Robert and Paul talk with Johannes Schickling about the Prisma project, a realtime GraphQL database layer. Johannes explained what Prisma is what problem it solves and and how it fits into the architecture of modern apps. On the way we learned about GraphQL bindings, schema stitching, and AWS AppSync (Amazon's GraphQL-based service).

Assert(js) is coming up, the first ever conference focused on testing for JavaScript developers, so we decided to get a panel of the speakers together!

Robert and Paul talk with Ben Lesh, the maintainer of RxJS, about Reactive Programming in JavaScript using Observables, to make it easier to compose asynchronous or callback-based code. Ben works at Google and was previously at Netflix

Robert and Paul talk with Brent Vatne of Expo (formerly Exponent) about the new official "Create React Native App" tool, about React Native becoming much more accessible to JS developers with no native toolkit experience, and about Expo.

Robert and Paul talk with Ben Newman of Meteor Development Group about what a modern JS environment looks like, and how Meteor is evolving into that.

Robert and Paul talk with James Hush of the NFL about JavaScript developer tools, code bundling, making NFL’s web properties load fast, and managing a huge ReactJS codebase.