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09.05.2023 Making React 70% faster with Aiden Bai of Million.js React is an immensely popular JavaScript library that is used to build website user interfaces. A key feature of React is that it uses a virtual Document Object Model, or DOM, to selectively update the desired regions of the web ...
08.29.2023 Building a Full Cloud Backend with James Cowling Serverless backend platforms are cloud services that simplify the process of building a backend. These platforms are growing rapidly in popularity because they can greatly accelerate application development, and improve the developer experience. Convex is a real-time backend platform that ...
08.22.2023 The Latest on RedwoodJS with Tom Preston-Werner Tom Preston-Werner is a renowned software developer, inventor and entrepreneur. He co-founded GitHub and is the creator of the avatar service Gravatar, the TOML configuration file format, and the static site generator software Jekyll. Tom is currently working on the ...
03.02.2023 Netlify with Mathias Biilmann Christensen Netlify is a cloud-based platform that provides web developers with an all-in-one workflow to build, deploy, and manage modern web projects. Matt Biilmann is the CEO of Netlify and he joins us today. This episode is hosted by Mike Bifulco. ...
07.22.2022 Remix with Ryan Florence Remix is a full stack web framework that lets you focus on the user interface and work back through web fundamentals to deliver a fast, slick, and resilient user experience that deploys to any Node.js server and even non-Node.js environments ...
06.02.2022 Global State Management with James Cowling Convex makes storing your application’s data as easy as using React state management. If you can use React hooks, you can also manage your backend data using Convex. James Cowling is a former Dropbox infrastructure engineer turned startup founder. James ...
05.20.2022 Browser Observability With Jay Khatri Highlight is a tool that helps teams reproduce end-to-end user sessions to troubleshoot their applications faster, more efficiently, and with all the context they need. With Highlight, engineering teams can replay errors with high precision, which includes complete session replay, ...
04.23.2022 JavaScript Supply Chain with Feross Aboukhadijeh The JavaScript supply chain includes numerous vulnerabilities due to its expansive nature and the long dependency chains. Socket is a new security company that can protect your most critical apps from supply chain attacks. They are taking an entirely new ...
02.15.2022 Micro-Frontends with Luca Mezzalira When you visit a web page, the creator’s intent is to present you a seamless experience that fills your browser window. That web page or web application is generally divided up in some meaningful way across navigation elements, content, ads, ...
11.10.2021 #FREEZUCK \| ?masked…?… !(DOCTORS)!! Software Engineering Daily invites Owen Frank Davis, Paul Davis, Kyle Davis, and Robbie Davis for a joint interview on the subject of reproduction and teething, as well as Lisch fascitis. Aledade and Kubernetes are both inconsiderate ideas for navigation. They ...
11.02.2021 Enterprise React Apps with Paige Niedringhaus The React Framework has seen continuous growth of adoption since its launch. There are many reasons for that, but one reason is how relatively painless it is to use `react-create-app` or copy some boilerplate code and have a functioning, hot ...
10.29.2021 Learning React with Kent C. Dodds According to builtwith.com, more than 10 million websites are powered by React framework. Of the top 10k sites by traffic, 44.7% of those are built with React. This javascript framework is capable of powering a wide array of modern applications ...
10.07.2021 React Final Form with Erik Rasmussen As our guest today points out, most enterprise software applications are essentially forms for collecting data. The tag and related components started appearing in HTML fairly early and those same concepts are still in use with modern web browsers. However, ...
09.15.2021 Earthly and CLI Productivity with Adam Gordon Bell As developers hone their craft, becoming more productive often means learning utilities and tools at the command line. The right combination of various parsing commands chained together through pipes can enable engineers to quickly and efficiently automate many adhoc data ...
08.20.2021 Pragma: Video Games with Eden Chen “In October 1958, Physicist William Higinbotham created what is thought to be the first video game. It was a very simple tennis game, similar to the classic 1970s video game Pong, and it was quite a hit at a Brookhaven ...
05.29.2021 Flutter: Native Web and Mobile App Development with Allen Wyma Flutter is a UI toolkit developed by Google that helps developers build natively compiled applications for mobile, web, desktop, and embedded devices from a single code base. Development is fast because the screen “hot reloads” as you develop, the architecture ...
