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• 12.13.2023

  Deno with Luca Casonato

  Deno is a free and open source JavaScript runtime built on Google’s V8 engine, Rust, and Tokio. The project was announced by Ryan Dahl in 2018 with the goal of addressing shortcomings of Node.js, which Ryan also created. Since then,...

  
• 11.15.2023

  Figma Dev Mode with Marcel Weekes

  One of the key challenges that teams encounter is how to smoothly collaborate on converting a design into code. For example, if a designer designs a web component, how can it be most efficiently implemented by a developer? What happens...

  
• 11.14.2023

  The Astro Framework with James Quick

  Frontend web frameworks are software toolkits that handle many of the low-level and repetitive aspects of building a website. These frameworks have made it easier than ever to build a modern website. The open-source Astro framework was created in 2021...

  
• 10.31.2023

  GitBook with Addison Schultz

   Documentation is something that everyone knows is important but it’s often difficult to get right. On software teams, good documentation can help to onboard new people, improve communication across teams, and troubleshoot technical issues. When an application, API, or...

  
• 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. ...

  
• 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...