

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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Sep 23, 2022 • 41min
Routers, app development, and legos with Evan Bacon
What if you could build the routes for native apps by creating files? Evan Bacon joins us to talk about the Expo Router he has been working on and more!
Links
https://docs.expo.dev
https://twitter.com/baconbrix
https://github.com/expo/expo
https://docs.expo.dev/eas/metadata
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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: Evan Bacon.

Sep 21, 2022 • 18min
Svelvet with Andrew Widjaja
We sit down with the co-creator of Svelvet, Andrew Widjaja, to talk about how Svelvet allows developers to design beautiful flow charts easily, why they chose to create it for Svelte, and what’s coming up for the library.
Links
https://www.svelvet.io
https://blog.logrocket.com/build-gorgeous-flow-diagrams-svelvet/?podrocket
https://github.com/andrew-widjaja
https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrew-widjaja/
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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: Andrew Widjaja.

Sep 20, 2022 • 27min
Radix with Benoît Grélard
We sit down with Benoît Grélard, lead web developer at WorkOS and Radix maintainer, about Radix, the open-source UI component library for building high-quality, accessible design systems and web apps.
Links
https://benoit.works/
https://twitter.com/benoitgrelard?lang=en
https://www.linkedin.com/in/benoitgrelard/?originalSubdomain=uk
https://github.com/benoitgrelard
https://www.modulz.app
https://www.radix-ui.com
"So you think you can build a dropdown?" talk
https://workos.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: Benoît Grélard.

Sep 16, 2022 • 45min
The next generation of tech is on TikTok with Aaroh Mankad
Aaroh Mankad, Developer Experience Engineer at Plaid, talks about how developers can leverage TikTok to learn about web development, get jobs in the industry, and how the tech community in general is moving to the platform.
Links
https://mobile.twitter.com/aarohmankad
https://github.com/aarohmankad
https://www.tiktok.com/@seattletechbro
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: Aaroh Mankad.

Sep 15, 2022 • 1h 2min
PodRocket presents: All things serverless with Compressed.fm
We'll be back with our PodRocket episodes tomorrow but today, we're bringing you a guest episode with James and Amy from Compressed.fm — a weekly podcast focused on web development and design with a little bit of zest. This podcast was born out of a passion for teaching shared by the two co-hosts, Amy Dutton and James Quick.
In this episode, James and Amy talk about everything serverless and how it fits into modern web development. They discuss serverless functions, edge functions, hosting platforms (Netlify, Vercel, and Cloudflare), frameworks and tools, benefits, and more.
Links
https://www.compressed.fm
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.

Sep 14, 2022 • 44min
Stop polling, let’s go streaming with Phil Wilkins
We talk to Phil Wilkins, Cloud Developer Evangelist at Oracle, about his recent talk, “Stop Polling, Let’s Go Streaming,” where we take a deep dive into the world of APIs and talk about when developers should use streaming instead of polling.
Links
https://twitter.com/mp3monster
https://github.com/mp3monster
https://blog.mp3monster.org
https://www.oracle.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: Phil Wilkins.

Sep 13, 2022 • 26min
Building a consistent developer experience with Ravi Lachhman
In this podcast, Ravi Lachhman discusses creating a consistent developer experience and the importance of simplicity in complex systems. He also explores chaos engineering, Dora metrics, and Harness's approach to continuous delivery.

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Sep 9, 2022 • 42min
Vitest and VueUse with Anthony Fu
Anthony Fu is a core team member of Vue, Nuxt, and Vite. Anthony is also the creator of Vitest, Slidev, VueUse, UnoCSS, and more! In this episode, we get caught up on Vitest, a blazing fast unit test powered by Vite, and VueUse, a collection of essential Vue composition utilities. Listen now!
Links
https://twitter.com/antfu7
https://github.com/windicss/windicss
https://vitejs.dev/
https://nuxtjs.org/
https://vitest.dev/
https://github.com/unocss/unocss
https://sli.dev/
https://antfu.me/posts/reimagine-atomic-css
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: Anthony Fu.

Sep 7, 2022 • 33min
Docusaurus 2.0 with Sébastien Lorber
After four years, the highly anticipated Docusaurus 2.0 was recently released. We talk to Sébastien Lorber, maintainer of Docusaurus, about what’s new in the documentation website builder.
Links
https://docusaurus.io
https://sebastienlorber.com
https://twitter.com/sebastienlorber
https://stackoverflow.com/users/82609/sebastien-lorber
https://www.linkedin.com/in/sebastienlorber
https://github.com/slorber
https://thisweekinreact.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: Sebastien Lorber.

Sep 6, 2022 • 33min
Ultra with Omar Mashaal
We talk to Omar Mashaal, creator of the Ultra web framework, about how Ultra, built on Deno with React 18, allows developers to write code and serve it as ESM in whatever format or project structure.
Links
https://ultrajs.dev
https://discord.com/invite/XDC5WxGHb2
https://twitter.com/mutual__respect
https://twitter.com/mutual__respect/status/1565384368709070850
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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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: Omar Mashaal.