

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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Mar 7, 2023 • 41min
Product design with Adam Wiggins
Co-Founder and former CTO of Heroku, Adam Wiggins, joins us to talk about product design, research, remote work, and productivity. Listen now.
Links
https://twitter.com/_adamwiggins_
https://mas.to/@adamwiggins
https://adamwiggins.com
https://adamwiggins.com/making-computers-better
https://www.inkandswitch.com
https://www.heroku.com
https://museapp.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: Adam Wiggins.

Mar 3, 2023 • 34min
Nuxt in 2023 with Alexander Lichter
What’s new in Nuxt 3? What is Nitro? What does island architecture mean in Nuxt? Alex Lichter answers these questions for us in this episode.
Links
https://twitter.com/TheAlexLichter
https://blog.lichter.io
https://github.com/manniL
https://hachyderm.io/@manniL
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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: Alexander Lichter.

Mar 1, 2023 • 21min
Vercel Edge Functions, Next.js, and AI apps with Hassan El Mghari
Hassan El Mghari is a Senior Developer Advocate at Vercel, he joins us today to talk about some of his projects and how he has been using Vercel Edge Functions and Next.js to build them.
Links
https://twitter.com/nutlope
https://www.elmghari.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/nutlope
https://github.com/Nutlope
https://www.npmjs.com/~nutlope
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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: Hassan El Mghari.

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Feb 28, 2023 • 36min
Your testing questions answered
In our first-ever mailbag episode, testing experts Debbie O’Brien, Gleb Bahmutov, and Kent C. Dodds answer your questions about testing.
Links
https://kentcdodds.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kentcdodds
https://github.com/kentcdodds
https://twitter.com/kentcdodds
https://kentcdodds.com/s/test
https://glebbahmutov.com
https://twitter.com/bahmutov
https://www.linkedin.com/in/bahmutov
https://github.com/bahmutov
https://www.cypress.io/blog/author/gleb
https://twitter.com/debs_obrien
http://youtube.com/c/DebbieOBrien
https://debbie.codes
https://www.linkedin.com/in/debbie-o-brien-1a199975/
https://github.com/debs-obrien
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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!
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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: Debbie O'Brien, Gleb Bahmutov, and Kent C. Dodds.

Feb 24, 2023 • 38min
Vuetify 3 with John Leider
John Leider, the creator of Vuetify, a UI Library with beautifully handcrafted Vue Components, comes onto the show to talk about the latest release, Vuetify 3.
Links
https://vuetifyjs.com
https://twitter.com/zeroskillz
https://twitter.com/vuetifyjs
https://github.com/vuetifyjs/vuetify
https://github.com/johnleider
https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-leider-626183a2
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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: John Leider.

Feb 23, 2023 • 28min
WASM with Shivay Lamba
Shivay Lamba joins us to talk about server-side WASM, common misconceptions about WASM, and more.
Links
https://shivaylamba.me
https://twitter.com/howdevelop
https://github.com/shivaylamba
https://webassembly.org
https://www.tensorflow.org
https://mastodon.social/@shivaylamba
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: Shivay Lamba.

Feb 22, 2023 • 33min
SvelteKit 1.0 with Rich Harris
Rich Harris joins us on this episode to talk about SvelteKit 1.0, Vercel, the future, and more!
Links
https://kit.svelte.dev
https://svelte.dev/chat
https://twitter.com/Rich_Harris
https://github.com/Rich-Harris
https://svelte.dev
https://vercel.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: Rich Harris.

Feb 21, 2023 • 27min
CockroachDB with Aydrian Howard
DevRel at CockroachDB, Aydrian Howard, joins us to talk about how CockroachDB gives all of your apps effortless scale, bulletproof resilience, and more.
Links
https://twitter.com/itsaydrian
https://beacons.ai/aydrian
https://www.twitch.tv/itsaydrian
https://twitter.com/cockroachdb
https://www.cockroachlabs.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: Aydrian Howard.

Feb 17, 2023 • 41min
The Launch Pad with Lindsay Wardell and Tejas Kumar
We’re back with episode three of the Launch Pad with Lindsay Wardell and Tejas Kumar, as we cover the latest acquisition of Gatsby, what we should do with Create React App, and what we think of the Astro 2.0 release.
Links
Lindsay Wardell
https://twitter.com/lindsaykwardell
https://www.lindsaykwardell.com/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/lindsaykwardell/
https://github.com/lindsaykwardell
https://dev.to/lindsaykwardell
Tejas Kumar
https://tej.as
https://twitter.com/TejasKumar_
https://github.com/tejasq
https://www.youtube.com/c/tejaskumar
Netlify acquires Gatsby, composable architectures, and the future of Jamstack
Netlify announced that it would be acquiring Gatsby
Biilmann cited Gatsby’s recently released Valhalla platform
Netlify Acquires Gatsby Inc. to Accelerate Adoption of Composable Web Architectures
Netlify Acquires Gatsby, Its Struggling Jamstack Competitor
Replace Create React App recommendation with Vite
Replace Create React App recommendation with Vite
Twitter resoundingly agreed about using CRA
CRA’s inability to support PostCSS configurations and recommending Vite, Parcel, Next, or Remix
Dan Abromov’s response
Release of Astro 2 and “hybrid rendering”
Astro 2 released in mid-January
Hybrid rendering alternative API considerations
Unlock New Possibilities with Hybrid Rendering
Introducing Content Collections: Type-Safe Markdown in Astro 2.0
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: Lindsay Wardell and Tejas Kumar.

Feb 16, 2023 • 25min
Prisma with Alex Ruheni
Developer Advocate, Alex Ruheni, joins us to talk about database workflows with Prisma, database access on the edge, and Prisma 4.9.
Links
https://ruheni.dev
https://twitter.com/ruheni_alex
https://hachyderm.io/@ruheni
https://twitter.com/prisma
https://www.prisma.io
https://www.prisma.io/docs
https://www.youtube.com/@PrismaData
https://slack.prisma.io
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: Alex Ruheni.