JS Party: JavaScript, CSS, Web Development

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JS Party: JavaScript, CSS, Web Development episodes

February 03, 2023Qwik has just the right amount of magic
A deep dive into Qwik, how it makes your apps fast by default, and the carefully calibrated amount of “magic” that makes it uniquely powerful.
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Featuring:
Kevin Ball – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Show Notes:
Qwik is a new kind of web framework
Qwik
Qwik Discord
Stackblitz Qwik Trial
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
54 min
January 24, 2023What's new in Astro 2
Fred K. Schott joins the party again to discuss all the new and fun changes in Astro 2. Nick and KBall dig in on what’s new, what’s exciting, and what to expect from the framework built around content.
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Featuring:
Fred K. Schott – Website, GitHub, X
Nick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
Kevin Ball – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Show Notes:
Astro
Introducing Astro 2
JS Party - Build faster websites with Astro 1.0
Astro Islands
React Server Components
React use hook
Content collections
Upgrade to Astro v2
Astro server-side rendering
Astro migration guide
Language Server Protocol
Astro language tools
Zod
SolidJS
Jotai
TanStack Query
State of JS 2022
JS Party on the State of JS Survey
Fred’s thread on the State of JS survey
Vite
Partytown
Astro on OpenCollective
Astro on StackBlitz
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
53 min
January 20, 2023How do you define joy?
Jerod & the gang analyze the State of JS 2022 survey results, play a wicked game of HeadLIES & share some Pro Tips to help you live your best dev life.
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Featuring:
Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Nick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
Kevin Ball – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Christopher Hiller – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
The 2022 State of JS survey
Amazon is now accepting your applications for its home surveillance drone
ProseLint
mason.nvim
Store app state in the url
Graphite
Graphite on The Changelog
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
52 min
January 13, 2023The rise & fall of JS frameworks
KBall and Chris dive into the current JavaScript trends towards smaller frameworks, compiled JavaScript, and why Chris believes “this time is different” with regards to developers caring about network speed and reducing JS sent over the wire.
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Featuring:
Chris Ferdinandi – Website, X
Kevin Ball – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Show Notes:
The Transitional Web
Preact
Petite-Vue
SolidJS
Astro
The spicy React debate show 🌶️
HTMX
JavaScript is the CO2 of the web
Qwik is a new kind of web framework
Chris’s resource list
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
53 min
January 06, 2023New Year's Party 🪩
It’s our 4th annual New Year’s party! Jerod & the gang review our (failed) resolutions from last year, discuss what’s trending in the web world, make a few predictions of our own & even set some new (probably failed) resolutions for this year.
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Fly.io – The home of Changelog.com — Deploy your apps and databases close to your users. In minutes you can run your Ruby, Go, Node, Deno, Python, or Elixir app (and databases!) all over the world. No ops required. Learn more at fly.io/changelog and check out the speedrun in their docs.
Ship It! – A podcast about getting your best ideas into the world and seeing what happens. Listen to an episode that interests you and subscribe today.
Featuring:
Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Divya – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Nick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
Kevin Ball – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Feross Aboukhadijeh – Website, GitHub, X
Show Notes:
Take our latest Frontend Feud survey!
NUC (Next Unit Computing)
ConstitutionDAO
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
1 hr 18 min
December 16, 2022Big news in Deno Land
Deno creator Ryan Dahl goes one-on-one with Jerod to discuss their new npm support, why he’s so excited about JavaScript containers, Deno Deploy’s present & future, what he thinks about alternative runtimes like Bun, WinterCG, how Wasm fits into the story & more!
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Sentry – Working code means happy customers. That’s exactly why teams choose Sentry. From error tracking to performance monitoring, Sentry helps teams see what actually matters, resolve problems quicker, and learn continuously about their applications - from the frontend to the backend. Use the code CHANGELOG and get the team plan free for three months.
Sourcegraph – Transform your code into a queryable database to create customizable visual dashboards in seconds. Sourcegraph recently launched Code Insights — now you can track what really matters to you and your team in your codebase. See how other teams are using this awesome feature at about.sourcegraph.com/code-insights
Lolo Code – If you’re familiar with building severless apps, think of Lolo Code as your backend with a visual editor that lets you think and build at the same time. All this without having to provision or manage servers. Use the visual editor to build your app, connect nodes, and add any npm libraries you need. You can even write your own integrations. This makes Lolo Code very Zapier-ish, but for devs. Try it free today with no credit card required at lolo.co/jsparty
Featuring:
Ryan Dahl – Website, GitHub, X
Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
Ryan on The Changelog #443
Deno 1.28 announcement
JavaScript ShadowRealms
JavaScript Containers
WinterCG
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
55 min
December 09, 2022Learning CSS in 2023
KBall interviews CSS instructor & YouTuber extraordinaire Kevin Powell in a wide ranging discussion about CSS and how to learn it - what to start with, what to ignore, and various topics in between.
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Retool – The low-code platform for developers to build internal tools — Some of the best teams out there trust Retool…Brex, Coinbase, Plaid, Doordash, LegalGenius, Amazon, Allbirds, Peloton, and so many more – the developers at these teams trust Retool as the platform to build their internal tools. Try it free at retool.com/changelog
Square – Develop on the platform that sellers trust. There is a massive opportunity for developers to support Square sellers by building apps for today’s business needs. Learn more at changelog.com/square to dive into the docs, APIs, SDKs and to create your Square Developer account — tell them Changelog sent you.
