This Month in React

Join the Reactiflux communityRetsam19 and MapleLeaf are long-time Reactiflux MVPs who have spent countless hours helping out others in the community. Event MC'd by Carl Vitullo, and hosted on Reactiflux.MapleLeaf and Retsam19 are two of our resident TS experts and longtime server MVPs. Both are active in the open source community as highly skilled engineers, and Retsam19 moderates the official TypeScript Discord server. Through our conversation, we discussed how we got our starts in software development and our first jobs, the value we've gotten from the online communities we're a part of (and how tools like ChatGPT might affect that in the future!), the evolution of the JS ecosystem with Bun and Deno, and more.Some links referenced through the discussion:Hofstadter's LawGodel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden BraidRefactoring UIIf you found this valuable, one way you can help support Reactiflux is through buying one of the books we recommend! Most of these links have affiliate trackers, so we receive a portion of each sale. ★ Support this podcast ★

Join the Reactiflux communityMark Erikson and Lenz Weber-Tronic are long-time Reactiflux members and maintainers of Redux. Event MC'd by Carl Vitullo, and hosted on Reactiflux.Mark (@acemarke) has been primary maintainer of Redux for 6 years and led development of Redux Toolkit, which was a major step forward in usability for the ecosystem. He's approaching the end of his first year in a new role at Replay.io, a time-traveling browser debugger. Before that, he spent the majority of his career — over 13 years — at 1 company! Lenz (@phryneas) has been a software developer for 20 years, and has worked with Mark as a maintainer of Redux and Redux Toolkit since 2019. He contributed much of the TypeScript expertise that made RTK possible, and is the brains behind RTK Query. He's in the middle of changing jobs right now, from a consultancy in Berlin to Apollo, a well-known open source company.We talk about maintaining an open source library (and the challenges of providing correct TypeScript types!), what a job search is like later in your career, and more. Some links referenced through the discussion:Hyrum's LawLearning and Using TypeScript as an App Dev and a Library MaintainerWhy React Context is Not a "State Management" Tool (and Why It Doesn't Replace Redux)If you found this valuable, one way you can help support Reactiflux is through buying one of the books we recommend! Most of these links have affiliate trackers, so we receive a portion of each sale. ★ Support this podcast ★