Have you had the privilege of working in PHP?

If you haven't let me tell you:

You can have a dynamic website just by putting a single PHP file on a host, anywhere.

It's magic

For us React developers, everything is a lot more complicated.

We want server-side rendering for Google crawl-ability,

Hot Module Replacement for quick feedback in development, and code-splitting to get quick initial page loads for users.

None of that is easy to implement.

But there's hope.

The team at Zeit wants you to have all that but with the simplicity of that beautiful PHP workflow.

And they've done it.

We sit with Tim Neutkens, lead developer on Nextjs, an open source framework, for react, by Zeit.

He tells us how you can get back to that beautiful, fun PHP experience but with all of the benefits of SSR, HMR, AMP, and so many more initialisms.

I'm so excited to share this chat about Next.js the next-live of static site generation.

Navigating a career is tricky.

This is double true for women in tech.

Add a spouses career,

traditional gender expectations,

Single-parenting,

Or illness to the mix

And finding a satisfying career can feel impossible.

Today, Sophia Shoemaker sits with us to discuss how she manages being a mom in tech, conference speaker, FullStack React editor, and deeply invested in her community.

It's a different story than many of you are used to hearing on this show.

A more complicated one.

I'm excited that we get to learn more about one of the types of challenges that women in tech face today.

And I'm so grateful that Sophia brought us into her story.

I know that her experience can give you hope — as you find a career that works for your specific cocktail of complications.

How many times have you written a state reducer?

100 times?

100 times a month?

Truth is, it's tricky for human brains to write performant state mutations in immutable terms.

Maybe you're whip smart and you've got the theory on lock but the resulting "spread hell" is hard to read and edit long term.

Michel Westrate wants you to stop writing state updates with immutable APIs like spread, concat, and slice and take a second look at mutable APIs like property assignment, forEach, and push.

He's made it really easy

And the React Team finds this idea very interesting.

We talk with Michel about this wild of idea of state producers (not reducers) in Immer, why they're in the spirit of React, his MobX fame, and why — even in 2019 — it's not a good idea to roll your own state management library.

Listen cautiously though.

After this episode, you may never write a state reducer again...

Saron Yitbarek is the CEO and founder of CodeNewbie, the most supportive community of programmers and people learning to code. She's also the vibrant host of the CodeNewbie Podcast, Basecs Podcast, and Command Line Heroes (a Red Hat podcast).

Chantastic Asks her about learning in public, interviewing the world’s greatest developers, the art of storytelling, and aggressive kindness that surround her #CodeNewbie twitter chats.

They discuss podcasting, building a community you can trust, shower new developers with love and support, and what it takes to put on the most supportive conference in the world.

Scott Tolinski is creator of Level Up Totorials and co-host of Syntax — a tasty treats podcast for web developers.

He joins us on React Podcast to talk about career, hobbies, and building a business.

Chantastic asks him about break dancing, YouTube as a career development platform, weeding out hators, and making the jump to independent creator.

They discuss podcasting, self-management, embracing ignorance, forcing confidence, determining content value, and importance of being kind to your favorite content creators.

Jon Rohan is an Engineer on the Design Systems Team at Github, building tooling for Octicons and Primer — their React component library.

Chantastic asks about his 6 year tenure at GitHub, the inspiration behind his primer.css slam poem, how their using CSS-in-JS and Lerna to structure their work, and his project Figma Actions for seamlessly building icons from Figma design files.

They discuss design apps, Monorepos, GitHub Actions, CSS-in-JS, and why you should open source your systems.

Kent C Dodds is a blogger, podcaster, open sorcerer, and community builder that recently made the leap to full-time, independent educator.

Chantastic asks about the approach Kent took while developing his career PayPal, what he had to give up to stay focused, and what's changed now that he's independent.

They discuss learning by teaching, the importance of being consistent, avoiding the permission trap, and what it means to "increase the impact of your value".

Houssein Djirdeh works with the Developer Relations team at Google, educating React developers on web application performance.

He created the world best iPhone and Android app for Github — GitPoint.

Chantastic asks about his experience creating GitPoint (a fully featured GitHub client, built in React Native), what performance vernacular like `tti`, `fcp`, and `Web Workers` mean, and common performance pitfalls and misunderstandings found in React apps.

They discuss the importance of limiting scope to ship a product, the performance value of Hooks, tools and automations you can use today, and which projects to follow for inspiration.

Versioning. How do we do it? It's a lot more complicated than "just use semver!"

This week Michael Jackson joins us again to discuss the pains of versioning, how to avoid them, and why it all comes down to communication.

Chantastic asks about upcoming how React Router v5 will take advantage of new features like Hooks and what versioning strategy they intend to employ with for legacy React Router users.

They fumble clumsily around what the various characters in a package.json file mean, discuss outrageous prefixing as a defense mechanism, and partying at the 2019 JSConfUS in Carlsbad.

Nader Dabit is the author on React Native in Action, Host of React Native Radio, Educator, Speaker, and doing developer relations for AWS Cloud.

Chantastic asks about Amplify and AppSync, where they fit into AWS offerings, why they make authentication and GraphQL server setup a breeze, and how we can start using them.

They discuss the opportunity and difficulty in podcast, the challenges of author a book, and travel the world speaking and educating.