This week on My JavaScript Story, Charles speaks with Steve Edwards who is a website developer and lives in Portland, OR. He is a senior developer at an international corporation called, Fluke. Today’s main topic of conversation is Drupal. Check out the episode to hear about this and much more!
Gilad Shoham is a developer and open-source leader at Bit. They explore the latest trends and insights in the world of development and technology. The conversation also delves into the complexities of managing and sharing software components, detailing the challenges and potential solutions, and exploring innovative ways to manage components and share code.
David Neal is a DevRel at MotherDuck, a developer, illustrator, musician, and content creator. Steve and David provide valuable insights into their software development journeys, offering anecdotes and experiences that shed light on the evolving landscape of web development. From exploring the origins of their unique email addresses to delving into their encounters with various programming languages and front-end frameworks, this episode promises a deep dive into the complexities and challenges of the software development world.
SaltyAom is a cosplayer, developer, and creator of ElysiaJS. They deep dive into the complexities of JavaScript and TypeScript, offering insights into backend development, performance optimizations, and the evolving landscape of these programming languages.
Rijk Van Zanten is the CTO & Co-Founder of Directus. He discusses the history and unique features of Directus as a composable platform for data, covering topics such as unit testing, code coverage, and the importance of accessible testing for UI components. Moreover, the conversation dives into the migration from Vue 2 to Vue 3, the use of TypeScript, and the challenges and strategies involved.
Lars-Erik Roald is a software developer at Systor. He shares his insights and experiences in creating ORM and the evolution of the technology. They dive into the world of ORMs, TypeScript, and a variety of programming and personal ventures. From discussions about the challenges and advantages of ORMs and navigating the complexities of TypeScript to lighthearted banter about swimming, triathlon training, and even some dad jokes
Josh Goldberg is a full-time open-source developer. He begins by sharing his developer experience and what he is currently working on. He joins the show to talk about "TypeScript, ESLint, and TypeScript ESLint". He dives into what this is all about, how these projects work, how they relate to each other, and much more.
Vitor Alencar is a technical lead, speaker, and creator. He joins the show to talk about module federation, its benefits, and how it works. Additionally, they dive into an insightful discussion on micro-front ends, the exciting evolution of front-end development, simplifying the adoption of new frameworks, and much more!
Noam Rosenthal is a Web platform engineer. They dive into the importance of standards in API behavior for browsers. Noam shares insights on the need for consistency in implementing standards across different programming languages and developers. They also discuss the balancing act between working on standards and collaborating with developers inside and outside of Google. Additionally, they cover some interesting topics like the fascination with the "bun" technology, the challenges of implementing transitions in web development, and the impact of licensing changes on open-source projects.
Cody and Steve join this week's panelist episode. They delve into the world of Shadcn, Radix UI, and the advantages of a unified design system built upon tailwind CSS and headless components. Additionally, they explore the configuration process in Nuxt, including TypeScript integration & auto-import settings, and many more!
Aleksandar Gekov is a front-end developer at OfficeRnD. They dive into the challenges and successes of integrating maps and WebGL. They also talk about popular frameworks like Next.js and Nuxt, highlighting the benefits of using Storyblock and uncovering an interesting React component library.
Tom Preston-Werner is the Cofounder at Preston-Werner Ventures. They dive into the world of React, Redwood JS, and the evolving landscape of JavaScript development. They discuss the importance of keeping up with the JavaScript world, the benefits of learning SQL, and the challenges of using ORMs. They also explore the upcoming Redwood JS conference, the future of React Server Components, and the motivations behind building open-source projects.
Markus Oberlehner joins this week's episode alongside Cody and Steve. They dive into the world of testing and the importance of writing application tests. They share their journey from initially focusing on unit tests and component tests to realizing the need for comprehensive application tests that simulate real user interactions. They also provide valuable insights into the fear of sharing your work, the value of collaboration, and the importance of embracing imperfections.
Jakub Andrzejewski is a Senior Developer and dev Advocate at Vue Storefront. They dive into the world of Vue.js and explore the latest developments in its ecosystem. They discuss the use of hooks and composable for code reusability, the challenges faced during the rewrite of the Storefront UI library, and the importance of performance and accessibility in app development.
Lane Wagner is the Founder of Boot.Dev. They delve into the world of JavaScript and backend development. They also share their experiences with API gateways and provide insights into both positive and negative implementations. Additionally, they uncover the challenges and benefits of using JavaScript and Node.js as a backend system and explore the fascinating concept of Back End for Front End (BFF).
