Topics include:

• Why you should choose a market before getting too attached to the type of product you want to create
• Why it can make sense to create products in different categories if they are for the same people
• Why a CSS framework and a TDD course have more in common than it sounds
• Why you might be happier having a job than running a business if you want to spend your time doing a specific type of work
• What you should be doing instead of racking your brain for app ideas

Sponsors:

• Netlify, incredibly powerful static site hosting for free
• Cloudinary, sign up and get 300,000 images/videos, 10GB of storage and 20GB of monthly bandwidth for free

Links:

• "Anything You Want" by Derek Sivers
• Adam's tweet storm after re-reading "Anything You Want"
• Justin's talk on product validation at MicroConf 2018
• Justin's website
• Justin's Marketing for Developers course
• Build your SaaS, Justin's podcast about building Transistor.fm

Topics include:

• Why Derrick chose to build Level as an SPA
• Choosing Elm over React or Vue
• How Elm is sort of like a language and framework combined
• Moving to Phoenix from Rails
• Why getting abstractions right feels easier in a functional language
• How "contexts" help you organize your Phoenix code
• The benefits of GraphQL over REST
• What it looks like to implement GraphQL on the server
• Avoiding n+1 queries with GraphQL

Sponsors:

• Rollbar, sign up at https://rollbar.com/fullstackradio to try their Bootstrap Plan free for 90 days
• Cloudinary, sign up and get 300,000 images/videos, 10GB of storage and 20GB of monthly bandwidth for free

Links:

• Level
• Level live-coding screencasts on YouTube
• Elm, the functional programming language Derrick is using on the frontend
• An Introduction to Elm, the official tutorial
• The Elm Architecture
• Elixir, the functional programming language Derrick is using on the backend
• Phoenix, the Elixir framework
• Contexts in Phoenix
• GraphQL
• Absinthe, GraphQL implementation for Elixir

Sponsors:

• Cloudinary, sign up and get 300,000 images/videos, 10GB of storage and 20GB of monthly bandwidth for free
• Rollbar, sign up at https://rollbar.com/fullstackradio to try their Bootstrap Plan free for 90 days

Links:

• Level
• The War on Developer Productivity, the Level manifesto
• Level live-coding screencasts on YouTube
• Ghost, open-source publishing platform
• Discourse, open-source discussion platform
• "After 5 years and $3M, here's everything we've learned from building Ghost",

Topics include:

• What even is JSX, really?
• Why JSX is not a templating a language
• How render functions work
• Advantages of JSX over templates
• How to translate template features like v-if to JSX
• How event listeners work with JSX
• JSX gotchas to watch out for

Sponsors:

• Cloudinary, sign up and get 300,000 images/videos, 10GB of storage and 20GB of monthly bandwidth for free
• Rollbar, sign up at https://rollbar.com/fullstackradio to try their Bootstrap Plan free for 90 days

Links:

• Introducing JSX from the React documentation
• Render Functions & JSX in the Vue.js documentation
• Vue.js Template Explorer, see how Vue compiles templates to render functions
• babel-plugin-transform-vue-jsx on GitHub
• Vue Templates in JSX, article by Sebastian De Deyne
• Prettier code formatter
• Hyperscript
• Why React uses "className" instead of "class"
• Writing Vue.js Render Functions in JSX from Alligator.io

Topics include:

• Why has Ember stuck around when other frameworks from the same era haven't?
• What do you get when you choose Ember that you don't get with other frameworks?
• How does Ember's UI layer compare to React/Vue?
• What choices does Ember make differently than frameworks like React and Vue?
• How does Ember do state management?
• Why Ember is a great choice if you value stability

Sponsors:

• Rollbar, sign up at https://rollbar.com/fullstackradio to try their Bootstrap Plan free for 90 days
• Codeship, check out how they performed in Forrester's latest Continuous Integration Tools report

Links:

• EmberMap, Sam's Ember.js training site
• Ember.js Documentation
• ember-cli-tailwind, Tailwind CSS add-on for Ember
• Handlebars, Ember's templating language
• "Should we use controllers?", on how controllers fit into Ember when also using components
• Ember Data
• Ember's release cycle
• embercasts, Ember.js training for beginners

Topics include:

• What is Vuex and where did it come from?
• The benefits of centralizing all of your application's state into one place
• What sort of state belongs in Vuex and what state should stay local to a component
• What all the Vuex terminology means, like actions, mutations, getters, etc.
• How you initially populate a Vuex store
• Strategies for organizing all of the state in a store
• Common mistakes people make with Vuex
• Dealing with forms when using Vuex

