React Podcast

This week we diverge from our typical technical focus to talk about communication. Many of you are developing a product. Whether that be an open source library, course material on your favorite framework, or your skills a freelance developer — you are selling something. Selling requires more than great technical skills. It requires strong communication. Today we sit with Val Geisler — founder of Fix My Churn. We talk about communication thru email, Why it’s critical for building and branding your business, And how we get started. I believe it has the potential to change your career. Featuring Val Geisler — Twitter, Website, Fix My Churn Michael Chan — Twitter, Website, GitHub Links "Send Emails Not Blasts" tee Email Marketing Mastery Incubator — Hands on help to up your email marketing game Jobs To Be Done The Dinner Party Strategy — Val's strategy for writing email people actually read Joel Hooks at Egghead — because we mentioned him a few times 😻 ## Sponsers Level Up Tutorials Become a better web developmer with Level Up Tutorials. Learn how to make brilliant online stores using using GatsbyJS in two new courses Advanced Gatsby and Shopify and Gatsby Ecommerce. G2i Check out G2i.co today and get matched with React & React Native roles that are fully remote at companies who are serious about quality engineering. Visit G2i.co today and click the "for developers" link to find opportunities.

This week we sit down with Chris Biscardi — open source developer and consultant. He's working with Gatsby on projects like gatsby-mdx and gatsby-themes. So we talk about what Gatsby Themes are, why they promise to bring a new wave of shareability to Gatsby sites, and what you need to know to start using them. We also talk about designing a workflow around sharing what you know and building an effective content pipeline. Featuring Chris Biscardi — Twitter, Website, GitHub Michael Chan — Twitter, Website, GitHub Links Chris Biscardy — Egghead instructor profile gatsby-mdx — Gatsby+MDX • Transformers, CMS UI Extensions, and Ecosystem Components for ambitious projects MDX — Markdown for the component era What Are Gatsby Themes?, Gatsby doc Journey to the Content Mesh Conclusion: Creating Compelling Content Experiences on the Gatsby blog Gatsby Store — A dynamic shop built on Gatsby Contentful — How enterprises deliver better digital experiences Source Plugins, Gatsby Doc Build an RSS feed-powered podcast site (with Amberley Romo) — Learn With Jason — Livestream where Jason Lengstorf and Amberley Romo build a Gatsby theme for podcasts What is Component Shadowing? on the Gatsby blog Using a Gatsby Theme, Gatsby doc gatsby-theme-blog gatsby-theme-notes Yarn Workpsaces Carbon Design System, by IBM Thank you to our Sponsor: Linode Linode : Instantly deploy and manage an SSD server in the Linode Cloud. Get a server running in seconds with your choice of Linux distro, resources, and node location. Get a $20 credit when you visit: linode.com/react and use promo code: react2019 at checkout Thank you to our sponsor: G2i G2i is a hiring platform for remote developers devoted exclusively to React and React Native. Check out G2i.co today and get matched with React & React Native roles that are fully remote at companies who are serious about quality engineering. Visit G2i.co today and click the "for developers" link to find opportunities. G2i: We Vet, You Get Hired, It's that Simple.

This week we sit down with Phani Raju. He's a Staff Engineer at GitHub and lead on the GitHub Package Registry. He tells us what package registries are and why GitHub is uniquely suited to take them to the next step in security, trust, and user experience. This is an awesome chat if you'd like to learn more about where your packages may be coming from in the future. It's also a fantastic lens into the great engineering and design thinking that is alive and well at GitHub — and how the Dear GitHub letter sparked a new wave of innovation. Featuring Phani Raju — Twitter, Website, GitHub Michael Chan — Twitter, Website, GitHub Links Introducing GitHub Package Registry [Github Releases](About releases) on the Github blog Announcing Git Large File Storage (LFS on The Github Blog Supply chain attack on Wikipedia The Problem of Package Manager Trust by Phil Haack Dear Github — 📨 An open letter to GitHub from the maintainers of open source projects Maintainer security advisories on The GitHub Blog Fixed vs. Growth: The Two Basic Mindsets That Shape Our Lives on brainpickings The Github Blog Sponser G2i is a hiring platform for remote developers devoted exclusively to React and React Native. Check out G2i today and get matched with React & React Native roles that are fully remote at companies who are serious about quality engineering. Visit G2i today and click the "for developers" link to find opportunities. G2i: We Vet, You Hire, It's that Simple.