John Leider is the CEO at Vuetify LLC. He joins the show to talk about Vuetify 3. He begins by sharing the recent updates in Vuetify. He talks about Vuetify's latest version, its new & exciting features, how it differs from the past versions, and many more!
Erik Hanchett is an Engineer at Amazon Web Services. From exploring a new app designed for esports fans to navigating the world of streaming and developer advocacy, dive deep into the world of technology, coding, and the ever-evolving tech industry. Join Steve, Cody, and Erik to discuss the challenges of transitioning between projects, the rise of developer advocates, measuring the ROI of advocacy efforts, and the value of learning multiple programming languages.
Julien Klepatch is the CEO & Founder of EatTheBlocks. He joins the show to talk about Web3. He begins by sharing his past experiences and how he became a Software Developer. Additionally, he explains the reason why developers should get into the Web3 world, its advantages, building web applications with Web3, its connection to Blockchain, and many more!
Jack Herrington is a Principal Software Engineer. Misko Hevery is the Chief Technology Officer at Builder.io. They join the show to talk about "Qwik v1.0". Misko takes the lead as he shares its exciting new features. He explains what is the Panda CSS and how it works. Moreover, he dives into some of the "Qwiklabs projects", its benefits, and many more!
Daniel Roe leads the Nuxt core team. He joins the show alongside Cody and Steve to talk about everything "Nuxt". He begins by talking about the recent updates and new features with Nuxt 3. Moreover, he explains how it can improve developer experience, advantages, and many more!
Andrei Soroker is the CEO of Fogbender. Yaroslav Lapin is a Senior Software Engineer at Fogbender. They join the show to talk about the "B2B SaaS Starter Kit". It is an instructional bundle for assembling products designed to be used by teams of users. They begin by explaining the reason why they created it, the problem it solves, its advantages, how it helps the developers and many more!
Cody and Steve join this week's panelist episode to talk about Daniel Roe's article, "A guide to Nuxt server components". Cody takes the lead as he explains the article, all about server components, their advantages, the difference from React Server components, and many more!
Cody Bontecou is a Software Engineer and he is one of the show's newest hosts. He starts off as he shares his career progression and explains how he started to work with Vue & Nuxt. He also talks about the reason why he chose Nuxt compared to the other frameworks, and many more!
Elliott Johnson is a Multi-stack data software generalist and works in Vercel. He joins the show to talk about "Progressive Enhancement". He begins by explaining Svelte & SvelteKit and how it's different from the other frameworks. He goes into more depth about Progressive Enhancement, and how it works. Moreover, he tackles Progressive form enhancement with SvelteKit and many more!
Dan and Steve join this week's panelist episode to talk about the TC39. Dan starts off as he explains the stages of adding features to the ECMAScript language specification to be added to the JavaScript language.
Aiden Bai is a Web Performance Engineer and Creator of Million.js. Tobiloba Adedeji is a Software Engineer. They join the show to talk about Million.js. They begin by explaining what it is all about, its purpose, the problem it solves, and many more!
Erik Hanchett returns to the program to discuss his experience speaking at VueConf. He begins by outlining his memorable flight experience, some of the Vue contributors he met, the topics covered during the conference, and many more!
Austin Gil is a Senior Developer Advocate. He joins the show to talk about "Web Fundamentals". He begins by explaining its purpose, and the importance of knowing web fundamentals as a developer or programmer.
James Sinkala is a Full-Stack Developer and Technical Writer. He joins the show to talk about his article, "Nuxt 3 authentication with Supabase". He starts off by talking about his career and experiences as a developer.
Dan Abramov is a Front-end developer at Facebook and Joe Savona is a User Interface engineer at Facebook. They join the show to talk about React Server Components. They begin by explaining what it is, how it's implemented, the services it offers to the clients, and many more.
Dan Abramov is a Front-end developer at Facebook and Joe Savona is a User Interface engineer at Facebook. They join the show to talk about React Server Components. They begin by explaining what it is, how it's implemented, the services it offers to the clients, and many more.
Ryan Carniato is the CEO of Signals and the Principal Engineer OSS at Netlify. He is the author of the SolidJS UI library. He returns to the show to talk about SolidStart. He begins by explaining the difference between signals and observables. Along with that, he discusses how he came to develop the framework.
Erik Hanchett is a Front End Engineer at Amazon Web Services. He returns to the show to talk about creating open-source library tools. He begins by explaining the requirements, tools used, and many more in creating the library.
