

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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Dec 14, 2022 • 31min
Deno with Ryan Dahl
We sit down with Ryan Dahl, creator of Deno and Node.js, to talk about his experience in web development, why he created Node.js, and why he sees Deno as the next step for JavaScript runtimes.
Links
https://twitter.com/deno_land
https://deno.com/deploy
https://deno.land
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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: Ryan Dahl.

Dec 13, 2022 • 36min
Engineering at Mailchimp with CTO, Eric Muntz
CTO of Mailchimp, Eric Muntz, joins us to talk about how he started as a software engineer at Mailchimp almost thirteen years ago, the engineering team's mission statement, a few “ghost” stories, and more.
Links
https://twitter.com/muntzen
https://www.heyericmuntz.com
https://twitter.com/Mailchimp
https://mailchimp.com
https://mailchimp.com/developer/blog
https://mailchimp.com/developer/tools
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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: Eric Muntz.

Dec 9, 2022 • 31min
What makes pnpm performant with Zoltan Kochan
We sit down with Zoltan Kochan, creator of pnpm, an efficient and fast package manager, to talk about his Vite Conf talk, “What makes pnpm performant.”
Links
https://twitter.com/ZoltanKochan
https://www.kochan.io/
https://github.com/zkochan
https://github.com/pnpm/pnpm
https://pnpm.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: Zoltan Kochan.

Dec 7, 2022 • 46min
Figma with Dylan Field
CEO and Co-Founder of Figma, Dylan Field, joins us to talk about the collaborative design tool, the importance of design, the early stages of Figma, and more.
Links
https://twitter.com/zoink
https://twitter.com/figma
https://www.figma.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: Dylan Field.

Dec 6, 2022 • 24min
Making typesafe APIs easy with tRPC with Trash Dev
Chris Bautista, Senior Software Engineer at Netflix, also known as Trash Dev online and to his Twitch community, joins us to go through his recent Next.js Conf talk, “Making typesafe APIs easy with tRPC.”
Links
https://twitter.com/trashh_dev
https://m.twitch.tv/trash_dev/home
https://www.youtube.com/@trash_dev
https://discord.com/invite/WjZhvVbFHM
https://github.com/bautistaaa
https://trpc.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: Chris Bautista.

Dec 2, 2022 • 29min
The future of Angular with Minko Gechev
In this episode, we talk to Minko Gechev, Angular Product Lead, about what is new in Angular v15 and what to expect from Angular in the future.
Links
https://twitter.com/mgechev
https://twitter.com/Angular
https://blog.mgechev.com
https://www.youtube.com/Angular
https://angular.io
https://guess-js.github.io
https://blog.tensorflow.org/2021/05/speed-up-your-sites-with-web-page-prefetching-using-ml.html
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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: Minko Gechev.

Nov 30, 2022 • 40min
A guide to React rendering behavior with Mark Erikson
Mark Erikson, Senior Frontend Engineer at Replay and Redux maintainer, rejoins the pod to talk about his latest conference talk, “A guide to React rendering behavior,” where he goes in-depth about React rendering and issues that can appear while attempting it.
Links
https://twitter.com/acemarke
https://blog.isquaredsoftware.com/2020/05/blogged-answers-a-mostly-complete-guide-to-react-rendering-behavior
https://twitter.com/replayio
https://podrocket.logrocket.com/replay
https://podrocket.logrocket.com/redux
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: Mark Erikson.

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Nov 29, 2022 • 50min
Next.js 13, Vercel, and the future with Guillermo Rauch
Hot off the Next.js 13 announcement, Guillermo Rauch returns to PodRocket to talk about all the new Next 13 features, how Next has changed since its inception, and the future of the framework as it continues to grow.
Links
https://twitter.com/rauchg
https://github.com/rauchg
https://rauchg.com
https://vercel.com
https://nextjs.org
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: Guillermo Rauch.

Nov 25, 2022 • 30min
Deno and Fresh with Luca Casonato (Repeat)
Originally published on August 23rd, 2022.
We are taking some time off from production. We will be back with new episodes on November 29th.
Deno is a simple, modern, and secure runtime for JavaScript, TypeScript, and WebAssembly. Today, we talk with Luca Casonato, member of the Deno core team and creator of Fresh, a full stack modern web framework for JavaScript and TypeScript developers. What is Fresh? How do we pronounce Deno? We answer these questions and more in this episode!
Links
https://twitter.com/lcasdev
https://deno.com/blog/v1.9
https://twitter.com/deno_land
https://deno.land/
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: Luca Casonato.

Nov 23, 2022 • 33min
Remix and React Router with Michael Jackson (Repeat)
Originally published on August 9th, 2022
We are taking some time off from production. We will be back with new episodes on November 29th.
Remix is a full-stack web framework that lets you focus on the user interface. We talk to Michael Jackson, co-founder of Remix and creator of React Router, about Remix, nested routes, improving UI, and more.
Links
https://twitter.com/mjackson
https://remix.run
https://reactrouter.com
https://reacttraining.com
https://github.com/remix-run
Tell us what you think of PodRocket
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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: Michael Jackson .