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RRU 059: React Native's New Architecture with Parashuram

Sponsors NetlifySentry use the code “devchat” for 2 months free on Sentry’s small planTriplebyte offers a $1000 signing bonusCacheFly Panel Justin BennettLucas Reis Joined by Special Guest: Parashuram Summary Parashuram (aka Ram) and the panel compares various frameworks including the differences between React Native and NativeScript. Ram discusses what it’s like introducing react native to mobile teams which leads to a panel discussion of web app developer experience compared to mobile app developers. Ram shares the changes that are being made to React Native and what this means for its developers. Some of the things to look forward to are a leaner and more browser-like React Native. The episode ends with Ram sharing a little of his story. Links http://artsy.github.io/blog/2017/07/06/React-Native-for-iOS-devs/http://artsy.github.io/artsy-x-react-native.htmlhttps://github.com/necolas/react-native-webhttps://github.com/vincentriemer/react-native-domhttps://microsoft.github.io/reactxp/https://facebook.github.io/react-native/blog/2018/11/01/oss-roadmaphttp://nparashuram.com/https://twitter.com/nparashuramhttps://www.facebook.com/React-Round-Uphttps://twitter.com/reactroundup Picks Justin Bennett: http://artsy.github.io/blog/2017/07/06/React-Native-for-iOS-devs/http://artsy.github.io/artsy-x-react-native.htmlhttps://github.com/vadimdemedes/ink Parashuram: https://github.com/react-native-community/discussions-and-proposalshttps://github.com/facebook/react-360 Lucas Reis: Family TimeSpecial Guest: Parashuram. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacyBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/react-round-up--6102072/support.

Apr 30, 201950 min

RRU 058: React.js and WebAssembly to Rewrite Native Apps with Florian Rival

Sponsors NetlifySentry use code “devchat” for 2 months free Triplebyte Panel Lucas Reis Charles Max Wood Special Guest: Florian Rival Episode Summary Florian is a software engineer working for Facebook. He has previously worked with React Native making apps. He has also created an open source game creation software called GDevelop. Florian talks about his inspiration for GDevelop. He delves into the nature of GDevelop as a desktop app built on the web. Florian talks about his decision to not go full JavaScript in his app and to redo the interface. He ultimately decided to combine C++ and JavaScript, and top it with a React interface. Florian discusses how C++ is used in this web application and how it connects to react. The panel discusses the use cases for WebAssembly and the performance quality. They discuss the bundle sizes in WebAssembly compared to other languages and compatibility with different browsers. Florian talks about how WebAssembly and React work together in his app. He talks about some of the issues and solutions you had in desiging the UI and how he created the editable lists and trees. Florian concludes by saying that any LLVM language can be compiled into web assembly Links React NativeReactWebGLJavaScriptHTMLStorybookFeedback LoopC++The DOMAngularClankQT5EnscriptenC MakeEV computationC#WebAssemblyDomain Driven DesignSlackReact Sortable TreeCanvasGodotPixyLLVM Picks Lucas Reis: American food Charles Max Wood: Podfest Alita: Battle Angel Florian Rival: Material UIGatsbySpecial Guest: Florian Rival. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacyBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/react-round-up--6102072/support.

Apr 23, 201957 min

RRU 057: Playing with Polyhedra with Nat Alison

Sponsors NetlifySentry use the code “devchat” for 2 months free on Sentry’s small plan TriplebyteCacheFly Panel Justin Bennett Lucas Reis Joined by Special Guest: Nat Alison Summary Nat Alison shares with the panel her work in translating Reactjs. Lucas Reis thanks her for her work in this very important project. Nat updates the panel on how the translation is going and discusses some of the specifics of updating, changing language direction and how it all got started. The panel moves on to discussing Nat’s work with her Polyhedra application. Nat discloses what she learned while creating this app, how she tested the app and why she used the react framework for this project. The panel discusses suspense features and what they could do for this app. Nat ends the episode by sharing her inspiration for this app. Links https://github.com/reactjs/reactjs.org-translationhttps://reactjs.org/languageshttps://isreacttranslatedyet.com/https://polyhedra.tessera.li/https://github.com/tesseralishttps://twitter.com/tesseralishttps://www.linkedin.com/in/nat-alison-2768a449https://www.facebook.com/React-Round-Uphttps://twitter.com/reactroundup Picks Lucas Reis http://shadow-cljs.org/ Justin Bennett https://zeit.co/nowhttps://github.com/artsy/dupe-report Nat Alison https://www.npmjs.com/package/cronSpecial Guest: Nat Alison. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacyBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/react-round-up--6102072/support.

Apr 16, 201950 min

RRU 056: React Conf 2018 with Adam Laycock

Sponsors NetlifySentry use the code “devchat” for $100 creditTriplebyte offers a $1000 signing bonusCacheFly Panel Charles Max WoodNader DabitJustin Bennett Joined by Special Guest: Adam Laycock Summary Adam Laycock describes his experience at React conf 2018, the atmosphere, the people and the talks. The panel shares how the approach conferences, taking notes, getting to know people, accessing information and getting out of their comfort zone. Adam shares some of the major topics covered at including, hooks, suspense, and concurrent rendering. The panel considers these topics and React conferences they look forward to attending. The episode ends with the panel comparing Angular and React, conferences, upgrades, and routers for React. Links https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/buildhttps://medium.com/curated-by-versett/talks-worth-watching-react-conf-2018-bfbdd40922aahttps://reactjs.org/community/conferences.htmlhttps://twitter.com/atlaycockhttps://github.com/alaycockhttps://adamlaycock.ca/https://medium.com/@adam.laycockhttps://twitter.com/reactrounduphttps://www.facebook.com/React-Round-Up Picks Charles Max Wood https://www.notion.so/The Effective Executive by Peter F. Druckerhttp://entreprogrammers.com/Michael FeathersKent Beck Nader Dabit https://dev.to/dabit3 Justin Bennett https://github.com/Bogdan-Lyashenko/codecrumbshttps://medium.com/palantir/tslint-in-2019-1a144c2317a9https://www.npmjs.com/package/rate-limiter-flexible Adam Laycock https://kentcdodds.com/blog/please-stop-building-inaccessible-forms-and-how-to-fix-themhttps://medium.com/curated-by-versett/dont-eject-your-create-react-app-b123c5247741Clean Architecture: A Craftsman's Guide to Software Structure and Design by Robert C. MartinSpecial Guest: Adam Laycock. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacyBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/react-round-up--6102072/support.

Apr 9, 201956 min

RRU 055: Building Static Sites with Gatsby with Ajay NS

Sponsors NetlifySentry use the code “devchat” for 2 months free on Sentry’s small planCacheFly Panel Lucas ReisJustin BennettCharles Max Wood Special Guest: Ajay NS Episode Summary In this episode of React Round Up, the panel talks with Ajay NS, a Computer Engineering student at National Institute of Technology Surat who is passionate about frontend development and design. Ajay talks about his article Why you should use GatsbyJS to build static sites on Medium and why he felt the need to write it. After attending the Plone Conference in Tokyo where he gave a talk about GatsbyJS, he realized that compared to React or Angular, Gatsby helped new developers learn about frontend development without facing too many complications. Ajay explains that he decided to write the article and share his experiences with Gatsby to help ease the learning process for new developers who are curious about frontend development. They discuss best cases to use Gatsby for and also cases where it may not be a good idea to use it. They then discuss the best tools for people who are new to web development and are trying to find jobs as remote developers. One of the best methods recommended is pair programming which can also be done remotely. Links Why you should use GatsbyJS to build static sitesAjay NS — Plone Conference 2018 – TokyoAjay's Talk in the Plone ConferenceAjay’s LinkedInAjay’s TwitterAjay’s GitHubNetlifyEleventyhttps://www.facebook.com/React-Round-Uphttps://twitter.com/reactroundup Picks Justin Bennett: gatsby-starter-typescript-rebass-netlifycmshttps://github.com/artsy/palettehttps://github.com/FormidableLabs/inspectpack Lucas Reis: react-spring Charles Max Wood: Green ScreenLED lighting for video Ajay NS: https://github.com/storybooks/storybookBodymovin PluginSpecial Guest: Ajay NS. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacyBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/react-round-up--6102072/support.

Apr 2, 201959 min

RRU 054: GraphQL and React – Even Better together with Chris Toomey

Sponsors Sentry use the code “devchat” for $100 creditTriplebyteCacheFly Panel Lucas ReisJustin BennettCharles 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 ShedChris Toomey: React & GraphQL – Bringing Simplicity to Client-Side Development / React Boston 2018Chris’s TwitterThe 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 libraryCode Surfer library Charles Max Wood: HubSpotZapierGoogle Docs Chris Toomey: Tell me when it closesQuicklinkUpcaseSpecial Guest: Chris Toomey. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacyBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/react-round-up--6102072/support.

Mar 26, 20191h 11m

RRU 053: Framer X and Web Development of the Past with Thomas Aylott

Sponsors Sentry use the code “devchat” for $100 creditTriplebyteCacheFly Panel Lucas ReisNader DabitCharles 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 StuffThomas’s websiteThomas’s TwitterThomas’s GitHubThomas’s YouTubePrettier Picks Nader Dabit: Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid Lucas Reis: CSS-TricksIndirection is not Abstraction Charles Max Wood: Check out the recent milestone episodes on Devchat.tv!DevRevHiring Show Notes writers for podcastsExtreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win Thomas Aylott: Objective PersonalityNotionThe Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things RightSpecial Guest: Thomas Aylott. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacyBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/react-round-up--6102072/support.

Mar 19, 201958 min

RRU 052: React Suspense with Jared Palmer

Sponsors Sentry use the code “devchat” for $100 creditTriplebyteCacheFly Panel Lucas ReisCharles Max Wood 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 GitHubJared’s TwitterJared’s websiteThe Palmer Grouphttps://www.facebook.com/React-Round-Up-297859274397129/https://twitter.com/reactroundup Picks Lucas Reis: Sunlight Alarm Clock Charles Max Wood: Gel PadsNotion Jared Palmer: DevHubThe Undefined PodcastSpecial Guest: Jared Palmer. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacyBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/react-round-up--6102072/support.

Mar 12, 201946 min

RRU 051: FaunaDB & JAMStack with Chris Anderson

Sponsors Sentry– use the code “devchat” for $100 creditTripleByte offers a $1000 signing bonusCacheFly 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/jchrishttps://github.com/jchrishttps://fauna.com/ServerlessNetlifyReact NativeFirebasehttps://www.facebook.com/React-Round-Uphttps://twitter.com/reactroundup Picks Chris Anderson: React Native Starter KitNetlify Fauna Todo Justin Bennett: Refactoring UIBuild Your Own MintSpecial Guest: Chris Anderson. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacyBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/react-round-up--6102072/support.

Mar 5, 201933 min

RRU 050: Celebrating the 50th Episode of React Round Up!

Sponsors Sentry use the code “devchat” for $100 creditNetlifyTriplebyteCacheFly Panel Lucas ReisJustin BennettNader DabitCharles 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 ArtsyThe Dev RevReact 16 RoadmapReasonReasonReactClojureScriptThinksterDisney Heroes Battlemode Picks Justin Bennett: InterCan’t Unsee design game Lucas Reis: The Law of Leaky Abstractions Nader Dabit: React NativeOpen GraphQL newsletter Charles Max Wood: LibsynWordPressDigitalOceanMicrophones – Electro-Voice RE20, Audio-Technica ATR2100Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacyBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/react-round-up--6102072/support.

Feb 27, 20191h 9m

RRU 049: Azure Devops with Donovan Brown LIVE at Microsoft Ignite

Sponsors: NetlifySentry use the code “devchat” for $100 creditTripleByte 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 GitHubDonovan Brown’s TwitterDonovan BrownDonovan Brown – Channel 9Donovan Brown – MicrosoftAzureYoTeamAzure.com/devopsGitHubAzure DevOps’ Twitter Picks: Charles Jet BlueBeta Testers Donovan YoTeamVSTeam Powershell ModuleSpecial Guest: Donovan Brown. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacyBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/react-round-up--6102072/support.

Feb 19, 201957 min

RRU 048: Using and Teaching React with Kay Plößer

Sponsors: NetlifySentry use the code "devchat" for $100 creditCacheFly Panel Lucas ReisNader DabitCharles Max Wood 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 ZeroKay's Blog Post: React Hooks DemystifiedKay’s LinkedInKay’s TwitterKay’s GitHubKay's WebsiteKay's SkillshareKay's Facebookhttps://www.facebook.com/React-Round-Uphttps://twitter.com/reactroundup Picks Nader Dabit: Finite and Infinite Games by James Carse Lucas Reis: An Introduction and Guide to the CSS Object ModelAST Explorer Charles Wood: Charles' New Devchat.tv Build on Eleventy on GitHub Kay Plößer: Wardley mapsSpecial Guest: Kay Plößer. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacyBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/react-round-up--6102072/support.

Feb 12, 201954 min

RR 399: Jets Ruby Serverless Framework with Tung Nguyen

Sponsors Sentry use the code "devchat" for $100 creditAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacyBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/react-round-up--6102072/support.

Feb 12, 20191h 13m

RRU 047: Expo with Charlie Cheever

Sponsors: KendoUISentry use the code "devchat" for $100 creditTripleByte $1000 signing bonusCachefly Panel: Nader DabitJustin BennettCharles 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 NativeExpoExpo CLIVS CodeEmacs VimXamarinTitanium Native ScriptAWS Picks: Nader: Video series on EggheadOn Grand Strategy Justin: rePNGDark Reader Charles: Pomodoro methodKanbonflowJohn Somnez video Charlie: React navigationReact Native Gesture HandlerReact Native ReanimatedWiliam Candelon “Can It Be Done in React Native” videosSpecial Guest: Charlie Cheever. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacyBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/react-round-up--6102072/support.