David Atanda is an Engineer at ConsenSys. He returns to the show alongside Steve to talk about using Web3 Auth in a Vue app for user authentication. He begins by talking about the difference between Web2 and Web3. Moreover, he dives into the process of using Web3 Authentication and its features.
Giannis Koutsaftakis is a Senior Frontend Developer at Pequity. He joins the show with Steve to talk about, "Skeleton Loader using Vue & Tailwind". He begins by explaining Skeleton Loader and how it can improve user experience. He also talks about its advantages and disadvantages.
Tanner Linsley is the Co-Founder & VP of UI / UX at Nozzle. He joins the show to talk about TanStack Router. TanStack is an Open-source software for building better UI and UX. They talk about the vital role that a "router" plays in the architecture of a web application. Moreover, Tanner shares why he developed his own router and explains the Type safe routing.
Austin Gil is a Senior Developer Advocate. He returns to the show alongside Steve to talk about his articles. He starts the show by explaining what Vuetensils is. He also dives into his article, "TIL: You Can Access A User’s Camera with Just HTML". Moreover, they also talk about their perspective on what beginner developers should learn first if they're still starting out in the field.
Erik Hanchett is Front End Engineer at Amazon Web Services. He joins the show with Steve to talk about UnoCSS. He begins by explaining what it is. They also discuss the difference between UnoCSS, tailwind CSS, and WindiCSS. He shares his own experience of using UnoCSS.
Joyce Lin is the Head of Developer Relations at Postman. She returns to the show to discuss Reverse Engineering. They talk about APIs, API security, proxy tools and explain its relevance in your applications. They dive into the process, purpose, and significance of Reverse Engineering. Additionally, they talk about API hacking.
Returning guest, Drew Baker is the Founder and Technical Director at Funkhaus. He joins Steve on this week's episode to discuss his experiences in using Nuxt. He talks about its useful features and goes into detail about its benefits. Additionally, he talks about how he runs his applications using Nuxt
Hosts of the Ruby Rogues Podcast, Dave Kimura and Valentino Stoll join JavaScript Jabber Panel on this week's crossover episode. They talk about both of the framework's useful features and how the JavaScript framework may be applied when creating Ruby applications. Additionally, they tackle each of their advantages and disadvantages.
Ian Schwartz is a professional software developer. He joins the show to talk about Functional Programming. He begins by defining functional programming as well as some of the key terms they use. Additionally, they dive into the different Algebraic Data Types and React.
Jakub Andrzejewski is a Senior Developer & Dev Advocate at Vue Storefront. He joins the show alongside Steve to talk about performance in Nuxt and Vue. He begins the show by diving into the concept of performance, how to maintain a high-performing website, and providing the best user experience
Nadav Abrahami Co-Founder & Head of Innovation at Wix. Tom Raviv is Head of Developer Relations for Codux.com & Team Lead on Stylable.io. They join the show to talk about the recent release of, "Codux", the first visual IDE for React. They begin the episode as they talk about how they came about building the tool and their experience. Moreover, they talk about its features, components, and impact on users
Uche Azubuko is a lead frontend engineer at OneLiquidit and a STEM educator passionate about having specific pursuits, advocating for women in tech, community building, and teaching people better ways to live and work. He joins the show to discuss his article, "How to Use TypeScript with Vue.js: Your Go-to Guide". He starts off by talking about some of the projects in which he would use Typescript.
Ryan Carniato is the Principal Engineer OSS at Netlify. He is the author of the SolidJS UI library. He joins the show to talk about where the JavaScript Frameworks are headed. They share their insights on the changes that occurred in React. Additionally, they talk about their perspective on React and other JavaScript frameworks.
Ryan Carniato is the Principal Engineer OSS at Netlify. He is the author of the SolidJS UI library. He joins the show to talk about where the JavaScript Frameworks are headed. They share their insights on the changes that occurred in React. Additionally, they talk about their perspective on React and other JavaScript frameworks.
Alex Russell is the Partner Product Manager on Microsoft Edge. He joins the show to talk about web framework performance. He starts out by going over a few examples of user interactions from various web applications and how they affect their performance. Moreover, he gets into detail about the article he wrote, "The Performance Inequality Gap, 2023".
Daniel Roe returns to the show alongside guest host Drew and Steve to talk about the new releases and changes in Nuxt. He begins by explaining the difference between Nuxt and Nuxt Labs. He also talks about migrating from Nuxt 2 to Nuxt 3. Moreover, he tackles future projects and plans for the framework.
