FSJam Podcast

Danny Choudhury is a member of the RedwoodJS Core Team and the founder of Tape.sh, a screen recording and collaboration tool for software teams.

In this episode we discuss motivations for building with a nascent framework, the power of simplicity in screen capture workflows, the upcoming Redwood prerender implementation, and the cognitive cost of acronym salads.

Danny Choudhury

• Twitter
• Tape.sh

Links

• RedwoodJS Prerender proposal
• Pre-rendering with react-snap & Redwood
• Rendering on the Web
• CSR / SSR / SSG / ISR with Next.js

Simon Knott is an Open Sourcerer and creator of Quirrel and SuperJSON.

In this episode we discuss his various contributions to open source and the company he is building around Quirrel.

Simon Knott

• Twitter
• GitHub
• Blog

Links

• Billy Bass with built-in Alexa
• SuperJSON
• Devalue
• SuperJSON/Devalue Comparison
• Quirrel

Peter Cooper is a developer, author, and founder of Cooperpress.

In this episode we discuss Frontend First vs. Backend First Development, HotWire and the lasting influence of Ruby on Rails, different approaches to personal branding, the potential cultural influence of WebAssembly, and the economics of Open Source.

Peter Cooper

• Twitter

Cooperpress

• Twitter
• Home Page
• Jamstacked

Links

• Bref
• Rails Is A Ghetto
• Ruby on Rails Demo
• HotWire
• Paris Deno - Deno Crate Organization
• Oak
• Drash
• Media as Table Stakes with Peter Cooper
• Elm
• Esbuild
• Blazor
• Rewriting Prisma in Rust
• Toast
• The Story of XMLHTTP
• A Short History of Node
• The End of the Redis Adventure
• Preston-Werner Ventures

Brecht De Rooms is a Developer Advocate at Fauna.

In this episode we discuss the architecture and consistency guarantees of Fauna, the Fauna Query Language, the origin of the term NoSQL, the problems with ORMs, modeling relations in a document database, and the importance of database developer experience.

Brecht De Rooms

• Twitter
• LinkedIn
• CSS Tricks

Consistent Backends and UX

• Why Should You Care?
• What Can Go Wrong?
• What are the Barriers to Adoption?
• How Do New Algorithms Help?

Links

• Fauna
• Jepsen
• Comparing Fauna and DynamoDB: Features & Pricing
• Why Your Next Database Will Be a Serverless API

Shawn (Swyx) Wang works on Developer Experience at AWS Amplify.

In this episode we discuss Amplify, DataStore, the difference between teaching and learning in public, migrating existing projects to AWS, containers vs. serverless, and the endgame of layer 2 clouds.

Shawn (Swyx) Wang

• Twitter
• swyx's site
• Svelte Radio
• Career Chats

Links

• AWS Amplify
• Amplify Framework Documentation
• Amplify-js
• You Can Run Containers on AWS Amplify Now
• React Single File Components Are Here
• RedwoodJS Fargate Deployment
• Frontend Application Bundles
• DataStore
• The Third Age of JavaScript

Kim-Adeline Miguel is a Software Engineer at Microsoft.

In this episode we discuss her work on the Python extension for Visual Studio Code, how she integrated RedwoodJS with Azure Postgres, Microsoft's ambitions for the Jamstack, and the promise of WebAssembly.

Kim-Adeline Miguel

• Twitter
• GitHub
• LinkedIn
• Blog

Links

• Python extension for Visual Studio Code
• Static website hosting in Azure Storage
• Azure Static Web Apps
• Origin of the term Wizard in computing
• Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins of the Internet
• Webmaster
• Using an Azure Database for PostgreSQL server with RedwoodJS
• Using an Azure PostgreSQL DB with Redwood
• Blazor
• WebAssembly cut Figma's load time by 3x
• React Native for Windows + macOS
• React Native for Windows

Jason Kuhrt is the co-creator of Nexus and works on the developer productivity team at Prisma.

In this episode we discuss the origins of Nexus, how Nexus fits into the Prisma ecosystem, and other contributions Jason has made to Prisma and the broader open source world.

Jason Kuhrt

• Twitter
• GitHub

Nexus

• Homepage
• Github

Links

• Paving a New Path for GraphQL Schemas
• SDL as an Artifact: Codefirst Schemas and GraphQL Nexus
• Boosting backend development productivity
• Building a type-safe GraphQL server with Nexus and Prisma
• Tightening the Full-Stack Development Loop with Nexus & Prisma
• Why RedwoodJS Doesn't Include Nexus

As 2020 comes to a close, our hosts discuss projects, frameworks, and tools they are looking forward to in 2021.

Links

• Introducing Zero-Bundle-Size React Server Components
• React Server Components Demo
• React Server Component RFC
• Portals
• AWS AppSync
• React Native for Web
• Begin
• Rome
• Snowpack
• Bootstrap 5
• NuxtJS
• ElderJS

Music

• Artist - Technical and Raw
• Track - Quest Of The Magi

Our final episode of the year features guests from Redwood, Blitz, and Bison.

In this episode we discuss what happened in 2020, lessons learned from a year of open source framework development, remaining challenges for 2021, and what everyone is looking forward to in the new year.

Guests

• Chris Ball
• Brandon Bayer
• David Price

Dominic Saadi is a Core Maintainer and Advocate for RedwoodJS, the fullstack JavaScript framework for startups.

In this episode we discuss Dom's wide ranging contributions to the framework, the importance of state management, why TailwindCSS is the most interesting project in open source, and how web applications can compete with mobile.

Dominic Saadi

• Twitter
• GitHub
• RedwoodJS Newsletter
• How to think about scaffolds?
• Services General
• Upgrading to TailwindCSS v2
• Vladimir Nabokov

Links

• Jupyter Notebook
• D3.js
• Roam
• React Is Not a Rails Competitor
• Svelte and Defending the Modern Web
• React Native Web
• Foreign keys in Prisma
• TailwindCSS
• Bulma
• Styled-components
• BEM
• Twin.macro
• Redux
• MobX
• XState
• Deno