React Round Up

Panel:

• Nader Dabit
• Sia Karamalegos
• Lucas Reis

Special Guests: Orta Therox In this episode, the React Round Up panelists talk to Orta Therox about his 2 years of experience with React Native at Artsy. Orta has about 15 years of native Mac and iOS development experience and about 2 ½ years ago, his team decided to start writing their iOS app in React Native. They talk about the different popular blog posts about React Native, why his team decided to switch over to React Native, and the effects of team size on the success of the fit of React Native in each company’s app. They also touch on professional growth, how they have trained their employees, and more! In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

• Orta intro
• React Native and JavaScript
• React Native at Artsy blog post
• React Native at Airbnb blog post
• Suspense
• Web engineering
• Taking different approaches
• Being a better way to build an iOS app
• Adoption coming from a native perspective
• Does the size of the team matter?
• Product verticals
• How do you balance the need for professional development VS what’s needed at the moment?
• Vertically oriented teams
• Professional growth after the change
• GraphQL API
• Training everyone over multiple years
• React
• Allowing anyone to contribute anywhere within their domain
• How they describe their native engineers
• More excited about React Native now than when it was released
• Artsy React Native Conference
• And much, much more!

Links:

• Artsy
• React Native
• JavaScript
• React Native at Artsy
• React Native at Airbnb
• GraphQL
• React
• @orta
• orta.io
• Orta’s GitHub
• Artsy Engineering

Sponsors

• Kendo UI
• Digital Ocean
• FreshBooks

Picks: Nader

• AWS Amplify
• Artsy Engineering blog
• Nader’s GitHub

Sia

• Styled components
• Web Summer Camp

Lucas

• MDN web docs

Orta

• vscode-inline-types
• Coalition for Queens (C4Q)

Special Guest: Orta Therox.

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Panel:

• Sia Karamalegos
• Lucas Reis

Special Guests: Jordan Eldredge In this episode, the React Round Up panelists talk to Jordan Eldredge about his project Webamp. Jordan’s first introduction to programming had to do with music which led him to work both as a singer to now being an engineer. They talk about how common it is for programmers to have diverse backgrounds, especially in front-end developers, what Webamp and Winamp are, and what he originally wrote Webamp in. they also touch on his inspiration for creating this project, his journey in creating Webamp, and more! In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

• Jordan intro
• Studied music (opera) in college
• Forced himself to learn PHP and MySQL
• Common in front-end developing to have people with diverse backgrounds
• Why do you think it’s so common to have diverse backgrounds?
• Front-end web development is very young
• Self-taught developers
• What is Webamp?
• Reimplementation of Winamp in JavaScript
• What is Winamp?
• What did you originally write Webamp in?
• What was the inspiration for creating Webamp?
• CSS Sprites
• Wanting to recreate Winamp skins
• jQuery originally
• Rewrote in “vanilla” JavaScript
• The process of learning real JavaScript
• Managing transitions VS managing state
• React with Redux
• Do you believe your struggle with “vanilla” JS made you more aware of what React really brings?
• You Might Not Need Redux by Dan Abramov
• How did you deal with the audio API?
• The thing he loves about side-projects
• Not having a deadline
• Using a Redux middleware
• And much, much more!

Links:

• Webamp
• MySQL
• Winamp
• JavaScript
• jQuery
• React
• Redux
• You Might Not Need Redux by Dan Abramov
• Jordaneldredge.com
• @captbaritone
• Jordan’s GitHub

Sponsors

• Kendo UI
• Digital Ocean
• FreshBooks

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• Google Docs

Lucas

• Timing App

Jordan

• @winampskins
• Inspiring Online
• WACUP

Special Guest: Jordan Eldredge.

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Panel:

• Nader Dabit
• Sia Karamalegos

Special Guests: Tanmai Gopal In this episode, the React Round Up panelists talk to Tanmai Gopal. Tanmai is the founder at Hasura, where they have been building a GraphQL tooling that helps accelerate being able to use GraphQL for app developers. They talk about what Hasura is and what inspired him to build it, what Haskell does to Postgres, and query variables in GraphQL. They also touch on the importance of being aware of the database, how authorization works, and more! In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

• Tanmai intro
• Founder of Hasura
• Has been building applications for about a decade
• Focus on functional programming
• How did you get into React?
• Using Redux and GaphQL
• How long has Hasura been around?
• What inspired you to build Hasura?
• Eliminating the middle layer
• The elevator pitch of Hasura
• Do you offer a database as a service?
• Slightly different than writing your own resolvers
• What Haskell does to Postgres
• Query variables in GraphQL
• Prepared statements in Postgres
• Making queries from aps
• GraphQL ORM for apps
• Being aware of the database
• How does authorization work?
• PostGraphile, Prisma, and Hasura
• How do PostGraphile and Prisma compare to Hasura?
• And much, much more!

