React Round Up

Jack Franklin is working on  Chrome DevTools  as a Frontend Engineer at Google. He joins the show to talk about his article, " Why I don't miss React: a story about using the platform ". He explains why he wrote his article and about his experience working with ChromeDevTools. Additionally, he dives into the advantages of Web components and its difference from React. He tackles all of the key poin...

Talking about their 2023 Hot Takes and predictions, Jack, Paige, and TJ tackle this week's Panelist episode. They discuss their hopes for this year as well as potential improvements to the various languages and technologies. Additionally, they also dive into some of the software development tools and share their recommendations and expectations for them.  Sponsors Chuck's Resume Template Developer...

Collin Pfeifer, writer, software engineer, and student at Indiana University joins the React Round Up panel to discuss the intricacies and pitfalls in Create React App, the roadmap of being a self-taught developer, and how the computer education system has changed over the years. Sponsors Chuck's Resume Template Developer Book Club starting with Clean Architecture by Robert C. Martin Become a Top...

Chromatic developer experience engineer Shaun Evening joins the React Round Up hosts to talk about all the new features rolling out with the release of Storybook 7. Have you ever wanted to combine your Storybook integration with Material UI , Ant Design, or any other component library? Well, Storybook's making it easier than ever, and that's just the beginning. A new offering called Integrations a...

Sebastien Lorber, Docusaurus maintainer at Meta and This Week in React newsletter creator, joins the React Round Up panel to discuss the latest and greatest in React 18, including lesser-known hooks and features that are making the framework more useful and performant than ever before. He also deep dives into why Docusaurus (maintained by Meta/Facebook) has become such a popular static site genera...

The React Round Up panel joins the show as Jack takes the lead to talk about the various improvements made in the React Ecosystem. Additionally, they offer their thoughts and insights on these updates and share their potential value to the developers. They also talk about whether these features have an impact when used in apps. About this Episode Different React upgrades Advantages and disadvantag...

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Returning guest, Ian Lavery from Picovice.ai , joins the hosts to talk all things voice recognition. He dives into new languages the company has tackled over the last year (and what languages it plans to tackle next year), how they train their models, and how Picovoice is actually running speech recognition in the browser instead of in the cloud, making things like captioning live streams and real...

Nirmalya Ghosh joins the React Round Up panelists in this episode to talk about how he migrated a monolithic Ruby on Rails application to React. What was estimated to take 3 -6 months ended up taking about 2 years, and Nirmalya shares all the hard-won lessons he learned along the way for any listeners who might be preparing to make a similar upgrade. Additionally, he talks about the company he cur...

Software engineer Pierre Hedkvist joins the React Round Up panelists to share some spicy (controversial) coding decisions he's made and then written about. The first hot topic is using React state to store filter setting in query parameters with the help of a custom Hook, and the second is migrating an app to rely more heavily on React Query instead of Redux. If you've been considering doing somet...

Return guest Vijit Ail joins the cast of React Round Up to talk all things Supabase. If you've ever used Firebase and wished it was open source, this is the episode for you. Vijit espouses all the cool things Supabase offers like schema definitions, edge functions, data streaming, and more. There's so much good info chocked into this episode, listen to learn how to get started with Supabase today....

In our 200th episode of React Round Up, the panelists take a look back at how their first appearances on RRU and how they came to be on the show. In addition to advice on how they got to where they are now, they also highlight some of their favorite guests who've graced RRU with all sorts of great React knowledge over the years and offer advice on how you can get started on your own tech podcast o...

Gleb Bahmutov, who worked with the Cypress.io team for 4 years, joins the panelists to talk all things testing. You may be familiar with Cypress as a popular JavaScript end-to-end testing framework, but did you know it recently began offering component testing as well? This may be just the incentive you need to ditch Jest and Testing Library for unit/integration tests and go all in on Cypress for...

