React Podcast

Jamon Holmgren is CTO and cofounder of Infinite Red, a consultancy that specializes in React Native. Chantastic asks about Jamon's start in programming and entrepreneurship, why consultancies have an edge in Open Source, and how the Chain React conference plays into their business strategy. They discuss the team benefits of TypeScript, humble PHP beginnings, and the big differences between consultancy and product. Featuring Jamon Holmgren — Twitter, Github, Website Michael Chan — Twitter, Github, Website Announcements Learn React in May! New to React? Want to learn to learn what the heck we're talking about? Chantastic is doing a free React primer in the month of May. Signup to learn more: https://reactpodcast.com/news Links Construction Worker & Home Designer Turned Software Engineer and Business Owner — Jamon Holmgren on secondCareerDevs Home Grown Accountant to Software Engineer — Michael Chan on secondCareerDevs Infinite Red — Experts in mobile & web technologies. We create beautiful, functional mobile apps and websites Infinite Red Academy — Engaging, Hands-On React Native Training Infinite Red on Github — Engaging, Hands-On React Native Training Reactotron — A desktop app for inspecting your React JS and React Native projects. macOS, Linux, and Windows Gluegun — A delightful toolkit for building Node-powered CLIs Ignite — The hottest CLI for React Native, boilerplates, plugins, generators, and more! ProMotion — ProMotion is a RubyMotion gem that makes iPhone development less like Objective-C and more like Ruby. Star this repo to keep tabs on our progress TypeScript RubyMotion ember PhoneGap Chain React Conf — THE REACT NATIVE CONFERENCE RETURNS TO PORTLAND, July 11-12, 2019 Building Infinite Red — A Podcast About Building Infinite Red

Sara is a developer on the beloved CodeSandbox app. She's worked for years as a developer advocate, giving brilliant talks across the world, and building some of the wildest sites on the web. Chantastic asks her about succeeding against mental illness, how she achieved meme status, why we should "build dumb shit", and what the heck a developer advocate does. They discuss corporate "change the world" bullshit, casual racism, why you should teach what you know, and the shockingly unglamorous lifestyle of a conference speaker. Featuring Sara Vieira — Twitter, Github, Website Michael Chan — Twitter, Github, Website Links Your brain doesn't have a fix flag Sarah Memes Make Frontend Shit Again Brainfork.wtf — A podcast about mental health & tech CSSX — CSS in MDX CodeSandbox Sponsors 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

Typescript. What is it? How does it help you write better code? Will it help you sleep better at night? Jared is a lead engineer at The Palmer Group, a strategy, design, and engineering firm. There he uses TypeScript every day to keep code sturdy and maintainable. Chantastic asks Jared what we need to know to get a little TypeScript into our apps. They discuss the joys and pains of Typescript in 2019 and how it compares to languages like Reason, Ocaml, Fable, and Elm. Featuring Jared Palmer — Twitter, Github, Consultancy, Website Michael Chan — Twitter, Github, Website Notes & Links TypeScript Moving To React Suspense - Jared Palmer - React Conf 2018 npm and the future of JavaScript - Laurie Voss - JSConf US 2018 The State of the Octoverse: top programming languages of 2018 flow Build Your Own Formik Using React Hooks with Jared Palmer (*egghead membership required) @babel/preset-typescript Realytics/fork-ts-checker-webpack-plugin Adding TypeScript to Create React App TypeStrong/ts-loader s-panferov/awesome-typescript-loader rollup-plugin-typescript2 [RFC] Migrate Jest to TypeScript tsdx — Zero-config TypeScript package development Deno — A secure runtime for JavaScript and TypeScript built with V8, Rust, and Tokio Reason — Reason lets you write simple, fast and quality type safe code while leveraging both the JavaScript & OCaml ecosystems. Ocaml — OCaml is an industrial strength programming language supporting functional, imperative and object-oriented styles Fable — The compiler that emits JavaScript you can be proud of! elm — A delightful language for reliable webapps. Generate JavaScript with great performance and no runtime exceptions. Swagger Swagger Codegen Palantir Technologies — All the TypeScript projects Shopify Polaris — Our design system helps us work together to build a great experience for all of Shopify’s merchants. Sponsors 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

Cassidy Williams is a Senior Software Engineer CodePen in Seattle — using React, Redux, GraphQL, and Apollo Client to build the frontend of CodePen and CodePen Projects. Chantastic asks about building a startup on a plane, maximizing side hustle effort, the importance of networking, and what it's like to meet your heroes. They discuss tips for getting great advice from smart people, building passive income, finding safe workplaces, and what it looks like to lift as you climb. Featuring Cassidy Williams — Twitter, Github, Website Michael Chan — Twitter, Github, Website Links GraphQL Apollo Client Britis Always' In-Flight Hackathon Spawns Solutions To The Engineering Crunch — TechCrunch article on Ungrounded "Innovation Lab In The Sky" and AdvisHer. Kelly Hoey Kimberly Bryant — founder of Black Girls Code. Professor Sue Black Bulding Your Dream Network: Forging Powerful Relationships in a Hyper-Connected World — by J. Kelly Hoey @smkmeetup — Seattle Mechanical Keyboard Meetup CKEYS — Keyboards and Workshops Massdrop x Hasbro Scrabble Keyboard JavaScript and React for Developers: Master the Essentials — Cassidy's Udemy course. Sponsors 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

