Join us as we explore 12 Factor applications and the Polarbear JavaScript scaffold.

Kenneth & Kevin chat to Ben Janecke about his Polarbear scaffold for generating 12 Factor applications using node. The scaffold provides users with a React frontend (with server rendering to boot!) and an Express API. We spend a decent amount of time chatting about our different understandings of the 12 Factor principles and how we've used it over the years since being exposed to it by Heroku, and how it influences our design decisions today still.

Polarbear has a home on GitHub at https://github.com/polarbearjs/polarbear and Ben is accepting issues/contributions/feedback!

Follow Ben on the vast interwebs:

* http://www.benjanecke.com/

* https://twitter.com/benjanecke

* https://github.com/BenJanecke

Here are the resources from the show:

* Polarbear - https://github.com/polarbearjs/polarbear

* 12 Factor manifesto - http://12factor.net

* Heroku - http://heroku.com

* Node.js - https://nodejs.org

* Express - http://expressjs.com

* React - https://facebook.github.io/react/

* Jenkins - https://jenkins-ci.org

* node-foreman - https://github.com/strongloop/node-foreman

* Ansible - https://www.ansible.com

* PostgreSQL - http://www.postgresql.org

* Docker - https://www.docker.com

* Vagrant - https://www.vagrantup.com

* hapi.js - http://hapijs.com

* Universal React Boilerplate - https://github.com/cloverfield-tools/universal-react-boilerplate

And finally our picks:

Kenneth:

* Ember.js NYC, Feb 2016: ember-concurrency (from 1:07:42) - https://youtu.be/uVr5HWzecKI?t=1h7m42s

* ember-concurrency: the solution to so many problems you never knew you had - https://medium.com/machty/ember-concurrency-the-solution-to-so-many-problems-you-never-knew-you-had-cce6d7731ba9#.eyr9izcsa

Ben:

* Rambda - http://ramdajs.com/

* Eric Elliott: The Two Pillars of JavaScript - https://medium.com/javascript-scene/the-two-pillars-of-javascript-ee6f3281e7f3#.lscdsep03

* Eric Elliott: 10 Interview Questions Every JavaScript Developer Should Know - https://medium.com/javascript-scene/10-interview-questions-every-javascript-developer-should-know-6fa6bdf5ad95#.ok4iukaaw

Kevin:

* Cordies on Quirky - https://www.quirky.com/invent/243458

* Blogging, as in writing often :simple_smile:

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