React Round Up

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• Lucas Reis
• Justin Bennett
• Charles Max Wood

Joined by special guests: Chris Toomey Episode Summary In this episode of React Round Up, Chris Toomey introduces himself, talks about his work and his podcast and moves on to explaining the differences between a React vs GraphQL centric application. Justin explains in detail how the Relay framework works, and Chris describes the scenarios where GraphQL stands out in the process of building an application and also throws some light on the benefits of choosing it over other APIs such as REST. The panel then discusses how GraphQL is advantageous in the documentation context since it has a good schema, and also in data modeling. Chris shares some past examples of creating React applications where GraphQL and Apollo made things much simpler, and also elaborates on the trade-offs and challenges associated with it. Links

• The Bike Shed
• Chris Toomey: React & GraphQL – Bringing Simplicity to Client-Side Development / React Boston 2018
• Chris’s Twitter
• The Past, Present, and Future of GraphQL Native - Nick Schrock @ GraphQL Europe

Picks Justin Bennett:

• Where art thou, my error?
• Auto by Intuit on GitHub

Lucas Reis:

• MDX Deck library
• Code Surfer library

Charles Max Wood:

• HubSpot
• Zapier
• Google Docs

Chris Toomey:

• Tell me when it closes
• Quicklink
• Upcase

Special Guest: Chris Toomey.

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• Charles Max Wood

Joined by special guest: Thomas Aylott Episode Summary In this episode of React Round Up, Thomas Aylott, Founder at Things That Do Stuff, gives an overview of Framer X, explains what it is used for and how it can be beneficial for web designers. The panelists then discuss the timeline and usage of different design and developer tools along with their compatibility with various platforms. Thomas shares his front-end development experiences from 2005, the kind of technologies he learnt and how, with interesting and fun anecdotes, and also talks about about his time at Facebook. They discuss the fact that how Ruby on Rails has brought about a significant change in web development, work-life balance in general, and in the end, the importance of making checklists and taking ownership. Links

• Things That Do Stuff
• Thomas’s website
• Thomas’s Twitter
• Thomas’s GitHub
• Thomas’s YouTube
• Prettier

Picks Nader Dabit:

• Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid

Lucas Reis:

• CSS-Tricks
• Indirection is not Abstraction

Charles Max Wood:

• Check out the recent milestone episodes on Devchat.tv!
• DevRev
• Hiring Show Notes writers for podcasts
• Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win

Thomas Aylott:

• Objective Personality
• Notion
• The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right

Special Guest: Thomas Aylott.

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Joined by special guest: Jared Palmer Episode Summary  In this episode of React Round Up, Jared Palmer, Lead Engineer at Palmer Group, gives the listeners an overview of React Suspense, how it helps to resolve conflicts with resource scheduling and how it differs from current practices. He mentions that it is developed completely by the React team and talks about some of its applications, especially in handling images. He explains how React Suspense will reduce code size for loading states, the mechanism of parallel execution and how complexity in logic can be simplified with it. Jared also mentions some modules where Suspense can already be integrated with and advises on where it is not recommended to be used yet. The panelists then discuss server-side rendering with Suspense and their approach in technology adoption, which is incremental. Finally they talk about Redux and move on to picks. Links

• The Platform - Suspense-ready components 
• Jared’s GitHub
• Jared’s Twitter
• Jared’s website
• The Palmer Group
• https://www.facebook.com/React-Round-Up-297859274397129/
• https://twitter.com/reactroundup

Picks Lucas Reis:

• Sunlight Alarm Clock

Charles Max Wood:

• Gel Pads
• Notion

Jared Palmer:

• DevHub
• The Undefined Podcast

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Episode Summary In this episode of React Round Up, Justin Bennett speaks with co-founder of Couchbase, Chris Anderson. Chris has been working with NoSQL databases for approximately a decade, and is currently working on FaunaDB, doing development outreach, while writing codes to connect with the different eco systems: Serverless, JAMStacks and React Native. He is also a blogger on a platform he calls ‘Serverless’ and enjoys decoding web applications and converting them to mobile. Chris elaborates on the particulars and functions of JAMstacks, FaunaDB, React Native, Expo, Firebase and Netlify along with their databases. He tells of his journey with FaunaDB and explains what led to its introduction. He also gives a detailed explanation on Serverless functions, Multi-cloud deployment and extends advice to apprentices in the similar field. Links

• https://serverless.com/author/chrisanderson/
• https://twitter.com/jchris
• https://github.com/jchris
• https://fauna.com/
• Serverless
• Netlify
• React Native
• Firebase
• https://www.facebook.com/React-Round-Up
• https://twitter.com/reactroundup

Picks Chris Anderson:

• React Native Starter Kit
• Netlify Fauna Todo

Justin Bennett:

• Refactoring UI
• Build Your Own Mint

Special Guest: Chris Anderson.