Links:

• Hasura
• React
• Redux
• GaphQL
• Haskell
• Postgres
• PostGraphile
• Prisma
• @tanmaigo
• Tanmai’s Blog
• Tanmai’s GitHub
• @HasuraHQ

Sponsors

• Kendo UI
• Digital Ocean
• FreshBooks

Picks: Nader

• React Native EU talk

Sia

• Gatsby.js

Tanmai

• Building a new tool

Special Guest: Tanmai Gopal.

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Panel:

• Nader Dabit
• Sia Karamalegos

Special Guests: Tracy Lee, Jay Phelps, and Ben Lesh In this episode, the React Round Up panelists talk to Tracy Lee, Jay Phelps, and Ben Lesh about RxJS and redux-observable. Tracy, Jay, and Ben are the RxJS ThisDot Media group and where they do support contracts for RxJS, staff augmentation, developer relations, and put on events. They talk about what observables are and what they are trying to solve, the most common use cases for getting started with observables, and what Promises and Async/Await are. They also touch on what they like most about RxJS, how versatile it is, and more! In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

• Tracy, Jay, and Ben intro
• ThisDot
• RxJS
• What is an observable?
• What problems are observables trying to solve?
• JavaScript
• Learn observables
• Making everything functional in the library
• Means of encapsulating values you want pushed at you later on
• Downside to observables
• Little bit of a learning curve
• Most common uses for getting started with observables
• Can Promises and Async/Await be mixed with observables?
• What do Promises and Async/Await allow you to do?
• Defer function
• Await values coming in from observables
• What do you like about RxJS?
• Allows you to work with all different languages
• RxJS is very versatile
• ngrx
• “Rx all the things”
• What inspired you to write Redux observable?
• Redux-observable
• RxJS docs
• Epics
• And much, much more!

Links:

• ThisDot
• JavaScript
• RxJS
• ngrx
• Redux
• Redux-observable
• RxJS docs
• @ladyleet
• Tracy’s GitHub
• @BenLesh
• Ben’s Medium
• Ben’s GitHub
• @_jayphelps
• Jay’s GitHub
• RxJS GitHub
• @ThisDotLabs

Sponsors

• Kendo UI
• Digital Ocean
• FreshBooks

Picks: Nader

• JSCamp

Sia

• Sprint by Jake Knapp

Tracy

• Fashionnova.com
• Francesca’s

Jay

• deno
• applitools

Ben

• react-streams
• StackBlitz

Special Guests: Ben Lesh, Jay Phelps, and Tracy Lee.

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Panel: Charles Max Wood Special Guests: Vesa Juvonen In this episode, the React Round Up panel talks to Vesa Juvonen about building SharePoint extensions with JavaScript. Vesa is on the SharePoint development team and is responsible for the SharePoint Framework, which is the modern way of implementing SharePoint customizations with JavaScript. They talk about what SharePoint is, why they chose to use JavaScript with it, and how he maintains isolation. They also touch on the best way to get started with SharePoint, give some great resources to help you use it, and more! In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

• Vesa intro
• What is SharePoint?
• Has existed since 2009
• People either know about it and use it or don’t know what it is
• Baggage from a customization perspective
• Why JavaScript developers?
• Modernizing development
• SharePoint Framework
• Microsoft Ignite Conference
• Is there a market for it?
• System integrators
• Angular Element and React
• React for SharePoint Framework back-end
• Supports Vue
• React Round Up Podcast
• How do you maintain isolation?
• What’s the best way to get started with SharePoint extensions?
• Office 365 Developer Program
• SharePoint documentation
• SharePoint YouTube
• What kinds of extensions are you seeing people build?
• And much, much more!

