By Michael Chan
Conversations about React with your favorite developers.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.
Jenn Creighton talks with chantastic about component architecture, composition from a perspective of writing, mastering interpersonal communication, and feeling your feelings. She shows us how to save ourselves from the "apropcalypse" by leaning into age-old patterns of composition and organization.
Tom Preston-Werner is building a full-stack framework for React and GraphQL developers. In this episode we talk about RedwoodJS, a framework that's bringing full-stack to Jamstack. Tom is a co-founder of GitHub, creator of Jekyll (the OG static site generator), TOML, and...
Marcy Sutton cares about the humans trying to use your site. In this episode Marcy illuminates the value of accessibility on the web, her favorite tools and services, and the necessity to "shift left" — ensuring that accessibility becomes a discussion...
Eli White shares the five core principles guiding React Native devolvement: native experience, at massive scale, fueling developer velocity, on every platform, with declarative ui. He shares some insights about how Facebook organizes around features and products — not platforms — and...
Shawn Swyx Wang opens up about his new book The Coding Career Handbook: Guides, Principles, Strategies, and Tactics from Code Newbie to Senior Dev. His book shines a spotlight on career patterns and practices that many had to learn the hard...
Rick Casey shares what he's learned building, managing, funding an open source project over 8 million users. The app is Destiny Item Manager — a companion to Bungie's wildly popular looter-shooter Destiny. If you play Destiny, you've surely used this or scene it...
Kent C. Dodds spills the tea on his latest course, workshop, masterclass, creation Epic React. He shares what he's learned as a React educator and why *how* you learn is even more important than *what* you learn. When you finish this episode...
Friend of the show Chris Biscardi and I talk about building community in a pandemic-ruled world. Chris shares all the great things happening on Party Corgi Network — a community of practice — and they touch on the topics of Discord,...
Sam Selikoff and chantastic dissect the challenges of transitioning from bundled, batteries-included frameworks (like Rails) to unbundled, choose your own adventures frameworks like React. They discuss the virtues of full stack frameworks, common pitfalls found when building your own framework, and...
Gant Laborde tells us how to present ourselves well, virtually. In the world of online conferences, streaming, and meetings at a distance, your screen presence is your only presence. Then we take a 180 degree turn to talk about talk about machine...
Vaidehi Joshi tells us about building BaseCS — a fun and approachable exploration of computer science. Vaidehi is a hero of mine and I'm delighted to share this conversation. We talk about making yourself to do the work , never selling...
Sara Vieira tells us about her new book: The Opinionated Guide to React. She breaks down here experience build large apps, at scale, into easy to digest gold for React n00bs and seasoned pros alike. At the end of our chat she...
Nikolas Burke tells us about Prisma 2 — "modern database access for typescript and node" We talk about the history of database ORMs (object-relational mappers), the product journey of graph.cool to Prisma 2, and how Prisma is powering new full stack frameworks...
Tom Coleman tells us what's new in Storybook 6. He elaborates on headline features of controls, composition, and args and how they'll take your component documentation and exploration to the next level! We Storybook's history, it's relationship to Chromatic visual testing tools,...
Today, Jani Eväkallio tells us about Foam, an open source project that's bringing the power of networked note-taking to your code editor. He and chantastic talk about the difference between associative and categorical (traditional) note-taking and how Foam transforming VSCode into an...
Pariss Athena share the history of #blacktechtwitter — how she discovered a vibrant community of Black and Brown technologists and what she's doing to amplify their voices and experiences in tech. She tells how her platform, Black Tech Pipeline, is bridging...
Eve Porcello and Alex Banks stop in to drop Learning React knowledge for noob, novice, and knowledgable React developers alike. We talk about how Learning React has changed over the years, the patterns and practices that have stood the test of...
Chris shares a behind the scenes look at scotch.io, the challenges of monetizing a blog, the identity crisis that comes with selling your business, and what he's cooking up next with makereactapps.com.
Michael Jackson and Ryan Florence join chantastic to share the business of Remix — how it'll provide continued support for React Router, and Reach UI, Open source licensing that makes money, and how COVID forced them to evolve their business...
Michael Jackson and Ryan Florence join chantastic to talk about Remix — a killer React framework from the creators of React Router. This is a two part conversation. This week, they dive into the technical challenges of building a React framework and why...
Joel Hooks shares the story of egghead.io. Joel and chantastic talk about doing the work, the overrated role of passion, the power of a grudge, and building yourself into your own boss.