Dan Shappir takes the lead for this week's panelist episode as he talks about hydration. Hydration is the technique of using client-side JavaScript to enhance server-rendered HTML with application state and interaction. In the context of Web performance, he explains why it is regarded as such an issue and its impact.
The second part of this episode is reviewing various ways in which modern frameworks, such as Qwik, Astro, Remix, and NextJS are trying to alleviate the impact of hydration:
Most software developers have done freelancing at some point in their careers, so today, Steve and Drew get together to discuss what is involved in freelancing. They cover topics such as how to find work, how to price it, how to get paid, and everybody's favorite topic, paying taxes. They finish with picks, and the high point of every episode, Steve's dad jokes of the week.
Steve sits down with returning guest host Drew Baker to talk about what makes a good programmer. They each list their top five characteristics and find that there is a lot of crossovers between their lists, and as always, go down a few rabbit trails on things like code comments. They end with Steve's famous dad jokes and some new exciting CSS features.
Gal Weizman has professionally done Browser JavaScript security research for almost a decade and currently works in MetaMask. He joins the show to explain more about his profession as a "Browser Javascript Internals Expert." Moreover, he then talks about his project, "Snow". It is a JavaScript shim that applies an important defense mechanism in the browser to the web app's runtime to allow them to secure their same origin realms.
Debbie O’Brien is a Senior Program Manager on the developer division community team at Microsoft. She returns to the show with Steve to talk about the Microsoft tool called “Playwright”. It is a framework for Web Testing and Automation. Moreover, they go into how the testing works, its useful features, and how it has more advantages than other testing solutions.
Misko Hevery is the Chief Technology Officer at Builder.io. He is also the creator of Angular.io, known for zone.js, and helped co-create karma. He returns to the show to discuss "Qwik" in greater detail alongside AJ and Steve. No matter how complex your website is, Qwik provides the fastest possible page load times. In contrast to other frameworks, Qwik has special features that make it more user-friendly.
Steve talks with Adam Jahr of Vue Mastery about online Vue training. They talk about the history of Vue Mastery, how it is structured, and the details of what goes into making the fantastic, professional-looking videos they create.
Steve and A.J. welcome Fred K. Schott to the show to talk about Fred's latest project, Astro. After initially discussing some of Fred's previous projects (Snowpak, Pika) and the joys of esbuild, they dive into Astro, including how it works, its use cases, and the newly finalized dynamic SSR capability. They finish with some picks going back to the very early web, and, as always, Steve's fabulous dad jokes.
Steve sits down with guest host Drew Baker to talk about their experiences and tips about getting hired as a web developer these days. Steve covers his experiences both as a job seeker and the person doing the hiring, and along with Drew, tells some great - and not so great stories about job hunting from both sides. Along the way, they provide some (hopefully) helpf
Maina Wycliffe is a Full-stack Software Engineer, Google Developer Expert, and Mentor who currently works at Flanksource. He is a Typescript Enthusiast and is the author of All things Typescript. He joins Chuck and Steve as he shares the reason behind starting his newsletter. His main goal is to teach developers to learn more about it and its typing system.
We are joined by Yoav Abrahami, Chief Architect and Head of Velo to discuss the transformation of Wix from a Website builder to an application development platform. Wix Velo enables developers to implement code that runs either on the client-side or on Wix hosted Node server, while constructing the UI using a WYSIWYG page editor. In this way, Wix provides an interesting alternative to app development frameworks such as NextJS and Nuxt.
Steve and special returning guest host Erik Hanchett sit down with John Leider of VuetifyJS to talk about the recent 3.0 release of Vuetify. They discuss the conversion from Vue 2 to Vue 3, the people behind Vuetify, and some of the ways Vue 3 makes things easier in Vuetify.
Lane Wagner is the founder of a startup company called Boot.dev. He teaches backend development online in Go, Python, and JavaScript. Lane joins Chuck and Steve as they talk all things Functional Programming. They also talk about its importance and share their thoughts about it. Moreover, Lane also shares his experience with creating boot.dev and the different teaching strategies he uses on his online learning platform.
In this episode the panelists share war stories from their career and the lessons they have learned from them. They discuss things they have done back in their early days in tech, and how they now behave differently given those experiences.