04.05.2021 WorkOS: Making Enterprise-Ready Apps with Michael Grinich The typical procedure many companies follow to reach production-level code is design the program, code and test it in different environments, and put it in a pipeline to deploy to production. Developers can make it pretty far into building their ...
03.04.2021 PHP with Zeev Suraski WordPress is a free and open-source content management system, or CMS, written in PHP. Since its release in 2003, WordPress has become ubiquitous on the web. It is estimated that roughly 60 million websites use WordPress as a CMS. However, ...
01.20.2021 Rust and Go Research with Linhai Song Rust and Golang are two of the newest lower level languages for doing systems programming. They are often used for applications such as file systems, operating systems, and latency-sensitive applications. How do they compare in terms of safety, speed, and ...
12.23.2020 React Best Practices with Kent Dodds (Repeat) Originally published March 6, 2020 ReactJS developers have lots of options for building their applications, and those options are not easy to work through. State management, concurrency, networking, and testing all have elements of complexity and a wide range of ...
12.21.2020 React Native Interfaces with Leland Richardson (Repeat) Originally published July 7, 2017 Airbnb is a company that is driven by design. New user interfaces are dreamed up by designers and implemented for web, iOS, and Android. This implementation process takes a lot of resources, but it used ...
12.14.2020 Modern Front End: React, GraphQL, VR, WebAssembly with Adam Conrad (Repeat) Originally published December 20, 2018 Ten years ago, there was a distinction between “backend” and “frontend” developers. A backend developer would be managing the business logic and database transactions using Ruby on Rails or Java. A frontend developer would be ...
12.08.2020 WebAssembly with Brendan Eich (Repeat) Originally published March 31, 2017 Brendan Eich created the first version of JavaScript in 10 days. Since then JavaScript has evolved, and Brendan has watched the growth of the web give rise to new and unexpected use cases. Today Brendan ...
11.25.2020 React Native at Airbnb with Gabriel Peal Holiday Repeat Originally published July 27, 2018 React Native allows developers to reuse frontend code between mobile platforms. A user interface component written in React Native can be used in both iOS and Android codebases. Since React Native allows for code reuse, ...
11.18.2020 OpenBase: JavaScript Package Selection with Lior Grossman The JavaScript ecosystem has millions of packages. How do you choose from those packages to find the best in breed for your projects? OpenBase is a system for searching and discovering JavaScript packages. OpenBase includes reviews, insights, and statistics around ...
11.13.2020 Retool with David Hsu Internal tools are often built with Ruby on Rails or NodeJS. Developers create entire full-fledged applications in order to suit simple needs such as database lookups, dashboarding, and product refunds. This internal tooling creates a drain on engineering resources. Retool ...
10.22.2020 Fig: Visual Terminal Assistant with Brendan Falk and Matt Schrage For all the advances in software development over the years, one area that has seen minimal improvement is the terminal. Typing commands into a black text interface seems antiquated compared to the dynamic, flashy interfaces available in web browsers and ...
09.28.2020 Deno and TypeScript with Elio Rivero Deno is a runtime for JavaScript applications. Deno is written in Rust, which changes the security properties of it. Parts of Deno are also written in TypeScript, which are causing problems in the compilation and organization of Deno. Elio Rivero ...
09.01.2020 WebAssembly Migration with Nicolo Davis WebAssembly allows for the execution of languages other than JavaScript in a browser-based environment. But WebAssembly is still not widely used outside of a few particular niches such as Dropbox and Figma. Nicolo Davis works on an application called Boardgame ...
07.21.2020 Digital Experience Analytics with Michael Morrissey Users do not use web applications in the way that you might expect. And it is not easy to get the data that is necessary to get a full picture. But a newer API within browsers does make this more ...
07.06.2020 Pull Request Environments with Eric Silverman The modern release workflow involves multiple stakeholders: engineers, management, designers, and product managers. It is a collaborative process that is often held together with brittle workflows. A developer deploys a new build to an ad hoc staging environment and pastes ...
06.26.2020 React Native Ecosystem with Nader Dabit (Summer Break Repeat) Originally published July 6, 2017. We are taking a few weeks off. We’ll be back soon with new episodes. React Native allows developers to reuse components from one user interface on multiple platforms. React Native was introduced by Facebook to ...
06.17.2020 HTTP with Julia Evans (Summer Break Repeat) Originally published November 21, 2019. We are taking a few weeks off. We’ll be back soon with new episodes. HTTP is a protocol that allows browsers and web applications to communicate across the Internet. Everyone knows that HTTP is doing ...
