
JS Party: JavaScript, CSS, Web Development
Your weekly celebration of JavaScript and the web. Current panelists: Jerod Santo, Kevin Ball (KBall), Nick Nisi, Chris Hiller, Amal Hussein & Amy Dutton.
Past panelists: Suz Hinton, Feross Aboukhadijeh, Amelia Wattenberger, Divya Sasidharan, Alex Sexton, Rachel White, Emma Bostian, Ali Spittel, Mikeal Rogers & Jessica Sachs.
We talk about the web platform (Chrome, Safari, Edge, Firefox, Brave, etc), front-end frameworks (ReactJS, SolidJS, Svelte, VueJS, AngularJS, etc), JavaScript and TypeScript runtimes (Node, Deno, Bun), web animation, SVG, TailwindCSS, robotics, IoT, and much more. If JavaScript and/or the web touch your life, this show’s for you.
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Latest episodes

Apr 15, 2022 • 50min
Postgres.js
Rasmus Porsager created Postgres.js –the fastest full-featured PostgreSQL client for Node.js and Deno. Today he joins Jerod for a deep-dive on Postgres, why he created this open source library, and how you can use it to build pg-backed JavaScript applications.
Join the discussionChangelog++ members get a bonus 3 minutes at the end of this episode and zero ads. Join today!Sponsors:Sentry – Working code means happy customers. That’s exactly why teams choose Sentry. From error tracking to performance monitoring, Sentry helps teams see what actually matters, resolve problems quicker, and learn continuously about their applications - from the frontend to the backend. Use the code JSPARTY and get the team plan free for three months.
Sourcegraph – Move fast, even in big codebases. Sourcegraph is universal code search for every developer and team. Easily search across all the code that matters to you and your organization: find example code, explore and read code, debug issues, and more. Head to info.sourcegraph.com/changelog and click the button “Try Sourcegraph now” to get started.
Square – Develop on the platform that sellers trust. There is a massive opportunity for developers to support Square sellers by building apps for today’s business needs. Learn more at changelog.com/square to dive into the docs, APIs, SDKs and to create your Square Developer account — tell them Changelog sent you.
Featuring:Rasmus Porsager – GitHub, XJerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes:
JSNation
React Summit
postgres.js on GitHub
postgres-shift
HashQL
HashQL Todos Sample
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Apr 13, 2022 • 2min
This is JS Party!
JS Party is a weekly celebration of JavaScript and the web so fun is at the heart of every episode.
We play games like Frontend Feud… (clip from episode #192)
Discuss and analyze the news… (clip from episode #213)
Explain technical concepts to each other like we’re 5… (clip from episode #195)
Debate hot topics like should websites work without JS? (clip from episode #87)
Interiew amazing devs like Rich Harris and Una Kravets… (clip from episode #167)
This is JS Party! Listen and subscribe today.
We’d love to have you with us. 💚
Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Featuring:Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XKevin Ball – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, XAmelia Wattenberger – Website, GitHub, XNick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, XDivya – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, XAmal Hussein – GitHub, XMikeal Rogers – GitHub, XFeross Aboukhadijeh – Website, GitHub, XChristopher Hiller – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, XAli Spittel – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, XShow Notes:Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Apr 8, 2022 • 55min
Headlines and HeadLIES!
KBall and Jerod digest and disect recent JS community news (React 18, Redwood 1.0, MDN Plus) then sit down for yet another game of HeadLIES! Can KBall fare better than Nick Nisi did last April Fools?!
Join the discussionChangelog++ members save 4 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Retool – The low-code platform for developers to build internal tools — Some of the best teams out there trust Retool…Brex, Coinbase, Plaid, Doordash, LegalGenius, Amazon, Allbirds, Peloton, and so many more – the developers at these teams trust Retool as the platform to build their internal tools. Try it free at retool.com/changelog
Square – Develop on the platform that sellers trust. There is a massive opportunity for developers to support Square sellers by building apps for today’s business needs. Learn more at changelog.com/square to dive into the docs, APIs, SDKs and to create your Square Developer account — tell them Changelog sent you.