Today, Steve talks with Lane Wagner, creator of boot.dev, and online programming school. After getting distracted by the fact that Lane's first name reminds Steve of "Better Off Dead", they discuss how the concept of functional programming is or isn't actually used in the composition API in Vue 3, along with the awesomeness of Vite and Lane's experience in upgrading from Vue 2 to Vue 3.
Shai Yalin is a freelance software architect and mentor. He specializes in teaching organizations and individuals how to use Test Driven Development (TDD) and other development methodologies and best practices. In this episode Shai joins us to explain how to use these methods in order to create software that is resilient to change, and how to refactor existing brittle code in order to clean out the rot.
When writing a Vue application, debugging is a very effective tool for figuring out the cause of a problem. Steve talks with Cecelia Martinez about her recent talk at Vue Conf about all of the various tools that are available to help debug javascript applications and some Vue-specific options.
Kent C. Dodds is a well-known JavaScript developer who has done myriad development courses and training. He's also done outreach for Remix. He's spoken at tons of conferences and his now working on creating EpicWeb.dev which helps developers become epic web developers.
The Jabber crew starts out talking about learning, teaching, and EpicWeb.dev before going into the changes in the web platform and progressive enhancement and eventually Remix.
David Neal is a web developer who started to learn to draw as a way to liven up his conference talks. Along the way, his drawing skills and reach have grown, and he uses those skills in multiple avenues. David talks about his history in tech and drawing, how he learned, and how it has become an effective rule for him. He and Steve discuss their love of dad jokes and David's love of bacon, and how he lost weight eating nothing but bacon.
Diego Mourra is a newer developer who has recently joined the ranks of professional developers. The panel talks to Diego about his career as a fashion designer how he moved to Canada and go into programming.
Along with returning guest host Luke Diebold, Steve talks with Laravel framework creator Taylor Otwell, They cover the history of Laravel, the Laravel ecosystem, how and why Taylor chose to integrate it with Vue, how Laravel and Vue are now used and distributed as part of Jetstream and InertiaJS, and even how Laravel got its name. Along the way, they cover topics such as Narnia, Star Trek, and end with great dad jokes.
In this episode, Steve sits down with Silvan Mühlemann and talks about his history with Vue. They cover a couple blog posts of Silvan's where he uses Vue to generate various PDF types, and then talk about his development history and how he and his company got into Vue. They with Silvan's picks of some great AI tools, and of course, Steve's fantastic dad jokes.
The panel goes back a few years and reviews some technology predictions that Dan made a few years ago on Quora. These include WASM, Progressive web apps, and others. Most were wrong, but one did end up being sort of accurate. Along the way, they go into some deep rabbit holes but manage to pull themselves out. As always, they end with picks, and Steve's stupendous dad jokes.
Steve sits down with Vue developer Shashikant S. Wagh to talk about his Vue Sortable Table. They discuss the various config options and the main selling point that allows the user to re-order items in the table via drag and drop. Shashikant makes a very old-school book pick, and as always, Steve has his great dad jokes.
Today we talk with Adam Bradley, the Director of Technology at Builder.io. He previously worked at Ionix as a creator of Ionic Framework, a mobile UI interface builder for web applications, and StencilJS which powers Ionix. Currently he works on both Qwik and Partytown at Builder.io.
In today’s episode we dive into Partytown, discussing the unique ways it improves website performance. When there are so many third-party scripts injected into the average website, you can quickly lose control of speed. We learn how Partytown addresses this with a remote web worker, and how it still gets the data it needs synchronously.
Today we talk with Fred Schott, the co-creator of Astro. Being involved with open source web development for a decade, and working on several teams at Google, including Chrome and Polymer, he is now one of the biggest promoters of Astro. We talk about how Astro, as a static site generator, helps to solve the over-use of javascript on the client side.
Today we talk with Misko Hevery about solving the loading speed issue for websites constructed using JavaScript frameworks. Such websites are often slow to load, which is detrimental to their ability so succeed. After 16 years at Google, where he created Angular, he now works on the Qwik framework at Builder.io, a headless visual CMS. We learn how Qwik dramatically improves page speed metrics through an innovative architecture that enables resumability instead of hydration. We talk about how this is implemented, and about how you can get started with it.
Valeri Karpov, maintainer of the popular Mongoose library for Nodejs, visits the show again to talk about a new Vue 3 feature of provide/inject and how it's much better than props, how he uses Vue templates inside Node, tests template output with the cheerio library, and then how he uses plain js, html, and css files for email templates. As always, they end with picks, including a discussion of the The Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings books, and movies, and as always, Steve tops it off with his amazing dad jokes.
