JS Party
347 episodes - English - Latest episode: 4 days ago - ★★★★★ - 89 ratingsYour weekly celebration of JavaScript and the web. Panelists include Jerod Santo, Feross Aboukhadijeh, Kevin Ball, Amelia Wattenberger, Nick Nisi, Divya Sasidharan, Mikeal Rogers, Chris Hiller, and Amal Hussein.
Topics discussed include the web platform (Chrome, Safari, Edge, Firefox, Brave, etc), front-end frameworks (React, Solid, Svelte, Vue, Angular, etc), JavaScript and TypeScript runtimes (Node, Deno, Bun), web animation, SVG, robotics, IoT, and much more. If JavaScript and/or the web touch your life, this show’s for you.
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Episodes
Building LLM agents in JS
July 18, 2024 18:30 - 59 minutes - 54.9 MBKBall and returning guest Tejas Kumar dive into the topic of building LLM agents using JavaScript. What they are, how they can be useful (including how Tejas used home-built agents to double his podcasting productivity) & how to get started building and running your own agents, even all on your own device with local models.
The Ember take on recent hot topics
July 11, 2024 16:00 - 1 hour - 76.4 MBKBall takes another dive into recent hot topics around reactivity and build systems, this time with three members of the Ember core team. They also talk about some of the reasons why the Ember community has been so long lived, how thinking about upgradeability leads to universality, and how features first built specifically for frameworks make their way into the language specification or universal libraries.
A standard library for JavaScript
July 04, 2024 14:00 - 51 minutes - 47.4 MBPhilipp Burckhardt, Athan Reines & the team behind stdlib.io believe in a future in which the web is a preferred environment for numerical computation. They've been working toward building that future for over a decade. Thanks to listener, Brian Zelip, Jerod sits down with Philipp to learn all about this excellent effort: where it's been & where it's headed.
React Native the Expo way
June 27, 2024 14:00 - 58 minutes - 53.9 MBJerod sits down with React Native aficionado, Simon Grimm, to catch up on everyone's favorite native app platform & learn about Expo, which Simon thinks is *the* way forward for devs building with React Native.
Polypane-demonium
June 20, 2024 19:30 - 1 hour - 82.2 MBPolypane purveyor Kilian Valkhof joins Nick & Jerod to tell us all about his efforts building a web browser just for web development. We cover it all: from the business concerns, to the technical details, to his _excellent_ choice not to use TypeScript! We even sneak in a feature request that already made its way into this excellent dev tool for ambitious web developers.
Should web development need a build step?
June 06, 2024 16:00 - 1 hour - 61.4 MBWe’re back with another spicy YepNope debate! This time, Nick & regular guest Eric Clemmons are arguing that web development should need a build step, while KBall & special guest Amy Dutton argue that we really shouldn't. Of course, the stance each panelist is taking is assigned ahead of time. Is that how they really feel? Tune in to find out!
11ty goes fully independent
May 30, 2024 21:10 - 1 hour - 69.3 MB11ty creator Zach Leatherman is taking the open source site generator fully independent in 2024 and he's back on the pod to tell us why, how & what we all can do to help.
Big Gulps, huh?
May 23, 2024 21:15 - 57 minutes - 53.1 MBJerod & KBall discuss what's new in the world of web development: the State of HTML survey results, Node 22, React Compiler, React 19 Beta, vlt.sh & the Gulp (!) Developer Survey.
3D web game dev jam!
May 16, 2024 13:30 - 50 minutes - 46.9 MBTwo-time React Jammer, Brian Breiholz, joins Jerod & Nick to discuss building 3D games in the browser! We hear of his game jam trials & tribulations, the in-progress game engine he's building, the dream game he's been building for a long time & more
From Shoelace to Web Awesome
May 09, 2024 22:45 - 1 hour - 62.6 MBShoelace creator Cory LaViska joins Amal & Jess to tell them all about the forward-thinking library of web components that just joined the Font Awesome family to create Web Awesome.
SSR web components for all
May 02, 2024 15:20 - 57 minutes - 53.3 MBBrian LeRoux joins Jerod to share how the Enhance team are bringing server side rendered web components to everyone. With Enhance WASM, you author components in friendly, standards based syntax and reuse them across multiple languages, frameworks & servers.
A Solid primer on Signals
April 25, 2024 19:15 - 1 hour - 81.4 MBRyan Carniato joins Amal & Nick to discuss Solid with a major focus on Signals, which are the cornerstone of reactivity in Solid.