Links:

• SharePoint
• JavaScript
• SharePoint Framework
• Microsoft Ignite Conference
• Angular Element
• React
• Vue
• React Round Up Podcast
• Office 365 Developer Program
• SharePoint documentation
• SharePoint YouTube
• @OfficeDev
• @vesajuvonen
• Vesa’s blog
• Vesa’s GitHub

Sponsors

• Angular Boot Camp
• Digital Ocean
• FreshBooks

Picks: Charles

• Zig Ziglar
• Conversations with My Dog by Zig Ziglar
• Pimsleur Lessons on Audible

Vesa

• Armada by Ernest Cline

Special Guest: Vesa Juvonen.

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Panel:

• Charles Max Wood
• Lucas Reis
• Sia Karamalegos

In this episode, the React Round Up panelists talk about finding a job as a developer. Charles is getting ready to release a course on finding a job and he finds that he is always getting asked about how new developers can find a job. They talk about how they all found their first coder job, picking your target company, and understanding what you want in a job. They also touch on Charles’ upcoming course, the importance of showing initiative, and more! In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

• Sign up to chat with Charles at DevChat.tv/15Minutes
• Why they want to touch on this topic
• Get used to failure
• CodeSchool
• Hack Night meetup
• Going to meetups to slowly start networking
• Making friends with developers in your community
• Networking before you need a job
• Learning and helping mindset
• Don’t be afraid to ask if people are hiring
• How did you figure out what your target company was?
• Checking out the culture of a company
• Understanding the travel involved
• Figure out what you like in a job as you go
• Always be looking at your portfolio and resume
• Gain as much experience as you can everywhere you go
• Stick to learning one language/system
• Really master the languages/systems of the company you want to uses
• Show initiative
• Finding a champion at your target company
• And much, much more!

Links:

• DevChat.tv/15Minutes
• CodeSchool
• Hack Night meetup
• Charles’ Course
• How to interview your interviewers blog post
• Ruby Rogues Episode 184

Sponsors

• Kendo UI
• Digital Ocean
• FreshBooks

Picks: Charles

• Orphan Black
• His Course

Lucas

• The Best Software Engineering Paper You Haven’t Read

Sia

• Family

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Panel:

• Charles Max Wood
• Alyssa Nicholl
• Ward Bell

Special Guests: David Cramer In this episode, the React Round Up panelists talk to David Cramer about error tracking and troubleshooting workflows. David is the founder and CEO of Sentry, and is a software engineer by trade. He started this project about a decade ago and it was created because he had customers telling him that things were broken and it was hard to help them fix it. They talk about what Sentry is, errors, workflow management, and more! In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

• David intro
• Founder and CEO of Sentry
• What is Sentry?
• Working with PHP
• De-bugger for production
• Focus on workflow
• Goal of Sentry
• Triaging the problem
• Workflow management
• Sentry started off as an open-source side project
• Instrumentation for JavaScript
• Ember, Angular, and npm
• Got their start in Python
• Logs
• Totally open-source
• Most compatible with run-time
• Can work with any language
• Deep contexts
• Determining the root cause
• And much, much more!

Links:

• Sentry
• JavaScript
• Ember
• Angular
• npm
• Python
• Sentry’s GitHub
• @getsentry
• David’s GitHub
• David’s Website
• @zeeg

Sponsors

• Kendo UI
• Loot Crate
• FreshBooks

Picks: Charles

• Socks as Swag

David

• VS Code
• Kubernetes

Special Guest: David Cramer.

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Panel:

• Charles Max Wood
• Lucas Reis
• Nader Dabit

Special Guests: Alex Moldovan In this episode of React Round Up, the panel discusses the article Evolving Patterns in React with its author, Alex Moldovan. Alex is from Romania and works at Fortech as an engineering manager where he works mostly with the front-end development. He also is one of the co-founders of JSHeroes, which is the biggest JavaScript conference in Romania that also has a growing international community behind it. They answer some of Charles questions about React, talk about his article, their thoughts on the new changes, and more! In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

• Lucas was on React Round Up Episode 11
• Lucas intro – works for Zocdoc as a senior front-end developer
• Alex intro
• At Fortech as an engineering manager
• Co-founder of JSHeroes
• His article Evolving Patterns in React
• React.createClass rather than ES6 class
• Started working with React in 2015
• React and Redux
• Nobody knew how to actually build an application in React in the beginning
• Mixins
• What has replaced the idea of mixins?
• Higher Order Components
• Render Props article by Michael Jackson
• Implicit with mixins to explicit with render props
• What about Context?
• Do you think these new changes are addressing how we build React apps?
• Thoughts on the new APIs and changes from 16 to 17
• Error boundaries
• Suspense
• Server-side rendering
• Using the Constructor
• Evolving patterns
• And much, much more!

