React Podcast
Conversations about React with your favorite developers.
123: Cassidy Williams on Dreams and Disasters in 2020
They say hindsight is 2020. And at the end of the year 2020, it sure feels hard to disagree. Cassidy Williams opens up about her grand visions for 2020, the challenges she…
122: TJ VanToll on Online Events that Work
This year, COVID changed the way developers meet up and share ideas. TJ VanToll shares his experiences with these challenges moving the DevReach conference online. We talk about surprising trends, failure traps,…
121: Tim Neutkens on Next.js 10
Tim Neutkens details the new tech in Next.js 10! At this year's NextJS conf, Vercel announced killer new performance features that came from their partnerships with Google and the React Core team.…
120: Tyler Mcginnis on ui.dev and Early React
Tyler McGinnis takes it back to the first few years of React and the birth of the modern JavaScript ecosystem. He shares what he's doing at ui.dev to help new developers get…
119: Henry Zhu on Building Babel
Henry Zhu opens up about building Babel and the challenges in maintaining communities that maintain open source. He shares what he's learned from other open source projects and vibrant communities throughout history.
118: Jenn Creighton on Composition and Architecture
Jenn Creighton talks with chantastic about component architecture, composition from a perspective of writing, mastering interpersonal communication, and feeling your feelings. She shows us how to save ourselves from the "apropcalypse" by…
117: Tom Preston-Werner on RedwoodJS
Tom Preston-Werner is building a full-stack framework for React and GraphQL developers. In this episode we talk about RedwoodJS, a framework that's bringing full-stack to Jamstack. Tom is a co-founder of GitHub, creator…
116: Marcy Sutton on Accessibility and Fighting for Work You Believe In
Marcy Sutton cares about the humans trying to use your site. In this episode Marcy illuminates the value of accessibility on the web, her favorite tools and services, and the necessity to…
115: Eli White on Principles and React Native
Eli White shares the five core principles guiding React Native devolvement: native experience, at massive scale, fueling developer velocity, on every platform, with declarative ui. He shares some insights about how Facebook…
114: Shawn Swyx Wang on The Coding Career Handbook
Shawn Swyx Wang opens up about his new book The Coding Career Handbook: Guides, Principles, Strategies, and Tactics from Code Newbie to Senior Dev. His book shines a spotlight on career patterns…
113: Rick Casey on Building DIM (Destiny Item Manager)
Rick Casey shares what he's learned building, managing, funding an open source project over 8 million users. The app is Destiny Item Manager — a companion to Bungie's wildly popular looter-shooter Destiny. If you…
112: Kent C. Dodds on Epic React
Kent C. Dodds spills the tea on his latest course, workshop, masterclass, creation Epic React. He shares what he's learned as a React educator and why *how* you learn is even more…
111: Chris Biscardi on Building Online Community
Friend of the show Chris Biscardi and I talk about building community in a pandemic-ruled world. Chris shares all the great things happening on Party Corgi Network — a community of practice…
110: Sam Selikoff on Finding a Full Stack React
Sam Selikoff and chantastic dissect the challenges of transitioning from bundled, batteries-included frameworks (like Rails) to unbundled, choose your own adventures frameworks like React. They discuss the virtues of full stack frameworks,…
109: Gant Laborde on Machine Learning
Gant Laborde tells us how to present ourselves well, virtually. In the world of online conferences, streaming, and meetings at a distance, your screen presence is your only presence. Then we take a…
108: Vaidehi Joshi on Building BaseCS
Vaidehi Joshi tells us about building BaseCS — a fun and approachable exploration of computer science. Vaidehi is a hero of mine and I'm delighted to share this conversation. We talk about…
107: Sara Vieira on The Opinionated Guide to React
Sara Vieira tells us about her new book: The Opinionated Guide to React. She breaks down here experience build large apps, at scale, into easy to digest gold for React n00bs and…
106: Nikolas Burk on Prisma 2
Nikolas Burke tells us about Prisma 2 — "modern database access for typescript and node" We talk about the history of database ORMs (object-relational mappers), the product journey of graph.cool to Prisma 2,…
105: Tom Coleman on Storybook v6
Tom Coleman tells us what's new in Storybook 6. He elaborates on headline features of controls, composition, and args and how they'll take your component documentation and exploration to the next level! We…
104: Jani Eväkallio on Foam
Today, Jani Eväkallio tells us about Foam, an open source project that's bringing the power of networked note-taking to your code editor. He and chantastic talk about the difference between associative and categorical…
103: Pariss Athena on Black Tech Pipeline
Pariss Athena share the history of #blacktechtwitter — how she discovered a vibrant community of Black and Brown technologists and what she's doing to amplify their voices and experiences in tech. She…
102: Eve and Alex on Learning React
Eve Porcello and Alex Banks stop in to drop Learning React knowledge for noob, novice, and knowledgable React developers alike. We talk about how Learning React has changed over the years, the…
101: Chris on Code on Scotch.io and Learning by Building
Chris shares a behind the scenes look at scotch.io, the challenges of monetizing a blog, the identity crisis that comes with selling your business, and what he's cooking up next with…
100: The Business of Remix with Ryan Florence and Michael Jackson
Michael Jackson and Ryan Florence join chantastic to share the business of Remix — how it'll provide continued support for React Router, and Reach UI, Open source licensing that makes money,…
99: Michael Jackson and Ryan Florence on Remix
Michael Jackson and Ryan Florence join chantastic to talk about Remix — a killer React framework from the creators of React Router. This is a two part conversation. This week, they dive into the…
98: Joel Hooks on Building egghead.io
Joel Hooks shares the story of egghead.io. Joel and chantastic talk about doing the work, the overrated role of passion, the power of a grudge, and building yourself into your own boss.
97: Tomasz Łakomy on Serverless with AWS
Tomasz Łakomy shares how to survive the rapidly changing frontend landscape. Tomasz and chantastic talk serverless, end-to-end testing with cypress, and the greatest frontend tool of all time: jQuery.
96: Pete Hunt on Seven Years of Reconsidering Best Practices
To celebrate 7 years of React, we have a very special guest: Pete Hunt. He’s the one who asked us to give React just 5 minutes, to reconsider our established frontend practices,…
95: Dave Geddes on Mastery Games and the key to learning everything
Dave Geddes tells us about the science of learning and how he uses it to ensure success at mastery.games — where he teaches CSS layout, service workers, and more. We talk about…
94: Matt Perry on Magic Motion and React Performance Anxiety
This week Matt Perry tells about Magic Motion — the killer new feature for Framer Motion that makes shared element transitions easy for React developers We talk about full-stack correction for FLIP…
93: Domitrius Clark on Building Community and Surviving Code Bootcamp
Dimitrius Clark joins us to drop some good nuggets on building community. We talk about his meetup Reactadelphia, tips for finding the best Code Bootcamps, and how to supercharge your career after…