Feb 5, 20191h 3m

RRU 046: GraphQL vs REST APIs with Max Desiatov

SponsorsKendoUISentry use the code “devchat” for $100 creditTripleByteCacheflyPanelLucas ReisJustin BennettCharles Max WoodJoined 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.Linkshttps://sailsjs.com/https://graphql.orghttps://spring.io/understanding/HATEOAShttps://www.graphile.org/postgraphile/https://www.apollographql.com/docs/react/https://github.com/expo/apollo-codegenhttps://github.com/graphql/graphiqlhttps://www.apollographql.com/docs/graphql-tools/schema-stitching.htmlhttps://www.apollographql.com/docs/react/essentials/local-state.htmlhttps://desiatov.com/why-graphql/https://desiatov.com/https://twitter.com/maxdesiatovhttps://github.com/maxdesiatovPicksJustin Bennetthttps://renovatebot.com/The Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan and Brandon SandersonCharles Max Woodhttps://www.11ty.io/https://devchat.tv/ruby-rogues/rr-383-rbspy-a-newish-ruby-profiler-with-julia-evans/Max Desiatovhttps://nadiaeghbal.comhttps://jvns.ca/blog/2018/09/18/build-impossible-programs/Special Guest: Max Desiatov.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacyBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/react-round-up--6102072/support.

Jan 30, 20191h 9m

RRU 045: React Hooks with Dave Ceddia

Sponsors KendoUISentry use the code “devchat” for $100 creditTripleByteCachefly Panel Charles Max WoodLucas ReisJustin Bennett Joined by Special Guest: Dave Ceddia Summary Dave Ceddia introduces hooks and what they let you do. The panel discusses how hooks work and how they will clean up the code. Dave explains what react does behind the scenes when hooks are being used. Hooks are simple to use but hard to explain, so the panel asks Dave how he would teach hooks. Dave explains there is a learning hump and shares what trips most developers up. The panel considers the switch from life cycles to effect and the mindset shift it requires. The difficulties of hooks are explored, such as there are now three ways to share functionality in react components. Dave shares the advantages of using array destructing instead of object destructing. The panel considers how hooks change the react framework and whether it is worth going back and refactoring everything or to refactor as you go. Different migration paths are discussed and the panel gives advice for different company types and sizes. Jokingly the panel contemplates the hype surrounding hooks and suspense. Links https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2DU0qLfPIY&feature=youtu.be&t=2445https://reactjs.org/docs/hooks-faq.html#should-i-use-hooks-classes-or-a-mix-of-bothhttps://english.stackexchange.com/questions/12980/how-to-pronounce-tuplehttps://reactjs.org/blog/2018/11/27/react-16-roadmap.htmlhttps://reactjs.org/docs/hooks-intro.htmlhttps://daveceddia.com/tags/#hookshttps://youtu.be/CpPCJigsPNYhttps://daveceddia.com/https://twitter.com/dceddia Picks Charles Max Wood mastermindhunt.com/devchathttps://devchat.tv/get-a-coder-job/ Lucas Reis https://xstate.js.org/docs/https://github.com/carloslfu/use-machine Justin Bennett https://github.com/zeit/ncchttps://parceljs.org/https://bcrikko.github.io/NES.css/ Dave Ceddia https://codesandbox.io/docs/livehttps://jamesclear.com/atomic-habitsSpecial Guest: Dave Ceddia. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacyBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/react-round-up--6102072/support.

Jan 24, 201954 min

RRU 044: TypeScript with Spencer Miskoviak

Sponsors KendoUISentry use the code “devchat” for $100 creditTripleByteCacheFly Panel Charles Max WoodNader DabitJC Hiatt Joined by Special Guest: Spencer Miskoviak Summary In this episode, Spencer Miskoviak shares his experience and answers questions about using typescript in React. Spencer starts by answering why react developers tend to use es6 and what the tradeoff is using typescript instead. The panel contemplates the advantages and disadvantages of using typescript and its gaining momentum in the React community. Spencer discusses how they are using typescript at Handshake and how it has paid off. Create react app and its support of typescript is discussed. The episode ends with Spencer answering questions about using dot notation with typescript and how it works. Links https://webpack.js.org/https://parceljs.org/https://medium.com/@skovy/using-component-dot-notation-with-typescript-to-create-a-set-of-components-b0b2aad4892bhttps://app.joinhandshake.com/loginhttps://medium.com/@skovyhttps://twitter.com/SpencerSkovyhttps://github.com/Skovy Picks Nader Dabit https://medium.com/open-graphqlhttps://reinvent.awsevents.com/ JC Hiatt Sony Noise Cancelling Headphones WH1000XM3 Charles Max Wood https://devchat.tv/dev-rev/https://www.garyvaynerchuk.com/podcast/https://player.fm/series/refactor-your-body Spencer Miskoviak http://www.rubberducking.fm/The Future of ReactEndurance: My Year in Space, A Lifetime of Discovery by Scott Kelly Special Guest: Spencer Miskoviak. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacyBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/react-round-up--6102072/support.

Jan 15, 201944 min

RRU 043: Testing React Apps Without Testing Implementation Details with Kent C. Dodds

Panel: Lucas ReisJustin BennettCharles Max Wood Special Guest: Kent C. Dodds In this episode, the panelist talk with today’s guest, Kent C. Dodds who works for PayPal, is an instructor, and works through open source! Kent lives in Utah with his wife and four children. Kent and the panel talk today about testing – check it out! Show Topics: 0:00 – Kendo UI 0:32 – Chuck: Hello! My new show is TheDevRev – please go check it out! 1:35 – Panel: I want all of it! 1:43 – Chuck: Our guest is Kent C. Dodds! You were on the show for a while and then you got busy. 2:06 – Guest. 3:09 – Panel: The kid part is impressive. 3:20 – Guest: Yeah it’s awesome, but the kid part is my wife! 4:09 – Panel: 10 years ago we weren’t having any tests and then now we are thinking about how to write better tests. It’s the next step on that subject. What is your story with tests and what sparked these ideas? 4:50 – Guest. 7:25 – Panel: We have a bunch of tests at my work. “There is no such thing as too many tests” are being said a lot! Then we started talking about unit tests and there was this shift. The tests, for me, felt cumbersome. How do I know that this suite of tests are actually helping me and not hurting me? 8:32 – Guest: I think that is a valuable insight. 11:03 – Panel: What is the make-up of a good test? 11:13 – Guest: Test every line – everything! No. 11:19 – Chuck: “Look at everything!” I don’t know where to start, man! 11:30 – Guest: How do you avoid those false negatives and false positives. 15:38 – Panel: The end user is going to be like more of integration test, and the developer user will be more like a unit tester? 16:01 – Guest: I don’t care too much of the distinction between unit and integration tests. 18:36 – Panel: I have worked in testing in the past. One of the big things that fall on the users’ flow is that it’s difficult b/c maybe a tool like Selenium: when will things render? Are you still testing things in isolation? 19:33 – Guest: It depends. When I talk about UI integration testing I am still mocking the backend. 23:10 – Chuck: I am curious, where do you decide these are expensive (so I don’t want to do too many of them), but at what point is it worth it to do it? 23:30 – Guest mentions the testing pyramid. 28:14 – Chuck: Why do you care about confidence? What is confidence and what does it matter? 28:35 – FreshBooks! 29:50 – Guest. 32:20 – Panel: I have something to add about the testing pyramid. Lucas talks about tooling, Mocha, JS Dong, and more! 33:44 – Guest: I think the testing pyramid is outdated and I have created my own. Guest talks about static testing, LINT, Cypress, and more! 35:32 – Chuck: When I was a new developer, people talked about using tests to track down bugs. What if it’s a hairy bug? 36:07 – Guest: If you can, you can use this methodical approach... 39:46 – Panel: Let’s talk about the React library for a little bit? Panel: Part of the confidence of the tests we write we ask ourselves “will it stand the test of time?” How does the React Testing library go about to solve that? 41:05 – Guest. 47:51 – Panel: A few more questions. When you are getting something and testing and grabbing the label by its text have you found that to be fragile? Is it reasonably reliable? 48:57 – Guest: Yeah this is a concern and it relies on content. 53:06 – Panel: I like this idea of having a different library. Sometimes we think that a powerful tool is better, but after spending some time with other tools that’s not always the case. 54:16 – Guest: “You tie your hands to free your mind.” It does less but what it does less it does better. 55:42 – Panel: I think that with Cypress, too? 55:51 – Guest: Yeah that’s why Cypress is great to use. 57:17 – Panel: I wrote a small library here at work and it deals with metrics. I automated all of those small clicks – write a bit – click a bit – and it was really good. I felt quite efficient. Those became the tests. 57:58 – Panel: One more question: What about react Native? That comes up a lot. At looking at testing libraries we try to keep parody between the two. Do you have any thoughts on that? 58:34 – Guest talks about React Native. 1:00:22 – Panel: Anything else? It’s fascinating to talk about and dive-into these topics. When we talk about confidence that is very powerful, too. 1:01:02 – Panelist asks the last question! 1:01:38 – Guest: You could show them the coverage support. Links: Ruby on RailsAngularJavaScriptElmPhoenixGitHubGet A Coder JobEnzymeReact Testing LibraryCypress.ioHillel WayneTesting JavaScript with Kent C. DoddsKent Dodds’ NewsKent Dodds’ BlogEgghead.io – Kent C. DoddsReady to Write a Novel?Practical TLA+GitHub: Circleci-queueGitHub: sstephenson / batsTodoistDiscordKent’s Twitter Sponsors: Get a Coder JobCache FlyFresh BooksKendo UI Picks: Lucas Hillel Wayne Practical TLA+ Justin Circle CI QueueBatsTodoists Charles MFCEO Project PodcastThe DevRev Kent Discord Devs Who WriteFinding your Why!TestingJavaScript.com kcd.im/newskcd.i./hooks-and-suspen

Dec 25, 20181h 16m

RRU 042: React at Product Hunt with Radoslav Stankov

Panel: Lucas ReisNader Dabit Special Guest: Radoslav Stankov In this episode, the panelists talk with today’s guest, Radoslav Stankov, who is a senior developer at Product Hunt. The panel and the guest talk about React, jQuery, Backbone, and much more! Check it out! Show Topics: 0:00 – Kendo UI 0:31 – Nader: Hello! Our guest today is Radoslav. 4:02 – Nader: What is your role and what are your main responsibilities? 4:10 – Guest answers. 4:39 – Panel: Can you tell us the story of how you started to use React? 4:55 – Guest: We started 4 years ago. The guest answers the question and mentions jQuery and Backbone. 9:01 – Panel: That’s nice – so you are trying to use a simpler application but the React server still need to be separated right? 9:14 – Guest: Yes, we tried to keep it as simple as possible. 10:38 – Panel: How was the adoption of React and how painful was it? You mentioned that you were used Flux and others, so was it messy and complicated for you? Or was it easy for you? 11:15 – Guest: It had its moments. 16:03 – Nader: So what are some of the reasons why you would be messing around with service-side rendering? 16:20 – The guest lists the reasons why they use it. 18:07 – Nader: Interesting. It helps for mobile clients? What do you mean – is it for the people with slower connections? 18:22 – Guest: Yes. The mobile plan can see the page. It can actually see how it’s rendered. 19:53 – Panel: How do you detect that it’s a mobile request from the server? 20:00 – Guest. 31:04 – Panel: We wanted to make it much faster and started using Node and streaming the library. Instead of creating a big string and then sending back to the user we were using the function...It’s super cool. We started using 30% less resources once we’ve deployed. (Wow!) Yeah I know! When you stream then the Node can be smarter and streaming at the same time. 32:03 – Guest. 33:21 – Panel: Interesting thing about the streaming is that we were fetching data after it started. After it was streaming HTML it was already... 38:21 – Nader: We talked about the WEB but you are all using REACT with mobile, too. Can you talk about how your company is using REACT? I know you’ve made things natively, too. 38:40 – Guest: I bit of history first then I will answer the question. 41:29 – Nader: Do you think the changes will happen in the right time to help with your fruition or no? 41:45 – Guest answers. 43:33 – How does the team manage working with all of these technologies? Does everyone have his or her own role? 43:54 – Guest answers. 48:03 – Panel: What are the drawbacks to that? 48:10 – Guest answers. 50:52 – Nader: Anything else? 51:00 – Guest: I think we covered a lot of great topics! Ads: FreshBooks!Get A Coder Job!Cache Fly! Links: Ruby on RailsAngularJavaScriptElmPhoenixGitHubGet A Coder JobReact Round UpGuest’s LinkedInGuest’s GitHubGistIntroducing HooksIdle Until UrgentNader’s Tweet Sponsors: Get a Coder JobCache FlyFresh BooksKendo UI Picks: Radoslav Getting to know React DOM’s event handling system inside and outReact Fiber ArchitectureReact HooksReact.NotAConf Lucas Idle Until UrgentIntroducing Hooks Nader Writing Custom React Hooks for GraphQLReact Native HooksSpecial Guest: Radoslav Stankov. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacyBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/react-round-up--6102072/support.