This week on React Podcast we sit down with James K Nelson. We discuss what makes React hard to learn and how he's addressing that with his teaching platform frontarm.com. We talk about learning React without the buzzwords, his new router — Navi — and how to make some React bacon. This is a great episode for those who have had trouble keeping up with React and want to discover and master the things have remained the same Featuring James K Nelson — Twitter, Website, GitHub Michael Chan — Twitter, Website, GitHub Links Weird, or just different? — Derek Siver’s TED talk on Japanese vs American street naming Dan Abromov’s tweet about React without buzzwords Learn React’s fundamentals without the buzzwords The Little Schemer — The book we mention that uses the Socratic method to teach functional programming railstutorial.org — How chantastic learned Rails “What’s not going to change in the next 10 years?” — Jeff Bezos’ famous focusing question ReactJS Tokyo create-react-app — Set up a modern web app by running one command Next.js — The React Framework for Everything Navi — Declarative, asynchronous routing for React Sponser G2i is a hiring platform for remote developers devoted exclusively to React and React Native. Check out G2i today and get matched with React & React Native roles that are fully remote at companies who are serious about quality engineering. Visit G2i today and click the "for developers" link to find opportunities. G2i: We Vet, You Hire, It's that Simple.

This week we talk Jamison Dance about the parts of programming that are distinctly non-technical. We talk about the perfect TLD, working with a team, finding psychological safety, the organization of React Rally, and how to recycle batteries. Jamison is co-host of the podcast Soft Skills Engineering where he and Dave Smith answer non-technical questions for technical folks. It's a great show that I highly recommend. check it out at softskills.audio Featuring Jamison Dance — Twitter, Website, GitHub Michael Chan — Twitter, Website, GitHub Links and Notes WalMart Labs React Rally 2019 — August 22 & 23 in Salt Lake City, Utah React Conf 2019 — October 24 & 25 in Henderson, Nevada Soft Skills Engineering podcast with Dave Smith and Jamison Dance — It takes more than great code to be a great engineer Where to Recycle Batteries by Energizer Psychological Safety on Wikipedia React Hooks Announcement from React Conf 2018 Sponser G2i is a hiring platform for remote developers devoted exclusively to React and React Native. Check out G2i today and get matched with React & React Native roles that are fully remote at companies who are serious about quality engineering. Visit G2i today and click the "for developers" link to find opportunities. G2i: We Vet, You Hire, It's that Simple.

This week we talk with Eve Porcello about getting started with GraphQL. She is the co-author of Learning React and Learning GraphQL. She travels the world with husband Alex bank teaching JavaScript and telling jokes. We talk about comedy and code and how to engage audiences with a little bit of funny. This is a great episode if you want to add a little GraphQL to your stack or learn how to give a hilarious conference talks. Featuring Eve Porcello — Twitter, Github, Website Michael Chan — Twitter, Github, Website Links GraphQL Query Language — Eve's new egghead.io course on GraphQL Learning React: Functional Web Development with React and Redux — Eve's React Book Learning GraphQL: Declarative Data Fetching for Modern Web Apps — Eve's GraphQL book Moon Highway — Eve and Alex's training company Everything You Need to Know About GraphQL in 3 Components — React Rally 2018 talk... the one with the tattoo bit Apollo Server — the best way to quickly build a production-ready, self-documenting API for GraphQL clients, using data from any source apollo-link-rest — Call your REST APIs inside your GraphQL queries Mocking — Apollo Docs — Mock your GraphQL data based on a schema SWAPI GraphQL API — The one you're obligated to make your first request to Github GraphQL v4 API Github GraphQL Explorer OneGraph Apollo Federation ReactJS Girls Conference, Twitter, and videos Reactathon Sponser Visit Gitprime.com/20patterns to get your free, printed copy of 20 Patterns to Watch for in Your Engineering Team. It's beautifully illustrated and guaranteed to improve your teams communication and productivity. GitPrime aggregates historical git data into easy to understand insights and reports, to help make engineering teams more successful. Debug your development processes with objective data. Identify bottlenecks, compare trends, and keep a pulse on the health of your software teams.

We sit down with venerable Emma Bostian to talk mentorship.She tells us all about different types of mentorship you can find,At what phases in your career each type is most valuable,And how to get a "yes" from someone you'd like to mentor you.We also discuss her new mentoring platform codingcoach.io and how it's helping connect developers based on technology and field.Buckle in and get ready to get help.FeaturingEmma Bostian — Twitter, Github, WebsiteMichael Chan — Twitter, Github, WebsiteLinksdon't touch my garbage!!! — the possum tweetBuilding a Design System with React - ReactJS Girls Conference — Emma's talk on the components of a design systemEmma's writing on dev.toJS PARTY — A community celebration of JavaScript and the webladybug podcast — Kelly Vaughn, Ali Spittel, Emma Bostian, && Lindsey Kopacz debug the tech industrySponserVisit Gitprime.com/20patterns to get your free, printed copy of 20 Patterns to Watch for in Your Engineering Team.It's beautifully illustrated and guaranteed to improve your teams communication and productivity.GitPrime aggregates historical git data into easy to understand insights and reports, to help make engineering teams more successful. Debug your development processes with objective data. Identify bottlenecks, compare trends, and keep a pulse on the health of your software teams.

