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In this podcast Tracy Lee and Ben Lesh, core team members of RxJS, talk about the big changes RxJS 7.0 ++ has brought to the community!

Listen to this podcast to hear updates about upcoming deprecations, new performance improvements, typings fixes, improved multicasting, top level exports, the new configurable retry, and what's coming for RxJS 8.

If you're interested in following along with ongoing updates to RxJS, the changelog is here: https://github.com/ReactiveX/rxjs/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#features-2

Follow the roadmap for RxJS 7 to 8! Issue #6367 on github

Full updates for RxJS 7.0 from RxJS Asia: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1-LU7YE3NWw8jHeAgdmLu4CBfG7osCx6MsSIeFs16k60/edit#slide=id.g389cbad6b8_0_36

For documentation, check out rxjs.dev.

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Featuring: 

Tracy Lee (@ladyleet) - CEO, This Dot Labs 

Ben Lesh (@benlesh) - Software Engineer at Citadel & Author of RxJS

This episode is sponsored by This Dot Labs. 

In this episode, Lindsay Wardell talks with Richard Feldman about Elm, the delightful functional programming language for creating web applications. They discuss how Richard got into programming and his first experiences with Elm, then dive into some of the key features of Elm such as no runtime exceptions and its helpful compiler. They then discuss where Elm is going, and some of the great community tools that exist in the Elm ecosystem.

Guest:

Richard Feldman (@rtfeldman) - Head of Technology at NoRedInk and author of Elm In Action 

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This episode is sponsored by Progress KendoReact & This Dot Labs. 

In this episode, Misko Hevery is featured in an interview with Tracy Lee on leaving Angular, and his new project Builder. He talks about a new way to think about frameworks that our community should start embracing, as well as, why he's so excited about Builder, the space, and what he will be doing next.

Host:

Tracy Lee (@ladyleet) - CEO, This Dot Labs 

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This episode is sponsored by This Dot Labs. 

In this episode, Lindsay Wardell talks with Stephanie Eckles about her work with Modern CSS and accessibility. They discuss how Stephanie got into programming, and what drew her to start writing ModernCSS.dev, an excellent resource for learning the latest supported concepts in CSS. They also talk about some of the features in CSS that developers may not be aware of, as well as, some upcoming features that aren't released yet. Stephanie also talks about accessibility, and how CSS can be impacting your site's users' ability to use it. We end talking about Stephanie's upcoming workshop, and how she uses 11ty to build her sites and projects.

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This episode is sponsored by Dexecure & This Dot Labs. 

In this episode, Rob Ocel chats with Gleb Bhamutov, a Distinguished Engineer at Cypress IO. They discuss Gleb's PhD, his prolific catalog of OSS libraries, his dream job, and how he works to scale his impact on the world at large. They also talk about the promise and value of end-to-end (E2E) testing using Cypress, and why the traditional testing pyramid might be underselling the power and importance of E2E testing. They also explore some interesting current and upcoming features of Cypress, and highlight some lesser known alternative uses of Cypress that illustrate it's flexibility.

Guest:

Gleb Bhamutov (@bahmutov) - JavaScript ninja, image processing expert, software quality fanatic, & Distinguished Engineer at Cypress IO 

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This episode is sponsored by Progress KendoReact & This Dot Labs. 

In this episode, Rob Ocel, Matthew Pagan, and Luis Aviles sit down with Justin Fagnani, staff software engineer at Google and Lit core team lead, to discuss web components and the recent announcement of Lit 2.0. They discuss the new major features of Lit, such as server-side rendering support and reactive controllers, new documentation, the playground site including the TypeScript support, the community around web components, the future of Polymer and LitElement, and how to build applications from Lit and work around the challenges of Shadow DOM.

Guests:

Justin Fagnani (@justinfagnani) - Staff Software Engineer, Google & Lit core team lead

Hosts:

Rob Ocel (@robocell) - Architect, This Dot

This episode is sponsored by Dexecure & This Dot Labs.