohn-Wein Summary Leslie Cohn-Wein joins the panel to discuss accessibility. She explains how she got passionate about accessibility. The panel discusses what you have to do to become accessible. Les...

Sponsors Netlify Sentry use the code “devchat” for 2 months free on Sentry’s small plan Triplebyte offers a $1000 signing bonus CacheFly Panel Lucas Reis David Ceddia Thomas Aylott Justin Bennett Summary The panel starts by discussing if useEffect is a good API or a bad API. The problems that useEffect solves are considered. The panel agrees it is a much better abstraction where subscriptions are...

Sponsor Netlify Sentry use the code “devchat” for 2 months free on Sentry’s small plan Triplebyte offers a $1000 signing bonus CacheFly Panel Nader DAbit Justin Bennett David Ceddia Joined by Special Guest: Aggelos Arvanitakis Summary Aggelos Arvanitakis shares things he has learned from his mistakes in his blog posts. The panel discusses the most common problems in react that causes poor performa...

Sponsors Netlify Sentry use the code “devchat” for 2 months free on Sentry’s small plan Triplebyte offers a $1000 signing bonus Panel Nader Dabit Lucas Reis David Ceddia Thomas Aylott Episode Summary On today’s show the panel discusses what what jobs should be delegated to the front and backend when doing fullstack development with React. They talk about where the data fetching starts coming into...

Sponsors Sentry – use the code “devchat” for $100 credit Netlify TripleByte Panel Justin Bennett Thomas Aylott Dave Ceddia Notes Today’s show has the panel discussing image lazy loading in React. Image lazy loading is the notion that images that are below the fold (rendered outside of your browser view when you initially load a page) are deferred and loaded later, so that your page loads faster. A...

Sponsors Netlify Sentry use the code “devchat” for 2 months free on Sentry’s small plan Triplebyte offers a $1000 signing bonus CacheFly Panel Nader Dabit Lucas Reis Thomas Aylott Episode Summary Today the panel is discussing the necessity of companies having a dedicated frontend team. They begin by discussing the technologies that might be used by a dedicated frontend team. According to the panel...

Sponsors Netlify Sentry  use the code “devchat” for 2 months free on Sentry’s small plan Triplebyte  offers a $1000 signing bonus CacheFly Panel Nader Dabit Justin Bennett Lucas Reis Dave Ceddia Charles Max Wood Joined by Special Guests: Thomas Aylott, Conlin Durbin Episode Summary Conlin Durbin is a front end software engineer for a company called  Lessonly  and occasionally writes about React. T...