This week, on React Podcast, We sit with Paul Henschel and talk animation. Paul is the creator of React-spring a library for animating UI based on spring physics. We talk about the library's origin, its future, and how to create lasting beauty on the web. Featuring Paul Henschel — Twitter, Github Michael Chan — Twitter, Github, Website Links paranoid android — a custom ROM aiming to extend the system, working on enhancing the already existing beauty of Android and following the same design philosophies that were set forward by Google for Android Open Source Project ReactCSSTransitionGroup — an easy way to perform CSS transitions and animations when a React component enters or leaves the DOM ReactTransitionGroup — ReactTransitionGroup is the basis for animations in React ReactMotion — A spring that solves your animation problems Animated react-use-geature — 👇Bread n butter utility for component-tied mouse/touch gestures in React react-three-fiber—👌A React-renderer for Three.js react-reconciler — an experimental package for creating custom React renderers awwwards — The awards of design, creativity and innovation on the internet Three.js Fundamentals — react-blessed — A react renderer for blessed React Podcast episode 35 with Matt Perry on Pose and Popmotion alec larson's react europe talk React-spring: on animations and hooks — Alec Larson @alecdotbiz at ReactEurope 2019 Sponser Visit Gitprime.com/20patterns to get your free, printed copy of 20 Patterns to Watch for in Your Engineering Team. It's beautifully illustrated and guaranteed to improve your teams communication and productivity. GitPrime aggregates historical git data into easy to understand insights and reports, to help make engineering teams more successful. Debug your development processes with objective data. Identify bottlenecks, compare trends, and keep a pulse on the health of your software teams.

This week we sit with Erik Rasmussen to discuss forms in React. We talk about his library redux-form and it's evolution to final-form — a framework agnostic approach to making dynamic forms easy. Along the way the talk open source maintenance and monetization struggles. If you've wanted open source fame, this is a good one to listen to. Featuring Erik Rasmussen — Twitter, Github Michael Chan — Twitter, Github, Website Links Github Sponsors — Fund your work. Build what matters. Forms — React Docs Redux Form — The best way to manage your form state in Redux Flux — Application architecture for building user interfaces react-final-form — 🏁 High performance subscription-based form state management for React vue-final-form — 🏁 High performance subscription-based form state management for Vue.js frontier-forms — Data-driven forms that let you focus on what matters: your application Build forms with GraphQL — 2019 React Europe talk by Charly Poly "Let a hundred flowers bloom" CodeFund — Ethical Advertising Seek Justice Podcast — A weekly deep dive into Criminal Justice with Erik Rasmussen and Dennis Schrantz Happy Hour — A candid and open weekly discussion between Dennis and Erik over drinks 💥 Introducing.... 🏁 React Final Form HOOKS!! 💥 Sponser Visit Gitprime.com/20patterns to get your free, printed copy of 20 Patterns to Watch for in Your Engineering Team. It's beautifully illustrated and guaranteed to improve your teams communication and productivity. GitPrime aggregates historical git data into easy to understand insights and reports, to help make engineering teams more successful. Debug your development processes with objective data. Identify bottlenecks, compare trends, and keep a pulse on the health of your software teams.

This week, we talk accessibility pitfalls with Aaron Canon. Aaron is the co-founder and chief accessibility engineer at Accessible360 — where he uses his experience as a blind developer to improve real-world accessibility for all citizens of the web. He shares his first-hand experience on which practices work, which ones are bogus, where to focus our accessibility efforts, and which libraries provide the best starting point. I learned a ton. You will too. Featuring Aaron Cannon — Twitter, Website, Accessible360 Michael Chan — Twitter, Github, Website Links Accessible360 — The digital accessibility company JAWS — The world’s most popular screen reader NVDA — Free, popular screen reader Aaron's YouTube channel Accessible360's YouTube channel Should I Use A Carousel? Reach UI — The accessible foundation of your React-based design system WebAIM: Screen Reader User Survey #7 Results ARIA Live Regions Screen Reader Demo | Video uBlock — A Fast and Efficient Ad Blocker. Easy on CPU and Memory. Sponser GitPrime Visit Gitprime.com/20patterns to get your free, printed copy of 20 Patterns to Watch for in Your Engineering Team. It's beautifully illustrated and guaranteed to improve your teams communication and productivity. GitPrime aggregates historical git data into easy to understand insights and reports, to help make engineering teams more successful. Debug your development processes with objective data. Identify bottlenecks, compare trends, and keep a pulse on the health of your software teams.