Front End Happy Hour

Working in Silicon Valley is very unique. We work in a bubble, immersed in technology. There are billboards about frameworks, technology, and gadgets. Coffee shops are filled with people on Macbooks covered in stickers. Conversations on the train, coffee shops and on the streets are about programming languages. There’s a unique culture from other places we’ve all lived. In this episode, we share our thoughts and experiences living and working in Silicon Valley. Items mentioned in the episode: Silicon Valley, Chelsea Handler Does, Skam, Rover, Sushirrito Panelists: Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan Augustus Yuan - @augburto Jem Young - @JemYoung Derrick Showers - @derrickshowers Ryan Anklam - @bittersweetryan Sarah Federman - @sarah_federman Picks: Ryan Burgess - Philz coffee Ryan Burgess - Allbirds shoes Ryan Burgess - City and Colour Augustus Yuan - Tinyletter Jem Young - ES6 Compatibility table Jem Young - Music for programming Jem Young - Rapping, deconstructed Derrick Showers - Periscope Derrick Showers - Firebase Ryan Anklam - Dash app Ryan Anklam - TypeScript Ryan Anklam - Bjork - Army of Me Sarah Federman - Sensel Morph Sarah Federman - OnHub & IFTTT

In this episode, we have a special guest joining us to talk about digital accessibility, Jennison Asuncion who is a leader in the accessibility community and has a lot of information to help us improve our websites and applications be more accessible for all users. We also talk about Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD) coming up on May 19th. Find out how you can participate. Items mentioned in the episode: Global Accessibility Awareness Day, Using VoiceOver to Evaluate Web Accessibility, AccessLint, axe Core, Tenon, Chrome Accessibility Developer Tools, list of Meetups on accessibility, Apps For All: Coding Accessible Web Applications eBook, International Technology and Persons with Disabilities Conference (CSUN Conference), Accessibility Camp Bay Area (Fall 2016), Boston Accessibility Conference (Fall 2016), Accessibility Camp Toronto (Fall 2016) Guests: Jennison Asuncion - @Jennison Panelists: Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan Derrick Showers - @derrickshowers Sarah Federman - @sarah_federman Picks: Jennison Asuncion - Square Cash Jennison Asuncion - The Points Guy Jennison Asuncion - Jazz FM Ryan Burgess - React a11y Ryan Burgess - The Gaslight Anthem Ryan Burgess - Sweet Jesus Ice Cream Derrick Showers - A11y Command-line Tools Derrick Showers - YNAB Sarah Federman - Wakatime Sarah Federman - Hackster.io Sarah Federman - Losant (previously Structure)

We’ve all heard unit testing is good, but how do you get started writing unit tests? In this episode of Front End Happy Hour we share our experiences and advice writing unit tests. We discuss why it’s important and beneficial to have unit tests in your JavaScript. We share how we’ve approached unit tests and what a good unit test looks like. We also talk about the various tools and frameworks available to get your code properly tested. Items mentioned in the episode: Selenium, Black-box testing, White-box testing, Ember guides, Mocha, Jasmine, QUnit, Tape, Jest, Webpack, 5 Questions Every Unit Test Must Answer, Ember CLI, React CLI, Karma, What is the difference between a test runner, testing framwork, assertion library, and a testing plugin?, Ember Guides introduction to Unit Testing Panelists: Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan Augustus Yuan - @augburto Jem Young - @JemYoung Derrick Showers - @derrickshowers Picks: Ryan Burgess - Caffeine for Mac Ryan Burgess - Odesza Augustus Yuan - Google Doodles Augustus Yuan - OSSU Computer Science curriculum Augustus Yuan - Mura Masa - What If I Go? Augustus Yuan - teamLab: Living Digital Space and Future Parks Jem Young - Flume - the mixtape Jem Young - Programming Sucks Jem Young - Hype Machine Derrick Showers - Google Calendar goals Derrick Showers - $13 bluetooth headset

In order to work professionally as a front end developer, there is always an intense interview process. In this episode, we share our experiences and thoughts on the interviews we’ve done in the past. Not only have we had experience being interviewed, we’ve also had a lot of experience interviewing other engineers for jobs at our companies. We share things we’re looking for when we interview candidates to join our teams. Items mentioned in the episode: Eclipse, Othello, Big O notation, FizzBuzz, Ryan Anklams famous t-shirt, War of the Worlds radio broadcast Panelists: Derrick Showers - @derrickshowers Jem Young - @JemYoung Ryan Anklam - @bittersweetryan Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan Brian Holt - @holtbt Augustus Yuan - @augburto Sarah Federman - @sarah_federman Picks: Ryan Burgess - Aerial screensaver Ryan Burgess - Amazon Dash Buttons Ryan Burgess - Front End Happy Hour Playlist Ryan Anklam - Escape app Ryan Anklam - Best of Old Time Radio Podcast Ryan Anklam - Dusty Kid - Beyond That Hill Sarah Federman - Lindsey Stirling Sarah Federman - SizeUp (osx windows management) Jem Young - EmpireJS Jem Young - Aphex Swift Jem Young - Netflix Menus Derrick Showers - Code Climate Derrick Showers - Slack themes Augustus Yuan - Massdrop Augustus Yuan - Elevator Saga Augustus Yuan - Pretty Thoughts Alina Baraz & Galimatias Brian Holt - AtHack! Brian Holt - Annie Cannons Brian Holt - Scroobius Pip Brian Holt - Baths Brian Holt - M83

