JS Party: JavaScript, CSS, Web Development
336 episodes - English - Latest episode: 3 days ago - ★★★★★ - 32 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. Some people search for JSParty and can’t find the show, so now the string JSParty is in our description too.
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Episodes
JavaScript is the CO2 of the web
June 14, 2019 21:30 - 1 hour - 88.9 MBKBall, Divya, and Nick get together with Chris Ferdinandi to talk about vanilla JavaScript, best resources for learning, and our favorite vanilla JavaScript tips, tricks and APIs.
Spicy fonts and static sites 🌶️
June 10, 2019 16:25 - 1 hour - 91.7 MBZach Leatherman joins the party with Divya and Nick to talk about fonts and static site generators! Zach shares his knowledge about font loading, what can go wrong, and how we can avoid issues. Then we discuss Zach’s newest project, Eleventy, a simple static site generator, and the panelists share things they are excited about.
Developer strengths and weaknesses 🏋️♂️
May 31, 2019 17:00 - 57 minutes - 78.5 MBJerod, Suz, Divya, and Kball share their thoughts, opinions, and advice on developer strengths and weaknesses — compromise, communication, tool mastery, deep dives into dev history, and mentorship/sponsorship. .
It’s just JavaScript®️
May 24, 2019 18:00 - 1 hour - 106 MBJerod, Kball, Divya, and Nick share their initial impressions of GitHub’s recently announced package registry, what JS skills are trending in job listings, and shout outs!
You don’t have to dress up
May 18, 2019 21:00 - 53 minutes - 73.2 MBKBall, Emma, and Chris explain some things to each other like we’re five, bring stories of the week, and share some sweet pro tips.
LIVE at ReactJS Girls
May 14, 2019 11:00 - 33 minutes - 46.3 MBEmma Wedekind MC’d a live show at ReactJS Girls with a panel of 3 amazing women — Eve Porcello, Marcy Sutton, and Kate Beard. It was a great discussion covering the biggest challenges they’ve faced, how no matter who you are imposter syndrome occurs and never really goes away, ways to support and encourage under-represented groups and people to get into tech, and how to choose a topic when writing a talk.
When in doubt, log an issue
May 07, 2019 17:00 - 59 minutes - 82.5 MBNick and Mikeal catch up with Henry Zhu, the maintainer of Babel and host of the Maintainers Anonymous and Hope in Source podcasts. We discuss his path to open source maintainer-ship. We also chat about best practices for interacting with maintainers, while remembering that people are behind open source, and we talk self-care and avoiding burnout, culminating in a self-care repo being created to gather and discuss tips to care for yourself.
Fresh voices!
April 30, 2019 11:00 - 1 hour - 104 MBJerod welcomes new panelists Emma Wedekind and Divya Sasidharan to the party! We get to know these two amazing ladies and then open up the conversation to talk about what’s on their mind. Divya broaches the nuanced topics of keeping up with the fast pace of the developer world while maintaining balance and Emma wants to talk books.
LIVE from React Amsterdam
April 19, 2019 19:30 - 42 minutes - 58.6 MBKBall MC’d a live show at React Amsterdam with a panel of 5 amazing React experts — Kitze, Michel Weststrate, Mike Grabowski, Vladimir Novick, and Andrey Okonetchnikov. It was a great discussion of state management solutions and the future of state management in the front-end.
Wow, Gatsby is a mashup on steroids
April 12, 2019 17:00 - 1 hour - 96.9 MBKBall and Jason geek out on the ins and outs of Gatsby. They talked through the fundamentals of working with Gatsby, the development process, and look into the future of Gatsby.
Refactoring script soup
April 05, 2019 17:00 - 57 minutes - 78.8 MBKBall, Nick, and Chris dig into the various dimensions along which projects vary, dig into testing and best practices, and share a number of lessons learned from legacy projects.
Bundle because you want to, not because you need to
March 29, 2019 15:03 - 59 minutes - 82.4 MBJerod and Nick are joined by Fred K. Schott – the main brain behind Pika. What’s that, you ask? An effort to make modern JavaScript more accessible by making it easier to find, publish, install, and use modern packages on npm.
What kind of moisture sensors do you use?
