PodRocket - A web development podcast from LogRocket

Darius Cepulis, Senior Dev Community Engineer at Mux, shares his experience migrating 50,000 lines of code to React Server Components. They discuss the benefits of server components, handling the difficulties of mixing server and client components, and different approaches for passing components in React. They also reflect on the Next 14 release and discuss upcoming improvements for development.

Eduardo San Martin Morote, creator of Pinia and Vue.js core team member, discusses the benefits of Pinia for Vue developers, the transition from Vuex to Pinia, the structure of Pinia and its relationship to Vue.js, challenges of serializing and transferring data in web development, the decision to use actions for state changes in Pinia, and future plans for Pinia including improvements to the global aspect and dev tools.

Atila Fassina, DevRel Engineer at Crab Nebula and Google Dev Expert, discusses the rendering dilemma and compares Signals and Solid.js. The podcast explores React vs Solid JS and the potential benefits of React Forget. It also compares React and Signals in terms of performance and discusses the symbolism of Tauri and Solid's competition with React.

The podcast discusses the stable release of Svelte 4, the next generation of Svelte, and the influence of Svelte Kit. They also explore the concept of being an indie maker and creating low code tools for social good. Additionally, they talk about the advantages of low-code tools, the process of developing a code to manage preschool enrollment, and the benefits of releasing an MVP early. Lastly, they discuss how programming skills can enhance existing businesses and provide ways to find the guest online.

In this week’s roundup episode, learn why Chance Strickland still chooses to use React, why Amy Dutton uses Storybook for design-driven development, and how to use Reason and OCaml to natively render React apps. Links Apple Why I still choose React with Chance Strickland: https://apple.co/46Tf2Of Remix, Svelte, and robots with James Quick and Amy Dutton: https://apple.co/474SxWW Reason's native React SSR with David Sancho: https://apple.co/40krVhQ Spotify Why I still choose React with Chance Strickland: https://spoti.fi/3sd9j6Q Remix, Svelte, and robots with James Quick and Amy Dutton: https://spoti.fi/3FKOCT4 Reason's native React SSR with David Sancho: https://spoti.fi/3QjUOGy Google Why I still choose React with Chance Strickland: https://bit.ly/3FGf3Jw Remix, Svelte, and robots with James Quick and Amy Dutton: https://bit.ly/49DJXAb Reason's native React SSR with David Sancho: https://bit.ly/3QH7kRV We want to hear from you! How did you find us? Did you see us on Twitter? In a newsletter? Or maybe we were recommended by a friend? Let us know by sending an email to our producer, Emily, at emily.kochanekketner@logrocket.com, or tweet at us at PodRocketPod. Follow us. Get free stickers. Follow us on Apple Podcasts, fill out this form, and we’ll send you free PodRocket stickers! What does LogRocket do? LogRocket combines frontend monitoring, product analytics, and session replay to help software teams deliver the ideal product experience. Try LogRocket for free today.Special Guests: Amy Dutton, Chance Strickland, and David Sancho.

One of the biggest performance issues in an app stems from using third-party libraries, so Houssein Djirdeh, Senior Software Engineer at Google, talks about how the Chrome Aurora team is developing a package to efficiently load third-party libraries into Next.js apps. Links https://twitter.com/hdjirdeh https://houssein.me https://www.linkedin.com/in/housseindjirdeh https://github.com/housseindjirdeh https://developer.chrome.com/authors/housseindjirdeh We want to hear from you! How did you find us? Did you see us on Twitter? In a newsletter? Or maybe we were recommended by a friend? Let us know by sending an email to our producer, Emily, at emily.kochanekketner@logrocket.com, or tweet at us at PodRocketPod. Follow us. Get free stickers. Follow us on Apple Podcasts, fill out this form, and we’ll send you free PodRocket stickers! What does LogRocket do? LogRocket combines frontend monitoring, product analytics, and session replay to help software teams deliver the ideal product experience. Try LogRocket for free today.Special Guest: Houssein Djirdeh.

With the latest release and rebrand of Angular 17, Minko Gechev, Angular Engineering Product and DevRel Lead, returns to talk about why Angular rebranded, the new features, and more. Links https://twitter.com/mgechev https://github.com/mgechev https://blog.mgechev.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/mgechev https://bsky.app/profile/mgeche https://mstdn.social/@mgechev We want to hear from you! How did you find us? Did you see us on Twitter? In a newsletter? Or maybe we were recommended by a friend? Let us know by sending an email to our producer, Emily, at emily.kochanekketner@logrocket.com, or tweet at us at PodRocketPod. Follow us. Get free stickers. Follow us on Apple Podcasts, fill out this form, and we’ll send you free PodRocket stickers! What does LogRocket do? LogRocket combines frontend monitoring, product analytics, and session replay to help software teams deliver the ideal product experience. Try LogRocket for free today.Special Guest: Minko Gechev.

Kent C. Dodds, a web development expert, explains why he prefers Remix over Next.js, highlighting its productivity and effectiveness. The podcast covers topics such as testing libraries, transferable knowledge, web platform APIs, advantages of Remix, challenges of abstractions, and the dichotomy of stewardship in open source frameworks. They also discuss React, Next.js, Vercel, and collaboration within the React team.

We sit down with Dominik Dorfmeister, TanStack Query maintainer, to talk about the new updates in version 5, including benefits and enhancements in React Query, community feedback and roadmap changes, optimizing memory usage and data fetching in infinite queries, setting stale time on queries for memory optimization, and the future focus of TanStack Query v5.

Tim Neutkens, Next.js lead at Vercel, talks about the Next.js App Router and new features from the latest release. They discuss core values and design principles, the power of server components in React and Next.js, collaboration between Chrome and Next.js teams, and the impact of lazy loading images. Excitement about Next.js in the ecosystem and potential integrations with hooks and data fetching are also mentioned.