The boring JavaScript stack
April 18, 2024 19:30 - 44 minutes - 41.6 MBKelvin Omereshone is here to get you excited about boring, reliable tech. He believes a combination of Sails, Inertia, Tailwind & your frontend rendering library of choice are a great combo for building web apps. Tune in to find out why.
Off to see the Wiz
April 11, 2024 19:45 - 55 minutes - 51.3 MBHow does Google build Search? What about YouTube and Google Drive? We rely on Chrome's Lighthouse scores when optimizing our websites, but what does _Google_ prioritize? Recently the Angular and Wiz teams announced their intention to responsibly merge their internal frontend framework, Wiz, with Angular to bring some of Wiz's best ideas to Angular. We're chatting with Minko from Angular and Jatin from the Wiz team to learn about how Wiz has been used in Google historically, what it's good at,...
13% of the time, Devin works every time
March 28, 2024 16:30 - 1 hour - 61.1 MBJerod, KBall & Nick discuss the latest news: Devin, Astro DB, The JavaScript Registry, Tailwind 4 & Angular merging with Wiz. Oh, and a surprise mini-game of HeadLIES!
Advocating for the future of the open web
March 14, 2024 21:00 - 2 hours - 113 MBAlex & James Moore, founding members of the Open Web Advocacy (OWA), join Amal to talk about the critical work the OWA has been doing to ensure users have browser choice and that web apps can be first-class citizens on mobile devices. We learn about how an ad-hoc group of software engineers worked with regulators, legislators & policymakers to help drive some of the most impactful legislation curbing anti-competitive behaviors on the web for tech giants such as Apple, Google & Microsoft via t...
Getting a pulse on your Core Web Vitals 🩺
March 07, 2024 20:00 - 1 hour - 77.7 MBThis week, Amal and Nick are joined by Rick Viscomi and Annie Sullivan from the Chrome team to dive into Core Web Vitals, a set of performance metrics geared towards helping developers surface web page quality signals that are key to delivering great user experiences. We deconstruct the different vitals and learn how they are helpful, as well as introduce the newest vital to hit the scene, Interaction to Next Paint (INP). Join us for a fun and nerdtastic discussion as we dive into the humbl...
Take a look, it's in a book
February 29, 2024 17:30 - 56 minutes - 52.2 MBNick delves into the intricacies of technical book writing with authors Adrienne Braganza Tacke and Dylan Hildenbrand. We talk about the process of working with a publisher, coming up with an outline, actually writing the book, and everything that comes after the book is finished.
Who's that girl? It's Jess!
February 22, 2024 16:00 - 1 hour - 67.3 MBApple kills EU web apps, Amazon launches a JS runtime optimized for serverless workloads & we play a game of 20 (15) questions to welcome Jessica Sachs to the party!
Angular moves fast without breaking things
February 15, 2024 17:00 - 1 hour - 65.7 MBKBall & Amal dive deep with the "Dazzle of Zebras" (possible future band name), Angular team members Jessica Janiuk & Mark "Techson" Thompson. Along with an absolute riot of puns, they cover topics such as Angular's new deferrable views feature, how the Angular core team handles change, and lessons learned from the AngularJS-Angular 2 debacle that allow Angular to now move fast without breaking things.
React Server Components 🧐
February 08, 2024 22:00 - 2 hours - 117 MBThe week Amal & guest co-host Eric Clemmons talk to Dan Abramov all about React Server Components. We learn about why they were created, what problems they solve & how they work to improve application performance. We also dive into the rollout and current support status, the origin story, the community response & walk through the 10+ years of React history which have forever shifted the world of web development.
Angular Signals
February 01, 2024 17:45 - 1 hour - 61.6 MBKBall & Amal interview Alex & Pavel from the Angular Signals team. They cover the history, how the Angular team decided to move to signals, what the new mental model looks like, migration path & even dive into community integrations and future roadmap.
From sales to engineering
January 25, 2024 23:30 - 54 minutes - 50.5 MBShaundai Person joins Jerod & Nick for a fascinating discussion of her transition from a sales position to Senior Software Engineer at Netflix. Along the way, we discuss sales as a superpower, how to build confidence in yourself & even sneak a little TypeScript talk in there because you know who...
A pre-party to a feud (Changelog++ 🔐)
January 20, 2024 20:40 - 6 minutes - 6.11 MBJerod, Adam Argyle & the CompressedFM crew hang out prior to their Fronted Feud battle! They discuss CSS as a programming language, Apple's walled garden, how nobody is on the same social media sites anymore, how to choose tech, the community's sentiment shift on GraphQL & a whole bunch more. (This episode is for Changelog++ ears only.)