Sponsors:

• Rollbar, sign up at https://rollbar.com/fullstackradio to try their Bootstrap Plan free for 90 days
• Codeship, check out how they performed in Forrester's latest Continuous Integration Tools report

Links:

• Advanced Vue Component Design, Adam's upcoming course
• Vuex Documentation
• The Elm Architecture
• Intro to Vuex on CSS Tricks by Sarah Drasner

Topics include:

• Why global state is better than an event bus
• Why and how to avoid using this.$parent
• Custom events vs. callback props
• When to use watchers and when you don't need to
• Why you should prefer computed properties over methods
• Inline templates vs. scoped slots
• Using components to share code instead of mixins or directives

Sponsors:

• Rollbar, sign up at https://rollbar.com/fullstackradio to try their Bootstrap Plan free for 90 days
• Codeship, check out how they performed in Forrester's latest Continuous Integration Tools report

Links:

• Advanced Vue Component Design, Adam's upcoming course
• Chris on GitHub
• Chris on Patreon
• "7 Secret Patterns Vue Consultants Don't Want You To Know", Chris' recent presentation
• "Methods, Computed, and Watchers in Vue.js" by Sarah Drasner
• PortalVue, library for rendering elements outside of their parent component
• vue-enterprise-boilerplate

Topics include:

• Wrapping non-Vue libraries as Vue components to maintain a consistent paradigm
• Using Popper.js with Vue to build dropdowns and tooltips
• Using portals to build better modal components
• Patterns for making it easier to reuse components throughout an application
• Which Tailwind CSS component classes Jonathan chose to extract (and which ones he didn't)
• How Jonathan chose to customize his Tailwind configuration for his project
• Using Tailwind's advanced screen options to better accommodate a sidebar layout
• How Jonathan is using Purgecss to reduce his CSS from 110,000 lines of code 1.7mb in development to 8.8kb in production

Sponsors:

• Codeship, check out how they performed in Forrester's latest Continuous Integration Tools report
• Rollbar, sign up at https://rollbar.com/fullstackradio to try their Bootstrap Plan free for 90 days

Links:

• Advanced Vue Component Design, Adam's upcoming course
• "Building a Sortable Component with Vue.js", replay from Adam's recent live stream
• Vue.js
• Tailwind CSS
• Turbolinks
• Popper.js positioning library
• Pikaday date picker library
• Vue.nextTick()
• PortalVue, library for rendering elements outside of their parent component
• Portals in React
• Purgecss

Topics include:

• What does "event sourcing" even mean?
• What do terms like "aggregate" and "projection" mean in the context of event sourcing?
• What are the benefits of modeling something with event sourcing vs. a traditional state-based approach?
• How events are usually stored
• Why and how you might build multiple projections from a single event stream
• How events in event sourcing differ from the sort of events you might already be using in your projects
• A walkthrough of what the actual code would look like to model a "publish blog post" feature using event sourcing

Sponsors:

• Rollbar, sign up at https://rollbar.com/fullstackradio to try their Bootstrap Plan free for 90 days
• Codeship, check out how they performed in Forrester's latest Continuous Integration Tools report

Links:

• Advanced Vue Component Design, Adam's upcoming course
• Frank's Blog
• EventSauce, Frank's new PHP event sourcing library
• Event Store event sourcing database
• "Event Sourcing" introduction by Martin Fowler
• "Event Sourcing" talk by Greg Young at GOTO 2014

Topics include:

• Challenges with testing Vue components prior to vue-test-utils
• How vue-test-utils works and what it looks like to test a component
• Choosing a test runner
• Common mistakes people make when testing their components
• Mocking and stubbing external dependencies
• Combining unit testing with snapshot testing

Sponsors:

• Codeship, check out how they performed in Forrester's latest Continuous Integration Tools report
• Rollbar, sign up at https://rollbar.com/fullstackradio to try their Bootstrap Plan free for 90 days

Links:

• vue-test-utils on GitHub
• vue-test-utils Documentation
• "Testing Vue.js Applications", Edd's book
• Enzyme testing utility for React
• jsdom
• Jest, Edd's recommended test runner
• mocha-webpack
• Mocking in Jest
• Snapshot testing in Jest
• Async Vue components