This Month in React

Our host vcarl is joined by 3 employees of Wix to talk about the evolution of web development, developer tools, and open source:

Omer Kenet, Head of Product for Codux

Peter Shershov, Engineering Team Lead

Tom Raviv, Head of Developer Relations and Team Lead for Stylable.io

Wix has been making web development more accessible since 2006, and they're currently celebrating the release of their new project Codux, a visual IDE for React. We're excited to talk about the history of our industry and what we can learn from the golden age of frontend development.

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Matt Pocock is an independent educator building totaltypescript.com. Previously, he has been an employee of Vercel and Stately, and was a member of the XState core team. MapleLeaf is one of our resident TS experts and longtime server MVPs. Through our conversation, we discussed how Matt got active in open source, why he's drawn to "the weird parts" of web development, and why working as a voice coach set him up for success after transitioning to software engineering.

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Retsam19 and MapleLeaf are long-time Reactiflux MVPs who have spent countless hours helping out others in the community. Event MC'd by Carl Vitullo, and hosted on Reactiflux.

MapleLeaf and Retsam19 are two of our resident TS experts and longtime server MVPs. Both are active in the open source community as highly skilled engineers, and Retsam19 moderates the official TypeScript Discord server. Through our conversation, we discussed how we got our starts in software development and our first jobs, the value we've gotten from the online communities we're a part of (and how tools like ChatGPT might affect that in the future!), the evolution of the JS ecosystem with Bun and Deno, and more.

Some links referenced through the discussion:

Hofstadter's Law

Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid

Refactoring UI

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Mark Erikson and Lenz Weber-Tronic are long-time Reactiflux members and maintainers of Redux. Event MC'd by Carl Vitullo, and hosted on Reactiflux.

Mark (@acemarke) has been primary maintainer of Redux for 6 years and led development of Redux Toolkit, which was a major step forward in usability for the ecosystem. He's approaching the end of his first year in a new role at Replay.io, a time-traveling browser debugger. Before that, he spent the majority of his career — over 13 years — at 1 company! 

Lenz (@phryneas) has been a software developer for 20 years, and has worked with Mark as a maintainer of Redux and Redux Toolkit since 2019. He contributed much of the TypeScript expertise that made RTK possible, and is the brains behind RTK Query. He's in the middle of changing jobs right now, from a consultancy in Berlin to Apollo, a well-known open source company.

We talk about maintaining an open source library (and the challenges of providing correct TypeScript types!), what a job search is like later in your career, and more. Some links referenced through the discussion:

Hyrum's Law

Learning and Using TypeScript as an App Dev and a Library Maintainer

Why React Context is Not a "State Management" Tool (and Why It Doesn't Replace Redux)

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