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• Justin Bennett
• Nader Dabit
• Charles Max Wood

Episode Summary In this 50th episode of React Round Up, the panelists start with talking briefly about themselves, their work, as well as their side projects. Lucas Reis is a Senior Frontend Engineer at Zocdoc, and is working on the Zocdoc website, specifically on performance and SEO. He is also involved in sharing frontend knowledge throughout the company. Justin Bennett is a Senior Engineer at Artsy and focuses on web performance along with several open source projects. He is also interested in release processes and continuous integration. Nader Dabit is with Amazon Web Services as a Developer Advocate, working on GraphQL, React to React Native, Vue and is involved in community work too. Charles Max Wood is mainly focused on making this podcast better that includes things like getting sponsors, dealing with business issues, releasing the episodes on time, etc. He talks about his mission to help people find fulfillment from coding and enabling them to achieve their ideal lifestyle. They discuss hard and soft skills in software development, their interdependence and importance, and also the fact that the skills required to become a good developer are needed for personal development in general as well. They then mention their favorite past episodes and the growth of different programming ecosystems and communities such as React, Vue, Angular, etc. With respect to upcoming projects in React, they talk a bit about Suspense, Concurrent React, server-side rendering, performance issues, Prepack, compiler optimizations and Reason React. Finally, they each mention what they do apart from regular development work to unwind and relax. Links

• Artsy
• The Dev Rev
• React 16 Roadmap
• Reason
• ReasonReact
• ClojureScript
• Thinkster
• Disney Heroes Battlemode

Picks Justin Bennett:

• Inter
• Can’t Unsee design game

Lucas Reis:

• The Law of Leaky Abstractions

Nader Dabit:

• React Native
• Open GraphQL newsletter

Charles Max Wood:

• Libsyn
• WordPress
• DigitalOcean
• Microphones – Electro-Voice RE20, Audio-Technica ATR2100

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  Panel: Charles Max Woods Special Guests: Donovan Brown In this episode, the Charles speaks with Donovan Brown. He is a principal DevOps Manager with Microsoft with a background in application development. He also runs one of the nation’s fastest growing online registration sites for motorsports events DLBRACING.com. When he is not writing software, he races cars for fun. Listen to today’s episode where Chuck and Donovan talk about DevOps, Azure, Python, Angular, React, Vue, and much, much more! Links:

• Donovan Brown’s GitHub
• Donovan Brown’s Twitter
• Donovan Brown
• Donovan Brown – Channel 9
• Donovan Brown – Microsoft
• Azure
• YoTeam
• Azure.com/devops
• GitHub
• Azure DevOps’ Twitter

Picks: Charles

• Jet Blue
• Beta Testers

Donovan

• YoTeam
• VSTeam Powershell Module

Special Guest: Donovan Brown.

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Special Guest: Kay Plößer Episode Summary In this episode of React Round Up, the panel talks with Kay Plößer, describing their experiences learning React. Kay is a software developer from Stuttgart, Germany and the author of the book React from Zero. They discuss the best approach to learning React from scratch. Kay describes the process of writing and producing his book 'React from Zero'. Initially he started with tutorials and lessons and then turned those into a book. It is constructed in two sections: basic and advanced and it's purpose is to help developers learn React without being overwhelmed. He has received great feedback from the people who have bought the book. Kay then describes his experiences teaching React to developers and talks about his blog post React Hooks Demystified which became really popular. The panel then about how developers can increase and diversify income through writing books and side projects. Links

• Kay's Book: React from Zero
• Kay's Blog Post: React Hooks Demystified
• Kay’s LinkedIn
• Kay’s Twitter
• Kay’s GitHub
• Kay's Website
• Kay's Skillshare
• Kay's Facebook
• https://www.facebook.com/React-Round-Up
• https://twitter.com/reactroundup

Picks Nader Dabit:

• Finite and Infinite Games by James Carse

Lucas Reis:

• An Introduction and Guide to the CSS Object Model
• AST Explorer

Charles Wood:

• Charles' New Devchat.tv Build on Eleventy on GitHub

Kay Plößer:

• Wardley maps

Special Guest: Kay Plößer.