Frontend Feud: CSS Podcast vs CompressedFM
January 18, 2024 22:45 - 48 minutes - 45.1 MBUna & Adam from The CSS Podcast defend their Frontend Feud title against challengers James & Brad from CompressedFM. Let’s get it on!
htmx: a new old way to build the web
January 12, 2024 15:15 - 1 hour - 96.3 MBCarson Gross (creator of htmx) & Alex Russell (Mr. Web Platform 3000) join Amal for an EPIC discussion on web architectures, the evolution of rendering patterns & the advantages of hypermedia and htmx. We dive deep on why modern web app best practices are falling short & explore how htmx gives devs an HTML-first approach to use tech that’s over 20 years old. Tune in to learn a new way to do something old, so you can simplify your code & use JavaScript when/where it’s uniquely able to shine ✨
New Year's Party 🎊
January 04, 2024 18:05 - 1 hour - 66.7 MBIt’s our 5th annual New Year’s party! Jerod & the gang review our predictions from last year, discuss what’s trending in the web world, make a few predictions for 2024 & even set some new resolutions for this year.
What's next in JavaScript (a TC39 update)
December 20, 2023 21:30 - 1 hour - 92.8 MBDaniel Ehrenberg (software engineer at Bloomberg, web standards author / champion & VP of ECMA International) joins us to discuss new features that have landed in JavaScript and to preview what's cooking in various standards bodies across the web platform. We cover a wide array (get it?) of topics from improvements to built-ins such as Promises, Maps & Sets, as well as new primitives like Records, Tuples & Temporal. We round out this epic discussion with a look at cross-project standardizat...
From WebGL to WebGPU
December 07, 2023 17:40 - 58 minutes - 54.4 MBGregg Tavares (author of WebGL/WebGPU Fundamentals) joins Jerod & Amal to give us a tour of these low-level technologies that are pushing the web forward into the world of video games, machine learning & other exciting rich applications.
Art of the state machine
November 30, 2023 21:00 - 1 hour - 67.9 MBAmal, Nick & special guest Laura Kalbeg geek out over the remarkable growth and evolution of the XState project and its team in recent years. Laura also tells everyone about Stately.ai, a SaaS platform that uses AI to create seamless state management solutions compatible with various tools like XState, Redux & zustand.
What's new in CSS land
November 24, 2023 18:30 - 1 hour - 68.6 MBUna Kravets, web platform ambassador & lead of the Google Chrome UI Developer Relations Team, joins Amal & Nick to take them CSS to school as they start this podcast in CSS kindergarten and end it with a Level-Up CSS Diploma. (LUCD?) We explore all the amazing features which have recently landed in CSS — enabling super-charged user experiences with no JavaScript. Don’t forgot to check out all the epic links & demos in the show notes — and hold on to your butts, kids, this one is a ride!
Building something new
November 16, 2023 17:45 - 1 hour - 57.6 MBAmal & Nick are joined by Saron Yitbarek (developer, podcaster, community leader & serial entrepreneur) to catch up and discuss her latest project: Not A Designer We discuss all the ins & outs of tech entrepreneurship & the challenges of building something new in today’s saturated market. Tune in for a behind-the-scenes look at how she does it & get a sneak peek on what’s possibly next! (Spoiler Alert: we brain stormed it here)
Best of the fest! Volume 2
November 10, 2023 18:40 - 1 hour - 76.6 MBJS Party listeners and panelists celebrate great moments from the last 100 episodes! You'll hear from 14 of our favorite humans (and 1 horse) across 11 episodes. Here's to our first 300 episodes and the next 300 as well. 🥂
Helping people enter, stay & thrive in tech
November 03, 2023 21:15 - 58 minutes - 53.8 MBValerie Phoenix from Tech By Choice joins Amal & Kball to tell them all about her non-profit that's passionate about helping people interested in technology, no matter their experience level.
I wanna React Jam it with you
October 26, 2023 13:30 - 54 minutes - 50 MBThe 2nd ever React Jam is on and poppin', so Jerod & Nick invited the previous winners to the pod to tell us all about the 10 day online game jam. Turns out React and video games are like peanut butter and jelly, after all!
Use Effect (not useEffect)
October 19, 2023 18:45 - 51 minutes - 47.5 MBPrisma founder Johannes Schickling has been using the Effect library for the last couple years. Today he joins Jerod & Nick to tell us all about this very interesting tool for building robust apps in TypeScript.
Party on PartyKit
October 12, 2023 21:45 - 1 hour - 77.1 MBWith a name like PartyKit, you know we just had to get its founder and CEO Sunil Pai on the show! PartyKit is an open source tool that simplifies creating collaborative, multiplayer applications. Join us to learn all about it and the journey of Sunil and his team!
