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 intro
How he got into programming
Fell into programming by accident
What is Razzle?
Create React App with server-side rendering
Gatsby
Goal of Razzle
What are the benefits of adding server-side rendering?
The power of React
Next.js
React can hydrate once it renders on the server
Razzle is thin layer around 2 Webpack watch tasks
How do you handle routing?
React Router
After.js
Performance pros to server-side rendering
Is an app built in Razzle still considered a single-page application?
React Resolver
What were the technical difficulties putting Razzle together?
Why made you want to create this?
Wanted direct control over the project
Backpack
And much, much more!

Links:

The Palmer Group
Razzle
Create React App
Gatsby
React
Next.js
Webpack
React Router
After.js
React Resolver
Backpack
The Palmer Group GitHub
Jared’s Medium
Jared’s GitHub
@jaredpalmer

Sponsors

Kendo UI
Digital Ocean
FreshBooks

Picks:

Nader

Proton Native

Jared

Guess.js
Garden