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• Nader Dabit
• Justin Bennett
• Charles Max Wood

Special Guest:  Charlie Cheever Notes: This episode of React Round Up has the panelists talking to Charlie Cheever, a former Facebook employee, who currently works on Expo.  The panel discusses Charlies article called “Should we be using React Native?”,  Airbnb sunsetting their React Native app, and the nature of the Expo app. Charlie describes Expo as the easiest way to do React Native using just JavaScript, and making it as easy and powerful as possible. Expo works kind of like a web browser for JavaScript, and is available on iOS, Android, and and Google app stores. Expo CLI has replaced Create React Native CLI because Expo is more user friendly. Many features are already included in Expo, including OTA updates, dealing with fonts, video player, Facebook ad and Google ads, barcode scanner, Native maps, and much more. To get started on your computer, go to snack.expo.io or download the Expo app on your phone. The panelists chat about the success of Charlie’s company and how he has attracted so many great programmers to his company. Charlie gives a history of how Expo got started. Charlie gives advice on how to start a business around a free tool, and the goal of Expo to make every service available on the app before focusing on making money. The panel discusses sustainability in the software world, as making people pay for things can drive them to write their own stuff. They talk about the benefits of using Expo and its ability to cross platforms, and enterprise companies such as Youtube and Instagram shifting over to using React. Charlie attributes this shift to two things; the increase in software developer salaries driving down the number of available software engineers, which makes it difficult for smaller companies to hire engineers, thus pushing them to use things like React and Expo to make up for it. Last, the panelists talk about the possibility that the world is moving towards a future characterized by a “write once, run everywhere” and more uniform experiences across operating systems. Terms:

• React Native
• Expo
• Expo CLI
• VS Code
• Emacs
• Vim
• Xamarin
• Titanium
• Native Script
• AWS

Picks: Nader:

• Video series on Egghead
• On Grand Strategy

Justin:

• rePNG
• Dark Reader

Charles:

• Pomodoro method
• Kanbonflow
• John Somnez video

Charlie:

• React navigation
• React Native Gesture Handler
• React Native Reanimated
• Wiliam Candelon “Can It Be Done in React Native” videos

Special Guest: Charlie Cheever.

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Joined by Special Guest: Max DesiatovSummaryMax Desiatov shares his experience transitioning from REST to GraphQL. The panel discusses Max’s migration strategy and other strategies. REST and GraphQL are compared, the problems with both are discussed. The panel shares their favorite things about GraphQL including workflow and data modeling. The solutions for GraphQL problems are discussed and the things the panel would like to see are mentioned. Max Desiatov and Justin Bennett share the different tools they use including Apollo and Graphiql. Charles Max Wood steers the conversation to the adoption of GraphQL by companies.Links

• https://sailsjs.com/
• https://graphql.org
• https://spring.io/understanding/HATEOAS
• https://www.graphile.org/postgraphile/
• https://www.apollographql.com/docs/react/
• https://github.com/expo/apollo-codegen
• https://github.com/graphql/graphiql
• https://www.apollographql.com/docs/graphql-tools/schema-stitching.html
• https://www.apollographql.com/docs/react/essentials/local-state.html
• https://desiatov.com/why-graphql/
• https://desiatov.com/
• https://twitter.com/maxdesiatov
• https://github.com/maxdesiatov

PicksJustin Bennett

• https://renovatebot.com/
• The Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson

Charles Max Wood

• https://www.11ty.io/
• https://devchat.tv/ruby-rogues/rr-383-rbspy-a-newish-ruby-profiler-with-julia-evans/

Max Desiatov

• https://nadiaeghbal.com
• https://jvns.ca/blog/2018/09/18/build-impossible-programs/

Special Guest: Max Desiatov.

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