To celebrate 7 years of React, we have a very special guest: Pete Hunt.

He’s the one who asked us to give React just 5 minutes, to reconsider our established frontend practices, and see if separation of technologies was serving us as well as we thought. 

Pete tells us about the early days of React — it’s rocky community reception, Facebook’s struggle to create meaningful open source, and betting big on CommonJS and a little-known bundler named Webpack.

96: Pete Hunt on Seven Years of Reconsidering Best Practices

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They say hindsight is 2020. And at the end of the year 2020, it sure feels hard to disagree.

Cassidy Williams opens up about her grand visions for 2020, the challenges she encountered this year, and how the effect they had on her job and Make 100 Kickstarter project Go on the Go. She shares what skills and habits were important in navigating these surprises and how to share your reach with others.

123: Cassidy Williams on Dreams and Disasters in 2020

This year, COVID changed the way developers meet up and share ideas.
TJ VanToll shares his experiences with these challenges moving the DevReach conference online. We talk about surprising trends, failure traps, and opportunities for you to find a unique voice in all of it.

122: TJ VanToll on Online Events that Work

Tim Neutkens details the new tech in Next.js 10!

At this year's NextJS conf, Vercel announced killer new performance features that came from their partnerships with Google and the React Core team. Tim shares shares what these improvements mean for users and developers alike.

121: Tim Neutkens on Next.js 10

Tyler McGinnis takes it back to the first few years of React and the birth of the modern JavaScript ecosystem.

He shares what he's doing at ui.dev to help new developers get a foothold in modern web development, and how put in the daily work of reaching a goal.

Correction from Michael Chan (11/30)

This episode has been edited from its original release on November 26th.

In the original version, I made insensitive comments about someone I deeply respect.  
It was far too casual a comment for this show and steeped in envy.
I've reached out to those that my biases most directly harmed.  
With their guidance and permission — we have edited both the audio and description of this episode for the benefit of future listeners.  

I am ashamed that my words caused harm to friends, colleges, and listeners of this show.
I am committed to learning from this mistake and continuing to work toward the welcoming show listeners and guests deserve.

120: Tyler Mcginnis on ui.dev and Early React

Henry Zhu opens up about building Babel and the challenges in maintaining communities that maintain open source.

He shares what he's learned from other open source projects and vibrant communities throughout history.

96: Pete Hunt on Seven Years of Reconsidering Best Practices

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