Lolo Code – If you’re familiar with building severless apps, think of Lolo Code as your backend with a visual editor that lets you think and build at the same time. All this without having to provision or manage servers. Use the visual editor to build your app, connect nodes, and add any npm libraries you need. You can even write your own integrations. This makes Lolo Code very Zapier-ish, but for devs. Try it free today with no credit card required at lolo.co/jsparty
Raygun – Never miss another mission-critical issue again — Raygun Alerting is now available for Crash Reporting and Real User Monitoring, to make sure you are quickly notified of the errors, crashes, and front-end performance issues that matter most to you and your business. Set thresholds for your alert based on an increase in error count, a spike in load time, or new issues introduced in the latest deployment. Start your free 14-day trial at Raygun.com
Featuring:
Kevin Powell – Website, GitHub, X
Kevin Ball – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Show Notes:
Take the State of JS survey!
Kevin Powell website
Kevin’s Youtube Channel
Flexbox Froggy
Flexbox Zombies
Grid Garden
Grid Critters
Designing Intrinsic Layouts
CSS Stats
MJML (for emails)
Utopia.fyi
CSS-Tricks
Smashing Magazine
Josh Comeau
ModernCSS
SmolCSS
I am not a fan of what React has done to the web, but it’s VERY nice
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
53 min
December 02, 2022Project Fugu 🐡
Thomas Steiner (Web Developer Advocate at Google) joins Amal & Nick to talk about Project Fugu – an effort to close gaps in the web’s capabilities enabling new classes of applications to run on the web.
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Square – Develop on the platform that sellers trust. There is a massive opportunity for developers to support Square sellers by building apps for today’s business needs. Learn more at changelog.com/square to dive into the docs, APIs, SDKs and to create your Square Developer account — tell them Changelog sent you.
Vercel – Vercel combines the best developer experience with an obsessive focus on end-user performance. Our platform enables frontend teams to do their best work. Unlock a better frontend workflow today.
Lolo Code – If you’re familiar with building severless apps, think of Lolo Code as your backend with a visual editor that lets you think and build at the same time. All this without having to provision or manage servers. Use the visual editor to build your app, connect nodes, and add any npm libraries you need. You can even write your own integrations. This makes Lolo Code very Zapier-ish, but for devs. Try it free today with no credit card required at lolo.co/jsparty
Sentry – Working code means happy customers. That’s exactly why teams choose Sentry. From error tracking to performance monitoring, Sentry helps teams see what actually matters, resolve problems quicker, and learn continuously about their applications - from the frontend to the backend. Use the code CHANGELOG and get the team plan free for three months.
Featuring:
Thomas Steiner – Website, GitHub, X
Amal Hussein – GitHub, X
Nick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
Web Capabilities (Project Fugu :blowfish:)
New capabilities status - Chrome Developers
Fugu API Tracker
Web Incubator Community Group (WICG)
Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group (WHATWG)
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
Getting started with Chrome’s origin trials - Chrome Developers
Chrome Origin Trials
Firefox Origin Trials
Fugu API Tracker
Fugu App Showcase
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
57 min
November 25, 2022All about Playwright
Debbie O’Brien –Senior Program Manager at Microsoft– joins Amal & Nick for a deep-dive on Playwright, an automation library for cross-browser end-to-end testing. Along the way, we learn why Microsoft decided to fork Puppeteer, Playwright’s unique value proposition, cool features like auto-waiting & the trace viewer, how it compares to Cypress & a lot more.
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Square – Develop on the platform that sellers trust. There is a massive opportunity for developers to support Square sellers by building apps for today’s business needs. Learn more at changelog.com/square to dive into the docs, APIs, SDKs and to create your Square Developer account — tell them Changelog sent you.
Sentry – Working code means happy customers. That’s exactly why teams choose Sentry. From error tracking to performance monitoring, Sentry helps teams see what actually matters, resolve problems quicker, and learn continuously about their applications - from the frontend to the backend. Use the code CHANGELOG and get the team plan free for three months.
Ship It! – A podcast about getting your best ideas into the world and seeing what happens. Listen to an episode that interests you and subscribe today.
Featuring:
Debbie O'Brien – Website, GitHub, X
Amal Hussein – GitHub, X
Nick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
Shout out to Caio Amaral for requesting this episode. You, too, can request an episode!
Mallorca
playwright.dev
Playwright on GitHub
Nuxt
puppeteer
Selenium
Playwright test for VSCode
Getting started - VS Code
Testing Library
Playwright on YouTube
What’s new in Playwright 1.27
Test Generator
CI GitHub Actions
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
1 hr 3 min
November 18, 2022Gremlins in the water
KBall and Boneskull dive deep with Paloma Oliveira on the cultural and social consequences of open source software, explore her background in arts and government-supported open source, and discuss practical approaches to change the culture of open source towards more sustainability.
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Sentry – Working code means happy customers. That’s exactly why teams choose Sentry. From error tracking to performance monitoring, Sentry helps teams see what actually matters, resolve problems quicker, and learn continuously about their applications - from the frontend to the backend. Use the code CHANGELOG and get the team plan free for three months.
Vercel – Vercel combines the best developer experience with an obsessive focus on end-user performance. Our platform enables frontend teams to do their best work. Unlock a better frontend workflow today.
Sourcegraph – Transform your code into a queryable database to create customizable visual dashboards in seconds. Sourcegraph recently launched Code Insights — now you can track what really matters to you and your team in your codebase. See how other teams are using this awesome feature at about.sourcegraph.com/code-insights
Featuring:
Paloma Oliveira – GitHub, X
Kevin Ball – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Christopher Hiller – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
1 hr 1 min

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Your weekly celebration of JavaScript and the web. Current panelists: Jerod Santo, Kevin Ball (KBall), Nick Nisi, Chris Hiller, Amal Hussein & Amy Dutton.