Dec 18, 201841 min

RRU 041: Design Patterns with Soumyajit Pathak

Panel: - Lucas Reis- Charles Max Wood- Justin Bennett Special Guest: https://twitter.com/drenther In this episode, the panelists talk with https://github.com/drenther (India) who is a full-stack developer and cybersecurity enthusiast. The panel and the guest talk about design patterns and designing simpler code for clarity and less confusion. Check out today’s episode! Show Topics: 0:00 – https://www.telerik.com/kendo-ui?utm_campaign=kendo-ui-awareness-jsjabber&utm_medium=social-paid&utm_source=devchattv 0:31 – Chuck: Our panelists are and our guest is Soumyajit! Introduce yourself please! Are you doing React on the side? 1:02 – https://twitter.com/drenther I am a master’s student and I am doing freelancing. 1:42 – Panel. 1:49 – Guest. 2:10 – Chuck: I am feeling very up-to-date. Woo! Universities are teaching this and that and they are focused on theory. The flipside is that they are going to write real code for real systems. 3:10 – Panel: I like your well-written blog posts. You talk about design patterns. 3:50 – Guest: The design patterns at the university had to do with real JavaScript applications. 4:09 – Chuck: I am curious you are talking about the design patterns – how can people from React find/use it? 4:45 – Panel: It depends on your definition of design patterns. 5:35 – Lucas: Maybe you are using one or two here and reading through the design patterns is like going through your toolbox. You only need a screwdriver but you bought the whole toolbox. Get familiar with it and from time to time solve problems and thing: what tool can help me here? It’s clear to me with this toolbox analogy. I understand now – that tool I saw 2 months ago could help me. 7:00 – Guest: I have an interesting story with this about design patterns. Let me share! 7:36 – Justin: It was a similar thing but I wasn’t in JavaScript at the time. I’ve used a lot of C++ code. Design patterns became very useful. I saw it the same way Lucas! 9:23 – Justin continues: How and why to use a certain tool. That’s important. 10:28 – Chuck: Okay this is the default pattern and that’s where we can go for the fallback. Here is the fallback if this doesn’t work here or there. 10:49 – Lucas: This is important to remember. It’s not how to use the tool but it’s why am I using this tool here or there? 11:57 – Justin: It’s so much information in general. People get information overload and they have to just start! One of the challenges we do is that we over-engineer things. Do what you need to know. Look it up but play with it. 12:40 – Lucas: It’s interesting by another blog post that you wrote Soumyajit – and you are using a render prop. You showed a problem and showed the solution. 13:30 – Guest: Yeah I’ve written a lot of blog posts about this topic. 13:48 – Panel: Often times – it’s hard for people just to dive-in. People need to see you solving a problem and it really helps with the learning process. 15:03 – Chuck: What patterns do you find most useful? 15:11 – Panel: Functional components have changed my world! 16:23 – Guest: Around these functional components... 17:17 – Panel: I will go with the patterns that are not useful. Don’t make your code pattern-oriented. This is my favorite pattern now and going back to basics. 18:53 – Panelists go back-and-forth. 19:01 – Lucas. 19:41 – Chuck: You talk about over-engineering things and that’s what I found myself doing sometimes with my new project. When I figure out how to make it simpler I get excited and it’s easy to follow. 20:15 – Panel: We celebrate the person who deleted the most lines of code. 20:28 – Panel: I am going to steal that idea. 21:04 – Guest: I have an interesting story of over-engineering something – let me share! 21:53 – https://www.freshbooks.com/?adgroupid=51893696397&campaignid=717543354&crid=285105591548&dv=c&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI4ey45u-T3wIVhCJpCh0fZgOJEAAYASAAEgLXS_D_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds&ntwk=g&ref=ppc-fb&source=GOOGLE&targetid=kwd-298507762065 22:59 – Panel: Building too much is b/c I don’t have a clear understanding of what I am doing. I get excited about problems. What’s the more simple way / most naïve way possible! 24:36 – Lucas: If you are going to change something you will be changing it in several different places. 25:50 – Chuck: When I heard the concept, all the codes that change together should be together. 26:08 – Lucas comments. 26:53 – Panel: Keeping things contained in one place. We have our presentational component and higher-level component, so you can see it all. 28:28 – Lucas: Different people working on different technologies. 29:15 – Panel: Can I break this down to smaller parts, which makes sense to me? 29:48 – Guest: Looking for keywords will cause a distraction. Finding a balance is good. 30:04 – Chuck: If you have a large rile there could be a smaller component that is there own concern. That feels like the real answer to me. It has a lot less than the length of the file versus... Chuck: If I cannot follow it then I

Dec 11, 201847 min

RRU 040: Mastermind Groups and Staying Current with Sean Merron

Panel: Charles Max WoodAaron FrostShai Reznik Divya SasidharanJoe EamesLucas Reis Special Guest: Sean Merron In this episode, The panelist of React Round-Up, View on Vue, Adventures in Angular, Ruby Rogues, and JavaScript Jabber speak with Sean Merron about Mastermind Groups of Startups and much more. Sean is the founder of today's topic and product “Mastermind Hunt.” This product is design to skillfully find a mastermind to take your business and skills to the next level. Show Topics: 0:00 – Advertisement: AngularBootCamp.Com 3:00 – Webinar announcement January 3rd, 2p EST. 4:10 - Sean talks about the importance of a Mastermind and his evolvement in mastermind groups. Sean breakdowns what exactly what a mastermind is about. 6:10 - Charles ask the panelist if they have engaged in Masterminds. Shai talks about his experience and seeing one-sidedness in Masterminds. Sean talks about how to avoid this issue and staying on track. Sean shares on how to keep the meeting moving forward and meet accountability tasks. 10:10 - Joe asks about examples of chatting on topics with co-workers and how is this different from masterminds. And how to keep topics on track. Sean provides using the round robin method to give each person a chance to bring their needs to the table. Sean talks about how developers share advice and topics in Masterminds. 14:43 - Charles shares about how this works in using exercise workbooks as a group and who the rotation works for the hot seat. Sean explains that this is used to find others at your same level to help one another. 16:50 - Shai ask about the benefits of mastermind, but how can we integrate higher level issues among a group. Sean shares a story about meeting and benefits of networking in Masterminds. Sean and Chuck continue with the power of networking among these types of groups. 22:00 - Charles talks about the complexity of personal issues. Shai asks about how to build a mastermind. Sean gives examples of formats and schedule, number of people, and how to conduct successfully. Sean gives examples of technologies to use to help conduct masterminds, like Facebook groups, Skype, Zoom. Sean explains how this led to building mastermindhunt.com 27:00 – Advertisement: Get A Coder Job! 27:00 - Charles talks about how he did a lunch meetup as a mastermind. Lucas gives examples of guilds in his job. Lucas explains the guilds and how this works among the software development team. Lucas shares about presenting in a guild. Lucas says this is great for accountability and success. 30:00 - Sean asks about the size or how many people are in the guild. Lucas mentions that if you do not understand something, bring it to the guild. Sean mentions how this could help shy people and build trust. Sean talks about “Friend D A” 34:00 - Charles again talks about that BrownBag lunch mastermind. Charles talks about how to keep masterminds on track and not a chatfest. Joe asks about the accountability goals. Sean talks about how this works in Mastermind Hunt. Sean gives examples of how to keep people accountable in fun ways. 37:00 - Shai talks about having to shave his head when he was not meeting accountability goals. Sean continues about respecting people’s time and keeping on topic with hot seat questions. 39:00 - Shai asks about how to approach people who are not meeting goals and take-up to much time. Sean says the person with the best relationship should approach the person before they have to bump them out of the mastermind spot. 42:00 - Charles talks about EntreProgrammers as a mastermind and the freeform style of the format. Charles talks about leaving the group if it is not meeting your value needs. 44:00 - Sean talks about the introduction and application programs to enter into a mastermind. Lucas talks about diminishing quality of a mastermind, and how he raised the quality of engaging in a way that heightens the program. Sean shares more aobuu the initial attitude of the person who starts the meeting. 49:00 - Divya ask about those who are not hitting their goals, but how do you keep them engaged without leaving the group. Sean mentions breaking down the goals or create achievable goals. Sean talks about figuring out the organization and finding where the issues are at that might be the problem to hitting goals. 51:00 - Divya ask about how enthusiasm can diminish about how to keep that from happening in masterminds. Sean says you have to be consistent with your goals and make it fun. 55:00 - Shai gives a quick recap of masterminds. Shai ask about how to rotate the hot seat. Sean give a webinar link for mastermindhunt.com/devchat on January 3rd, 2pm EST. 57:30 – Advertisement – Fresh Books! 30-day free trial! END – Advertisement – Cache Fly! Links: Sean’s Twitter2frugaldudes podcastSean’s LinkedInmastermindhunt.commastermindhunt.com/devchat Sponsors: Angular Boot CampFresh BooksGet a Coder Job CourseCache Fly Picks: Shai Bob Proctor Joe CoolstuffincluxorNG Conf Minified Lucas Radical Candor Divya Al

Dec 4, 20181h 9m

RRU 039: Lambda School with Ben Nelson

Panel: Nader DabitLucas ReisCharles Max Wood Special Guests: Ben Nelson In this episode, the panelists talk with Ben Nelson who is a co-founder and CTO of Lambda School. The panelists and Ben talk about Lambda School, the pros & cons of the 4-year university program for developers, and much more. Check it out! Show Topics: 0:00 – Kendo UI 0:33 – Chuck: We have Nader, Lucas, and myself – our special gust is Ben Nelson! 0:50 – Guest: Hi! 0:54 – Chuck: Please introduce yourself. 0:58 – Guest: I love to ski and was a developer in the Utah area. 1:12 – Chuck: Let’s talk about Lambda School, but I think explaining what the school is and how you operate will help. Give us an elevator pitch for the school. 1:36 – Guest: The school is 30-weeks long and we go deep into computer fundamentals. They get exposed to multiple stacks. Since it’s 30-weeks to run we help with the finances by they start paying once they get employed. It’s online and students from U.S. and the U.K. 3:23 – Chuck: I don’t want you to badmouth DevMountain, great model, but I don’t know if it works for everyone? 3:43 – Guest: Three months part-time is really hard if you don’t have a technical background. It was a grind and hard for the students. 4:03 – Nader: Is it online or any part in-person. 4:11 – Guest: Yep totally online. 4:40 – Nader: Austen Allred is really, really good at being in the social scene. I know that he has mentioned that you are apart of...since 2017? 5:20 – Guest: Yeah you would be surprised how much Twitter has helped our school. He is the other co-founder and is a genius with social media platforms! 6:04 – Guest mentions Python, marketing, and building a following. 7:17 – Guest: We saw a lot of students who wanted to enroll but they couldn’t afford it. This gave us the idea to help with using the income share agreement. 8:06 – Nader: Yeah, that’s really cool. I didn’t know you were online only so now that makes sense. Do you have other plans for the company? 8:33 – Guest: Amazon started with books and then branched out; same thing for us. 8:56 – Chuck: Let’s talk about programming and what’s your placement rate right now? 9:05 – Guest: It fluctuates. Our incentive is we don’t get paid unless our students get employed. Our first couple classes were 83% and then later in the mid-60%s and it’s averaging around there. Our goal is 90% in 90 days. Guest continues: All boot camps aren’t the same. 10:55 – Lucas: Ben, I have a question. One thing we have a concern about is that universities are disconnected with the CURRENT market! 11:47 – Guest: We cannot compare to the 4-year system, but our strength we don’t have tenure track Ph.D. professors. Our instructors have been working hands-on for a while. They are experienced engineers. We make sure the instructors we hire are involved and passionate. We pay for them to go to conferences and we want them to be on the cutting-edge. We feel like we can compete to CS degrees b/c of the focused training that we offer. 13:16 – Chuck: Yeah, when I went to school there were only 2 professors that came from the field. 14:22 – Guest: Yeah, look at MIT. When I was studying CS in school my best professor was adjunct b/c he came from the field. I don’t know if the 4-year plan is always the best. I don’t want to shoot down higher education but you have to consider what’s best for you. 15:05 – Nader: It’s spread out across the different fields. It was a model that was created a long time ago, and isn’t always the best necessarily for computer science. Think about our field b/c things are moving so fast. 15:57 – Chuck: What you are saying, Nader, but 10 years ago this iPhone was a brand new thing, and now we are talking about a zillion different devices that you can write for. It’s crazy. That’s where we are seeing things change – the fundamentals are good – but they aren’t teaching you at that level. Hello – it’s not the ‘90s anymore! I wonder if my bias comes from boot camp grads were really motivated in the first place...and they want to make a change and make a career out of it. 17:34 – Chuck: There is value, but I don’t know if my CS major prepared me well for the job market. 17:42 – Guest: Probably you didn’t have much student loan debt being that you went to Utah. 17:58 – Nader: Why is that? 18:03 – Chuck talks about UT’s tuition and how he worked while attending college. 18:29 – Lucas: I don’t stop studying. The fundamentals aren’t bad to keep studying them. Putting you into a job first should be top priority and then dive into the fundamentals. Work knowledge is so important – after you are working for 1 year – then figure out what the fundamentals are. I think I learn better the “other way around.” 20:30 – Chuck: That’s fair. 20:45 – Guest: That’s exactly what we focus on. The guest talks about the general curriculum at the Lambda School 22:07 – Nader: That’s an interesting take on that. When you frame it that way – there is no comparison when considering the student loan debt. 22:30 – Chu

Nov 27, 201852 min

RRU 038: Azure Pipelines with Ed Thomson LIVE at Microsoft Ignite

Panel: Charles Max Wood Special Guests: Ed Thomson In this episode, the React Round Up Charles speaks with Ed Thomson who is a Program Manager at Azure through Microsoft, Developer, and Open Source Maintainer. Ed and Chuck discuss in full detail about Azure DevOps! Check out today’s episode to hear its new features and other exciting news! Show Topics: 0:59 – Live at Microsoft Ignite 1:03 – Ed: Hi! I am a Program Manager at Azure. 1:28 – Rewind 2 episodes to hear more about Azure DevOps! 1:51 – Ed: One of the moves from Pipelines to DevOps – they could still adopt Pipelines. Now that they are separate services – it’s great. 2:38 – Chuck talks about features he does and doesn’t use. 2:54 – Ed. 3:00 – Chuck: Repos and Pipelines. I am going to dive right in. Let’s talk about Repos. Microsoft just acquired GitHub. 3:18 – Ed: Technically we have not officially acquired GitHub. 3:34 – Chuck: It’s not done. It’s the end of September now. 3:55 – Ed: They will remain the same thing for a while. GitHub is the home for open source. Repos – we use it in Microsoft. Repositories are huge. There are 4,000 engineers working in these repositories. Everyone works in his or her own little area, and you have to work together. You have to do all this engineering to get there. We bit a tool and it basically if you run clone... Ed continues to talk about this topic. He is talking about One Drive and these repositories. 6:28 – Ed: We aren’t going to be mixing and matching. I used to work through GitHub. It’s exciting to see those people work close to me. 6:54 – Chuck. 6:59 – Ed: It has come a long way. 7:07 – Chuck: Beyond the FSF are we talking about other features or? 7:21 – Ed: We have unique features. We have branch policies. You can require that people do pole request. You have to use pole request and your CI has to pass and things like that. I think there is a lot of richness in our auditing. We have enterprise focus. At its core it still is Git. We can all interoperate. 8:17 – Chuck. 8:37 – Ed: You just can’t set it up with Apache. You have to figure it out. 8:51 – Chuck: The method of pushing and pulling. 9:06 – Chuck: You can try DevOps for free up to 5 users and unlimited private repos. People are interested in this because GitHub makes you pay for that. 9:38 – Ed and Chuck continue to talk. 9:50 – Ed: Pipelines is the most interesting thing we are working on. We have revamped the entire experience. Build and release. It’s easy to get started. We have a visual designer. Super helpful – super straightforward. Releases once your code is built – get it out to production say for example Azure. It’s the important thing to get your code out there. 10:55 – Chuck: How can someone start with this? 11:00 – Ed: Depends on where your repository is. It will look at your code. “Oh, I know what that is, I know how to build that!” Maybe everyone isn’t doing everything with JavaScript. If you are using DotNet then it will know. 12:05 – Chuck: What if I am using both a backend and a frontend? 12:11 – Ed: One repository? That’s when you will have to do a little hand packing on the... There are different opportunities there. If you have a bash script that does it for you. If not, then you can orchestrate it. Reduce the time it takes. If it’s an open source project; there’s 2 – what are you going to do with the other 8? You’d be surprised – people try to sneak that in there. 13:30 – Chuck: It seems like continuous integration isn’t a whole lot complicated. 13:39 – Ed: I am a simple guy that’s how I do it. You can do advanced stuff, though. The Cake Build system – they are doing some crazy things. We have got Windows, Lennox, and others. Are you building for Raspberries Pies, then okay, do this... It’s not just running a script. 15:00 – Chuck: People do get pretty complicated if they want. It can get complicated. Who knows? 15:26 – Chuck: How much work do you have to do to set-up a Pipeline like that? 15:37 – Ed answers the question in detail. 16:03 – Chuck asks a question. 16:12 – Ed: Now this is where it gets contentious. If one fails... Our default task out of the box... 16:56 – Chuck: If you want 2 steps you can (like me who is crazy). 17:05 – Ed: Yes, I want to see if it failed. 17:17 – Chuck: Dude, writing code is hard. Once you have it built and tested – continuous deployment. 17:33 – Ed: It’s very easy. It’s super straightforward, it doesn’t have to be Azure (although I hope it is!). Ed continues this conversation. 18:43 – Chuck: And it just pulls it? 18:49 – Ed: Don’t poke holes into your firewall. We do give you a lot of flexibility 19:04 – Chuck: VPN credentials? 19:10 – Ed: Just run the... 19:25 – Chuck comments. 19:36 – Ed: ...Take that Zip... 20:02 – Ed: Once the planets are finely aligned then...it will just pull from it. 20:25 – Chuck: I host my stuff on Digital Ocean. 20:46 – Ed: It’s been awhile since I played with... 20:55 – Chuck. 20:59 – Ed and Chuck go back and forth with different situations and hypothetical situations.

