React Podcast
126 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 3 years ago - ★★★★★ - 72 ratingsConversations about React with your favorite developers.
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26: Chill Out and Listen with Brad Frost
October 23, 2018 03:16 - 59 minutes - 54.8 MBBrad Frost is the author of Atomic Design, renowned speaker, and consulting designer. Chantastic asks him about his recent experience learning React and the difficulty he found entering the realm of React. They talk about team communication, developing portable solutions, organizational therapy through design, and creating a virtuous cycle between product, design, development, and systems creating. They address the challenges of learning UI design in an industry being consumed by JavaScript,...
25: Make Brilliant Messes with Diana Mounter and Emily Plummer
October 16, 2018 05:02 - 41 minutes - 37.8 MBDiana and Emily create design systems at Github. Chantastic asks them about the story of design at Github, what role React will play in future systems, and what community tools that make their job easier. They talk Rails, Lerna, monorepos, Figma, component APIs, and the importance of supporting your design system by supporting designers and engineers. It’s a great discussion for everyone looking to improve processes in a legacy application. Featuring Diana Mounter — Twitter, Github, Web...
24: Chase Whimsy with Burke Holland
October 09, 2018 05:09 - 37 minutes - 34.2 MBChantastic asks Burke Holland about Five Things, VS Code can do that?!, and what brought him to computers. They discuss Windows 98 UI, React at Microsoft, the gateway drug to TypeScript, React Food Truck, and how how he discovered the identity of horse_js. Featuring Burke Holland — Twitter, Medium Michael Chan — Twitter, Github, Website Notes & Links Five Things — a show about JavaScript, Node and all things web. VS Code can do that?! — All the best things about Visual Studio Code that...
23: Ditch Authority with Sunil Pai
October 02, 2018 04:10 - 44 minutes - 40.5 MBChantastic talks with Sunil Pai about Facebook, Oculus, and what the future holds for the JavaScript community. They discuss Sunil’s early adventures in programming, the power of a great manager, why firebug changed everything, why he scowls at models, the ways we protect ourselves from criticism, being “evil by accident”, and becoming The CSS Guy for the rest of eternity. Featuring Sunil Pai — Twitter, Github Michael Chan — Twitter, Github, Website Notes & Links The “Something” Statem...
22: Promise Accessibility with Ryan Florence
September 26, 2018 14:12 - 51 minutes - 47.6 MBChantastic talks with Ryan Florence about Reach UI and why accessibility is important for everyone. They discuss the balance of physical and mental activity, Ryan’s foray into programming and entrepreneurship, the inspiration behind his accessibility-first component library, and why none of us are really full-stack developers. Featuring Ryan Florence — Twitter, Github, Website Michael Chan — Twitter, Github, Website Notes & Links reach.tech Reach UI — The accessible foundation of your ...
21: Delete Your Components with Kent C. Dodds
September 18, 2018 06:41 - 50 minutes - 45.9 MBChantastic talks with Kent C Dodds about his adventures in React development and why we should be optimizing code for delete-ability. They discuss React Rally, managing your career, taming your ego, keeping healthy and happy on Twitter, tools for composing components well and when to use them, and what’s next for React. Featuring Kent C. Dodds — Twitter, Github, Website Michael Chan — Twitter, Github, Website Notes & Links downshift — 🏎 Primitive to build simple, flexible, WAI-ARIA comp...
20: Foster Vibrant and Inclusive Communities with Devon Lindsey
September 11, 2018 06:29 - 31 minutes - 29.2 MBChantastic talks with Devon about her adventures in web development and why she organizes the ReactJS San Francisco Bay Area meetup. They discuss how to foster vibrant and inclusive communities, why React Rally is so special, and what it means that Apple is sponsoring a React conference. Featuring Devon Lindsey — Twitter, Github, Website Michael Chan — Twitter, Github, Website Notes & Links ReactJS San Francisco Bay Area meetup Contributing Vapor lightning talk at React.js Conf 2016 A...
19: Supporting Open Source with Michael Jackson
September 04, 2018 05:40 - 47 minutes - 43.5 MBChantastic talks with Michael about his journey into open source and how he's building a business to sustain open source development. They discuss frontend libraries (then and now), the link between business and open source, the genesis of unpkg.com (a CDN for NPM), and the future of modules in the browser. Featuring Michael Jackson — Twitter, Github, Website Michael Chan — Twitter, Github, Website Notes & Links Shadowbox.js — Michael's first open source project React Router UNPKG — A...