Sentry – Working code means happy customers. That’s exactly why teams choose Sentry. From error tracking to performance monitoring, Sentry helps teams see what actually matters, resolve problems quicker, and learn continuously about their applications - from the frontend to the backend. Use the code JSPARTY and get the team plan free for three months.
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Featuring:Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XKevin Ball – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, XShow Notes:Headlines
React 18 release notes
Redwood v1.0 Launch Week
TPW on JS Party #119
Introducing MDN Plus
HeadLIES
Man says he hacked airline website to find lost luggage
Blockchain.com Raises New Funding at $14 Billion Valuation
Leaked Apple memo describes the company’s plan to go fully remote by 2025
Woman arrested for car theft drove another stolen car to court appearance: Dublin police
First patient to communicate via brain implant asks to hear Radiohead album
Exxon is mining bitcoin in North Dakota as part of its plan to slash emissions
Research shows TikTok tic videos contribute to a rise in cases of girls with tics
Mark Zuckerberg says it’s ‘reasonable’ that the metaverse isn’t a place but a feeling
Google Search’s new ‘highly suspect’ label helps you question the source of a story
As Docker gains momentum, it hauls in $105M Series C on $2B valuation
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Apr 1, 2022 • 1h 4min
Making moves on supply chain security
Feross has been working on something big. He joins Chris and Nick, along with guests Bret Comnes and Mik Lysenko to discuss Socket, what it is, and its focus on the security of the JavaScript supply chain.
Join the discussionChangelog++ members save 5 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Raygun – Never miss another mission-critical issue again — Raygun Alerting is now available for Crash Reporting and Real User Monitoring, to make sure you are quickly notified of the errors, crashes, and front-end performance issues that matter most to you and your business. Set thresholds for your alert based on an increase in error count, a spike in load time, or new issues introduced in the latest deployment. Start your free 14-day trial at Raygun.com
Square – Develop on the platform that sellers trust. There is a massive opportunity for developers to support Square sellers by building apps for today’s business needs. Learn more at changelog.com/square to dive into the docs, APIs, SDKs and to create your Square Developer account — tell them Changelog sent you.
Sourcegraph – Move fast, even in big codebases. Sourcegraph is universal code search for every developer and team. Easily search across all the code that matters to you and your organization: find example code, explore and read code, debug issues, and more. Head to info.sourcegraph.com/changelog and click the button “Try Sourcegraph now” to get started.
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Featuring:Bret Comnes – Website, GitHub, XMikola Lysenko – GitHub, XNick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, XChristopher Hiller – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, XFeross Aboukhadijeh – Website, GitHub, XShow Notes:
0 FPS
Changelog #482 - Securing the open source supply chain
Socket
React on Socket
npm audit
Lighthouse
peacenotwar supply chain attack
If you’re writing your first npm package: I highly recommend keeping it
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

6 snips
Mar 25, 2022 • 53min
Web development for beginners
Jen Looper from Web Dev for Beginners and Front-end Foxes joins Jerod and Ali to discuss the exciting (but also intimidating) prospect of getting in to web development in 2022! Where should you start? What technologies should you focus on? Is it better to go all-in on a framework or stick with the fundamentals? Stuff like that!
Join the discussionChangelog++ members save 3 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Sentry – Working code means happy customers. That’s exactly why teams choose Sentry. From error tracking to performance monitoring, Sentry helps teams see what actually matters, resolve problems quicker, and learn continuously about their applications - from the frontend to the backend. Use the code JSPARTY and get the team plan free for three months.
Square – Develop on the platform that sellers trust. There is a massive opportunity for developers to support Square sellers by building apps for today’s business needs. Learn more at changelog.com/square to dive into the docs, APIs, SDKs and to create your Square Developer account — tell them Changelog sent you.
Fastly – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge cloud platform. Learn more at fastly.com
Featuring:Jen Looper – Website, GitHub, XJerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XAli Spittel – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, XShow Notes:
Web Dev for Beginners
Front-end Foxes
freeCodeCamp
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Mar 18, 2022 • 58min
Going full-time on Eleventy
Zach Leatherman recently announced he will now be working on Eleventy – his simpler static site generator – while continuing to work at Netlify. What makes Eleventy special? How’d he convince Netlify to let him do this? What does this mean for the project’s future? How many questions in a row can we type into this textarea? Tune in to find out!