Nov 20, 201849 min

RRU 037: Make Backend Devs Jealous of Your Test Suite with Carly Litchfield

Panel: Nader DabitLucas ReisJustin Bennett Special Guests: Carly Litchfield In this episode, the panelists talk with Carly Litchfield who is a Full-stack engineer of React and React Native. The panel and Carly talk about frontend and backend developing and the issues that teams could face day-in and day-out. Listen to today’s episode to hear about that and much more! Show Topics: 0:00 – Kendo UI 0:30 – Nader: Welcome! Our panel is Justin, Lucas, myself, and our guest is Carly. Welcome to the show! Thanks for joining us. Introduce yourself please. 0:56 – Carly: I am a fullstack engineer at a company called Zocdoc. I have been there for 4 years, and we use C# framework. 1:17 – Nader: C# interesting! 1:26 – Nader: You can do game development and other stuff. 1:33- Carly: I haven’t gotten into game development at all, just using C# for web development. 1:50 – Nader. 1:55 – Carly. 2:08 – Nader: The topic for today is: being a frontend developer and a team that is mostly focused on backend. Also, other topics with testing if we have time. How did you get into web development? 2:32 – Carly goes into detail about how she got into web development. 5:02 – Carly: I have worked with React Native, too. 5:22 – Nader: That is my favorite thing to work with (React Native). 5:27 – Panel: Everyone was learning about this new domain and this frontend domain. How was the knowledge spread? How was it spread throughout the company? 5:50 – Carly: One of the people someone that was on this 3 – person team (Thomas) and he went around to anyone who knew React. He made a lot of tooling. He made a lot of configuration libraries. You’d have your NPM integration like everyone else. It was cool to hook it into our servers. It was crucial to help with adoption. Those libraries aren’t being well maintained and it’s causing some pain. 7:32 – Panel: I remember this one case when I was working with an engineer and he was working on backend stuff. He was like I don’t understand here is JSS and JavaScript. Did you have those cultural differences? 8:27 – Carly: Yeah, definitely. You will see a thousand two-thousand lines that are written by us and it’s impossible to know how it hooks-up, etc. It’s painful to work with and some of the internal tooling nobody is updating. That served a forcing mechanism b/c we built tons of the frontend that it’s so complicated and we are paralyzed. That served us b/c frontend is hard and we just can’t go plopping around wherever we want. That’s how they tried to use Backbone. We never hired a specific frontend engineer. We just kept hiring backend to learn frontend. It’s harder to hire someone to avoid those mistakes. They will have to learn the hard way, where a Senior Developer can help. Even our Backbone apps were heavy and hard to work with. At that time we thought we were going to go to React. We thought we could hire someone with true frontend experience. We started an interview process and hard to get off the ground. We have gotten a lot better b/c we have Senior and Principle engineers to help. 12:12 – Panel: This isn’t easy and this is hard. Building UIs are extremely difficult. 13:06 – Carly: I have an old manager that posted a quote...that just shows how much things are changing. These are advanced strategies. On the backend you have all of these services and go to AWS. However, on the frontend the problems aren’t solved, yet. WE don’t have a perfect answer. A lot of the dynamics are interesting and the right answers are yet to be found. 14:32 – Panel: I think that in some ways, an application we are finding better ways with static websites and blogs through the WordPress model. We are finding practices to enable people to build intricate things. 15:07 – Panel: I used C++ in the beginning of my career. I use a framework called QT. QT is good to building native UIs, but it’s extremely complicated and difficult. And thinking about that from the idea of building not only a UI, but also...we are essentially using tools that aren’t supposed to be used in the way they were designed. 16:46 – Carly: I agree. When I was using style components at the beginning – after you do it for a while it’s not weird anymore. It’s great not to have to reuse things. I hear a lot of people concerned with these separations, but maybe they were 3 separate concerns. Maybe one component is one concern, if you will. 17:59 – Panel: I agree. If you look at the page model vs. the web model...you want a button to look like THAT button. You want them to look the same, it’s a component or an app. Maybe if you have a Wikipedia page where you have headers and sections, the CSS model makes sense on that particular domain, but with application it’s so complicated. I am a fan of cell components, and... Things are getting better. Another topic – we are in this frontend world and one big problem with the old days was reliability. You talked a lot about testing in the frontend. Let’s talk about testing in your professional life. 19:48 – Carly: I

Nov 13, 201855 min

RRU 036: Signal R with Brady Gaster LIVE at Microsoft Ignite

Panel: Charles Max Wood Special Guest: Brady Gaster In this episode, Chuck talks with https://twitter.com/bradygaster about https://www.asp.net/signalr that is offered through Microsoft. Brady Gaster is a computer software engineer at Microsoft and past employers include Logical Advantage, and Market America, Inc. Check out today’s episode where the two dive deep into SignalR topics. Show Topics: 0:00 – Advertisement: https://angularbootcamp.com 0:56 – Chuck: Hello! We are going to talk about https://www.asp.net/signalr which is an offering through Microsoft. 1:09 – Guest: It started in 2011 that’s when I got involved, but I wasn’t with Microsoft, yet, at that point. I was working on the technology, though. Effectively you can do real time HTMP but what they did (Damon and David) let’s create a series of abstractions but not we have for Java. They basically cam up this idea let’s do web sockets and then go back to pole / pole / pole. It’s to see what the server and the client can support. Guest talks about https://socket.io, too. 6:45 – Chuck: What we are talking about real time coordination between apps. 6:56 – Guest: Web sockets, 1 million...and 2.6 million messages a second! 7:05 – Chuck: I can set that up like I usually set up web sockets? 7:17 – Guest: There is a client library for each. Effectively you have a concept called a connection. 9:48 – Chuck: How do you handle authentication on the frontend? 9:56 – Guest: We have server side things that we can attribute things. 10:09 – Chuck. 10:12 – Guest: If you authenticate to the site then the site passes the token and it basically sits on top of the same plumbing. 10:38 – Chuck. 10:42 – Guest. 10:54 – Chuck. 10:58 – Guest: We recently just had the https://www.dotnetconf.net. We had an all night, 24-hour thing. 11:48 – Chuck: Here you are, here you go. You hook it all up, JavaScript into your bundle. 12:05 – (The guest talks about how to install.) 13:12 – Chuck: I could come up with my own scheme. 13:25 – Guest: The traditional example is SEND A MESSAGE and then pass you string. Well tomorrow I do that and I just change the code – it’s great b/c I send up a ping and everybody knows what to do what that ping. It’s just a proxy. 14:17 – Chuck: I am trying to envision what you would use this for? If you are worried about it being stale then you refresh. But if you want the collaborative stuff at what point do you ask: Do I need SignalR? 15:00 – Guest: When I do my presentations on SignalR and being transparent I want to send you 1,000 messages but 1 or 2 messages will be dropped. You don’t want to transmit your order data or credit card information. Do you have a hammer and you need a screw? If you need stock tickers and other applications SignalR would work. Keeping your UI fresh it is a great thing. 19:02 – Chuck: You do that at the Hub? You set up the Hub and it passes everything back and forth. What can you do at the Hub for filtering and/or certain types of events? 19:26 – Guest: I am looking at a slide. What’s the cool thing about SignalR and the API is it’s deceptively simple on purpose. If you want to call out to clients, you can get a message to all of your clients if you select that/those feature(s). Some other features you have are OTHERS, and Clients.Group. 20:57 – Chuck: Can you set up your own? 20:58 – Guest: I don’t know. 21:12 – Chuck: Clients who belong to more than one group. 21:23 – Guest: Dynamics still give some people heartburn. (The guest talks about https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/ Dev, Hub, and more!) 23:46 – https://devchat.tv/get-a-coder-job/ 24:23 – Chuck: How do people get started with this? Do they need Azure? 24:30 – Guest: You don’t need Azure you can go to https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/signalr/overview/getting-started/introduction-to-signalr and it’s apart of the .NET team, too. 26:39 – Guest talks about how to installhttps://twitter.com/SignalR?lang=en – see links below! 27:03 – Chuck: You don’t have to KNOW .NET. 27:11 – Guest: It was created by that team (*fair enough*) but you don’t have to know .NET. 27:57 – Guest: You can I could do JavaScript all the way. 29:04 – Chuck: Yes, we keep moving forward. It will look different what people are using. 29:21 – Guest: That was an early thing and I was reading through the old bugs from 2011/2012 and that’s one thing that kept coming up. I didn’t want to use https://jquery.com to use SignalR – now you don’t. It’s a happy thing. 30:45 – Guest: Someone suggested using https://developer.android.com/reference/android/os/Parcel I have a question do you have any recommendations to have https://www.npmjs.com/package/node-sass workflow to have it less stressful? 31:30 – Chuck: It’s out of Ruby that’s my experience with Node-Sass. 31:40 – Guest: I haven’t used Ruby, yet. 31:46 – Guest: I haven’t heard of Phoenix what is that? 31:50 – Chuck answers. Chuck: It’s functional and very fast. Once you’ve figured out those features they almost become power features for you

Nov 6, 201847 min

RRU 035: Optimizing React Virtual DOM Explained Article with Alexey Ivanov and Andy Barnov

Panel: - https://github.com/lucasmreis- https://github.com/zephraph Special Guests: Alexey Ivanov and Andy Barnov In this episode, the panelists talk with https://twitter.com/savetherbtz?lang=en and https://github.com/progapandist They all discuss Alexey’s https://evilmartians.com/chronicles/optimizing-react-virtual-dom-explained titled: “Optimizing React Virtual DOM.” Listen to today’s episode to hear all the details about this article, the guests’ backgrounds and much, much more! Show Topics: 0:32 – Panel: Thanks for joining us and talking about this https://evilmartians.com/chronicles/optimizing-react-virtual-dom-explained 0:52 – Guest: Thanks for having us on your podcast! The guest talks about his community of developers and the offices are in San Francisco, Russia and other places. He talks about how the company helps their customers and how they can scale. Some of their companies are https://www.groupon.com/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMI9Puun7Kq3gIVDo1pCh2oDgiyEAAYASAAEgJZ7_D_BwE&utm_campaign=us_dt_sea_ggl_txt_naq_sr_cbp_ch1_ybr_k%2Agroupon_m%2Ae_d%2Agroupon-brand_g%2Agroupon-exact_c%2A137872562158_ap%2A1t1&utm_medium=cpc&utm_source=google and https://www.ebay.com 2:39 – Alexey. 3:09 – Panel: The article is https://evilmartians.com/chronicles/optimizing-react-virtual-dom-explained What is JSX how does it boil down to? It’s all supposed to help people and help them understand. 3:45 – Alexey: It’s about how to structure your state, etc. 4:15 – Panel: This keeps things small. He said when I have one idea I write a song and when I have 2 ideas I write 2 songs. If you try to put too many ideas into one post it maybe won’t go too far. 4:48 – Alexey. 5:50 – Panel. 5:56 – Panel: That’s a topic for another episode. The article is interesting in that the large percentage don’t think about rendering performance, so it’s a needed piece of content. Let’s talk about – what is the https://www.codecademy.com/articles/react-virtual-dom 6:32 – Alexey goes into detail with his answer to the panelist’s question. 8:50 – Panel: What I like about this article is that you go through a good progression: here is the JSX that you would write and here is the trans piled function is. And you show the virtual DOM pre-presentation is. I think that is a helpful thing. Let’s talk about that. How does React change to those things when it’s rendering? 9:50 – Alexey. 12:58 – Panel: Okay to recap...when you are rendering an element you write some JSX and the first thing (component) that will map over to the type property is for the Virtual DOM object? And then all of that is compared – when does that happen, the comparison? 13:28 – Alexey: You have React and you create... 15:20 – Panel: So it’s both React and set state these are the only 2 things that triggered state or is there anything else out there? 15:31 – Alexey. 15:47 – Panel: Interesting. You talked about the imperative way we did it before – and it’s much simpler to say what you want, but a question is that is there any world case where it does not work well? What are the trade-offs? Have you ever encountered one? 16:34 – Alexey: If you have changes in the browse, implementations...it’s simplest and easiest way. You just need to have some little changes... 17:53 – Panel: If it’s basic then you don’t have to do manual updates. 18:03 – Alexey. Alexey: To make it work you need competence in your bundle. 18:36 – Panel: I’ve heard – haven’t worked with – when we have these projects that are really web time based, hundreds of elements in real time on a screen, on a Virtual DOM it’s too slow. You have to be precise. They had performance issues, I’m sure 98.99% of the applications probably perform better with the Virtual DOM. 19:46 – Alexey. 21:38 – Panel: That is to reduce the amount of state changes so you are reducing the amount of time it renders – right? 21:50 – Alexey. 22:03 – https://www.freshbooks.com/?ref=10400&sscid=a1k2_rph9e&utm_campaign=87321&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_source=sas 23:11 – Panel: We talked about how type is the first thing that is checked. It does equal comparison to compare these types. What was really interesting is that class components are the same thing but not so. Is it always going to re-render for those components? 24:24 – Alexey: We have to talk about 2 things about this first. In my https://evilmartians.com/chronicles/optimizing-react-virtual-dom-explained 27:49 – Panel: That is a beneficial tool too to control your rendering. You talked about tools to show updates and we will include the link to the article in the links, also I would read it and check out that particular function. It’s cool to see HOW it’s actually rendering. 28:29 – Panel: Apparently sometimes things help us in principle cause we need performance. We need to open the tools and understand what is happening? Is it really a bottleneck like I think it is? One of those Twitter things I saw a few months ago... 30:52 – Alexey: Yes, do what makes sense to you at the time.

