

PodRocket - A web development podcast from LogRocket
LogRocket
PodRocket covers everything you need to know about frontend web development on a weekly basis. Join LogRocket cofounder Ben Edelstein, the LogRocket engineering team, and more, as they interview experienced developers about all the libraries, frameworks, and tech industry issues they deal with every day.
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Apr 20, 2023 • 24min
React and frontend development with Josh Comeau
Will AI take our jobs? Is React still a good choice? Josh Comeau joins us to talk about React, the future of web development, and more.
Links
https://www.joshwcomeau.com
https://twitter.com/joshwcomeau
https://css-for-js.dev
https://www.linkedin.com/in/joshwcomeau
https://www.joshwcomeau.com/css/the-importance-of-learning-css
https://www.joyofreact.com
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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
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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: Josh W. Comeau.

Apr 19, 2023 • 25min
AI code conversion with Thomas Lopes
With the rise of AI tools, we talk to Thomas Lopes, the creator of Codeverter, a code conversion tool hosted by Vercel, about how he sees AI will build and transform tools in web development.
Links
https://twitter.com/thomasglopes
https://www.thomasglopes.com
https://github.com/TGlide
https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomas-gl
https://codeverter.vercel.app/
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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
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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: Thomas Lopes.

Apr 17, 2023 • 36min
PartyKit with Sunil Pai
Sunil Pai was formerly on the React core team, he built a popular css-in-js library called glamor and built the Cloudflare Workers CLI. Sunil has worked at multiple companies like Yahoo, Visa, Flipkart, Oculus/Facebook/Meta, JP Morgan, and Cloudflare, he also co-created babel macros and has made a number of contributions to the JavaScript ecosystem. Sunil joins us today to talk about his experience as well as his latest project, PartyKit.
Links
https://twitter.com/threepointone
https://m.webtoo.ls/@threepointone
https://www.coolcomputerclub.com
https://partykit.io
https://twitter.com/partykit_io
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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
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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: Sunil Pai.

Apr 14, 2023 • 35min
Migrating to NoSQL with Michael Lynn
On today’s episode, Michael Lynn joins us to talk about migrating databases, NoSQL, MongoDB, and more.
Links
https://landing.mdb.link/podrocket
https://twitter.com/mlynn
https://medium.com/@mlynn
https://www.linkedin.com/in/mlynn
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
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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: Michael Lynn.

Apr 12, 2023 • 32min
React Hooks broke my tests with Daniel Afonso
React Hooks can seem great, but when it comes time for testing, they can point out issues. Daniel Afonso, Dev Advocate at OLX, teaches us how to reconfigure how to test React applications to work better with React Hooks.
Links
https://twitter.com/danieljcafonso
https://www.danieljcafonso.com
https://github.com/danieljcafonso
https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-afonso-523a13155
https://danieljcafonso.medium.com
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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
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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: Daniel Afonso.

Apr 11, 2023 • 27min
Refactoring large JavaScript codebases with Michele Riva
We welcome back Michele Riva, co-founder and CTO of Orama Search, to discuss how developers can easily refactor large JavaScript codebases.
Links
https://twitter.com/MicheleRivaCode
https://www.micheleriva.dev
https://micheleriva.medium.com
https://github.com/MicheleRiva
https://www.linkedin.com/in/MicheleRiva95
https://twitter.com/OramaSearch
https://oramasearch.com
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
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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: Michele Riva.

Apr 7, 2023 • 29min
Node.js runtimes with Erick Wendel
With JavaScript runtimes like Deno and Bun becoming increasingly popular, Node.js core team member Erick Wendel comes on to talk about how he created his own Node.js runtime and why he did it.
Links
https://twitter.com/erickwendel_
https://linktr.ee/erickwendel
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCh84012dEUE076wM2CVFN9A
https://blog.erickwendel.com.br/
https://github.com/ErickWendel
https://cursos.erickwendel.com.br
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
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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: Erick Wendel.

Apr 5, 2023 • 34min
Polypane with Kilian Valkhof
Kilian Valkhof created a browser made for developers. We talk to Kilian about Polypane, developer experience, and more!
Links
https://twitter.com/kilianvalkhof
https://kilianvalkhof.com
https://polypane.app
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
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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: Kilian Valkhof.

Apr 4, 2023 • 28min
Writing (really) good tests with Markus Oberlehner
Markus Oberlehner, software architect, speaker, and open source contributor, comes onto the show to talk about how to better write tests with test-driven development.
Links
https://twitter.com/MaOberlehner
https://markus.oberlehner.net
https://markus.oberlehner.net/blog
http://twitch.tv/webdevexplorer
https://github.com/maoberlehner
https://goodvuetests.com
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If you’re interested, schedule a call with us or you can email producer Kate Trahan at kate@logrocket.com
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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: Markus Oberlehner.

Mar 31, 2023 • 46min
Your UI/UX questions answered
You had questions about UI and UX design, and we answered. We go through your questions with our panel of experts, Adam Argyle, Stephanie Eckles, and Stacy Kvernmo.
Links
https://twitter.com/Emilykketner
https://moderncss.dev
https://twitter.com/5t3ph
https://thinkdobecreate.com/links
https://github.com/5t3ph
https://codepen.io/5t3ph
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8qc2AyBbNmvgIky6236nHA
https://www.twitch.tv/5t3phdev
https://nerdy.dev
https://twitter.com/argyleink
https://github.com/argyleink
https://web.dev/authors/adamargyle
https://www.youtube.com/c/AdamArgyleInk
https://www.instagram.com/namastacyk
https://www.oddbird.net
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
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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: Adam Argyle, Stacy Kvernmo, and Stephanie Eckles.