Reflecting on Bun's big launch
October 05, 2023 21:00 - 53 minutes - 49.6 MBFresh off Bun's big 1.0 launch, Jarred Sumner goes one-on-one with Jerod to discuss the all-in-one JavaScript runtime that's captured the interest of many. We get into it all: what problem he's solving, how it's so fast, why no Windows support, answering the critics, the (not real) beef between Bun and Node, how the VC-backed startup will sustain & more.
Reports of Node's death are greatly exaggerated
September 28, 2023 21:00 - 1 hour - 92.6 MBAmal, KBall & Chris convene a "semi-emergency" pod to discuss the recent (deserved) hype over Bun and what it all means for Node's community, maintainers & users. They're joined by Node Technical Steering Committee members Matteo Collina & James Snell who are here to dispel Bun antagonism rumors, discuss the pros & cons of each runtime, explain how Node continues to thrive & even announce a VERY big upcoming feature!
Web dev security school
September 21, 2023 20:30 - 1 hour - 79.9 MBThis week, we're joined by Ron Perris, a Security Engineer at Reddit and software security enthusiast. Together, we dive into best practices and common pitfalls, covering topics from dangerous URLs to JSON injection attacks. Tune in for an educational conversation, and don’t forget to bring your notebooks!
Type War (what is it good for?)
September 14, 2023 17:00 - 1 hour - 64.6 MBLove it or hate it, TypeScript is here to stay for the foreseeable future. But, what happens when widely adopted packages go completely Type free or remove TypeScript in favor of JS with type annotations? Join us to unpack these recent events with Rich Harris, creator of Svelte, as he walks us through the nuanced decision his team made for the Svelte project, and ofc, lots of laughs along the way.
A view to a transitions API
September 07, 2023 18:15 - 1 hour - 56.9 MBJerod & the gang discuss the news (Astro 3.0, Vercel + Astro, Python in Excel) then play eight crazy rounds of HeadLIES! Headline or headLIE? You decide...
Modernizing packages to ESM
September 01, 2023 18:20 - 1 hour - 60.2 MBMark Erikson (web dev professor/historian, OSS Maintainer & engineer at Replay) joins us to talk about the shift from CommonJS to ESM. We discuss the history of module patterns in JS and the grueling effort to push the world's biggest developer ecosystem forward. Get ready to go to school kids, this one's deep!
Ten years of TypeScript bliss
August 24, 2023 21:00 - 1 hour - 64.4 MBNick celebrates a decade of writing everyone's favorite language with guest Josh Goldberg, who contributes to TypeScript, maintains typescript-eslint, and is an all-around great person! Jerod is also here to join the celebration, but let's keep that a secret from him!
Refined thinking
August 17, 2023 20:45 - 1 hour - 59.5 MBJim (Hyphen) Nielsen joins Jerod & Nick for a fun conversation about language-level toll roads, when (and how) to quit, the stratification of social networking & the state of the world in publishing your thoughts on the internet.
Take me to Val Town
August 10, 2023 18:45 - 1 hour - 55.6 MBVal Town is a shiny, new social programming environment to write, run, deploy and share code. Steve Krouse –Val Town creator– joins Jerod & Amal to tell us all about it.
An intimate conversation about careers
August 03, 2023 15:20 - 1 hour - 57 MBKBall and Amal go deep on careers. They share their career journeys, talk through learnings and mishaps that happened along the way, and break down key factors to understand about big role transitions like "Senior->Staff" as well as "Engineer->Manager".
Frontend Feud: CSS Pod vs Whiskey Web and Whatnot
July 28, 2023 15:15 - 49 minutes - 46.2 MBUna & Adam from The CSS Podcast defend their Frontend Feud title against challengers Chuck & Robbie from Whiskey Web and Whatnot. Let's get it on!
This is going to be Lit 🔥
July 20, 2023 16:30 - 1 hour - 55.4 MBJustin Fagnani joins us this week to talk about Lit, a library that helps you build web components. With 17% of pageviews in Chrome registering use of web components, Lit has gained widespread adoption across a variety of companies looking to create reusable components which leverage the power and interoperability of the web platform. Tune in to learn about what makes this tiny library so incredibly lit!
Fundamentals all the way down
July 14, 2023 16:15 - 1 hour - 61.8 MBAustin Gil returns to JS Party, bringing a fresh perspective on the fundamentals of file uploads. Brace for an insightful session as we navigate the complexities of this key JavaScript topic together, much like a dedicated coach drilling the fundamentals into his team!