JavaScript Jabber

Ever wonder why you feel like you belong in some groups and the black sheep in others? In this episode, the Javascript dudes sit down with Brett Haralson, a software developer and manager at Wix who’s learned the fundamentals of cultivating world-class communities. They discuss what Brett does FIRST to start building a community, how to handle negativity before and when it pops up, and what you NE...

Tejas Kumar joins JavaScript Jabber to discuss the advances in developer tooling and how it relates to ideas like the JAMstack to allow developers to move back and build larger applications with smaller teams. The discussion ranges over backend, frontend, and cloud technologies. Panel Aimee Knight AJ ONeal Charles Max Wood Dan Shappir Guest Tejas Kumar Sponsors Shortcut (formerly Clubhouse.io) Ray...

Get Lifetime Access to Mani's Entrepreneurship Pack and Book Club . Use coupon code "GREAT"Mani has summarized hundreds of business books that outline how to build, grow, and operate a business and he shares his expertise with Chuck and the listeners in this special episode. Chuck and Mani discuss what it takes to be a successful entrepreneur. They talk about their businesses on a regular basis an...

Carson Gross is the creator of InterCooler and HTMX. He pulled them together to manage the way that he wrote JavaScript and interacted with hypermedia and HATEOAS to make managing the DOM and backend easier. It's not really a competitor to web frameworks as much as a different way to think about the front-end of your application. Panel AJ O'Neal Dan Shappir Guest Carson Gross Sponsors Shortcut (fo...

Dan Shappir takes the lead in explaining React's core design, and how it's enabled by the Virtual DOM (VDOM). The panel discusses what the VDOM is, and how it differs from the actual browser DOM. Also how React leverages the VDOM and its reconciliation mechanism. Understanding these concepts is important in order to properly understand and make the best use of React. Panel AJ O'Neal Charles Max Wo...

Steve and AJ catch up with Jonathan Reinink, the creator of InertiaJS, a utility for seamlessly connecting front end Javascript frameworks with back ends to create a seamless and performant web app monolith. They discuss TailwindCSS and Jonathan’s work at Tailwind Labs, and then get into InertiaJS, how it works, and many of the different features. They also discuss the new SSR capability currently...

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Yoav Ganbar joins the Jabber crew to discuss Dev FOMO. He leads the panel through a discussion about adopting technologies and knowing about new niches. The panel discusses how to stay on top of the movements in our ecosystem and when we should prioritize other things. Panel Aimee Knight AJ O'Neal Charles Max Wood Dan Shappir Steve Edwards Guest Yoav Ganbar Sponsors Shortcut (formerly Clubhouse.io...

Mordy Oberstein joins the JavaScript Jabber panel to discuss SEO and how what seems like a marketing concern is relevant and exciting for developers. SEO is working with a black box with regards to Google since Google and other search engines don't tell you anything about how they adjust their search algorithms. Mordy walks through how developers can contribute to the issues around showing up in s...

Assaf Krintza joins the JavaScript Jabber panel to discuss the various approaches and uses for state management in web applications. Some of the focus is on React, but many of the tools and approaches work in or have similar options in the other web frameworks. Panel AJ O'Neal Dan Shappir Steve Edwards Guest Assaf Krintza Sponsors Shortcut (formerly Clubhouse.io) Dev Influencers Accelerator Level...

Ian Johnson is a former Google UX engineer and data visualization engineer with ObservableHQ building data visualizations with JavaScript. He works on both the tools and the visualizations built with D3 on the web. He discusses how to use tools like D3 to tell a story using your data. Panel Dan Shappir Steve Edwards Guest Ian Johnson Sponsors Shortcut (formerly Clubhouse.io) Raygun | Click here to...

Filipe Névola is the CEO of MeteorJS. He jumps in to discuss the changes and updates to Meteor over the last several years. He explains what Meteor is, what its history is, and how it lands within the current JavaScript ecosystem. You can use it to build web and mobile apps and is a mature option to use for your applications. Panel Aimee Knight AJ O'Neal Charles Max Wood Dan Shappir Steve Edwards...

This week, the JavaScript Jabber panel discusses the various "Creeds of Craftsmanship" from the programming languages out there. They discuss the different principles and the unifying concepts they all have alongside the ethos of what makes each language's approach to programming unique. Panel AJ O'Neal Charles Max Wood Steve Edwards Sponsors Dev Influencers Accelerator Raygun | Click here to get...

