Recording date: 12/08/2022

John Papa @John_Papa

Ward Bell @WardBell

Dan Wahlin @DanWahlin

Craig Shoemaker @craigshoemaker

Corbin Crutchley @Crutchcorn

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Resources:

• Google Lighthouse
• PageSpeed Insights
• Gatsby
• Astro
• NextJS
• Unicorn Utterances
• Framework Field Guide
• GitShark
• Islands Architecture
• Astro Islands
• Remark.js
• Qwik
• Brandon Roberts, Developer Extraordinaire

Timejumps

• 00:38 Caviar dreams
• 01:53 Guest introduction
• 04:01 Starting out in Lighthouse
• 06:47 Why Astro?
• 08:25 Sponsor: Nrwl
• 09:01 What have you added on to Astro?
• 12:43 What about islands architecture?
• 16:46 What about Angular support?
• 17:49 Sponsor: Ag Grid
• 18:54 What changes did you make to improve Lighthouse score?
• 23:08 How is Markdown supported?
• 25:15 What was it like switching from Gatsby to Astro?
• 27:09 What sort of incremental improvements can I do?
• 35:15 What was the hardest part of the process?
• 37:27 Final thoughts

Podcast editing on this episode done by Chris Enns of Lemon Productions.