Today we talk with Fred Schott , the co-creator of Astro, a web framework focused on improving performance. Built around island architecture, it leverages HTML over javascript where it’s an option. Astro is a great option for those who focus on content, marketing, or personal blogs, and it is a great option to use with React. In this episode we talk about when it makes sense to use Astro, and how...

In today's all panelist episode we address web development controversies: state management tools, CSS in JS, GraphQL or REST, and, of course, tabs versus spaces. And the rule is: there's no saying "It depends." Listen to the panelists take hard line stances on things that matter (and things that don't), and try to defend their choices. It's a fun episode for everyone, and we'd love to hear about y...

Today we talk with Chris Frewin, a full-stack software engineer at private experience startup InClub, located in Zurich, Switzerland.  Involved with all coding aspects, from the back-end, mobile app, CMS, and everything in-between, we learn about the challenges of being a solo developer at a startup.  We learn a lot about Gherkin, the format for cucumber specifications. Sponsors Top End Devs Raygu...

In today’s all-panelist episode, we discuss many ancillary skills that you might be tempted to avoid learning but are very beneficial to know.  Included in the conversation are CSS, DNS & HTTP, caching, API styles, knowing how to interact with back ends and databases, and command line. Sponsors Top End Devs Coaching | Top End Devs Links Discord - A New Way to Chat with Friends & Communitie...

In today’s episode we talk with Atila Fassina, a developer experience engineer working at Xata.  As a fan of both, Atila compares Next.js and Remix, comparing their similarities and differences.   We also talk about how Xata makes dealing with databases more comfortable.  This server-less database, which is hidden behind an API, provides users with some nice abstractions, such as instant migration...

Today’s guest, Tommy Groshong, walks us through some questions to consider when thinking about pursuing a higher-level role.  After a second go-around into management, we get some insight into how the culture can be very different at higher levels and the importance of having good questions to ask.  We talk about two separate tracks you could pursue based on your skills and desires, and how to han...

Jack leads us through some of the history of how we got to where we are with client side rendering, and how island architecture helps to reduce the workload handled on the client-side.   We talk process and tips on transitioning to Islands Architecture, and in the process talk about BUN, Fresh, and other island architecture frameworks. Sponsors Top End Devs Coaching | Top End Devs Links Islands Ar...

Today we talk with Travis Waith-Mair, a senior software engineer at Plex, and creator of Bedrock Layout Primitives library.  Bedrock layout allows you to build a complex layout without with reusable components without needing to be an expert at the underlying CSS.  We talk about the success of his library, and along the way discuss Lerna, a tool for JS Monorepos, and the AVO (Attributes Verbs and...

Today we talk with Florian Rappl the creator of Piral, a next generation portal applications, which utilizes microfrontend architecture.  Piral is all about scalability, allowing easy reusability between multiple teams.  We learn of the background of how it was developed, and how out of the box it comes with bundles customized to your industry.  We discuss when it makes sense to use microfrontend...

Today we talk with Dillion Megida, a developer advocate and content creator originally from Nigeria, but living in the Netherlands.  We discuss his blog article about the aspect ratio property in CSS.  Much of his effort at a developer advocate is writing articles and creating video content to promote the products for Stream, where he currently works.  He gives us his insight on preparing for and...

Today Jack and TJ talk with Adam Berg, VP of Engineering at Dubsado.  We discuss an article he wrote based on lessons learned while his place of work was transitioning from AngularJS to React, called starting with How to Set Up Server Side Rendering (SSR) With React, express.js, and esbuild.  We also discuss several of his other articles, including Hey Siri, We’re Breaking Up, and 3 Lines of Code...

In today’s all-panelist episode, we cover our favorite equipment from keyboards and mouse, to computers and monitors, from webcams to microphones. Sponsors Top End Devs Coaching | Top End Devs Links Discord - A New Way to Chat with Friends & Communities GitHub Copilot · Your AI pair programmer Picks Jack - Donate to the Red Cross Jack- Pizza Ovens | Make Pizza | Ooni Pizza Ovens Paige- The Whi...