ECMAScript 6 was a major release for the JavaScript language. There’s a lot of great new features that have been added. In this episode we discuss how you can start using ES6 today and what we’ll start seeing in the next year for the latest update to ECMAScript. We share our favorite features and the best ways to learn and stay up to date with new features. Items mentioned in the episode: ESNext, Ben Lesh - Netflix JavaScript Talks - RxJS Version 5, Ponyfoo blog, 5 Minutes of JavaScript, Compat Table ES6, Facebook Codemod Panelists: Derrick Showers - @derrickshowers Jem Young - @JemYoung Ryan Anklam - @bittersweetryan Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan Brian Holt - @holtbt Augustus Yuan - @augburto Sarah Federman - @sarah_federman Picks: Ryan Anklam - 1Password Ryan Anklam - Vim Tabular Ryan Anklam - 90s Hip Hop Ryan Burgess - Elegant React with ES6 (and a bit of ES7) - React Rally Ryan Burgess - Lot 40 Whiskey Sarah Federman - HTML5 Please Sarah Federman - Death Medieval Sarah Federman - Microsoft AI Bot Jem Young - ES6 Cheatsheet Jem Young - Cult of the Party Parrot Derrick Showers - Babel’s “try it out” Derrick Showers - Latest greatest webapp Derrick Showers - Trello Augustus Yuan - Tilt Brush Augustus Yuan - Cotton Bureau Augustus Yuan - Spacemacs Brian Holt - The little Schemer Brian Holt - Frontend Masters Brian Holt - Ellee

In this ever changing industry of front end development, developers are constantly learning. In this episode of Front End Happy Hour we discuss everything from our school backgrounds and what lead us to front end development. We also share ways we stay up to date with the ever-changing landscape of new technologies. Along with our usual panelists, we are joined by guest Sarah Showers, a front end developer from Apple. Guests: Sarah Showers - @sarahlshowers Panelists: Derrick Showers - @derrickshowers Jem Young - @JemYoung Ryan Anklam - @bittersweetryan Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan Picks: Sarah Showers - Hamilton Ryan Anklam - Massive Attack- Angel Derrick Showers - Apple Music Jem Young - Scotland JS Jem Young - Explosions in the Sky Ryan Burgess - Tycho Ryan Burgess - Comeback Kid

In the second episode of the Front End Happy Hour podcast, our special guest, Ben Lesh joins us to talk about all the great things in RxJS 5. Items mentioned in the episode: Rx Marbles Guests: Ben Lesh - @BenLesh Panelists: Brian Holt - @holtbt Jem Young - @JemYoung Ryan Anklam - @bittersweetryan Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan Picks: Ben Lesh - Egghead.io Ben Lesh - Egghead.io - RxJS Creating Observables from Scratch Ryan Burgess - Netflix UIE YouTube Channel Ryan Burgess - Amazon Echo Augustus Yuan - Tilt Brush Jem Young - EcmaScript Proposals Ryan Anklam - VimCasts Ryan Anklam - Ready Player One Audibook Brian Holt - Factorio

For our very first episode of the Front End Happy Hour podcast, we have our panelists (Augustus Yuan, Derrick Showers, Jem Young, Ryan Anklam and Ryan Burgess) discuss their opinions on the Medium article posted in early January, titled "The Sad State of Web Development", written by Drew Hamlett. The panel shares their thoughts on front end tools and how they view the current state of web development. Items mentioned in the episode: Gulp, Grunt, Broccoli JS, npm, Babel, Sass, PostCSS, React, Ember, Angular Panelists: Augustus Yuan - @augburto Derrick Showers - @derrickshowers Jem Young - @JemYoung Ryan Anklam - @bittersweetryan Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan Picks: Ryan Burgess - Viking & Lumberjack Series Ryan Burgess - O’Reilly Fluent Conference Ryan Anklam - frinkiac.com Ryan Anklam - Red Rising Trilogy Jem Young - Syntax Con Jem Young - Planet Money Jem Young - MacBook Selfie Stick Derrick Showers - Let’s Encrypt Derrick Showers - Product Hunt Augustus Yuan - Github Scientist