March 22, 2019 21:00 - 57 minutes - 79.7 MBWe discuss the news (built-in modules, OpenJSFoundation, Lambda School stipends), chat about the internet of JS things, and finish up with one of our favorite segments: shout outs!
The great divide reprise
March 20, 2019 16:30 - 1 hour - 85.6 MBChris Coyier joins Suz and Jerod to continue the discussion on The Great Divide in front-end-land. We also use this as an opportunity to gush on how much CSS-Tricks has done for the community, get Chris’ perspective on the history of the website, and finish up by sharing some amazing Pens on CodePen.io.
Mastering the art of conference-driven development
March 08, 2019 19:45 - 56 minutes - 77.6 MBKBall and Suz interview Ashi Krishnan, visual poet and senior software engineer at GitHub. Topics include how Ashi got into programming, her upcoming talk at React Amsterdam, code bootcamps, and developer tools.
Building rapid UI with utility-first CSS
March 04, 2019 19:00 - 1 hour - 113 MBPanelist Jerod Santo and first-time panelist Adam Stacoviak talk with Adam Wathan of Full Stack Radio fame about his CSS utility library called Tailwind CSS that’s growing in popularity to rapidly build custom user interfaces.
TensorFlow.js and Machine Learning in JavaScript
February 25, 2019 12:30 - 1 hour - 88.2 MBPanelists Suz Hinton and Nick Nisi discuss TensorFlow.js and Machine Learning in JavaScript with special guest Paige Bailey, TensorFlow mom and developer Advocate for Google AI.
LIVE from JSConf Hawai'i
February 15, 2019 12:00 - 36 minutes - 50.9 MBKBall picks the brains of 4 of the speakers at JSConf Hawai’i to investigate the future of JavaScript and Web Development.
From voice devices to mobile, you just can't escape JavaScript
February 08, 2019 12:00 - 1 hour - 89.1 MBKBall and Nick catch up with Nara Kaspergen and Jen Looper for a pair of conversations covering Voice UI Devices, using NativeScript for mobile development, and Jen’s work with Vue Vixens helping make the Vue.js community welcoming to women and non-binary people.
From voice devices to mobile, you just can't escape JS
February 08, 2019 12:00 - 1 hour - 89.1 MBKBall and Nick catch up with Nara Kaspergen and Jen Looper for a pair of conversations covering Voice UI Devices, using NativeScript for mobile development, and Jen’s work with Vue Vixens helping make the Vue.js community welcoming to women and non-binary people.
How great the (front end) divide
February 01, 2019 12:00 - 55 minutes - 76.7 MBPanelists Nick Nisi, Suz Hinton, and Kevin Ball chat about the perceived Great Divide in front end development, why 2019 is the year of TypeScript, and shout outs to inspirational members of the community.
You might want to read up on PAW Patrol
January 25, 2019 12:00 - 1 hour - 85 MBYour 3 intrepid hosts try to explain JS concepts (bind/apply, thunks, and ReasonML) to each other as if we’re five year olds. Hilarity and/or confusion ensues. During Pro Tip Time, Suz tells a story of woe, KBall motivates himself, and Jerod tries to keep you in the flow. Finally, we point our project spotlight at Fly CDN and talk edge applications and IoT.
Our thoughts and experiences with SSGs
January 18, 2019 12:00 - 1 hour - 86 MBThe JS Party crew discuss static site generators, our experiences with them, and what the future might hold for this ever-evolving technology.
Real JavaScript, not too much, stage three and above
January 11, 2019 12:00 - 45 minutes - 63.1 MBKBall and Nick meet up with Jory Burson and Amal Hussein at Node+JS Interactive. Together we open up the black box of the JavaScript standards process, talk about how to get involved, and then dig into the use of ASTs to transform and analyze JavaScript.
Jumping off the Edge into Chromium
December 21, 2018 19:52 - 1 hour - 64.2 MBNick, KBall, and Chris respond to follow up on the State of JavaScript survey, discuss Chromium, Edge, and the future of the web, and reminisce about the past year in the final JS Party of 2018!
We're dependent. See?
