PodRocket - A web development podcast from LogRocket

Stephanie Eckles, software engineer at Microsoft and author of Modern CSS, talks about the 'weird' aspects of CSS, including stacking context, calculated values, and potential bugs with double transform layer. She also shares valuable resources for learning CSS.

Ivan Akulov, a web performance engineer and consultant, discusses React concurrency in React 18. Topics include time slicing, optimization of hydration, drawbacks of React concurrency, setting suspense boundaries, and their social media account and website for React and performance-related content.

In this repeat episode picked by PodRocket host Paul Mikulskis, Ian Sutherland, Node.js core contributor and Architect and Developer Experience Lead at Neo Financial, joins the pod to talk about zero-dependency CLIs, why they’re fun to build, and what they can teach us about developing other applications. Links https://twitter.com/iansu https://github.com/iansu https://iansutherland.ca Tell us what you think of PodRocket We want to hear from you! We want to know what you love and hate about the podcast. What do you want to hear more about? Who do you want to see on the show? Our producers want to know, and if you talk with us, we’ll send you a $25 gift card! If you’re interested, schedule a call with us or you can email producer Kate Trahan at kate@logrocket.com 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: Ian Sutherland.

PHP used to suck, but Aaron Francis, content creator and developer at PlanetScale, is on a mission to change the narrative. We talk about why PHP doesn’t suck anymore and the features that have improved it. Links https://twitter.com/aarondfrancis https://www.youtube.com/@aarondfrancis https://aaronfrancis.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/aarondfrancis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRV3pBuPxEQ&ab_channel=AaronFrancis Tell us what you think of PodRocket We want to hear from you! We want to know what you love and hate about the podcast. What do you want to hear more about? Who do you want to see on the show? Our producers want to know, and if you talk with us, we’ll send you a $25 gift card! If you’re interested, schedule a call with us or you can email producer Kate Trahan at kate@logrocket.com 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: Aaron Francis.

Web components can be divisive, but Nolan Lawson, Web Developer at Salesforce, talks about why and when developers should use web components. Links https://github.com/nolanlawson https://toot.cafe/@nolan https://nolanlawson.com/2023/08/23/use-web-components-for-what-theyre-good-at Tell us what you think of PodRocket We want to hear from you! We want to know what you love and hate about the podcast. What do you want to hear more about? Who do you want to see on the show? Our producers want to know, and if you talk with us, we’ll send you a $25 gift card! If you’re interested, schedule a call with us or you can email producer Kate Trahan at kate@logrocket.com 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: Nolan Lawson.

With AI on the rise, Chris Heilmann, Director of DevRel at WeAreDevelopers, comes on to talk about how AI has impacted how developers work and how it can improve with good UX in the future. Links https://twitter.com/codepo8 https://christianheilmann.com/ https://github.com/codepo8 https://toot.cafe/@codepo8 https://www.linkedin.com/in/christianheilmann Tell us what you think of PodRocket We want to hear from you! We want to know what you love and hate about the podcast. What do you want to hear more about? Who do you want to see on the show? Our producers want to know, and if you talk with us, we’ll send you a $25 gift card! If you’re interested, schedule a call with us or you can email producer Kate Trahan at kate@logrocket.com 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: Chris Heilmann.

Cory House, founder and principal consultant at reactjsconsulting.com, talks about creating reusable components and effective design systems in software development. They discuss documenting component libraries, visual regression testing, utilizing Tailwind CSS, including more than props in component documentation, and different approaches to React styling.

In this week’s roundup, we talk about the upcoming release of Deno 2.0, view transitions in Astro 3.0, and why local-first web could be the way of the future. Links Apple What to know about Deno 2.0 with Kevin Whinnery: https://apple.co/3PfAlmJ Astro 3.0 with Matthew Phillips and Ben Holmes: https://apple.co/3Phksv9 Local-first web with Kyle Simpson: https://bit.ly/3Ekv7Qj Spotify What to know about Deno 2.0 with Kevin Whinnery: https://spoti.fi/3OWODXZ Astro 3.0 with Matthew Phillips and Ben Holmes: https://spoti.fi/3L4qTjD Local-first web with Kyle Simpson: https://bit.ly/45XhVgh Google What to know about Deno 2.0 with Kevin Whinnery: https://bit.ly/3OVmYXx Astro 3.0 with Matthew Phillips and Ben Holmes: https://bit.ly/3KZbhOo Local-first web with Kyle Simpson: https://bit.ly/3QZUlez Tell us what you think of PodRocket We want to hear from you! We want to know what you love and hate about the podcast. What do you want to hear more about? Who do you want to see on the show? Our producers want to know, and if you talk with us, we’ll send you a $25 gift card! If you’re interested, schedule a call with us or you can email producer Kate Trahan at kate@logrocket.com 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: Ben Holmes, Kevin Whinnery, Kyle Simpson, and Matthew Phillips.

Learn about the history of JavaScript, how it has evolved, and where it’s going with developer advocate and speaker, Christina Zhu, as she talks about her recent SeatleJS talk, “ES13 and Beyond.” Links https://twitter.com/cszhu https://www.linkedin.com/in/christinaszhu https://github.com/cszhu http://seattlejs.com/live Tell us what you think of PodRocket We want to hear from you! We want to know what you love and hate about the podcast. What do you want to hear more about? Who do you want to see on the show? Our producers want to know, and if you talk with us, we’ll send you a $25 gift card! If you’re interested, schedule a call with us or you can email producer Kate Trahan at kate@logrocket.com 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: Christina Zhu.

Originally published on April 25, 2023. We are taking some time off from production. We will be back with new episodes on September 6, 2023. Natalia Venditto is a Principal Program Manager at Microsoft, she leads the JavaScript and Node.js end-to-end experience on Azure. In this repeat episode from April, Natalia joins us to talk about micro-frontends and how they can help developers. Links https://microfrontend.dev https://twitter.com/AnfibiaCreativa https://www.linkedin.com/in/anfibiacreativa https://github.com/anfibiacreativa Tell us what you think of PodRocket We want to hear from you! We want to know what you love and hate about the podcast. What do you want to hear more about? Who do you want to see on the show? Our producers want to know, and if you talk with us, we’ll send you a $25 gift card! If you’re interested, schedule a call with us or you can email producer Kate Trahan at kate@logrocket.com 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: Natalia Venditto.