Oct 30, 201851 min

RRU 034: “Progressive Web Apps” with Aaron Gustafson / Live at Microsoft Ignite

Panel: - https://twitter.com/cmaxw?lang=en Special Guests: https://github.com/adtm In this episode, the Chuck talks with https://www.aaron-gustafson.com who is a web standards and accessibility advocate working at Microsoft. Aaron and Chuck talk about PWAs and the ins and outs of these progressive web apps. Check out today’s episode to hear more! Show Topics: 0:36 – Chuck: Our guest is Aaron, say HI! 0:41 – Aaron: Hi! I have been working on the web for 20 plus years. I am working on the Edge team for accessibility among other things. I have done every job that you can do on the web. 1:08 – Chuck: That is one of OUR publications? 1:14 – Aaron: No the communities. I joined the staff as editor in chief for 1.5 year now. It’s a nice side project to do. 1:36 – Chuck: I thought it was a commercial thing. 1:40 – Aaron: No it’s volunteer. 1:52 – Chuck: Talk about your web background? 2:02 – Aaron: I remember the first book I got (title mentioned). My first job on the web (cash) I was the content manager in Florida and this was in 1999. Gel Macs just came out. I relocated from FL to CT and worked for other companies. I got into CSS among other things. It’s been a wild ride and done it all. 3:52 – Chuck: Let’s talk about web standards? 4:05 – Aaron: It depends on the organization and what the spec is and where it originates. It’s interesting to see how HTML developed back in the day. When standardization started working then everything started to converge. Everything is a little different now. Some specs come out from companies that... (Apple, https://responsiveimages.org, and Grid are mentioned among other things.) 7:37 – Chuck: We set up to talk about PWAs. Where did PWAs come from? 7:57 – Aaron: Modern web design, best web applications. Being secure. One of the underpinnings came out from Google and they have been supporters of that. Firefox is working on installation as well. The Chrome implementation is weird right now, but it becomes an orphaned app. It’s like the old chrome apps where in Windows you can install from the Microsoft store. But the case of Chrome you don’t have to go through the store. 10:14 – Chuck asks a question. 10:24 – Aaron answers. 11:53 – Chuck: What makes it a progressive web app rather than a regular website? 12:05 – Aaron: The definition is running on HTPS and... Aaron defines the terms that Chuck asks at 11:53. 12:43 – Aaron: Of course you can push forward if it makes sense from the baseline. 12:56 – Chuck: We have an Angular podcast, and we talked about PWAs and nobody had a good definition for it. 13:18 – Aaron. 13:22 – Chuck: What are the pros of having a PWA? Let’s start with the basics first. 13:33 – Aaron: The ability to control how you react to the network. We development is challenging maybe in other areas because of the lack of control and how your code gets to your users. Any special needs that YOU might have. Aaron goes into detail on this topic. 17:14 – Chuck: Is the service worker the star for PWAs? 17:20 – Aaron: In a way, kind of. Aaron goes into detail on this topic. Share 2 is mentioned, too. 19:42 – Chuck: If the service worker intermediates between the browser and the page / Internet would it make sense to have your worker have it load and then load everything else? Cause you have those Web Pack now. 20:14 – Aaron: Some people would consider it but I wouldn’t necessarily. I am not a fan for that. If anything goes wrong then nothing loads. I remember back when... 22:23 – Aaron: That is a lot of overhead. 22:34 – Chuck: I am wondering what is the best practice? How do you decide to pull in a service worker and then move into more complicated issues? 22:53 – https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDWpGhFB8j6Kia4B_MKUG3w: Progressive Web App where they talk about their evolution about this. 25:17 – https://www.freshbooks.com/?adgroupid=51893696397&ag=%255Bfreshbooks%255D&camp=US%2528SEM%2529Branded%257CEXM&campaignid=717543354&crid=289640536553&dclid=CNGHh6XkmN4CFQO5TwodEqEA2w&dv=c&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIzpSso-SY3gIVDoxpCh0-HwkaEAAYASAAEgI6JfD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds&kw=freshbooks&kwid=kwd-298507762065&ntwk=g&ref=ppc-na-fb&source=GOOGLE Code: DEVCHAT. 26:25 – Chuck: In order to be a PWA you don’t need to have a push notification. 26:38 – Aaron: I don’t think anyone would want a push notification from me. 27:12 – Chuck: What features do PWAs have? 27:18 – Aaron: Features? None of them really, other than push notifications, it’s just standard it’s going to make an App feel more App “y”. If that’s something you want to do. It’s up to you to determine that. There is going to be like push notifications – sending person new updates about the order. If you were a new site you want to make sure you are not doing a push notifications on everything cause that would be too much. Exercising care with the capabilities with what the users are doing on your computer. This is a person that you are dealing with. We need to seem less needy. Give users con

Oct 23, 201855 min

RRU 033: "Finding Your Dream Job" with Panelists

Panel: - https://twitter.com/cmaxw?lang=en- https://twitter.com/dabit3?ref_src=twsrc%255Egoogle%257Ctwcamp%255Eserp%257Ctwgr%255Eauthor- https://github.com/zephraph- https://github.com/lucasmreis In this episode, the panel talks amongst themselves about: What is THE dream job? How do you define YOUR dream job? And how do you GET your dream job? Check out today’s episode to find out more! Show Topics: 1:02 – What does a dream job even mean? 1:08 – Nader: It means that you wake-up and you are excited to go to work instead of dreading it. 1:34 – Lucas: Dream jobs I think change depending on your life’s moments. It changes from person-to-person and from time-to-time. After some months there you are feeling like you are always growing as a person and as a professional. 2:24 – Chuck. 2:38 – Justin: My idea is that it has some impact on the people in your world. What is my impact on the world – what is my footprint – what am I doing? My last job was advertisement, and my job was to drive eyeballs to ads. That wasn’t what I wanted to do anymore. 3:49 – Charles: What do I want to do with DevChat? It’s not always fun, and why am I doing this. For me it’s personal freedom and an impact within the world. What are your big three that will make a big difference to you? There are all sorts of reasons, but once you know that then it’s easier. When my resume comes across their desk it comes with an endorsement. If you don’t have anything else to sell them, especially if you are a new developer. The last few jobs you’ve gotten how did you find them? 6:25 – Nader. 6:52 – Panelists: Recruiters. I used that to build myself up. Then I got into: Where DO I want to work? I will check Twitter, GitHub, Hacker News, and I keep my eyes open. At Artsy we try to build on those relationships. We are hiring! 8:31 – Chuck: I think most companies are like that – they will hire the people that they know. Doing the research, figuring out what company you want 9:10 – Panelists: Don’t be afraid to meet-up with people and ask them questions. You aren’t just trying to leech off of them and figure out what YOU can contribute back. 9:47 – Chuck: Even if you are trying to network with people to get a job – make sure you don’t look like you are trying to leech off of them. 10:20 – Lucas: When I moved to the U.S. about a year ago... A question I asked myself: Where will I contribute well? There are some markets that I am not interested in and there are some that I am interested in – that’s where I want to go. I like helping people with their health. Their website (company I am working for) is very eCommerce like. I know I can contribute, and it’s a mission that I am all about. Where do MY skillsets help? For junior levels time is on your side – contribute your time. You can help them with When you are young you have time. Everyone can follow their skillset. Try to find the places where you want and where do you want to contribute. 13:06 – Chuck. 13:20 – Even senior engineers we undervalue ourselves – it’s easy to do. When friends are trying to break into the industry I tell them to track their projects. 14:26 – Chuck: It shows the eagerness to learn and be willing to learn and contribute. On GitHub – be consistent with your contributions; it shows initiative. 15:33 – Nader, how did you get your job? 15:40 – Nader: Developer Advocate is the job I have now. Nader talks about how he got his current job. The main thing that I would recommend is to learn in public. Even if it’s not that impressive – overtime you will standout. It’s all about standing out, because you don’t want to sell yourself. 17:52 – https://www.freshbooks.com/?adgroupid=53169078638&ag=%257Efreshbooks&camp=US%2528SEM%2529Branded%257CEXM&campaignid=717543354&crid=289653575014&dclid=CPaQ6KX0id4CFUTcwAodvfQEcA&dv=c&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIwr_9ofSJ3gIVyrfACh1DkQVNEAAYASAAEgJIUvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds&kw=fresh%2520books&kwid=kwd-299596828929&ntwk=g&ref=ppc-na-fb&source=GOOGLE 30-day trial. 18:58 – Chuck. 19:20 – Lucas: I am doing a lot of interviews now – a lot of times we want to hire people but we can’t for a certain skillset. One interesting thing is that even though you have an initial “no,” we could use that person later. 20:04 – Chuck: If it comes down to a good relationship then you can make that work to your advantage. People should be following-up to see if HR is reposting the job. Give them a lot of reasons to hire you! 22:30 – Panelist: If you aren’t excited to work there then it’s really telling. Searching for any opportunity just to grow is okay but it will be telling to your possible future employers. 23:40 – Chuck: Nader talked about standing out, and here you are talking about the same thing. Nobody goes to this level of effort to get a job at a company. 24:13 – Lucas: Do you think this applies to the big companies like Facebook or Google? 24:28 – Nader: I think these same principles do apply. When you start thinking about these big co

Oct 16, 201844 min

RRU 032: "The most important lessons I've learned after a year of working with React" with Tomas Eglinskas

Panel: Charles Max Wood (DevChat T.V.)Nader Dabit (Poland) Special Guests: Tomas Eglinskas In this episode, the panel talks with guest speaker, Tomas Eglinskas, and the panel talks to him about an article he wrote via Free Code Camp Medium. Currently, Tomas is a software developer at Zenitech. The panel and the guest dive-into lessons that not only apply to being a developer, but great life lessons that everyone can learn from. Check-out today’s episode! Show Topics: 1:18 – Chuck: Our special guest is Tomas Eglinskas. We want to talk to you about your article you wrote on the Free Code Camp Medium. How do you get something posted/published there? 1:29 – Tomas – It’s not that hard to get something published there. You can send your articles via email and they will publish it. You can get feedback and resend it, and perhaps they will publish it. 2:06 – Chuck: Quincy and you are besties, right? 2:11 – Chuck: We should get Quincy on this show. 2:21 – Chuck: How did you get into React? 2:25 – Tomas: How I got into React is a bit interesting. It started at the university; at first it was really, really hard for me. Time pressed on and I got hooked. It’s really, really fun. That’s how it initially started. 3:06 – Chuck: Article is titled: “The Most Important Lessons I’ve Learned After a Year of Working with React.” 3:18 – Tomas: What started behind it: I was doing my bucket list. I wanted to publish something at some point. I wanted to try to write and share something from my side of things. I wanted to prove to myself that I can/could. 4:05 – Nader: What do you do now with React? 4:13 – Tomas: We do everything: frontend and backend. In my company we usually use everything with React with production and with my own projects. I have tried Angular but I like React best. 4:45 – Chuck: I am curious...How do you get past that? Where my way is the right way. 5:10 – Thomas: That sentence came from when I was learning it. People would say: this is the way, or someone else would say: no, this is the way. People are afraid of doing their own projects and using the technology. Finding information and figure out what is right and what is wrong, but you eventually figure out your own opinion. There are so many opinions and tutorials and it’s frustrating, because there are too many things to learn. 6:26 – Chuck: Nader, what is the right way to do it? 6:33 – Nader: Yeah, I agree. It’s hard to decipher. What is right or what is wrong? How did you come to your conclusions? My best practices might not be the best practices for someone else. 7:18 – Tomas: Everyone is learning all the time. Their experiences are different. You have to decide what is best for the long-term. At least for me, it was practice and learning and reading from other people; from podcasts, articles, etc. I am open to say that I am not right, but want to know why it’s not “right.” Always trying, always making mistakes. I guess something like that. 8:42 – Nader: Don’t stick to the basics and become advanced. In any career right now you don’t know how to do everything, but to do one thing (topic) really well. The generalists aren’t the people they are hiring; they are hiring the specialists. 9:24 – Tomas comments. 9:37 – Chuck: There is something to be said – I think it’s good to know general things, but you are right. They are hiring the specialists. They are going to look at you differently than other people. You like your thinking challenged a bit. Where do you go to do that to upgrade your skills? 10:18 – Tomas: The silliest one is going to interiors. That’s the fastest way of feedback: what is right or wrong about my code. Going to conferences and Meetups, and doing projects with someone else. I was doing a project with a friend – everybody used Java – but we all used it differently. We all worked together and challenged each other. 11:43 – Chuck: Talking to people – asking them: how do you do this, or why do you do it this way? 12:01 – Tomas: Don’t be shy and have a presence. I guess in America there are a lot of Meetups, in my country we don’t. In the States you have the people who do the tutorials, and such. You can be challenged everyday. 12:40 – Chuck: It depends on where you are. Utah we have a strong community. It’s interesting to say. There was a talk given my Miles Forest at a conference. He would drive to Seattle to be apart of a users group to be apart of it – he would drive 2-3 hours to do this. Eventually, he made his own user group. 13:55 – Nader: I am here in Europe now. I have seen a lot of events going on. Just all of the countries I have heard of different events. I haven’t heard about Lithuania, where you are at Tomas. 14:28 – Chuck: Get A Coder Job. Find Meetups – I will tell people to do this. They will say: There aren’t any in my area. I tell them to type in different search words. To me, it’s telling because it’s “just TRY it!” You never know what will be out there. Go look and see if there is something out there for you. 15:28 – Nader