December 14, 2018 12:00 - 1 hour - 94.3 MBKBall, Chris, Nick, and Safia discuss how they keep a healthy relationship with dependencies in their codebase. Listen to learn how they decide when to use third-party dependencies, how they verify and validate dependencies, and how to support the ecosystem of open source libraries.
The future of the web is npm, but maybe not JavaScript
December 07, 2018 17:14 - 44 minutes - 62 MBIn this special episode of JS Party, KBall and Nick are on location at Node + JS Interactive in Vancouver. They talks with Laurie Voss, co-founder and COO of npm Inc. They chat about his talk, “npm and the Future of JavaScript”, JavaScript frameworks, and how the definition of “the fundamentals of the web” is constantly changing.
trust.js but verify
November 30, 2018 16:59 - 55 minutes - 76.1 MBKBall, Jerod, and Nick break down some recent events in the JavaScript world. Take a dive into the recent event-stream malware attack, breaking down the State of JavaScript 2018 survey, and sharing pro tips to make your life better.
VisBug is like DevTools for designers
November 23, 2018 12:00 - 1 hour - 94.3 MBGoogle UX Engineer Adam Argyle joins Jerod and KBall to share all the details on VisBug, his just-released Chrome Extension that “makes any webpage feel like an artboard.” Adam is passionate about doing for designers what Firebug (and later DevTools) did for developers. In this episode, he shares that passion and how it’s driven him to create and open source VisBug.
Nest 'dem loops
November 16, 2018 12:00 - 58 minutes - 79.9 MBNESTED LOOPS is a JavaScript band that combines music and video with web tech to perform live at JSConf. In this episode, Jerod and Suz are joined by Jan Monschke and Kahlil Lechelt, which comprise 2/3 of the group. After sampling one of their tracks, we hear the story of how they got the band together, the journey of building a tech stack for their first live performance, and how that stack was then rewritten to be “good” for their second performance. Suz is at awe with the technologies at p...
Come play in the CodeSandbox
November 09, 2018 18:23 - 1 hour - 86.2 MBIn this episode, Nick talks with Ives van Hoorne about his project CodeSandbox. They chat about Ives deciding to work on it full-time, how CodeSandbox is built, some of its best features, and what lies ahead.
What up, docs? 🥕
November 02, 2018 17:08 - 54 minutes - 75.1 MBSafia, Nick, Jerod, and Chris get together to talk about documentation. Documentation is essential in our work but it can be difficult to get buy-in. The crew talks about how you can get others to care about it in your organization, tools that make documentation easier, and some examples of companies doing it right.
Serverless? We don’t need no stinkin’ SERVERS
October 26, 2018 18:55 - 1 hour - 90.3 MBDisclaimer: no servers were harmed in the taping of this show. We hosted a special discussion with Jeremy Daly, Kevin Ball, Nick Nisi, and Christopher Hiller on the ideas around serverless, managed services, Functions as a Service (FaaS), micro-services, nano-services, all-the-services!
LIVE from Node + JS Interactive
October 19, 2018 17:00 - 50 minutes - 69.6 MBKBall, Nick, and Suz MC’d a live show at Node + JS Interactive in Vancouver with Tierney Cyren (Node Foundation) and Dave Methvin (JS Foundation) to discuss the proposed merger between the JS Foundation and the Node Foundation. What’s happening with the merger? What does this merger mean for everyday JavaScript developers and the ecosystem?
The nitty gritty on BitMidi
October 12, 2018 17:00 - 1 hour - 97.1 MBWhere does Feross get all those wonderful toys? He builds them with JavaScript, of course! BitMidi – a website for listening to your favorite MIDI files – is his latest creation. In this episode, Jerod “sits down” with Feross to learn all about it. How do MIDIs even work? Why won’t they play on the web anymore? Can WASM save the day (hint: yes)? How does Feross get so many eyeballs on his creations? Is Preact awesome for building sites like this? What’s the future of BitMidi look like? Don’t ...
Fantastic bugs and how to squash them
October 05, 2018 17:00 - 58 minutes - 80.9 MBSafia, Suz, KBall and Nick get together to talk about bugs! Not those pesky things you’re scared to squash because they might suddenly jump on you — this is all about JavaScript bugs; how you prevent some of the common ones, what tools you can use to reduce bugs in your code, and a panel group therapy session where they discuss the most difficult bug they’ve had to fix.