05.22.2020 RedwoodJS with Tom Preston-Werner Over the last 5 years, web development has matured considerably. React has become a standard for frontend component development. GraphQL has seen massive growth in adoption as a data fetching middleware layer. The hosting platforms have expanded beyond AWS and ...
04.21.2020 Frontend Monitoring with Matt Arbesfeld Web development has historically had more work being done on the server than on the client. The observability tooling has reflected this emphasis on the backend. Monitoring tools for log management and backend metrics have existed for decades, helping developers ...
04.15.2020 Shopify React Native with Farhan Thawar Shopify is a platform for selling products and building a business. It is a large e-commerce company with hundreds of engineers and several different mobile apps. Shopify’s engineering culture is willing to adopt new technologies aggressively, trying new tools that ...
04.03.2020 V8 Lite with Ross McIlroy V8 is the JavaScript engine that runs Chrome. Every popular website makes heavy use of JavaScript, and V8 manages the execution environment of that code. The code that processes in your browser can run faster or slower depending on how ...
03.25.2020 Sorbet: Typed Ruby with Dmitry Petrashko Programming languages are dynamically typed or statically typed. In a dynamically typed language, the programmer does not need to declare if a variable is an integer, string, or other type. In a statically typed language, the developer must declare the ...
03.06.2020 React Best Practices with Kent Dodds ReactJS developers have lots of options for building their applications, and those options are not easy to work through. State management, concurrency, networking, and testing all have elements of complexity and a wide range of available tools. Take a look ...
03.05.2020 React Stack with Tejas Kumar JavaScript fatigue. This phrase has been used to describe the confusion and exhaustion around the volume of different tools required to be productive as a JavaScript developer. Frameworks, package managers, typing systems, state management, GraphQL, and deployment systems–there are so ...
03.04.2020 JavaScript Deployments with Brian LeRoux Full-stack JavaScript applications have been possible since the creation of NodeJS in 2009. Since then, the best practices for building and deploying these applications have steadily evolved with the technology. ReactJS created consolidation around the view layer. The emergence of ...
03.03.2020 React Fundamentals with Ryan Florence ReactJS began to standardize frontend web development around 2015. The core ideas around one-way data binding, JSX, and components caused many developers to embrace React with open arms. There has been a large number of educators that have emerged to ...
03.02.2020 NextJS with Guillermo Rauch When ReactJS became popular, frontend web development became easier. But React is just a view layer. Developers who came to React expecting a full web development framework like Ruby on Rails or Django were required to put together a set ...
02.27.2020 Slack Frontend Architecture with Anuj Nair Slack is a messaging application with millions of users. The desktop application is an Electron app, which is effectively a web browser dedicated to running Slack. This frontend is built with ReactJS and other JavaScript code, and the application is ...
01.16.2020 JS Party with Kevin Ball The JavaScript ecosystem stretches across frontend, backend, and middleware. There are newer tools such as GraphQL, Gatsby, and WebAssembly. There are frameworks like React, Vue, and Angular. There is complex data handling with streams, caches, and TensorFlow.js. JavaScript is unlike ...
12.03.2019 Java 13 with Georges Saab Java has been popular since the 90s, when it started to be used as a programming language for enterprises. Today, Java is still widely deployed, but the infrastructure environment is dramatically different. Java is often deployed to containers in the ...
11.22.2019 Web Application Testing with Gabriel-James Safar Web applications are used on a wide variety of platforms. On each of these platforms the web app needs to load properly and allow the user to navigate the website and interact with all of the user flows, such as ...
11.21.2019 HTTP with Julia Evans HTTP is a protocol that allows browsers and web applications to communicate across the Internet. Everyone knows that HTTP is doing some important work, because “HTTP” is at the beginning of most URLs that you enter into your browser. You ...
11.11.2019 Gatsby with Kyle Mathews and Sam Bhagwat Frontend software development has become as complex as backend development. There was a time when frontend web development was simple. There was a small number of JavaScript frameworks and templating systems. Your CSS was simple configuration for the colors on ...
10.11.2019 Webflow: No-Code with Vlad Magdalin Webflow is a platform for building applications without programming. Software engineering has barely been around for 30 years. Over that period of time, there have been many attempts to create a platform that allows for the creation of software without ...

