React Round Up

Charles Max Wood talks about how to build, grow, and benefit from positive relationships within programming. He talks about how he's built genuine positive relationships with hundreds of programmers and how he and others have grown from those relationships. He also explains that you get out of relationships what you put into them. Finally, he goes into how to begin to build relationships by building a system of influence you can use on behalf of the people you want relationships with. Panel

• Charles Max Wood

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Charles Max Wood discusses several opportunities that came his way early in his podcasting career and other opportunities that have come to other people after only a couple of podcast episodes. He explains why that happens and how you can use this to create more influence as a developer. Panel

• Charles Max Wood

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In today’s episode of React Round Up, Nigerian-based developer Dillion Megida explains how you can create source plugins for Gatsby, the static site generation tool. Gatsby can be used to create landing pages, blogs and e-commerce sites, among other things, and it contains a vast plugin ecosystem that helps developers avoid reinventing the wheel when creating their applications. Dillion also shares his experience blogging for websites such as LogRocket, FreeCodecamp and Dev.to and talks us through his workflow and how he comes up with new article ideas. Panel

• Carl Mungazi
• Paige Niedringhaus
• TJ Vantoll

Guest

• Dillion Megida

Sponsors

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Links

• How to Build a Gatsby Source Plugin, using Hashnode as an example
• Paige Niedringhaus
• Gatsby Plugin Library
• TheWebFor5
• Web sharing API
• A deep dive into queues in Node.js
• gatsby-source-medium
• Hashnode
• Twitter: Dillion Megida ( @iamdillion )
• Dillion Megida - Frontend Engineer and Technical Writer

Picks

• Carl- BBQ tips 
• Carl- JAMstacked newsletter 
• Dillion- Cypress
• Paige- Battery Chargers - OptiMate
• TJ- Remotion
• TJ- Remotion demo

Special Guest: Dillion Megida.

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Charles Max Wood started podcasting because it sounded fun and because he wanted to talk about technology. He learned pretty quickly that it got him access to people who understood the things he wanted to learn. The reasons changed over the years, as Charles explains before he talks about the big payoff he gets now from doing the podcasts. Panel

• Charles Max Wood

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On this episode of React Round Up we chatted with Miroslav Nikolov, a UI developer at one.com, about his approach to unit testing React components. Miroslav discussed writing components in a human-friendly way, using the library UnexpectedJS. We also talked about Miroslav’s blog, including how he got started with it, and some of the tools he used, like Gatsby and Mailchimp. This is a great episode if you’re looking to learn more about how to approach unit testing in React. Panel

• Paige Neidringhaus
• TJ VanToll

Guest

• Miroslav Nikolov

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Links

• webup.org/blog | Miroslav Nikolov
• UnexpectedJS
• React Component Tests for Humans | CSS-Tricks
• mailchimp
• Substack

Picks

• Miroslav- erikras.com
• Miroslav- Application State Management with React
• Paige- Tom Clancy's | Jack Ryan
• TJ- DREAM SPORT Bike Computer Bicycle Speedometer and Odometer 16-Function Wired Bike Computer Waterproof

Special Guest: Miroslav Nikolov.

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Jason Weimann started out as an enthusiast of the Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game, Everquest. After becoming a software developer and building a collaborative community playing the game, learn how he used his connections to get a job working for the company that made the game, even if it wasn't a job working as a game developer and how that led to a career working on one of the most popular online games of the time. Panel

• Charles Max Wood

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Changing careers into software development is always an interesting story and Rani Zilpelwar's story is no different. In this episode, Rani, the QA developer turned software consultant, talks about how she's held almost every software role at one point or another, and how she's continuing to improve her skills now as a software consultant. The discussion includes books and websites she's found helpful to building up her knowledge, how the company she works for helped set her up for success by pairing her with a more experienced developer as a mentor when she started out, and now how / why she blogs on her own site to give back and solidify the things she's learning. Rani's deep knowledge of testing also lends itself well to her new role and she and the team discuss testing strategies and best practices from her days as a QA engineer. This is a great episode if you're looking to make your own career transition and see how other skills can apply there. Panel

• Carl Mungazi
• Paige Niedringhaus
• TJ VanToll

Guest

• Rani Zilpelwar

Sponsors

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• React Error Monitoring | Sentry

Links

• Interview Cake
• Grokking the System Design Interview
• Emotional Intelligence 2.0 by  Travis Bradberry and Jean Greaves
• Captivate: The Science of Succeeding with People by Vanessa Van Edwards
• Captivate: The Science of Succeeding with People by Vanessa Van Edwards (Audible)
• Code Kata
• React Status
• Frontend Focus
• Programming Digest
• How to Write Good Unit Tests | Elevate your Code
• JavaScript End to End Testing Framework | cypress.io
• BDD Testing & Collaboration Tools for Teams | Cucumber
• WebDriverIO
• Pact Tests
• Percy
• Elevate your Code
• Linkedin: Rani Zilpelwar
• Software is our craft | 8th Light
• Careers | 8th Light

Picks

• Carl- Fullstack Node.js by David Guttman
• Carl- Boost Note - An open sourced markdown editor for developers
• Carl- Ignite Hubs | Re-imagining learning to inspire young minds
• Paige- Riviera (TV series)
• Rani- Refactoring by Martin Fowler, with Kent Beck
• Rani- Smiling Mind
• TJ- Key Light | elgato

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Chuck outlines how he's used his podcasts to find mentors to continue his learning journey over 12 years of podcasting. Some mentors have been long lived relationships while others have lasted only a few months or even days. This episode shares Chuck's experience learning from the top people in the development community as a programmer and podcaster. Panel

• Charles Max Wood

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Chuck outlines how he's used his podcasts to find mentors to continue his learning journey over 12 years of podcasting. Some mentors have been long lived relationships while others have lasted only a few months or even days. This episode shares Chuck's experience learning from the top people in the development community as a programmer and podcaster. Panel

• Charles Max Wood

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Jack Herrington joins TJ for a discussion about React, Micro Front-Ends, and Module Federation in Webpack. All of these are things that Jack has show off on his Youtube Channel. They discuss the how and why you'd want to implement this approach to building applications. Panel

• TJ VanToll

Guest

• Jack Herrington

Sponsors

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Links

• TypeScript: Documentation - Utility Types
• GitHub | pmndrs/zustand
• GitHub | pmndrs/jotai
• Blue Collar Coder | Jack Herrington
• YouTube Channel | Jack Herrington
• GitHub: Jack Herrington ( @jherr )

Picks

• Jack- Edward Tufte: Books - The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
• TJ- The Mandalorian 

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