Niall Crosby, creator of AgGrid, joins the panel to discuss the journey from building an open source data grid used all over the world to providing support and enterprise features and running a successful business based on that same open source software. Panel AJ O'Neal Charles Max Wood Dan Shappir Steve Edwards Guest Niall Crosby Sponsors JavaScript Error and Performance Monitoring | Sentry Podca...

Steve and AJ talk with Max Kordek, founder of his startup Lisk, which is geared towards helping JavaScript developers use the blockchain to develop new applications for new industries. We delve deep into the origins and base technologies of the blockchain, how it has been used, and how it can be used in the future. They also discuss Lisk, it’s purpose, and how Max hopes their SDK will be used by d...

Our very own Will Button from Adventures in DevOps joins us to discuss DevOps in JavaScript. Will also hosts his own YouTube channel discussing DevOps for Developers and is a consultant helping early stage startups getting their applications set up and scaling. He joins the panel to help the Jabber panel understand how to make Node and JavaScript deploy, scale, and grow. Panel Aimee Knight AJ O'Ne...

Bianca and Sumitra from Raygun join the panel to talk about Core Web Vitals and how tools like Raygun can help keep tabs on and monitor your performance stats as you change your web application to get you better results on Google. Panel Aimee Knight AJ O'Neal Charles Max Wood Dan Shappir Steve Edwards Guest Bianca Grizhar Sumitra Manga Sponsors Dev Influencers Accelerator Raygun | Click here to ge...

The JavaScript Jabber panel teams up to discuss their favorite moments and episodes over the last nearly 10 years of the show. They discuss where things are at and where they're going next. Panel Aimee Knight AJ O'Neal Charles Max Wood Dan Shappir Steve Edwards Sponsors JavaScript Error and Performance Monitoring | Sentry Level Up | Devchat.tv PodcastBootcamp.io Links JSJ 478: Browser Standards Ra...

The panel gets together to discuss how they learn new things and what things are important to learn. They start out discussing how to learn new things. They they go into how to keep up on the never-ending releases within the JavaScript ecosystem. Panel Aimee Knight AJ O'Neal Charles Max Wood Dan Shappir Sponsors Dev Influencers Accelerator Raygun | Click here to get started on your free 14-day tri...

Priscila Oliveira and Mark Story join the panel to discuss the recent transition at Sentry from vanilla JavaScript to React and TypeScript. The show starts out with the panelists nerding out over Sentry and how they use it, then they dive into the code transition and the things that they learned from their conversion to TypeScript. Panel Aimee Knight AJ O'Neal Dan Shappir Steve Edwards Guest Mark...

Caleb is the maintainer of several popular open source projects and frameworks including Alpinejs and Livewire, and is also an avid user of GitHub's CoPilot. Also, he's living the dream - writing open source full time. We talk about declarative, imperative, moving from SPAs and APIs back to simpler server-oriented design, design architecture, code style and linting, and how Caleb's achieved the ne...

Sam Sycamore joins the podcast to tell his story of transitioning into programming after listening to the podcast episode we recorded with Danny Thompson. Danny told his story about how he went from gas station attendant to programmer in a very short timeframe. Sam has now made a similar journey from landscape construction to programming and what inspired him to make the switch. Panel Aimee Knight...

Dan Shappir takes the lead this week to discuss Core Web Vitals and how Google is pushing the web to be faster. He leads Chuck, Aimee, and AJ through the ways that developers can measure and improve the performance of websites based on the statistics specified by Google as components of Google rankings. Panel Aimee Knight AJ O'Neal Charles Max Wood Dan Shappir Sponsors DigitalOcean Raygun | Click...

Allen Wyma, host of the Flying High with Flutter podcast, joins the Jabber panel to discuss building mobile applications with Flutter. The discussion includes an exploration of Flutter, how to get started, how it's different from other platforms, and who should consider using it. Panel Charles Max Wood Steve Edwards Guest Allen Wyma Sponsors Dev Influencers Accelerator JavaScript Error and Perform...

Liran Tal joins the Jabber to talk about how to secure your applications and how to check for security vulnerabilities in your application and its dependencies and infrastructure. Liran explains how to check your supply chain and your own code to make sure you're not leaving things open to malicious actors. Panel AJ O'Neal Charles Max Wood Dan Shappir Steve Edwards Guest Liran Tal  Sponsors Digita...