PodRocket - A web development podcast from LogRocket

Originally published on January 12, 2021 We are taking this week off from production. We will be back with new episodes on November 30th. Ben and Brian talk to Brandon Bayer, creator of Blitz.js. We take a deep dive into everything Blitz has to offer. More specifically, we address how Blitz compares with other fullstack frameworks and how Blitz balances being opinionated with being flexible for each aspect of the toolchain. We also talk about community building and beyond. Links https://github.com/blitz-js/blitz/wiki https://blitzjs.slack.com https://blitzjs.com/docs/contributing https://blitzjs.com https://twitter.com/flybayer https://twitter.com/blitz_js https://blog.logrocket.com/introduction-to-blitz-js https://blog.logrocket.com/building-a-fullstack-react-application-with-blitz-js Contact us https://podrocket.logrocket.com/contact-us @PodRocketpod 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: Brandon Bayer.

Originally published March 23, 2021. We are taking this week off from production. We will be back with new episodes on November 30th. Ben interviews Charlie Cheever, CEO and cofounder of Expo. They talk about the difficulties of building a cross-platform app and what Expo is doing to make that easier for developers. They also get into the state of React Native and more. Links https://expo.io https://twitter.com/ccheever https://expo.io/eas https://expo.io/tools https://expo.io/client https://medium.com/airbnb-engineering/react-native-at-airbnb Contact us https://podrocket.logrocket.com/contact-us @PodRocketpod 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: Charlie Cheever.

Josh Comeau joins us to talk about all things CSS and why it doesn't suck (no matter what web dev Twitter says)! Links https://twitter.com/JoshWComeau https://css-for-js.dev https://www.framer.com/motion https://www.joshwcomeau.com https://wattenberger.com/blog https://wattenberger.com/blog/css-cascade Contact us https://podrocket.logrocket.com/contact-us @PodRocketpod 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.

We talk to Mike Karan, frontend engineer and host of HTML All The Things podcast, about podcasting, freelancing, and his Svelte course. Links https://twitter.com/htmleverything https://www.htmlallthethings.com/podcast https://www.htmlallthethings.com https://twitter.com/JacobMGEvans https://www.udemy.com/course/svelte-for-beginners/?couponCode=HATTSALE Contact us https://podrocket.logrocket.com/contact-us @PodRocketpod 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: Mike Karan.

We talk to Chris Ferdinandi about vanilla JavaScript, the modern web, newsletters, and more. Links https://gomakethings.com/podrocket http://vanilla-js.com https://preactjs.com https://alpinejs.dev https://www.npmjs.com/package/petite-vue https://css-tricks.com/radeventlistener-a-tale-of-client-side-framework-performance https://svelte.dev https://kit.svelte.dev https://astro.build https://twitter.com/jlengstorf/status/1442707241627385860 https://moderncss.dev https://smolcss.dev Contact us https://podrocket.logrocket.com/contact-us @PodRocketpod 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 Ferdinandi.

NOTE: In this episode, Misko uses demos to share more about how Qwik and Partytown work. If you would like to follow along with the demos please check out the video recording of this interview here https://youtu.be/0wXjI_bqY9c. Misko Hevery, the creator of Angular, joins us to talk about his latest projects at builder.io including Qwik, the HTML first framework, and Partytown, a lazy-loaded 6kb library to help relocate resource-intensive scripts into a web worker, and off of the main thread. Learn more in this episode. Links https://twitter.com/mhevery https://www.builder.io https://angular.io https://twitter.com/builderio https://twitter.com/QwikDev https://twitter.com/angular https://twitter.com/adamdbradley https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1A1VR0ibIQ https://github.com/BuilderIO https://github.com/BuilderIO/partytown https://github.com/builderio/qwik Contact us https://podrocket.logrocket.com/contact-us @PodRocketpod 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: Misko Hevery.

If you are a React developer, you're probably familiar with the React Podcast. Chantastic joins us today to talk about his experience working on the React Podcast for two and a half years, how he is now spending his time building the React Podcast Discord, and much more. Links discord.gg/lunchdev https://spec.fm https://www.meetup.com/ReactJSDallas https://twitter.com/chantastic https://reactpodcast.com https://twitter.com/reactpodcast https://twitter.com/ajcwebdev https://twitter.com/bendmyers https://fsjam.org https://www.twitch.tv/someanticsdev https://benmyers.dev https://twitter.com/lindsaykwardell https://viewsonvue.com https://twitter.com/mennairda Contact us https://podrocket.logrocket.com/contact-us @PodRocketpod 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 Chan.

We talk to Aaron Gustafson, author, speaker, Principal Program Manager on the Microsoft Edge team, and long-time web standards advocate, about progressive web apps. Listen now. Links https://twitter.com/aarongustafson https://www.w3.org https://alistapart.com https://www.pwabuilder.com https://abookapart.com/products/design-for-safety https://abookapart.com/products/going-offline https://abookapart.com/products/progressive-web-apps https://www.aaron-gustafson.com/publications Contact us https://podrocket.logrocket.com/contact-us @PodRocketpod 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 Gustafson.

Livecycle is a real-time collaboration platform between coders and other stakeholders with a mission to eliminate the friction in the feedback loop. We talk to one of the founders of Livecycle, Matan Mishan to learn more. Links https://twitter.com/mishanmatan https://livecycle.io Contact us https://podrocket.logrocket.com/contact-us @PodRocketpod 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: Matan Mishan.

We talk to Harry Wolff, writer, YouTuber, and Director of Engineering at MongoDB, about Rust content, clickbait, creating a YouTube channel, why engineering managers fail, and so much more. Links https://twitter.com/hswolff https://www.youtube.com/hswolff https://github.com/hswolff https://www.hswolff.com https://www.mongodb.com https://www.mongodb.com/careers Contact us https://podrocket.logrocket.com/contact-us @PodRocketpod 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: Harry Wolff.