Links:

• React Round Up Episode 11
• Zocdoc
• Fortech
• JSHeroes
• JavaScript
• Evolving Patterns in React
• React
• Redux
• Render Props article by Michael Jackson
• React Context
• React Constructor
• Alex’s Medium
• Alex’s GitHub
• @alexnmoldovan

Sponsors

• Kendo UI
• Loot Crate
• FreshBooks

Picks: Charles

• Star Realms
• Hogwarts Battles

Lucas

• SpeedCurve

Nader

• AWS AppSync GitHub Repo
• Building AI Enabled GraphQL Applications by Nader
• appsync-lambda-ai

Alex

• Graphcool
• Prisma
• TensorFlow.js

Special Guest: Alex Moldovan.

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Panel:

• Charles Max Wood

Special Guests: Ori Zohar and Gopinath Chigakkagari In this episode, the React Round UP panelists discuss Cloud-Hosted DevOps with Ori Zohar and Gopinath Chigakkagari at Microsoft Build. Ori is on the product team at VSTS focusing on DevOps specifically on Azure. Gopinath is the group program manager in VSTS primarily working on continuous integration, continuous delivery, DevOps, Azure deployment, etc. They talk about the first steps people should take when getting into DevOps, define DevOps the way Microsoft views it, the advantages to automation, and more! In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

• Ori and Gopi intro
• VSTS – Visual Studio Team Services
• VSTS gives developers the ability to be productive
• Developer productivity
• What’s the first big step people should be taking if they’re getting into DevOps?
• The definition of DevOps
• The people and the processes as the most important piece
• DevOps as the best practices
• Automating processes
• What people do when things go wrong is what really counts
• Letting the system take care of the problems
• Have the developers work on what they are actually getting paid for
• Trend of embracing DevOps
• Shifting the production responsibility more onto the developer’s
• Incentivizing developers
• People don’t account for integration
• Continuous integration
• Trends on what customers are asking for
• Safety
• Docker containers
• And much, much more!

Links:

• Azure
• Microsoft Build
• VSTS
• @orizhr
• Ori’s GitHub
• Gopi’s GitHub
• @gopinach
•  

Sponsors

• Kendo UI
• Linode
• FreshBooks

Picks: Charles

• .NET Rocks!
• Shure SM58 Microphone
• Zoom H6

Ori

• Fitbit
• Pacific Northwest Hiking

Gopinath

• Seattle, WA

Special Guests: Gopinath Chigakkagari and Ori Zohar.

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Panel:

• Charles Max Wood
• Sia Karamalegos
• Nader Dabit

Special Guests: Jared Palmer In this episode of React Round Up, the panel discusses the article React, Redux, and JavaScript Architecture with the author James Sinclair. James is a web developer in Australia and he works at Squiz were he focuses on building a digital web place. They talk about his article and why he chose to write it, where he falls on the whole Redux debate, how to convince people to come to Redux, and much more! In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

• James intro
• React, Redux, and JavaScript Architecture
• Why were the people you are working with wary of leaving JavaScript?
• jQuery
• Great article on explaining why we use React
• Why React can be fast
• Is your team now moving to React or have they already moved over?
• Where do you fall on the Redux debate?
• Redux’s “disadvantages” are actually advantages
• What is your current stack of choice?
• Downshift
• Conditioner.js
• Most React tutorials assume you’re working on a single-page web app
• Sprinkles of jQuery
• Learning Redux helps to learn in a more functional way
• Functional programming as an influence to learn Redux
• Managing state
• How do you convince someone to learn Redux?
• Thoughts on GraphQL
• Apollo Server and Prisma
• Stimulus
• Apollo Link State
• And much, much more!

Links:

• React, Redux, and JavaScript Architecture
• Squiz
• JavaScript
• jQuery
• React
• Redux
• Downshift
• Conditioner.js
• GraphQL
• Apollo Server
• Prisma
• Stimulus
• Apollo Link State
• jrsinclair.com
• @jrsinclair
• James’ LinkedIn
• James’ GitHub

Sponsors

• Kendo UI
• Loot Crate
• FreshBooks

Picks: Charles

• Being around family and friends
• Spend your life doing the things that really matter

Sia

• Artificial Intelligence
• Machine Learning

Nader

• React Native Training YouTube Channel
• Nader’s YouTube

James

• Highland.js
• Functional Programming

Special Guest: James Sinclair.

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