In today’s episode, Sam Selikoff, educator and consultant in modern UI development, explores the depths of React and its place in the ecosystem. He talks about React's evolution, compares it with other frameworks, and discusses the innovative potential of server components and new React primitives. Links https://samselikoff.com https://twitter.com/…

Sam Selikoff, cofounder of BuildUI, returns to the show and we talk all about NYC! New York City, one of my favorite places. Brian and Sam’s conversation was recorded on December 15th, 2023. Brian's update was recorded on May 6th, 2024. (00:00) - Software founder life in NYC with Sam Selikoff (04:47) - What is the crowd like? (06:56) - New York's d…

Brian's update was recorded on May 6th, 2024. Daniel Coulbourne is the cofounder of Thunk.dev and the co-host of the Talking Businessly podcast. We had a great conversation about the "80/20 model" in software development consulting, striking a balance between working with clients and building your own products and projects. This conversation was re…

On this repeat episode, The Primeagen, content creator, Twitch streamer, and all-around fun internet guy, gives his take on all the latest trends in web development. Links https://youtube.com/ThePrimeagen https://www.twitch.tv/theprimeagen https://twitter.com/ThePrimeagen https://discord.gg/3ujcVMe https://github.com/ThePrimeagen https://www.youtub…

Jack McDade is the creator of the new course, Radical Design. He's also the founder of Statamic CMS. In this contuation of our conversation, we talked about Jack's unique approach to designing things and how he strikes a balance between fun refreshing projects like this, and running a successful product company. Brian and Jack's conversation was re…

Brad Frost dives deep into the world of design systems and AI integration, discussing the maturity of code versus visual design aspects, the power of component generation, the importance of organizational-specific solutions, and the role of human judgment in AI-driven workflows. Links https://bradfrost.com https://twitter.com/brad_frost https://mas…

We welcome on The React Guy, Dan Abramov, to talk about his time working on the React core team, demystifying React Server Components, how React has evolved, and more! Links https://danabra.mov https://twitter.com/dan_abramov2 https://bsky.app/profile/danabra.mov https://twitter.com/dan_abramov https://overreacted.io https://www.youtube.com/channel…

Jack McDade is the founder of Statamic CMS and the creator of the new course, Radical Design. In this conversation, Jack shared his story of going from film maker to full stack designer and developer to building a website CMS product. Brian and Jack's conversation was recorded on February 20th, 2024. Brian's update was recorded on May 6th, 2024. Br…

We welcome back Aleksandra Sikora, Developer Experience Lead at EdgeDB, and talk to her about the importance of TypeScript-powered backends for frontend developers, focusing on scalability, performance improvements, tools like Redis for caching, and more. Links https://twitter.com/aleksandrasays https://medium.com/@aleksandrasays https://portal.git…

Sam tells Ryan about his experience setting up an in-browser code editor with CodeMirror that he plans on using for blog posts and code recipes, as well as what he thought about using Radix Themes for the first time in earnest on a side project of his currently styled with Tailwind. Topics include: 0:00 - Intro 4:01 - Building an authoring tool wit…

Lucas Santos, senior software engineer at OpenVolt, shares his journey about experiencing frustrations with Jest while working at Klarna, to exploring better testing alternatives, and ultimately contributing to the Node.js test runner's core. Links https://www.youtube.com/@lsantosdev https://beacons.ai/lsantos https://twitter.com/_staticvoid https:…

With the recent merger of Angular and Wiz, a Google framework, Minko Gechev, Product and Developer Relations Lead for Angular, returns to talk about the latest news: Angular and Wiz are merging. So we delve into what that means, signals, and how Angular is evolving. Links https://blog.mgechev.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/mgechev https://github.c…

Sam and Ryan talk about why it’s better to think of throw as a general-purpose JavaScript language feature rather than something that should only be used for error handling. They discuss the ambiguity around the phrase “error handling”, situations that call for dealing with errors locally vs. globally, and how throw can be useful for non-error cont…

Yagiz Nizipli, Senior Software Engineer at Sentry, talks about how to optimize URL parsing in Node.js, the development of the Ada parsing library, and future plans for enhancing the URL parser in Node.js. Links https://twitter.com/yagiznizipli https://www.yagiz.co https://github.com/anonrig We want to hear from you! How did you find us? Did you see…

Kevin Powell returns to the show where we talk about the business side of his work as a YouTuber and teacher of front-end development and CSS. Brian and Kevin’s conversation was recorded on December 7th, 2023. Brian's update was recorded on May 6th, 2024. (00:00) - Building a Courses Business with a YouTube audience with Kevin Powell (03:22) - Kevi…

On today’s episode, we talk to Ben Holmes, Software Deceloper at Astro, about the new release of Astro DB, Astro’s new database platform for content-driven websites. Links https://astro.build/db https://bholmes.dev https://twitter.com/bholmesdev https://dev.to/bholmesdev https://www.linkedin.com/in/bholmesdev We want to hear from you! How did you f…

We talk to Steven Fabre, Co-founder of Liveblocks, about the concept of React Components as a service, the challenges faced, and the focus on enabling collaborative experiences. Links https://twitter.com/stevenfabre https://stevenfabre.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-fabre-5510bb38 https://github.com/stevenfabre We want to hear from you! How…

Lianna Patch wasn’t thrilled with the work she was doing, who she was doing it for, and the lack of fun she was having as a professional copywriter. So she changed everything and relaunched her Punchline Copy business with a focus on comedic copy. Brian and Lianna’s conversation was recorded on December 13th, 2023. Brian's update was recorded on Ma…

Matias Capeletto, Vite core team member, discusses Vite's history, development process, and its impact on the web development ecosystem, exploring future developments and its current state. Links https://vitejs.dev https://www.linkedin.com/in/matiascapeletto https://github.com/patak-dev https://patak.dev https://twitter.com/patak_dev https://m.webt…

On this month’s panel episode, PodRocket hosts Paige, Chris, Noel, and Paul talk about the introduction of Devin, the first AI engineer, Google’s rollout of INP, and if the frontend dev is being diminished. Links https://twitter.com/trashh_dev https://www.linkedin.com/in/paul-mikulskis-37a50b4a https://staging.bsky.app/profile/noel.minc.how We want…

I invited James Lewis on to help understand the idea of a “fractional product manager” (and we covered that) but it turned into James’ story of how we transitioned from that into cofounder of a new SaaS, Lemon, in the payments space. Brian and James’ conversation was recorded on December 8th, 2023. Brian's update was recorded on May 6th, 2024. (00:…

Sam and Ryan discuss the core values of the Next.js framework, and how those values motivate several of the framework’s design decisions. They talk about caching, why layouts don’t have access to the URL, and why the router doesn’t expose navigation events, as well as how developers should think about extending Next’s functionality with their own a…

Learn about what anti-patterns are, why they’re bad, how to avoid them, and how to deal with them in React with Jonas Herrmannsdörfer, freelance Software Engineer focusing on React. Links https://herrmannsdoerfer.dev/en https://www.linkedin.com/in/herrmannsdoerfer We want to hear from you! How did you find us? Did you see us on Twitter? In a newsle…

We talk to Kevin Whinnery, Head of DevRel at Deno, about Deno’s new registry for JavaScript and TypeScript, JSR.io. Links https://jsr.io https://github.com/kwhinnery https://twitter.com/kevinwhinnery https://linkedin.com/in/kevinwhinnery https://twitch.com/kwhinnery We want to hear from you! How did you find us? Did you see us on Twitter? In a news…