Tomasz Łakomy shares how to survive the rapidly changing frontend landscape. Tomasz and chantastic talk serverless, end-to-end testing with cypress, and the greatest frontend tool of all time: jQuery.
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...
Dave Geddes tells us about the science of learning and how he uses it to ensure success at mastery.games — where he teaches CSS layout, service workers, and more. We talk about the importance of sleep for learning, the joy of...
This week Matt Perry tells about Magic Motion — the killer new feature for Framer Motion that makes shared element transitions easy for React developers We talk about full-stack correction for FLIP animations, the virtuous relationship between product and open source,...
Dimitrius Clark joins us to drop some good nuggets on building community. We talk about his meetup Reactadelphia, tips for finding the best Code Bootcamps, and how to supercharge your career after graduation — using all the corniest career advice.
Chance Strickland (@chancethedev) and chantastic talk about Reach UI and building flexible libraries for the web. They talk about separation of logic with statecharts, the cascading complexity of accessibility, unopinionated approaches to styling, and the career effects of great open source.
Dominic Nguyen joins us to talk about visual regression testing for design systems with chromatic — the important differences between snapshot testing and visual testing, why the component construct was the missing piece, and how chromatic gives teams confidence.
This week on React Podcast our guest is… me! Max Stoiber takes the host seat to ask about my journey from unemployment line to React Podcaster. Nothing is off limits. We talk faith, family, cancer, death, and finding a place in tech… Thanks...
Laurie Barth joins us to talk about building a career you’ll love, networking you won’t hate, and a proven strategy to beat imposter syndrome.
Adam Wathan tells us what it takes to make your own money. He’s a prolific author, podcaster, educator, open source creator, and true fullstack developer. He shares a look into what it took to make Refactoring UI and Tailwind CSS smash hits.
Chris Biscardi and I talk about using the platform — what happened in the browser while we were webpacking all-the-things-in-js. We talk about the future of JavaScript meta frameworks, a return to Rails, serverless provider lock-in, and the value of content creation...
We learn from Maggie Appleton about mental models, conceptual metaphor theory, culture, creative thinking, drawing a box, and how it all comes together in her incredible Egghead course artwork.
This week we chat with Michael of React Training and learn everything we need to know about React Router v6 — what's in store, how to update, and what he's learned about empathy in the process.
We sit down with Max Stoiber and find out what it takes to find luck in open source. Max is the creator of react-boilerploit and the co-creator of styled-components and spectrum.chat.
David Khourshid is the man bringing statecharts to the frontend. We talk about XState, model-based testing with xstate-test, and the future designer/coder integration For the month of february, we're chatting exclusively with Reactathon speakers. You can hear more from David on the topic...
Today we chat with Becca Bailey about Refactoring — how to make your React code a little more liveable, human-friendly, and ready for anything. You can hear more from Becca this march, on finding joy in refactoring. Reactathon is a top...
Today we chat with Evan Bacon about Expo and delivering on the illusive promise of "write once. run anywhere." For the month of february, we're chatting exclusively with Reactathon speakers. You can hear more from Evan on the topic of using Expo...
Today we chat with Daria Caraway and learn how to build considerate React components with TypeScript. For the month of february, we're chatting exclusively with Reactathon speakers. You can hear more from Daria on this topic of developing considerate React components on...
Conferences are a big part of the React ecosystem. This year, there's a conference that stands out from the rest: Render(ATL). Render(ATL) is a new conference in Atlanta that promises to introduce React developers to the voice and...
Every few months, I like to explore professions that are adjacent to programming. Today we're exploring captioning and its impact on our industry. Our guide for this industry is the fabulously giften Norma Miller of White Coat Captioning. I...
We're kicking off a new decade by going back in time time to 1999, just 10 years after the birth of the internet. Our guest today is Lee Byron. He takes us on a tour of the early...
Today we sit down with award winning cartoonist, a book apart author, web animations expert, new member to the React Core Team, and all round lovely human Rachel Nabors. We talk about her journey to React, the Woman at the Heart...
React Core Team member Suil Pai in the chair today. React is a complicated project. It's open source but lead by facebook. That's a hard pill for many to swollow. But, for it, we get a framework that's battle-tested at facebook...
I'm so grateful for you. This is just a short thank you from me to you, an update on my React Suspense course, and what you can expect from React Podcast in 2020...
