Frontend First

By Sam Selikoff, Ryan Toronto

A podcast about modern UI development on the web. Hosted by Sam Selikoff and Ryan Toronto.... more

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How many episodes does Frontend First have?

The podcast currently has 201 episodes available.

Frontend First episodes:

August 21, 2019APIs are about Policy
Topics include:
1:37 – APIs are about Policy, by Steven Wittens
5:47 – Part 1: RESTless API
49:16 – Part 2: Regressive Web Apps
1:08:19 – Part 3: GraftQL
Links:
APIs are about Policy, by Steven Wittens
...more
1h 38min
August 07, 2019Object references considered helpful
Topics include:
0:00 – Unique keys for lists in React and Ember
8:40 – Why Handlebars feels safe
9:34 – Solving a stale state React hooks bug, and how Ember avoids this via object references
24:29 – ESPN's website and self-imposed technical constraints
28:10 – React in Codesandbox
36:53 – Tradeoffs between "magic" in a framework vs. learning how to wire things up yourself - especially in a fast-moving ecosystem like JavaScript
50:35 – Hooks vs. components, and clarity in boundaries
53:29 – Pairing with Tuple experience
Listener questions:
55:43 – How can you limit FastBoot from turning user-specific bugs into bugs that take down your entire production app? (@davewasmer)
1:10:47 – What's the future of web components? (selbyk)
Sponsors:
TrueCoach, check out their engineering culture and hiring pages
Links:
Sam's tweet on list keys in React
Codesandbox
StaticKit.com
Tuple, an app for remote pairing
Stencil.js
APIs are about policy
...more
1h 20min
July 31, 2019You gotta feel the pain
Topics include:
5:26 – Bringing Mirage to a wider JavaScript audience
17:14 – Setting up tests in Gatsby, and why wiring up boilerplate code is not always bad
28:56 – React's children API, MDX, and template imports in Ember
39:17 – How extracting things in React feels compared to extracting things in Ember
42:30 – React's children, and constraints vs. flexibility
1:05:52 – API design, and letting someone feel the pain rather than telling them they can't do something
1:23:16 - Dynamic vs. static children
Sponsors:
TrueCoach, check out their engineering culture and hiring pages
Links:
Mirage.js
Tom Dale's tweet on web components
...more
1h 35min
July 18, 2019The burden of high-level APIs
Topics include:
2:45 – Using Gatsby to build miragejs.com
12:05 – Tradeoffs between low-level and high-level APIs
30:21 – Writing Gatsby data providers, and using GraphQL to query Gatsby's content mesh
41:33 – GraphQL vs. REST is wrong
44:16 – API design
58:45 – What's the best architecture for building modern UIs on the web?
Sponsors:
TrueCoach, check out their engineering culture and hiring pages
Links:
Mirage.js
Gatsby
GraphQL
...more
1h 9min
July 11, 2019Are staging environments an anti-pattern?
Topics include:
1:35 – The benefit of no staging environments
10:14 – Using FastBoot without a runtime dependency, and pre-rendered SPAs
17:30 – Sponsor: TrueCoach is hiring!
23:02 – UI feedback, and Designing Fluid Interfaces by Apple
39:24 – Working with custom fonts, and typography lessons learned
Sponsors:
TrueCoach, check out their engineering culture and hiring pages
Links:
Percy Visual Regression Testing
Launch Darkly
Designing Fluid Interfaces, from Apple, WWDC 2018
The Inter typeface
Refactoring UI
...more
55min
June 26, 2019When libraries go unmaintained
Topics include:
2:44 – What to do if your app depends on an unmaintained addon
26:15 – The workflow of designers who are also coders
32:31 – Why the status quo of web tooling is insufficient for multi-app workflows
41:46 – Side effects in React and Ember, and how Hooks help authors avoid making API mistakes
Links:
Ember CLI Deprecation Workflow
Adopted Ember Addons
Matthew Beale's tweet on improving library APIs
...more
1h 1min
June 19, 2019Microscopic Frontends
Topics include:
0:00 – Playing with React JS
Using React after working with Ember for 5 years
React's onboarding experience
Why early success matters for OSS adoption
15:44 – Micro Frontends
Comparison with service-oriented architecture
Our experience using micro frontends at TED
The tradeoffs that matter most to us
47:56 – Call for conversation: Ember-turned-React dev
Links:
Micro Frontends, by Cam Jackson
...more
52min
June 05, 2019Open source isn't free
Topics include:
3:50 – Opinions on DHH's 2019 RailsConf keynote about sustainable open source
23:28 – Keeping tests dumb, dynamic tests, and TDD workflow tradeoffs
36:31 – Octane is not ready, and our conservative approach to adopting new tech
47:50 – Tailwind 1.0
53:23 – New series: Ember Animated
Links:
DHH's 2019 RailsConf keynote
Crash Log podcast
Robert Jackson's #EmberJS2019 blog post
EmberMap's new series on Ember Animated series
...more
57min
May 29, 2019Katie Gengler on the tech and processes that power the Ember community
Topics include:
2:26 - Ember's 2019 Call for Blog Posts, and a retro on last year's call
7:50 - Why Katie's looking forward to Embroider, Ember Data, and updates to the Router
10:52 - What the process is for "finishing" Octane
14:37 - Katie's experience on the Steering Committee
18:02 - The infrastructure behind Ember Try and Ember Observer
34:18 - Common anti-patterns in apps, like deeply nested components
39:18 - Katie's preference for acceptance tests over unit tests in UI development
42:50 - Katie's stack of choice for a brand new app
44:58 - A look into Ember Observer's Code Search feature
58:06 - How much test coverage there is across Ember's OSS Addons
Links:
Katie on Twitter
Code All Day, Katie's consultancy
Ember's 2019 Roadmap: Call for Blog Posts
Ember Observer
Ember Observer's Code Search by Michelle Santarsiero
google/codesearch
...more
1h 6min
May 22, 2019Stateless development environments
Topics include:
4:25 – Causes of burnout other than overwork
9:02 – Finalizing Mirage 1.0
10:42 – Keeping your development environment stateless
21:00 - Unified APIs for backend and frontend data queries
42:28 – Tailwind 1.0
Links:
Copy Paste Repeat Ep. 18
Twitter conversation between Trek and Sam on shared UI models
Sam on Twitter
Ryan on Twitter
...more
49min

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