Oct 9, 201846 min

RRU 031: "Real-time Editable Datagrid In React" with Peter Mbanugo

Panel: Charles Max WoodLucas ReisJustin Bennett Special Guests: Peter Mbanugo In this episode, the panel talks with guest speaker, Peter Mbanugo. Peter is a computer software specialist who works with Field Intelligence and writes technical articles for Progress Software and a few others. He studied at SMC University and currently resides in Nigeria. They talk about his creation, Hamoni Sync, and article, Real-time editable data grid in React. Also, other topics such as Offline-First, Speed Curve, Kendo UI are talked about, too. Check out today’s episode Show Topics: 1:30 – Chuck: Let’s talk about what you built and how it works. Topic: Real-time editable data grid in React. 1:40 – Peter: Real time editing. It allows you to edit and have the data go across the different devices. Synchronizing your applications. For the 2:47 – I saw that you built also the... 2:58 – Peter: Yes, I built that with Real-time. Most of the time I have to figure out how to build something to go across the channel, such as the message. Then I built the chats. Next month 4:33 – Justin: It says that it can go offline. That is challenging. How are you going about that? 4:51 – Peter answers the question. Peter: When you loose connections and when the network comes back on then it will try to publish anything to the server while offline. If you are trying to initialize the... 5:42 – Awesome. 5:45 – Peter continues his thoughts. 5:56 – Lucas: This is really interesting. Form something really simple to tackle this problem. I have gotten into so many problems. Congratulations on at least having the courage to try such a system. 6:35 – Justin: When you have someone interacting with one of these applications, lose connectivity, is the service handling this behind the scenes? 6:56 – Peter: Yes. Peter goes into detail. 7:19 – Justin: Neat. That would be interesting to dig more into that. 7:35 – Lucas: I had a friend who sent me links and I was like WHOAH. It’s not an easy task. 7:57 – Peter: Yes, offline – I am learning each and everyday. There are different ways to go about it. Then I go write something about conflict free of different types. I thought that was the way to go. I didn’t want it to be something of the declines. 8:50 – Lucas: How did React work for you? 9:24 – Peter answers the question. 9:58 – Panelist: I was trying to synchronize the system. There are 2 types: Operational Transformations and CRDTs. It’s a really hard problem. 10:35 – Lucas: Now we have multiple devices and they can be far away from each other. Updates to send to the same server. I think that this is really complicated world. Even consider new techniques that we use in RI. You have a long in process. You need to react to them. Maybe dates that you cannot get. Hard problem we are solving now. 11:56 –Justin: Even interacting with applications that ... it has made our products that aren’t approachable if someone doesn’t have a good Internet connection. Synchronizing connections while offline. So you can have offline support. These are problems that we can resolve hopefully. 13:01 – Lucas: It affects everyone. Back in Brazil we had problems with connections, because it’s connections. Now I live in NY but the subway my connection is hurt. 13:40 – Peter: Yes, I agree. Peter talks about his connections being an issue while living in Africa. 14:52 – Justin: How does that affect your development workflow? 15:08 – Peter answers the question. 17:23 – Justin: Shout-out to the Chrome team. Tool called LIGHTHOUSE. It can test for accessibility, SEOs and etc. Good same defaults and trying to test Mobile First. When I was learning about performance I wasn’t thinking about the types of devices that people would use. The edits tab really helps think about those things. 18:41 – Digital Ocean’s Advertisement 19:18 – Justin: Any tools to help test your download speeds or anything authentication tools? 19:36 – Peter answers this question. 20:15 – Panelist asks the same question to Lucas. 20:22 – Lucas: interesting question. Even though the website was doing pretty well we were in the dark. We did a huge migration and it wasn’t clear about the performance. So my first mission here was start using a tool called SPEED CURVE. It only gets better. For a company who needs to acquire a tool SPEED CURVE is great. They have the LIGHTHOUSE measurements in their dashboards. So it can follow through time your scores and all of your analysis. These are the tools we use today. They have both synthetic and real user monitoring. So when we are measuring things on our Chrome it is a picture of your machine (biased picture) they make it both synthetic and film your page and compare through time. Analyze your assets. Some code on your application and collects statistics for each user. Relic I have used before, too. I do believe those tools are of great help. I am sure there are opensource initiatives, but I haven’t played 22:56 – Peter: Have you tried...? 23:07 – Lucas continues. LIGHTHOUSE. 23:56 – Ju

Oct 2, 201851 min

RRU 030: "React State Museum" with Gant Laborde

Panel: Charles Max WoodLucas ReisJustin Bennett (guest host) Special Guests: Gant Laborde In this episode, the panel talks with Gant who has been programming for twenty years. In the past, he has been an adjunct professor and loves to teach. Finally, he talks at conferences and enjoys sharing his ideas. The panel talks about the React State Museum, among many other topics, such as: React Native, Flux, Redux, Agile, and XState. Show Topics: 1:24 – Chuck: What do you do? 2:02 – Chuck and Gant: We met at React Rally at 2016. 2:17 – Gant: I have my own sticker branding with a friend in Japan who is genius. She draws all these characters. They are my business card now. 2:41 – Chuck: React State Museum- talk about its brief history and what it is? 2:54 – Gant: React is this beautiful thing of passing these functional capsules around and managing them. Once you start creating another component, the question is how do you actually manage all of these components? We are all so happy to be on the cutting edge, but state management systems come up and die so fast. For like Facebook, there are 2 people who understand Flux. What happens is Redux is the one thing that shows up and... 6:34 – Chuck: I want to say...I think we need to change the topic. You said that JavaScript USED to be bad at classes, but it’s still bad at classes! 6:52 – Gant: Yep. 7:21 – Chuck: Typescript gets us close-ish. 7:31 – Chuck: Do you get feedback on the library? 8:12 – Gant: The requests that I’ve got - it’s from people who are better at (that0 than me. I wanted to test the lines of code. But that’s unfair because there are a lot of things to do. It really was a plan but what happens is – components that are used in this example is that in this node module... 9:41 – Panel: This is an interesting topic. When you assess any technology...if you are not a technology expert than you really can’t say. That’s interesting that you are doing this an open-source way. 10:25 – Gant: I am a huge fan of this vs. that. I am okay with say “this” one wins and “that” one looses. I don’t declare a winner cause it’s more like a Rosetta Stone. I had to find pitfalls and I respect that for the different perspectives. At the end of the day I do have opinions. But there is no winner. They are all the same and they are all extremely different. Are you trying to teach someone in one day? I learned Redux in 2 different days. 12:00 – Panel: Is there a library that helps with X, Y, Z, etc. 12:16 – Gant: I love for teaching and giving people a great start. I just set state and live life. I had to show what X is like. 13:59 – Chuck: Like this conversation about frameworks and which framework to use. Everyone was using Redux, because it was more or less what we wanted it to do. But at the time it cleaned up a bunch of code. Now we have all these other options. We are figuring out... How to write JavaScript if web assembly really took off? Do I write React with X or with Y. And how does this affect all of this? We had all of these conversations but we haven’t settled on the absolute best way to do this. 15:50 – Panel: This is great, and I think this is from the community as a whole. 17:20 – Chuck: I need to ask a question. Is this because the requirements on the frontend has changed? Or... I think we are talking about these state management systems, and this is what Lucas is talking about. 17:45 – Gant: I think it’s both. 18:43 – Panel: Websites have gotten bigger. We have always been pushing CSS. Panelist mentions Facebook Blue, among other things. What does your state look like? What does your validation look like? We are on so many different devices, and so on. 20:00 – Gant: I agree to echo everything that you all have said. I think the expectations are tighter now; that we have less drift. People are being more cognoscente and asking what is our brand. And it’s about brand consistency. And we are expecting more out of our technology, too. We keep pushing the envelope. What about these features? We want to be feature rich, and pushing these envelopes – how can we build more faster with less complexity while building it. You have to put that complexity somewhere. It’s interesting to watch. 22:00 – Chuck: How do we use this React State Museum...where are we going next? 22:19 – Gant: It’s a loaded question. Being able to ID new and interesting concepts. If you had a terrible version and Redux comes along, Redux is great for some companies but not all. You won’t see bugs that are crazy, there is a middle-wear, and maybe for your team going into Redux will make things more manageable. 25:25 – Advertisement – Digital Ocean 26:05 – Panel: Understanding your problem is the first thing to do. Talking about evolutionary architecture – to build your software to evolve. What does tha fit really well? So if you have to pick something new you are in a good position. What are my needs? Don’t look too much forward or 27:38 – Chuck: Advice on looking at your problem-sets? 27:52 – Panel: W

Sep 25, 20181h 5m

RRU 029: Christopher Buecheler: "Getting Ready To Teach? Lessons learned from building an 84-tutorial software course"

Panel: - https://twitter.com/cmaxw?ref_src=twsrc%255Egoogle%257Ctwcamp%255Eserp%257Ctwgr%255Eauthor- Lucas Reis (NY)- Nader Dabit Special Guests: http://cwbuecheler.com In this episode, the panel talks with http://cwbuecheler.com who is a web developer and moved into JavaScript in 2000. Christopher runs his own business, and records and edits videos among many other responsibilities. He also has a lot of hobbies, and guitars are one of them. Check out today’s episode where the panel and Christopher talk about how to form a tutorial course from start to finish. Show Topics: 2:38 – Chuck: I always am fascinated by how there are a lot of programmers who are musicians. 3:00 – Panelist: Yes, I agree. Coding takes creativity. People who are programmers are surprisingly into different arts where it asks for the person’s creativity. 3:17 – Panelist: Video games, music, cocktails, etc. 4:05 – Guest: Yes, for a while I liked to make beer. My current kitchen doesn’t allow for it now, though. 4:25 – Chuck: So your 84/86 tutorial course... 4:46 – Guest: I liked to be one or two weeks ahead. Now building the entire app, instead of doing it week-to-week. 5:35 – Chuck: What is the process like – building these videos? 5:51 – Guest: I try to focus on MVP products that are super easy, and that aren’t too complicated. For example, Music List. Add albums and artists, and see other people’s lists. It ended up being a long tutorial. The process: I build the app, rebuild the app from scratch, I start with a script, read the pretty version and have the marked-down one for my use. The script goes up as the text tutorial. Do my video editing in https://www.adobe.com/products/premiere.html?ef_id=W6K5tAAAAKzsP-f1%3A20180919210348%3As&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI_Onk6_vH3QIVBgppCh1aAwEVEAAYASAAEgIu8vD_BwE&mv=search&s_kwcid=AL%213085%213%21247425965201%21e%21%21g%21%21adobe%2520premier&sdid=KKQOM. 7:55 – Question from panel. 8:52 – Panelist: I have found that extremely hard to do. 9:29 – Chuck talks about his process of recording his tutorials. Chuck: I don’t have a script; I just walk through it as I am going along. You can get it transcribed, which I have done in the past. I have a license for https://www.adobe.com/products/premiere.html?ef_id=W6K5tAAAAKzsP-f1%3A20180919210348%3As&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI_Onk6_vH3QIVBgppCh1aAwEVEAAYASAAEgIu8vD_BwE&mv=search&s_kwcid=AL%213085%213%21247425965201%21e%21%21g%21%21adobe%2520premier&sdid=KKQOM. 11:04 – Panelist: I never recorded a tutorial before but I have written a lot of blog posts. I reviewed it, and reviewing it is a very interesting take. I learn a lot in the process. The things cement in my mind while reviewing. Videos you have the real-time thing going on. 12:00 – Guest adds additional comments. 13:39 – Chuck chimes in. Chuck: We really appreciate you leaving the mistakes in. 14:11 – Guest: Yes, they watch you debug. 14:20 – Panelist: Most of your tutorials are beginner focused, right? 14:23 – Guest: Yes. Christopher goes into detail here. 17:13 – Chuck chimes in. Chuck: My thought is to learn x, y, z in 1 hour. 17:35 – Guest: People are attracted to shorter tutorials. 5-minute React. Don’t build an 84 tutorial course. They are built up to digestible chunks. It’s not wall-to-wall coding, because that would seem overwhelming to me. Let’s learn something in a bite-size chunk. 18:41 – Panelist: https://egghead.io Because of their guidelines they do good work. 1-5 minutes long tutorials. You can get a good run-down and a good introduction. 19:24 – Panelist: You can find it really easy. You don’t need a 1-hour video. 19:40 – Chuck: Yeah, to break it up in small sections. People will see this in my e-book course. 20:02 – Panelist: Do people give you a lot of feedback? What parts of this React course do people have most difficulty with? 20:21 – Guest: It’s not React based, it’s actually other issues. 210:6 – Guest: https://redux.js.org. 21:53 – Guest: What’s the best way to use props? Where should I put my Logic versus... 22:15 – Panelist: This is very similar when I teach... 22:46 – Guest: I have seen people say that if you truly see how this works in JavaScript then you really understand how JavaScript works. React can be confusing if you are using class-based components. You have to use binder or error functions, etc. It becomes confusing at times. Another area you mentioned was state: component state or your application state. Two different things, but they interact with each other. Understanding the difference between the two. Should I store it in this store or...? 24:09 – https://www.digitalocean.com 24:47 – Panelist: Were you doing this as a side thing? How do you keep up in the industry if you aren’t making “real” projects? 25:25 – Guest gives his answer plus his background with companies, clients, and programs. Guest: I really wanted to build my own company, when I was thinking of ideas I came across some great brainstorming ideas. I have a lot of traffic coming to

Sep 18, 201845 min

RRU 028: “Microstates.js – Composable State Primitive” with Taras Mankovski & Charles Lowell