18: Prepack and the Future of JavaScript Performance with Nikolai Tillmann
August 28, 2018 04:46 - 23 minutes - 21.2 MBChantastic talks with Nikolai about Prepack — a tool for making JavaScript code run faster. They discuss the goals and challenges before Prepack, why it makes global JavaScript faster, and how it could dramatically improve time to interactive performance in large React apps. Featuring Nikolai Tillmann — Twitter, Github Michael Chan — Twitter, Github, Website Notes & Links Prepack Prepack repl
17: Fast, Accessible, and Beautiful Drag and Drop with Alex Reardon
August 21, 2018 05:02 - 36 minutes - 33.9 MBChantastic talks with Alex Reardon about his project react-beautiful-dnd. They discuss the physics of drag and drop, accessibility in any language, tricks and tactics for performance tuning UI, and engineering health in open source. Checkout Alex’s free egghead.io course Beautiful and Accessible Drag and Drop with react-beautiful-dnd! Featuring Alex Reardon — Twitter, Github, Medium Michael Chan — Twitter, Github, Website Notes & Links Atlaskit Tweet announcing react-beautiful-dnd 8.0...
16: The Good, Bad, and Ugly of Open Source with Ken Wheeler
August 14, 2018 07:00 - 51 minutes - 47.3 MBMichael and Michael talk with Ken about the good, bad, and ugly of open source. Ken shares the pain and frustration he's felt as an open source developer and what keeps him coming back for more as the Director of Open Source at Formidable Labs. They talk GraphQL, Reason, React, and the best tweet Ken ever tweeted... Featuring Ken Wheeler — Twitter, Github, Website Michael Jackson — Twitter, Github, Website Michael Chan — Twitter, Github, Website Notes & Links Formidable Labs: Open Sour...
15: Data Visualization with Shirley Wu
August 07, 2018 14:27 - 39 minutes - 35.9 MBMichael Jackson, Michael Chan talk with Shirley Wu about D3 and React, creative data visualization, her freelance work, and how she's helping React developers love D3. Featuring Shirley Wu — Twitter, Github, Website Michael Jackson — Twitter, Github, Website Michael Chan — Twitter, Github, Website Notes & Links data sketch|es A Nadieh & Shirley collaboration. An Interactive Visualization of Every Line in Hamilton Analyzing 21,000 words for relational and thematic insights. Film Flowe...
14: VX and D3 Charting with Harrison Shoff
July 31, 2018 15:48 - 33 minutes - 30.7 MBMichael, Michael, and Harrison talk VX, Charting with D3, Airbnb engineering, and designing unopinionated component in React. Featuring Harrison Shoff — Twitter, Github, Medium Michael Jackson — Twitter, Github, Website Michael Chan — Twitter, Github, Website Notes & Links vx | visualization components My Airbnb story ReasonML React Sketch.app react-dates
13: Gatsby and GraphQL with Kurt Kemple
July 18, 2018 04:36 - 50 minutes - 45.8 MBMichael, Michael, and Kurt talk Gatsby, GraphQL, debugging Node, gaining buy-in on big teams, and the future of Gatsby. Featuring Kurt Kemple — Twitter, Github, Website Michael Jackson — Twitter, Github, Website Michael Chan — Twitter, Github, Website Notes & Links Implementing GraphQL at Major League Soccer NODESOURCE 5 things they don't want you to know about React-Apollo GraphQL NYC I'm fucking depressed, but it's going to be okay Up and Running with Universal Components Lona ...
12: Coming to React with Sara Vieira
June 05, 2018 17:00 - 55 minutes - 50.8 MBSara Vieira is easily one of the most entertaining people we've ever had on this show. She has been working with React over the past few years and has recently been traveling around Europe and giving free workshops on React in London and at React Finland. Featuring Sara Vieira — Twitter, Github, Website Michael Jackson — Twitter, Github, Website Michael Chan — Twitter, Github, Website Notes Make Frontend Shit Again Awesome Talks The destructured horse!
11: Inside React with Sophie Alpert
May 29, 2018 19:47 - 41 minutes - 38.1 MBSophie Alpert is a core contributor to React and is currently the engineering manager for the React team at Facebook. She has been contributing to React for over 3 years now, making her first contributions while she was working as an engineer at Khan Academy. Featuring Sophie Alpert — Twitter, Github, Website Michael Jackson — Twitter, Github, Website Michael Chan — Twitter, Github, Website Notes React v16.0 React 16 rewrite Improving the React repo infrastructure Hi, I'm trans.