Kyle is a JavaScript engineer at webflow, speaker, educator, and Twitch streamer. Chantastic asks Kyle about his experience healing from burnout, identifying his value, interviewing as a senior developer, and evaluating team fit. They discuss the importance of networking, brand building, managing your energy, fighting the desire for more, and weaving it all together. Featuring Kyle Shevlin — Twitter, Github, Website Michael Chan — Twitter, Github, Website Links secondCareerDevs — Roads less traveled and the lessons learned along the way. chantastic on secondCareerDevs — Home Grown Accountant to Software Engineer Data Structures and Algorithms in JavaScript — Kyle's Egghead course webflow — The awesome partnership that Kyle landed on Vlad Magdalin — The Co-founder and CEO of webflow Agreeableness: Big Five personality test Hedonic treadmill Sponsors 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

Kyle is a JavaScript engineer at webflow, speaker, educator, and Twitch streamer. Chantastic asks Kyle about his experience breaking into web development, how he navigated the early portion of his career, and the inspiration behind his show secondCareerDevs. They discuss the importance of finding your community, learning how to learn, and how to make progress on your side projects by live streaming your work. Featuring Kyle Shevlin — Twitter, Github, Website Michael Chan — Twitter, Github, Website Links secondCareerDevs — Roads less traveled and the lessons learned along the way. chantastic on secondCareerDevs — Home Grown Accountant to Software Engineer Data Structures and Algorithms in JavaScript — Kyle's Egghead course Reactiflux — React discord server Tribes by Seth Godin — We Need You to Lead Us More Than You Asked For — Kyles Twitch channel Giving the iPad a Full-Time Job — How I setup my iPad for dev work using linode. Sponsors 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

Brian Vaughn is a member of the React Core team and creator of libraries like react-virtualized and react-window. He's a wealth of knowledge in React performance and application profiling. Chantastic asks Brian about the new profiler tools he's been working on (available to React v16.5 apps), React Core team dynamics, and the future of windowing in React and browsers. They discuss a handful of practical performance tips, Concurrent rendering in React, React.memo and the useMemo Hook, and how to decide with your human brain when performance tuning is necessary. Featuring Brian Vaughn — Twitter, Github, Website Michael Chan — Twitter, Github, Website Links React Conf 2018 Concurrent Rendering in React - Andrew Clark and Brian Vaughn - React Conf 2018 Introducing the React Profiler Concurrent React Fiber Architecture Sebastian Markbåge - React Performance End to End (React Fiber) - Keynote Part 3 - React Conf 2017 React Hooks fixed-data-table react-virtualized react-window React.memo and useMemo memoize-one — A memoization library that only caches the result of the most recent arguments. Sponsors 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

Sean Swyx Wang moderates and organizes r/reactjs on Reddit. He also works on developer experience at Netlify. Sean is a voracious learner and loves to share what he's learning and believes that everyone — regardless of experience — should "learn in public". Chantastic asks him about what's new in React and how r/reactjs is helping developers learn React, get connected in the community, and find jobs. They discuss strategies for being a lifelong learner, how to get started in React, the growth of React's API surface area, Hooks, Suspense, Concurrent Mode, designing APIs, and the future of React. Featuring Shawn Swyx Wang — Twitter, Github, Website Michael Chan — Twitter, Github, Website Links React Conf 2018 JAMstack_conf_nyc Netlify Popmotion and Pose React Podcast Interview with Matt Perry on Popmotion React Hooks React Suspense scheduler react-cache r/reactjs Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs Book freeCodeCamp React curriculum Crazy React Asians Swyx and Chantastic talking Suspense on YouTube

Matt Perry is the developer behind PopMotion, a declarative animation library for the web. Chantastic asks his inspiration for PopMotion, the difficulties of maintaining a low-level open source library, what he things declarative APIs might look like in the future. They’re discussion goes all over the place. You kinda just have to listen… Featuring Matt Perry — Twitter, Github, Website Michael Chan — Twitter, Github, Website Links Popmotion — Simple libraries for delightful interfaces Pose — A truly simple animation library for React, React Native, and Vue The Path To A Declaratively Animated Future - Matt Perry - React Conf 2018

Jen Luker is a lead software engineer at Formidable Labs, keynote speaker, host of @BookBytesFM, and expert knitter. Chantastic asks her about the Fiber Arts Corner at React Conf, the history that textiles and programming share, and how we can make our apps more accessible. Featuring Jen Luker — Twitter, Github, Website Michael Chan — Twitter, Github, Website Links Fiber Arts Circle on Periscope Jacquard loom on Wikipedia 99% Invisible Podcast Kids: Articles of Interest #1 — discussing Jacquard Loom and connection to software) Knitting Is Coding | Lindiwe Matlali | TEDxBeaconStreet Accessibility: Beyond the Basics — Jen's talk on accessibility Chain React 2018: Be a React Native A11y — Jen's talk on accessibility in React Native Axe Developer Tools by Deque —Chrome, FireFox Husky: Git hooks made easy eslint-plugin-jsx-a11y eslint-plugin-react-native-a11y