Panel: Charles (Chuck) Max WoodLucas Reis Special Guests: Charles Lowell & Taras Mankovski In this episode, the panel talks with two special guests Charles and Taras. Charles Lowell is a principle engineer at Frontside, and he loves to code. Taras works with Charles and joined Frontside, because of Charles’ love for coding. There are great personalities at Frontside, which are quite diverse. Check out this episode to hear about microstates, microstates with react, OM, Redux, and much more! Show Topics: 2:32 – Chuck: Why do we need it (microstates) and why do we need another state library? 2:42 – Charles answers Chuck’s question. Charles goes to explain that if you need to increment the number, you don’t need to do it with microstates. 3:41 – Another suggestion is given on this topic. 5:13 – The application isn’t hard in-of-itself. 6:45 – Chuck makes comments, and asks: It seems to be more like object-oriented approach? 7:44 – Objects compose much more easily. When you are dealing with pure functional code you are de-structuring and restructuring. Check-out LENSES. 9:53 – Taras makes comments. What were your inspirations for microstate? 10:27 – Charles: The personal journey it started for me started back in 2015. When I was working primarily in Ember.” Charles makes a reference to OM, check it out! 15:40 – Charles: “We had a goal in mind, and we kept that goal on mind and kept ‘dipping into the candy jar.’ We had to learn about the functional mumbo-jumbo. The goal was never to use those things. Whatever tools we needed from the functional world, we borrowed from freely.” 16:50 – Chuck asks a question. 17:00 – Taras answers chuck’s question. 19:58 – Charles (guest) keeps the conversation going and goes into detail about how to handle different scenarios with different tools. 21:00 – Question: How do you think microstate enters into this situation? 21:45 – The design of microstate is that it gives you a solution that is flexible. Other options aren’t as comprehensive like where you can use it; for example Redux. 23:49 – Another way to say it is...check-out this timestamp to hear other ideas about this topic. 24:53 – Digital Ocean’s Advertisement 25:28 – Conversation is back into swing. Question: There is a very interesting design with people who are not developers. What are the benefits or do they play together? 26:41 – As a frontend shop, there is a very clean mapping between state machine and type. The type corresponds to the state transitions, among others. For every state you have a class, and you have a method for every transition. It’s a great design tool. 29:07 – We don’t talk about states very often, right now, but in the near future we will. The valuable goals for us are to give people tools that will work correctly for them. To help people be more productive that is a great goal. One thing from people, I’ve learned, is to ask yourself ‘what needs to change?’ 33:03 – Now you are touching on the subject of teaching. What about mentoring with microstates? 33:26 – Success (to one of the panelists) is defined of how confident a person is with X program or tool. If they have ease, then they are on the right path. With mentoring in microstates the design speaks its purpose, the transitions are clear, so the panelist feels that he doesn’t really have to go into a lot of detail explaining the features. 36:25 – In the React community... 39:12 – Curious: Would we really be able to distribute state like how we distribute components? What is out-of-reach now, is that we have the state machine for the autocomplete component. 40:27 – Chuck: Is there a way to test microstates? 41:28 – Shameless plug...check it out! 42:31 – Anything else? Microstates and Microstates with React. 42:48 – If anyone is interested in this, then we are interested in talking with these people and/or companies. 43:29 – Let’s go to Picks! 43:31 – Advertisement for Charles Max Wood’s course! Links: Kendo UIOMFrontsideReduxMicrostatesMicrostates with ReactTaras Mankovski’s TwitterTaras Mankovski’s GitHubTaras Mankovski’s LinkedInTaras Mankovski’s Frontside BioCharles Lowell’s TwitterCharles Lowell’s GitHubCharles Lowell’s Frontside BioSchedule OnceRuby on RailsAngularGet A Coder Job Sponsors: Kendo UIDigital Ocean Get A Coder Job Picks: Charles (Chuck) Framework Summit – Chuck will be talking at this conference in UT.Ebook – Finding a Job. Prelaunch in August. Final version launches on Labor Day. Lucas Take care of your health!Martial Arts and JujitsuNutritionCharles (guest)Fantasy Land JS - Tom HardingFuncadelic.JSTaras (guest)BigTestSpecial Guests: Charles Lowell and Taras Mankovski. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacyBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/react-round-up--6102072/support.

Sep 11, 201846 min

RRU 027: "Why I Prefer Functional Components" with Josh St. Jacque

Panel: Charles Max WoodNader Dabit Special Guests: Josh Saint Jacque In this episode, the panel talks with Josh St. Jacque who is married with two kids and with one on the way. He is a professional product manager and software engineer. Ruby on Rails got him started on his career path and journey. Check-out today’s episode where the panel discusses functional and class components, among many other things! Show Topics: 2:12 – Let’s have a conversation about functional components. 3:20 – Chuck to Nader: “What is your preference between class and functional components?” 4:18 – Nader to Josh: “What is your take on pure components” 5:20 – Who makes these architectural decisions at T-Mobile? 5:46 – Josh: It really depends on the team and the project depending on how they want to proceed. Josh mentions Angular among other things. 7:38 – Chuck to Josh: It seems that through your post you are trying to make code easier? 8:01 – Josh’s background is Ruby, and basic principles. 9:12 – Question directed to Josh about components. 11:05 – Functional components. 11:35 – Some say that functional components are faster/slower than others. 12:50 – When do you know you need/do not need a functional component? 13:15 Josh uses functional component as his default but, of course, there are different factors for him to consider. The presentational stuff is separated. Sometimes he does convert it over. 14:21 – Let’s talk through the log post. 18:15 – Digital Ocean’s mid-roll advertisement! 20:58 – The panel talks about pros and cons of the different components. 21:33 – Ruby on Rails 22:06 – “Why aren’t you using...?” I understand what the tradeoffs are and will change when that time comes. 23:03 – Is there a certain thing that you would tell them about React applications? Is it more just best practice and it doesn’t really change their learning of the framework? 23:28 – Whenever you get comfortable then start exploring another pattern. When you get really comfortable, then you might never see the tradeoffs by using other options. It’s good for a developer to always be open-minded. Keep yourself uncomfortable, and don’t have just one tool in your belt. Try functional components just to keep it fresh. 25:00 – Josh answers a question from Chuck. 27:00 – Josh talks about things to avoid, etc. 27:42 – Nader: “Have you seen the new features and possibly the new features that will be added on later?” 28:01 – Josh has started using new features and he talks about the pros and cons of these. 29:55 – Chuck to Josh: “Are there any features to the components that you wish they would add?” 30:08 – Josh: I never really have run into anything, yet, that is too frustrating. I really like that it is a little limited, and no real big complaints. I would imagine that there are good components around function. 31:42 – Nader to Josh: “Any other topics?” 31:54 – One thing Josh would like to say is that you and your team are on the same page. You don’t want to get into fights on what style you are using. You don’t want to constantly be changing the code. Use one thing at a time or it will get real messy too quick. One example of this is from Ruby: hash rockets. 33:35 – How to find Josh online...look at links below! Links: Kendo UIRuby on RailsJosh St. Jacque’s LinkedInJosh St. Jacque’s MediumJosh St. Jacque’s GitHubJosh St. Jacque’s Article on MediumT-MobileAngularGet A Coder Job Sponsors: Kendo UISentryDigital Ocean Get A Coder Job Picks: *Charles Conference in October (UT) Frameworks SummitPodcast MovementCESHome Depot Tool Rental *Nader “A Tale of Four Components” by Pearl LatteierNader’s Blog *Josh Video Game Soundtracks – SpotifyVS Code ExtensionWeight Loss – Ice Cream – EnlightenedSpecial Guest: Josh St. Jacque. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacyBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/react-round-up--6102072/support.

Sep 4, 201843 min

RRU 026: Building React Applications in a Monorepo with Luis Vieira

Panel: Charles Max WoodNader DabitLucas Reis Special Guests: Luis Vieira In this episode, the React Round Up panelists talk to Luis Vieira about his “Building large scale react applications in a monorepo”. Luis works in Portugal at a company called FarFetch as a front-end architect where he works mostly on JavaScript and infrastructure. They talk about the rationale behind his article, shared components, and what Lerna is and what is does. They also touch on Semantic Versioning, the difference between monolithic application and a monorepo, and more! In particular, we dive pretty deep on: Luis introFront-end architect at FarFetchWorks with JavaScriptRationale behind his articleDividing a project in multiple packagesSharing components between multiple applicationsEditing shared componentsWorking in a monorepoSimplifies managing between different projectsRequires more toolingWhat is Lerna?If you put multiple packages in one repo, how do you deal with things like the Git history getting mixed up?VersioningHow does Semantic Versioning interplay with monorepos?What if you’re not using Semantic Versioning?Using the conventional commitHow is the state of CI tooling regarded?He is currently more focused on ReactWhat he is experimenting with currentlyBuilding monolithic appsMonolithic aps VS monorepoBazelNrwl NxAnd much, much more! Links: “Building large scale react applications in a monorepo”FarFetchJavaScriptLernaSemantic VersioningReactBazelNrwl NxLuis’s Medium@luisvieira_gmrLuis’s Newsletter Sponsors Kendo UIDigital Ocean Get a Coder Job Picks: Charles Take some time offTake a step back to reevaluate Nader Free workshop with Tyler McGinnis to come soon. Keep an eye out at Nader’s Twitter or Tyler’s NewsletterReact Native EU Lucas Sketch.systems Luis Vue CLISpecial Guest: Luis Vieira. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacyBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/react-round-up--6102072/support.

Aug 28, 201844 min

RRU 025: 2 Years of React Native at Artsy with Orta Therox

Panel: Nader DabitSia KaramalegosLucas 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 introReact Native and JavaScriptReact Native at Artsy blog postReact Native at Airbnb blog postSuspenseWeb engineeringTaking different approachesBeing a better way to build an iOS appAdoption coming from a native perspectiveDoes the size of the team matter?Product verticalsHow do you balance the need for professional development VS what’s needed at the moment?Vertically oriented teamsProfessional growth after the changeGraphQL APITraining everyone over multiple yearsReactAllowing anyone to contribute anywhere within their domainHow they describe their native engineersMore excited about React Native now than when it was releasedArtsy React Native ConferenceAnd much, much more! Links: ArtsyReact NativeJavaScriptReact Native at ArtsyReact Native at [email protected]’s GitHubArtsy Engineering Sponsors Kendo UIDigital Ocean FreshBooks Picks: Nader AWS AmplifyArtsy Engineering blogNader’s GitHub Sia Styled componentsWeb Summer Camp Lucas MDN web docs Orta vscode-inline-typesCoalition for Queens (C4Q)Special Guest: Orta Therox. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacyBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/react-round-up--6102072/support.

Aug 21, 20181h 4m

RRU 024: Webamp with Jordan Eldredge

Panel: Sia KaramalegosLucas 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 introStudied music (opera) in collegeForced himself to learn PHP and MySQLCommon in front-end developing to have people with diverse backgroundsWhy do you think it’s so common to have diverse backgrounds?Front-end web development is very youngSelf-taught developersWhat is Webamp?Reimplementation of Winamp in JavaScriptWhat is Winamp?What did you originally write Webamp in?What was the inspiration for creating Webamp?CSS SpritesWanting to recreate Winamp skinsjQuery originallyRewrote in “vanilla” JavaScriptThe process of learning real JavaScriptManaging transitions VS managing stateReact with ReduxDo you believe your struggle with “vanilla” JS made you more aware of what React really brings?You Might Not Need Redux by Dan AbramovHow did you deal with the audio API?The thing he loves about side-projectsNot having a deadlineUsing a Redux middlewareAnd much, much more! Links: WebampMySQLWinampJavaScriptjQueryReactReduxYou Might Not Need Redux by Dan AbramovJordaneldredge.com@captbaritoneJordan’s GitHub Sponsors Kendo UIDigital Ocean FreshBooks Picks: Sia Google Docs Lucas Timing App Jordan @winampskinsInspiring OnlineWACUPSpecial Guest: Jordan Eldredge. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacyBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/react-round-up--6102072/support.

Aug 14, 201850 min

RRU 023: High-Performance GraphQL on Postgres with Hasura Tanmai Gopal

Panel: Nader DabitSia 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 introFounder of HasuraHas been building applications for about a decadeFocus on functional programmingHow did you get into React?Using Redux and GaphQLHow long has Hasura been around?What inspired you to build Hasura?Eliminating the middle layerThe elevator pitch of HasuraDo you offer a database as a service?Slightly different than writing your own resolversWhat Haskell does to PostgresQuery variables in GraphQLPrepared statements in PostgresMaking queries from apsGraphQL ORM for appsBeing aware of the databaseHow does authorization work?PostGraphile, Prisma, and HasuraHow do PostGraphile and Prisma compare to Hasura?And much, much more! Links: HasuraReactReduxGaphQLHaskellPostgresPostGraphilePrisma@tanmaigoTanmai’s BlogTanmai’s GitHub@HasuraHQ Sponsors Kendo UIDigital Ocean FreshBooks Picks: Nader React Native EU talk Sia Gatsby.js Tanmai Building a new toolSpecial Guest: Tanmai Gopal. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacyBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/react-round-up--6102072/support.

Aug 7, 201842 min

RRU 022: RxJS and redux-observable with Tracy Lee, Jay Phelps, and Ben Lesh

Panel: Nader DabitSia 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 introThisDotRxJSWhat is an observable?What problems are observables trying to solve?JavaScriptLearn observablesMaking everything functional in the libraryMeans of encapsulating values you want pushed at you later onDownside to observablesLittle bit of a learning curveMost common uses for getting started with observablesCan Promises and Async/Await be mixed with observables?What do Promises and Async/Await allow you to do?Defer functionAwait values coming in from observablesWhat do you like about RxJS?Allows you to work with all different languagesRxJS is very versatilengrx“Rx all the things”What inspired you to write Redux observable?Redux-observableRxJS docsEpicsAnd much, much more! Links: ThisDotJavaScriptRxJSngrxReduxRedux-observableRxJS docs@ladyleetTracy’s GitHub@BenLeshBen’s MediumBen’s GitHub@_jayphelpsJay’s GitHubRxJS GitHub@ThisDotLabs Sponsors Kendo UIDigital Ocean FreshBooks Picks: Nader JSCamp Sia Sprint by Jake Knapp Tracy Fashionnova.comFrancesca’s Jay denoapplitools Ben react-streamsStackBlitzSpecial Guests: Ben Lesh, Jay Phelps, and Tracy Lee. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacyBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/react-round-up--6102072/support.

Jul 31, 201858 min

RRU 021: Building SharePoint Extensions with JavaScript with Vesa Juvonen LIVE at Microsoft Build

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 introWhat is SharePoint?Has existed since 2009People either know about it and use it or don’t know what it isBaggage from a customization perspectiveWhy JavaScript developers?Modernizing developmentSharePoint FrameworkMicrosoft Ignite ConferenceIs there a market for it?System integratorsAngular Element and ReactReact for SharePoint Framework back-endSupports VueReact Round Up PodcastHow do you maintain isolation?What’s the best way to get started with SharePoint extensions?Office 365 Developer ProgramSharePoint documentationSharePoint YouTubeWhat kinds of extensions are you seeing people build?And much, much more! Links: SharePointJavaScriptSharePoint FrameworkMicrosoft Ignite ConferenceAngular ElementReactVueReact Round Up PodcastOffice 365 Developer ProgramSharePoint documentationSharePoint YouTube @OfficeDev@vesajuvonenVesa’s blogVesa’s GitHub Sponsors Angular Boot CampDigital Ocean FreshBooks Picks: Charles Zig ZiglarConversations with My Dog by Zig ZiglarPimsleur Lessons on Audible Vesa Armada by Ernest ClineSpecial Guest: Vesa Juvonen. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacyBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/react-round-up--6102072/support.

