React Podcast

React Podcast

Conversations about React with your favorite developers.

123: Cassidy Williams on Dreams and Disasters in 2020

Dec 17, 2020·59 mins

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

Dec 10, 2020·55 mins

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

Dec 03, 2020·1h 2m

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

Nov 26, 2020·58 mins

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

Nov 19, 2020·57 mins

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

Nov 12, 2020·1h 1m

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

Nov 05, 2020·1h 19m

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

Oct 29, 2020·54 mins

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

Oct 22, 2020·1h 10m

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

Oct 15, 2020·1h 8m

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)

Oct 08, 2020·1h 1m

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

Oct 01, 2020·55 mins

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

Sep 24, 2020·42 mins

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

Sep 17, 2020·1h 1m

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

Sep 10, 2020·52 mins

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

Sep 03, 2020·50 mins

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

Aug 27, 2020·1h 5m

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

Aug 20, 2020·58 mins

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

Aug 13, 2020·54 mins

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

Aug 06, 2020·55 mins

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

Jul 30, 2020·46 mins

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

Jul 23, 2020·54 mins

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

Jul 16, 2020·51 mins

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

Jul 09, 2020·49 mins

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

Jul 02, 2020·1h 9m

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

Jun 25, 2020·55 mins

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

Jun 18, 2020·51 mins

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

May 28, 2020·58 mins

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

May 21, 2020·48 mins

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

May 14, 2020·53 mins

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

May 07, 2020·56 mins

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…

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