JS Party: JavaScript, CSS, Web Development

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JS Party: JavaScript, CSS, Web Development episodes

September 07, 2023A view to a transitions API
Jerod & the gang discuss the news (Astro 3.0, Vercel + Astro, Python in Excel) then play eight crazy rounds of HeadLIES! Headline or headLIE? You decide…
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Featuring:
Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Amal Hussein – GitHub, X
Nick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
Christopher Hiller – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
Astro 3.0
Vercel official hosting provider of Astro
Python in Excel
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
1 hr 2 min
September 01, 2023Modernizing packages to ESM
Mark Erikson (web dev professor/historian, OSS Maintainer & engineer at Replay) joins us to talk about the shift from CommonJS to ESM. We discuss the history of module patterns in JS and the grueling effort to push the world’s biggest developer ecosystem forward. Get ready to go to school kids, this one’s deep!
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Featuring:
Mark Erikson – Website, GitHub, X
Amal Hussein – GitHub, X
Show Notes:
My Experience Modernizing Packages to ESM - Mark’s epic blog post
History and Timeline of ES Modules
Node API Reference for ESM
Andrew Branch’s WIP TypeScript module processing documentation
Sindre Sorhus: Pure ESM packages
Modern Guide to Packaging a JS Library
Guide for shipping ESM and CJS in one Package
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
1 hr 6 min
August 24, 2023Ten years of TypeScript bliss
Nick celebrates a decade of writing everyone’s favorite language with guest Josh Goldberg, who contributes to TypeScript, maintains typescript-eslint, and is an all-around great person! Jerod is also here to join the celebration, but let’s keep that a secret from him!
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Featuring:
Josh Goldberg – GitHub, X
Nick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
Nick’s been writing TypeScript for a decade
TSConf
TypeScript 2.0 announcement
Nick’s utility type for deeply-nested objects
Kaka Ruto Vim tweet
A Language Server for Postgres
Learning TypeScript - Josh’s book
Deno
Bun
|> pipeline operator
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
1 hr 10 min
August 17, 2023Refined thinking
Jim (Hyphen) Nielsen joins Jerod & Nick for a fun conversation about language-level toll roads, when (and how) to quit, the stratification of social networking & the state of the world in publishing your thoughts on the internet.
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Featuring:
Jim Nielsen – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Nick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
Language-Level Toll Roads
The Art of Knowing When to Quit
Metalsmith
Gorilla is back
Subscribe Wherever You Get Your Content
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
1 hr 5 min
August 10, 2023Take me to Val Town
Val Town is a shiny, new social programming environment to write, run, deploy and share code. Steve Krouse –Val Town creator– joins Jerod & Amal to tell us all about it.
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Featuring:
Steve Krouse – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Amal Hussein – GitHub, X
Show Notes:
Val Town
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
1 hr 1 min
August 03, 2023An intimate conversation about careers
KBall and Amal go deep on careers. They share their career journeys, talk through learnings and mishaps that happened along the way, and break down key factors to understand about big role transitions like “Senior->Staff” as well as “Engineer->Manager”.
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Featuring:
Kevin Ball – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Amal Hussein – GitHub, X
Show Notes:
From engineering to product (JSParty #203)
Bocoup
Amal on The Changelog talking about bossing up
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
1 hr 2 min
July 28, 2023Frontend Feud: CSS Pod vs Whiskey Web and Whatnot
Una & Adam from The CSS Podcast defend their Frontend Feud title against challengers Chuck & Robbie from Whiskey Web and Whatnot. Let’s get it on!
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Featuring:
Una Kravets – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
Adam Argyle – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
Chuck Carpenter – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Robbie Wagner – Website, GitHub, X
Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
The CSS Podcast
Whiskey Web and Whatnot
More dev game shows!
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
50 min
July 20, 2023This is going to be Lit 🔥
Justin Fagnani joins us this week to talk about Lit, a library that helps you build web components. With 17% of pageviews in Chrome registering use of web components, Lit has gained widespread adoption across a variety of companies looking to create reusable components which leverage the power and interoperability of the web platform. Tune in to learn about what makes this tiny library so incredibly lit!
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Justin Fagnani – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Amal Hussein – GitHub, X
Kevin Ball – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Show Notes:
Lit docs & examples
Throwback Lit html episode on the Web Platform Podcast with Amal
Polymer Library - Lit’s predecessor
Custom Elements
Shadow DOM
Templates and Slots
JS Tagged Template Literals
Lit Element base class
Amal’s singing about “dangerously set innerHTML”
Proposal for Scoped Custom Element Global Registries
Proposal for declarative Shadow DOM
Proposal for Template Instantiation
Proposal for DOM Parts
Proposal for “open-stylable” Shadow Roots
Proposal for JavaScript Decorators
Lit labs packages
Google’s Wireit - updates your npm scripts to make them smarter
Justin’s npm cli RFC for adding Googe’s Wireit script runner to npm
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
1 hr 1 min
July 14, 2023Fundamentals all the way down
Austin Gil returns to JS Party, bringing a fresh perspective on the fundamentals of file uploads. Brace for an insightful session as we navigate the complexities of this key JavaScript topic together, much like a dedicated coach drilling the fundamentals into his team!
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Austin Gil – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Nick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
Kevin Ball – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
JS Party #243
File Upload
Angular
React
Solid
Austin’s blog post series on file uploads
200 MDN
Austin Gil on file uploads
Amazon S3
Akamai
Cloudflare R2
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
1 hr 8 min
July 07, 2023The massive bug at the heart of npm
Darcy Clarke, former GitHub Staff Engineering Manager and founder of vlt, joins us to discuss a major bug in the npm ecosystem that he recently disclosed. We cover the bug’s timeline, nuances, and impact, all while setting some important context on npm packages, clients, and registries. Tune in to learn how to protect your codebase and gain a deeper understanding of this crucial part of the JavaScript ecosystem.
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Typesense – Lightning fast, globally distributed Search-as-a-Service that runs in memory. You literally can’t get any faster!
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Featuring:
Darcy Clarke – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Amal Hussein – GitHub, X
Feross Aboukhadijeh – Website, GitHub, X
Show Notes:
Darcy / vlt’s blog post on this massive npm bug
Feross / Socket’s follow-up blog post in this issue
Refactor Conf - Darcy & Feross will be speaking in July
Verdaccio (not to be mistaken with Versace) - an open source npm registry proxy
Github layoffs for engineering team in India
Bug filled July 28th, 2022 related to binding.gyp and triaged on October 22nd, 2022
Darcy’s original test POC from Nov 2nd, 2022
Darcy’s POC from March 8th, 2023 which was used in the HackerOne report to Github
Legacy docs for npm publish params
Tool for checking packages for manifest mismatches
Great resource for security acronyms
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
1 hr 4 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.