Jul 24, 201830 min

RRU 020: How to Get a Job (Especially for New Developers) with Charles Max Wood

Panel: Charles Max WoodLucas ReisSia 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/15MinutesWhy they want to touch on this topicGet used to failureCodeSchoolHack Night meetupGoing to meetups to slowly start networkingMaking friends with developers in your communityNetworking before you need a jobLearning and helping mindsetDon’t be afraid to ask if people are hiringHow did you figure out what your target company was?Checking out the culture of a companyUnderstanding the travel involvedFigure out what you like in a job as you goAlways be looking at your portfolio and resumeGain as much experience as you can everywhere you goStick to learning one language/systemReally master the languages/systems of the company you want to usesShow initiativeFinding a champion at your target companyAnd much, much more! Links: DevChat.tv/15MinutesCodeSchoolHack Night meetupCharles’ CourseHow to interview your interviewers blog postRuby Rogues Episode 184 Sponsors Kendo UIDigital Ocean FreshBooks Picks: Charles Orphan BlackHis Course Lucas The Best Software Engineering Paper You Haven’t Read Sia FamilyAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacyBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/react-round-up--6102072/support.

Jul 17, 20181h 16m

RRU 019: Error Tracking and Troubleshooting Workflows with David Cramer LIVE at Microsoft Build

Panel: Charles Max WoodAlyssa NichollWard 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 introFounder and CEO of SentryWhat is Sentry?Working with PHPDe-bugger for productionFocus on workflowGoal of SentryTriaging the problemWorkflow managementSentry started off as an open-source side projectInstrumentation for JavaScriptEmber, Angular, and npmGot their start in PythonLogsTotally open-sourceMost compatible with run-timeCan work with any languageDeep contextsDetermining the root causeAnd much, much more! Links: SentryJavaScriptEmberAngularnpmPythonSentry’s GitHub@getsentryDavid’s GitHubDavid’s Website@zeeg Sponsors Kendo UILoot CrateFreshBooks Picks: Charles Socks as Swag David VS CodeKubernetesSpecial Guest: David Cramer. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacyBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/react-round-up--6102072/support.

Jul 10, 201828 min

RRU 018: Evolving Patterns in React with Alex Moldovan

Panel: Charles Max WoodLucas ReisNader 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 11Lucas intro – works for Zocdoc as a senior front-end developerAlex introAt Fortech as an engineering managerCo-founder of JSHeroesHis article Evolving Patterns in ReactReact.createClass rather than ES6 classStarted working with React in 2015React and ReduxNobody knew how to actually build an application in React in the beginningMixinsWhat has replaced the idea of mixins?Higher Order ComponentsRender Props article by Michael JacksonImplicit with mixins to explicit with render propsWhat 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 17Error boundariesSuspenseServer-side renderingUsing the ConstructorEvolving patternsAnd much, much more! Links: React Round Up Episode 11ZocdocFortechJSHeroesJavaScriptEvolving Patterns in ReactReactReduxRender Props article by Michael JacksonReact ContextReact ConstructorAlex’s MediumAlex’s GitHub@alexnmoldovan Sponsors Kendo UILoot CrateFreshBooks Picks: Charles Star RealmsHogwarts Battles Lucas SpeedCurve Nader AWS AppSync GitHub RepoBuilding AI Enabled GraphQL Applications by Naderappsync-lambda-ai Alex GraphcoolPrismaTensorFlow.jsSpecial Guest: Alex Moldovan. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacyBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/react-round-up--6102072/support.

Jul 3, 20181h 0m

RRU 017: Cloud-Hosted DevOps with Ori Zohar and Gopinath Chigakkagari LIVE at Microsoft Build

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 introVSTS – Visual Studio Team ServicesVSTS gives developers the ability to be productiveDeveloper productivityWhat’s the first big step people should be taking if they’re getting into DevOps?The definition of DevOpsThe people and the processes as the most important pieceDevOps as the best practicesAutomating processesWhat people do when things go wrong is what really countsLetting the system take care of the problemsHave the developers work on what they are actually getting paid forTrend of embracing DevOpsShifting the production responsibility more onto the developer’sIncentivizing developersPeople don’t account for integrationContinuous integrationTrends on what customers are asking forSafetyDocker containersAnd much, much more! Links: AzureMicrosoft BuildVSTS@orizhrOri’s GitHubGopi’s GitHub@gopinach Sponsors Kendo UILinodeFreshBooks Picks: Charles .NET Rocks!Shure SM58 MicrophoneZoom H6 Ori FitbitPacific Northwest Hiking Gopinath Seattle, WASpecial Guests: Gopinath Chigakkagari and Ori Zohar. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacyBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/react-round-up--6102072/support.

Jun 26, 201850 min

RRU 016: React, Redux, and JavaScript Architecture with James Sinclair

Panel: Charles Max WoodSia KaramalegosNader 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 introReact, Redux, and JavaScript ArchitectureWhy were the people you are working with wary of leaving JavaScript?jQueryGreat article on explaining why we use ReactWhy React can be fastIs 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 advantagesWhat is your current stack of choice?DownshiftConditioner.jsMost React tutorials assume you’re working on a single-page web appSprinkles of jQueryLearning Redux helps to learn in a more functional wayFunctional programming as an influence to learn ReduxManaging stateHow do you convince someone to learn Redux?Thoughts on GraphQLApollo Server and PrismaStimulusApollo Link StateAnd much, much more! Links: React, Redux, and JavaScript ArchitectureSquizJavaScriptjQueryReactReduxDownshiftConditioner.jsGraphQLApollo ServerPrismaStimulusApollo Link Statejrsinclair.com@jrsinclairJames’ LinkedInJames’ GitHub Sponsors Kendo UILoot CrateFreshBooks Picks: Charles Being around family and friendsSpend your life doing the things that really matter Sia Artificial IntelligenceMachine Learning Nader React Native Training YouTube ChannelNader’s YouTube James Highland.jsFunctional ProgrammingSpecial Guest: James Sinclair. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacyBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/react-round-up--6102072/support.

Jun 19, 201854 min

RRU 015: Visual Studio Code with Rachel MacFarlane and Matt Bierner LIVE at Microsoft Build

Panel: Charles Max Wood Special Guests: Rachel MacFarlane and Matt Bierner In this episode, the React Round Up panelists discuss Visual Studio Code with Rachel MacFarlane and Matt Bierner, who are both developers on Visual Studio Code. They talk about what the workflow at Visual Studio Code looks like, what people can look forward to coming out soon, and how people can follow along the VS Code improvements on GitHub and Twitter. They also touch on their favorite extensions, like the Docker extension and the Azure extension and their favorite VS Code features. In particular, we dive pretty deep on: Rachel and Matt introMonth to month workflow of Visual Studio CodeVS Code JavaScript, TypeScript, and Mark Down supportWorking on GitHub and within the communityCheck out new features incrementally with insidersCommunity-driven workWhat is coming out in Visual Studio Code?GitHub helps to determine what they work onWorking on Grid ViewImproved settings UIHighlighting unused variables in your codeImprovements with JS DocsDartVisual Studio Extension APIHow do people follow along with the VS Code improvements?Follow along on GitHub and TwitterDownload VS Code InsidersHave a general roadmap of what the plan is for the yearTechnical debt weekWhat do you wish people knew about VS Code?Favorite extensionsDocker extension and Azure extensionAnd much, much more! Links: Visual Studio CodeJavaScriptTypeScriptDartVS Code GitHub@CodeVS Code InsidersDocker extensionAzure extensionRachel’s GitHubMatt’s GitHubMattBierner.com@mattbierner Sponsors LinodeAngular Boot CampFreshBooks Picks: Charles Orphan BlackAvengers: Infinity WarFishing Rachel GitLens Matt The Bronx WarriorsSpecial Guests: Matt Bierner and Rachel MacFarlane. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacyBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/react-round-up--6102072/support.

Jun 12, 201834 min

RRU 014: Razzle with Jared Palmer

Panel: Nader Dabit Special Guests: Jared Palmer In this episode of React Round Up, the panel discusses Razzle and other projects with Jared Palmer. Jared is the lead engineer at The Palmer Group, where he spends his time building apps and services for companies that have been underserved by the recent technological changes. They talk about what Razzle is, the benefit of server-side rendering, and the difficulties he faced putting this project together. They also touch on why he chose to create Razzle and some of his other projects like Backpack and After.js. In particular, we dive pretty deep on: Jared introHow he got into programmingFell into programming by accidentWhat is Razzle?Create React App with server-side renderingGatsbyGoal of RazzleWhat are the benefits of adding server-side rendering?The power of ReactNext.jsReact can hydrate once it renders on the serverRazzle is thin layer around 2 Webpack watch tasksHow do you handle routing?React RouterAfter.jsPerformance pros to server-side renderingIs an app built in Razzle still considered a single-page application?React ResolverWhat were the technical difficulties putting Razzle together?Why made you want to create this?Wanted direct control over the projectBackpackAnd much, much more! Links: The Palmer GroupRazzleCreate React AppGatsbyReactNext.jsWebpackReact RouterAfter.jsReact ResolverBackpackThe Palmer Group GitHubJared’s MediumJared’s GitHub@jaredpalmer Sponsors Kendo UIDigital OceanFreshBooks Picks: Nader Proton Native Jared Guess.jsGardenSpecial Guest: Jared Palmer. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacyBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/react-round-up--6102072/support.

Jun 5, 201848 min

RRU 013: Visual Studio Code and the VS Code Azure Extension with Matt Hernandez and Amanda Silver LIVE at Microsoft Build

Panel: Charles Max Wood Special Guests: Matt Hernandez and Amanda Silver In this episode, the JavaScript Jabber panelists discuss Visual Studio Code and the VS Code Azure Extension with Matt Hernandez and Amanda Silver at Microsoft Build. Amanda is the director of program management at Microsoft working on Visual Studio and VS Code. Matt works on a mix between the Azure and the VS Code team, where he leads the effort to build the Azure extensions in VS code, trying to bring JavaScript developers to Azure through great experiences in VS Code. They talk about what’s new in VS Code, how the Azure extension works, what log points are, and much more! In particular, we dive pretty deep on: Amanda introMatt introWhat’s new in VS Code?VS Code coreVS Live ShareShared TerminalNow have Linux supportLive Share is now public to the world for freeWhat would you use Shared Terminal for?Are there other things coming up in VS Code?Constantly responding to requests from the communityLive Share works for any languageHow does the Azure extension work?Azure App ServiceStorage extensionAzure Cosmos DBWhat are log points?All a part of a larger plan to create a better experience for JS developersVisual debuggersIs it the same plugin to support everything on Azure?Want to target specific services that node developers will take advantage ofAnd much, much more! Links: Visual StudioVS CodeAzureLive ShareAzure Cosmos DBMicrosoft BuildAzure App ServiceAmanda’s GitHub@amandaksilverMatt’s GitHub@fiveisprime Picks: Charles Orphan BlackShout out to VS Code teamBattle of the Books Matt The Customer-Driven Playbook by Travis LowdermilkThe Speed of Trust by Stephen M.R. CoveyYes, And by Kelly LeonardDigital Marketing For Dummies by Ryan DeissEd Gets His Power Back Kickstarter Amanda Microsoft Quantum Development Kit for Visual Studio CodeIggy Peck, ArchitectTek by Patrick McDonnellSpecial Guests: Amanda Silver and Matt Hernandez. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacyBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/react-round-up--6102072/support.

May 29, 201850 min

RRU 012: The Future of Higher Order Components and Render Props with Paul Gray

Panel: Nader Dabit Special Guests: Paul Gray In this episode of React Round Up, the panel discusses the future of higher order components and render props with Paul Gray. Paul is a software developer at an educational technology company called Learning Objects. They have a learning platform there that helps instructional designers create better contents. They talk about how he got into programming and React, when you would want to use HOCs and render props, and chainable components. In particular, we dive pretty deep on: Paul introReactHow long have you been working with React?How did you get into programming?TI-89 Calculators in high schoolSoftware engineering degree in collegeBig fan of HOCs when they came outChainable componentsChainable components APIPromisesAnatomy of render prop componentsTypeScriptasync/await GitHub GistUse casesTool to share reusable code in ReactHow long has this been in the works?With StateMappChain functionFunctional ProgrammingFunctional Programming in Scala by Paul ChiusanoAnd much, much more! Links: Learning ObjectsReactChainable componentsTypeScriptasync/await GitHub GistFunctional Programming in Scala by Paul ChiusanoPaul’s GitHubPaulGray.net Picks: Nader Viro ReactExpo blog Paul The Great Interior Design ChallengeLittle Tikes Red CarSpecial Guest: Paul Gray. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacyBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/react-round-up--6102072/support.

May 22, 201836 min

RRU 011: Simple React Patterns with Lucas Reis

Panel: Charles Max WoodCory House Special Guests: Lucas Reis In this episode of React Round Up, the panel discusses simple React patterns with Lucas Reis. Lucas works as a senior front-end developer at Zocdoc and previously worked in Brazil for an ecommerce company called B2W. He recently wrote a blog post about simple React patterns that really took off and became popular on the web. They talk about this blog post, what defines a successful pattern, and then they discuss the different patterns that he has discovered in his years of React programming. In particular, we dive pretty deep on: Lucas introTries to write blog posts as much as possibleSimple React Patterns blog postReactWhat does he mean by “successful” patterns?Three things that define good patternsDefine successful?The mix componentThe Container/Branch/View patternFirst successful pattern he has foundSeparation of concernsCommon concern: are we worried about mixing concerns?If/elseCan you encapsulate in the view?Pattern matchingReact loadableYou need to think of 3 states at leastHigher-order componentRender propsAnd much, much more! Links: ZocdocB2WSimple React Patterns blog postReactSimple Made Easy by Rich HickeyLucas’s GitHubLucas’s Blog@iamlucasreis Picks: Charles FullContactUdemy Cory Fluent confImmer Lucas PercyBe studying the languages and be inspired!Special Guest: Lucas Reis. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacyBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/react-round-up--6102072/support.

May 16, 20181h 1m