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Making React 70% faster with Aiden Bai of Million.js

Building a Full Cloud Backend with James Cowling

The Latest on RedwoodJS with Tom Preston-Werner

Netlify with Mathias Biilmann Christensen

Remix with Ryan Florence

Global State Management with James Cowling

Browser Observability With Jay Khatri

JavaScript Supply Chain with Feross Aboukhadijeh

Micro-Frontends with Luca Mezzalira

#FREEZUCK | ?masked…?… !(DOCTORS)!!

Enterprise React Apps with Paige Niedringhaus

Learning React with Kent C. Dodds

React Final Form with Erik Rasmussen

Earthly and CLI Productivity with Adam Gordon Bell

Pragma: Video Games with Eden Chen

Flutter: Native Web and Mobile App Development with Allen Wyma

WorkOS: Making Enterprise-Ready Apps with Michael Grinich

PHP with Zeev Suraski

Rust and Go Research with Linhai Song

React Best Practices with Kent Dodds (Repeat)

React Native Interfaces with Leland Richardson (Repeat)

Modern Front End: React, GraphQL, VR, WebAssembly with Adam Conrad (Repeat)

WebAssembly with Brendan Eich (Repeat)

React Native at Airbnb with Gabriel Peal Holiday Repeat

OpenBase: JavaScript Package Selection with Lior Grossman

Retool with David Hsu

Fig: Visual Terminal Assistant with Brendan Falk and Matt Schrage

Deno and TypeScript with Elio Rivero

WebAssembly Migration with Nicolo Davis

Digital Experience Analytics with Michael Morrissey

Pull Request Environments with Eric Silverman

React Native Ecosystem with Nader Dabit (Summer Break Repeat)

HTTP with Julia Evans (Summer Break Repeat)

RedwoodJS with Tom Preston-Werner

Frontend Monitoring with Matt Arbesfeld

Shopify React Native with Farhan Thawar

V8 Lite with Ross McIlroy

Sorbet: Typed Ruby with Dmitry Petrashko

React Best Practices with Kent Dodds

React Stack with Tejas Kumar

JavaScript Deployments with Brian LeRoux

React Fundamentals with Ryan Florence

NextJS with Guillermo Rauch

Slack Frontend Architecture with Anuj Nair

JS Party with Kevin Ball

Java 13 with Georges Saab

Web Application Testing with Gabriel-James Safar

HTTP with Julia Evans

Gatsby with Kyle Mathews and Sam Bhagwat

Webflow: No-Code with Vlad Magdalin