Join the discussionChangelog++ members get a bonus 4 minutes at the end of this episode and zero ads. Join today!Sponsors:Sentry – Working code means happy customers. That’s exactly why teams choose Sentry. From error tracking to performance monitoring, Sentry helps teams see what actually matters, resolve problems quicker, and learn continuously about their applications - from the frontend to the backend. Use the code CHANGELOG and get the team plan free for three months.
Fastly – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge cloud platform. Learn more at fastly.com
Changelog++ – You love our content and you want to take it to the next level by showing your support. We’ll take you closer to the metal with no ads, extended episodes, outtakes, bonus content, a deep discount in our merch store (soon), and more to come. Let’s do this!
Featuring:Zach Leatherman – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, XJerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XNick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, XShow Notes:
Eleventy
Zach on JS Party #79
Who Pays for Web Frameworks?
11ty on Open Collective
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Mar 11, 2022 • 1h 14min
Enabling performance-centric engineering orgs
This week Amal and Nick are joined by Dan Shappir, a Performance Tech Lead at Next Insurance, to learn about enabling a performance-first mindset within your engineering org.
Dan recently left his 7+ year tenure leading performance at Wix where he and his team improved, and monitored the speed of millions of websites around the world.
Join us to learn how he lead a cultural transformation that propelled Wix sites to be faster than most other React apps in the wild - including ones built with frameworks like Next.js.
Join the discussionChangelog++ members save 3 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Retool – Retool is a low-code platform built specifically for developers that makes it fast and easy to build internal tools. Instead of building internal tools from scratch, the world’s best teams, from startups to Fortune 500s, are using Retool to power their internal apps. Learn more and try it for free at retool.com/changelog
Raygun – Never miss another mission-critical issue again — Raygun Alerting is now available for Crash Reporting and Real User Monitoring, to make sure you are quickly notified of the errors, crashes, and front-end performance issues that matter most to you and your business. Set thresholds for your alert based on an increase in error count, a spike in load time, or new issues introduced in the latest deployment. Start your free 14-day trial at Raygun.com
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Featuring:Dan Shappir – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, XAmal Hussein – GitHub, XNick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, XShow Notes:
Improving The Performance Of Wix Websites (Case Study) | Smashing Magazine
Tweet showing metrics in the wild with Wix leading the pack
JS Party show with Paul Bakaus from Google | For a more dope web! #174
Core Web Vitals Report
Core Web Vitals
Real-user monitoring (RUM)
Facebook’s JS Optimizer - Prepack (now deprecated)
w3c Web Performance Working Group
Performance API | Native web API
High Performance Browser Networking | An O’Reilly book by Ilya Grigorik (free web verision)
Wix - A Free Website Builder
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Mar 4, 2022 • 1h 13min
Remix helps bridge the network chasm
Kent and our panelists dive deep on the hottest new React framework: Remix. What it does today, what makes it special, how it lured Kent away from a lucrative independent teaching career, and what’s coming up next.
Join the discussionChangelog++ members save 6 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Raygun – Never miss another mission-critical issue again — Raygun Alerting is now available for Crash Reporting and Real User Monitoring, to make sure you are quickly notified of the errors, crashes, and front-end performance issues that matter most to you and your business. Set thresholds for your alert based on an increase in error count, a spike in load time, or new issues introduced in the latest deployment. Start your free 14-day trial at Raygun.com
SignalWire – Build what’s next in communications with video, voice, and messaging APIs powered by elastic cloud infrastructure. Try it today at signalwire.com/video and mention “JS Party” to receive an extra 5,000 video minutes.
Sourcegraph – Move fast, even in big codebases. Sourcegraph is universal code search for every developer and team. Easily search across all the code that matters to you and your organization: find example code, explore and read code, debug issues, and more. Head to info.sourcegraph.com/changelog and click the button “Try Sourcegraph now” to get started.