The CSS expertise kerfuffle
September 28, 2018 17:00 - 1 hour - 82.7 MBSuz, Nick, and KBall are joined by special guest Aimee Knight to talk about CSS, how it’s often trivialized and how that in turn affects the people who write it, what CSS in JS is, and how to get started with it.
Stories of personal JavaScript failures
September 21, 2018 17:00 - 1 hour - 90.9 MBSuz, Jerod, Nick and KBall talk about cringeworthy mistakes and failures they (and the community!) have experienced with JavaScript. They also give advice to themselves as if they were just starting out today in the JavaScript industry.
Interviews from JSConf
September 14, 2018 17:00 - 1 hour - 122 MBKBall interviews with Michael Chan, Juan Pablo Buriticá and Julián David Duque, and Tim Doherty at JSConf.US. Conversations about the importance of DRY code, the metaphors we use for software, JavaScript communities across Latin America, how to advocate for modern tech stacks in large companies, and fostering mentorship.
Decentralizing the web with Beaker
September 07, 2018 17:00 - 1 hour - 92.6 MBFeross talks with Mathias Buus and Paul Frazee about the decentralized web, why the average person should care about decentralization of the web, the Beaker browser, Dat and the differences and similarities to BitTorrent, and how Paul and Mathias first got involved in this work.
Applying the magic of compilers to the frontend
August 31, 2018 17:00 - 52 minutes - 72.7 MBKBall and Chad Hietala meet up at JSConf and talk about compilers for the frontend, Ember’s binary opcodes, webassembly, and the future of performance optimization for the web.
LIVE from JSConf!
August 24, 2018 11:00 - 49 minutes - 68 MBIn this special episode of JS Party at JS Conf in Carlsbad, Nick, Suz, Feross, and KBall talk about crazy JavaScript combinations, tips to get started speaking, being committed to diversity as a conference organizer, and much more.
Experimenting with some new ideas 🔬
August 17, 2018 17:00 - 1 hour - 92.6 MBJerod, Nick, KBall, and Chris pre-party for JSConf by testing out some brand new segment ideas: Story of the Week, What the WHAT… WG, and Protip Time. What do you think of these segments? Like ’em? Love ’em? Not sure why we even? Please let us know!
REST easy, GraphQL is here
August 10, 2018 17:00 - 1 hour - 44.6 MBJerod and Suz talk with John Resig about how he’s using GraphQL at Khan Academy, some of the mistakes and successes using GraphQL, John’s feelings on jQuery, and community Q&A.
npm is made of people. PEOPLE!
August 03, 2018 17:00 - 53 minutes - 37.2 MBJerod, Nick, and Chris talk with Jeff Lembeck about his tweets, the people behind npm, the need for empathy, and things they’re excited about.
Behind the party with Suz at OSCON
July 27, 2018 17:25 - 23 minutes - 16.5 MBAdam and Jerod catch up with Suz about her presentation at OSCON, some cool stuff she’s doing at her house, and more.
A11y is your ally
July 27, 2018 17:00 - 1 hour - 43.8 MBSuz, Safia, and Kball get together to talk about accessibility; what does it mean, why should we care, and what tools and resources can we use to better educate ourselves, and improve our work.
Justin Jackson finds focus [rebroadcast]
July 20, 2018 17:00 - 27 minutes - 18.9 MBIn this special episode of JS Party, we’re sharing a full-length episode of our new show, Away from Keyboard. This show explores the human side of creative work. In this episode, Tim talks with Justin Jackson about his parents, dealing with depression, and a new business he’s co-founded.
JavaScript eating the world, desktop edition
July 13, 2018 17:00 - 1 hour - 43 MBKball and Feross talk with Shelley Vohr and Jeremy Apthorp about what Electron is, why to use it, and what comes next for the platform.
Enough string to hang yourself
July 06, 2018 17:00 - 58 minutes - 40.5 MBJerod, Nick, and KBall shake off their July 4th malaise by diving deep in to ES6 Proxies, wondering how best to share components across projects, and giving their younger selves advice. Also: shout outs!