10: Codesandbox with Ives van Hoorne
May 22, 2018 11:00 - 33 minutes - 30.9 MBIves van Hoorne is the creator of Codesandbox; an online code editor written completely in React. Although Codesandbox is written in React, it can be used to build applications for any front-end framework. Featuring Featuring Ives van Hoorne — Twitter, Github, Website Michael Jackson — Twitter, Github, Website Notes Codesandbox codesandbox-client Cerebral
9: Emotion with Kye Hohenberger
May 15, 2018 11:00 - 56 minutes - 51.6 MBKye Hohenberger is the author of the Emotion JavaScript library, a popular choice among React developers who prefer using CSS-in-JS to traditional CSS stylesheets. In this episode we discuss his work on Emotion including where he got the initial inspiration for the project and his motivation for creating it. We also discuss the future of the project and what may be in store for the future of CSS-in-JS. Featuring Kye Hohenberger — Twitter, Github Michael Jackson — Twitter, Github, Website ...
8: React Perf Devtool with Nitin Tulswani
May 08, 2018 11:00 - 38 minutes - 35.4 MBNitin Tulswani is a prolific developer and the creator of react-perf-devtool, a library that helps with profiling the performance of your React components since react-addons-perf was deprecated in React 16. In this episode we discuss Nitin's approach to writing code and the motivation behind several of his open source projects. Featuring Kurt Kemple — Twitter, Github Michael Jackson — Twitter, Github, Website Notes react-perf-devtool redocx, A docx renderer for React terminal-in-react
7: React and Electron with James Long
April 24, 2018 21:42 - 59 minutes - 54.2 MBJames Long is a prolific blogger and the author of several open source libraries including Prettier. He has recently started developing Actual, a budgeting app built in React and Electron. In this episode we talk about James' approach to business, as well as take a peek behind the scenes at how he works with React. Featuring James Long — Twitter, Github, Website Michael Jackson — Twitter, Github, Website Michael Chan — Twitter, Github, Website Jed Watson — Twitter, Github, Website Note...
6: Async React with Andrew Clark
April 10, 2018 11:00 - 45 minutes - 41.9 MBAndrew Clark is a developer on the React core team at Facebook who has been working on asynchronous rendering. In this episode we do a deep dive on some of the decisions behind the implementation of async mode in React 16 as well as talk about how applications can benefit from using it. Featuring Andrew Clark — Twitter, Github Michael Jackson — Twitter, Github, Website Notes Preview of Async Features in React 16 react-basic - core concepts of React Update on Async Rendering in React
5: Finite State Machines with David Khourshid
April 03, 2018 16:40 - 36 minutes - 33.6 MBIn this episode Michael Jackson talks with David Khourshid about State Machines. David is a developer on the Visual Studio Live Share team at Microsoft. Recently, he's been exploring methods of using finite state machines together with React to create predictable flows through applications that are easy to follow and test. Featuring David Khourshid — Twitter, Github, Website Michael Jackson — Twitter, Github, Website Notes xstate Statecharts: A Visual Formalism for Complex Systems
4: Babel and open source sustainability with Henry Zhu
March 30, 2018 19:00 - 45 minutes - 42.1 MBIn this episode Michael Jackson talks with Henry Zhu, maintainer of the hugely popular Babel project, about open source sustainability and what's coming next for the Babel project. Featuring Henry Zhu — Twitter, Github, Website Michael Jackson — Twitter, Github, Website Notes Babel is a JavaScript compiler Support the development of Babel on Henry's Patreon page
3: The Future of React with Dan Abramov
February 28, 2018 20:00 - 35 minutes - 32.7 MBIn this episode Michael Jackson talks with Dan Abramov, author of Redux and create-react-app, about the responsibility that comes with being an influential voice for React, how future versions of React will leverage requestIdleCallback to schedule work, and the possibility of a future API for React that makes it easier to do async work. Featuring Dan Abramov — Twitter, Github Michael Jackson — Twitter, Github, Website Notes Beyond React 16 by Dan Abramov at JSConf Iceland requestIdleCa...
2: Razzle, After.js, and Formik with Jared Palmer
February 20, 2018 20:00 - 35 minutes - 32.8 MBIn this episode Michael Jackson talks with Jared Palmer about Razzle, After.js, Formik, several other open source libraries from Jared, as well as Typescript and the implications of the upcoming async APIs in React. Featuring Jared Palmer — Twitter, Github, Website Michael Jackson — Twitter, Github, Website Notes Razzle - Create server-rendered universal JavaScript applications with no configuration ✨ after.js - If Next.js and React Router had a baby... Formik - Build forms in React, ...
1: React Native for web with Nicolas Gallagher
January 29, 2018 20:00 - 35 minutes - 32.2 MBWelcome to the inaugural episode of The React Podcast. In this episode Michael Jackson talks with Nicolas Gallagher about his project React Native for Web, the React Native API, how Twitter's new mobile website is powered by React Native for Web, and more. Featuring Nicolas Gallagher — Twitter, Github, Website Michael Jackson — Twitter, Github, Website Notes React Native for Web React Native for Web is used by — Twitter, Major League Soccer, Flipkart, Playstation, Uber, The Times, R...