Featuring:Kent C. Dodds – Website, GitHub, XKevin Ball – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, XAli Spittel – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, XDivya – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, XShow Notes:
Remix Vs Next
Fly.io
JSParty #119 Redwood brings full-stack to the JAMstack
Remix Quickstart
Remix Deep Dive
Remix Discord
React Server Components and Remix
A better idea would be to replace / improve the fetch spec
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Feb 25, 2022 • 55min
Vitest && Slidev
Anthony Fu && Matias “Patak” Capeletto from the Vite core team join Jerod && Nick to discuss Vitest – a blazing fast unit-test framework powered by Vite, && Slidev – presentation slides for developers.
Join the discussionChangelog++ members get a bonus 1 minute at the end of this episode and zero ads. Join today!Sponsors:GatsbyConf 2022 – (March 2nd and 3rd) this conference is totally free and totally virtual so everyone can join. Day 1 is talks and day 2 is workshops —hear from Gatsby co-founders and leadership on speed improvements to the build system, incremental architecture, the latest on Gatsby Cloud, announcements and more. Chris Coyier kicks off day 1 with the Keynote. Register at gatsbyconf.com
Sentry – Working code means happy customers. That’s exactly why teams choose Sentry. From error tracking to performance monitoring, Sentry helps teams see what actually matters, resolve problems quicker, and learn continuously about their applications - from the frontend to the backend. Use the code CHANGELOG and get the team plan free for three months.
Changelog++ – You love our content and you want to take it to the next level by showing your support. We’ll take you closer to the metal with no ads, extended episodes, outtakes, bonus content, a deep discount in our merch store (soon), and more to come. Let’s do this!
Fastly – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge cloud platform. Learn more at fastly.com
Featuring:Anthony Fu – Website, GitHub, XPatak – Website, GitHub, XJerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XNick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, XShow Notes:
Vite
Evan You on JS Party
Vitest
Slidev
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Feb 18, 2022 • 1h 8min
Playing it close to the Vest
Holla! This week we’re playing Story of the Week and Today I Learned before turning our focus to Vest – a very cool validations framework created by Evyatar Alush.
Join the discussionChangelog++ members save 3 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:GatsbyConf 2022 – (March 2nd and 3rd) this conference is totally free and totally virtual so everyone can join. Day 1 is talks and day 2 is workshops —hear from Gatsby co-founders and leadership on speed improvements to the build system, incremental architecture, the latest on Gatsby Cloud, announcements and more. Chris Coyier kicks off day 1 with the Keynote. Register at gatsbyconf.com
Sentry – Working code means happy customers. That’s exactly why teams choose Sentry. From error tracking to performance monitoring, Sentry helps teams see what actually matters, resolve problems quicker, and learn continuously about their applications - from the frontend to the backend. Use the code CHANGELOG and get the team plan free for three months.
Changelog++ – You love our content and you want to take it to the next level by showing your support. We’ll take you closer to the metal with no ads, extended episodes, outtakes, bonus content, a deep discount in our merch store (soon), and more to come. Let’s do this!
Fastly – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge cloud platform. Learn more at fastly.com
Featuring:Evyatar – GitHub, XJerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XAli Spittel – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, XKevin Ball – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, XAmelia Wattenberger – Website, GitHub, XShow Notes:Holla!
👋 Ember.js Europe!
Story of the Week
Ali
fetch() In Node.js Core: Why You Should Care
The HN thread
KBall
Gergely Orosz tweet about remote hiring
The Trimodal Nature of Software Engineering Salaries in the Netherlands and Europe
Amelia
Serving fonts from Google Fonts CDN violates GDPR
AlphaCode is in the top 54% in programming competitions
Jerod
A pipe operator for JavaScript: introduction and use cases
Today I Learned
Ali
Learning is Optimized When We Fail 15% of the Time
Huberman Lab podcast
Amelia
CSS Cascade Layers: Article by Bramus Van Damme
Feature Rollout
Jerod
Laurie Voss tweet about CDN caching
Say goodbye to resource-caching across sites and domains
KBall
The React.Node type is a black hole
Project Focus
Vest Validations Framework
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
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