Today we talk with Felix Arntz, a developer relations engineer at Google. Hired on the Google WordPress team, and involved with the Sidekick plugin, we discuss some of the challenges and approaches of improving performance on WordPress sites, as well as other open source CMS’s.
Today’s episode is a continuation of the previous JavaScript Jabber Episode 543, where we discuss JS language features to avoid. Do you agree with the list? Today we talk about:
Today Steve and Charles talk about the many updates and events coming to Top End Devs, from upcoming conferences to new courses and content. Check out the conference lineup at https://topenddevs.com/conferences. If you are interested in building courses or would like to speak at any of the conferences, contact Charles. We also dive into a conversation about what it really means to be a 10x developer and a top 1% developer.
Today we talk with the director of engineering, Jeremy Tomlinson, and communication specialist, Rich Kurtzman, from Fathym. Described as an “innovation acceleration engine,” we discuss how Fathym provides the building tools which allow jr. and sr. engineers alike contribute to development. The platform allows use of your own code, low code, or leveraging Fathym’s no code build tools.
Steve, Dan and A.J talk with Nick Hehr and Peter Hoddie about using JavScript with IoT devices. They cover a wide range of topics, including the XS JavaScript Engine, the only complete ECMAScript 2018 engine optimized for embedded devices (created by Moddable), and even get into the nitty gritty of how it is built and how it works. They also cover TC53 - the standards committee for JS in embedded systems, a committee that Nick and Peter are part of. In picks, they get into a great discussion on home security systems and their various security issue, and of course, Steve brings the great dad jokes.
In today’s episode, we talk with special guest Sanchitha SR about her article titled How to Communicate between Components in Vue.js. We cover the five ways that we can send data from one component to another:
Today in this all panelist episode, we talk about JS features you should avoid using. However opinions don't always align, and some come with much debate! Although we couldn’t cover them all, today we discuss:
Today we have three guests on the show, Annie Sullivan, Yoav Weiss, and Michal Mocny, all of who are engineers who work for Google on the Chrome Web platform. Looking forward to Google’s new developments for measuring web performance, we dive deep into upcoming performance metrics Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) and Interaction to Next Paint (INP), a full page lifecycle metric. We discuss what user page interactions we can measure successfully and which we cannot. We discuss the challenges of single-page applications when looking at core web vitals.
Today Steve talks with Val Karpov, the lead maintainer of Mongoose, the most used database framework on NPM. Val gives a brief history of Promises and Async/Await, talks about how they work. We learn the reasoning behind the new functionality, and how it works in VUE. Be sure to check out Vals book and his blog articles on The Code Barbarian and Mastering JS.
Today, in this all-panelist episode we talk about upcoming online events and conferences. With upcoming Top End Devs meetups and conferences, starting in August, we talk about all the benefits of being in person at an event, and the camaraderie at and after the event. We talk about the ways that Airmeet allows for a good connection between the speakers and audience. You’ll also pick up some tips on becoming a speaker at one of these events.
Steve talks with Milad Dehghan, a Vue developer for Trengo in The Netherlands, to talk about his blog post on creating a VueJS component library. They start with the basic definitions of component libraries (aka design systems) and atomic design principles and then dive into the specifics of how he does it in VueJS
Today we talk with Steve Sewell, co-founder and CEO of Builder.io, about their visual editor and designer which connects to many open source systems. Running within a website wysiwyg, it integrates with most modern front end frameworks, such as React, Due and Svelte. We discuss how it functions and connects to various systems. We also dive into the backstory of how and why builder.io created their framework called Qwik.
Today Steve talks with Alex Vipond, a front end engineer at Better Help, about the many ways to reuse code and make it cleaner in Vue 2 and Vue 3. We discus Vue Directives, Vue Mixins, Renderless Components, and Composables, and talk about the benefits of using them. Be sure to also catch his book on the topic which will be re-released soon with a major update.
Today we talk with Matt Pocock, who comes from Oxfordshire, England. As a big fan of TypeScript and maintainer of the Xstate library, we discuss the benefits and downsides of TypeScript. As the discussion gets a bit heated, we debate the true value of TypeScript, and where it holds value to the programming community.
Daniel Roe joins us today to talk through the new Nuxt 3 features. We talk about his journey to be come one of the core contributors on the Framework team at Nuxt Labs. He gives us insight on a typical day, and the process of tackling tasks for the week. We discuss the contributions to RFC’s on GitHub, Incremental Static (Re)generation, and his experience at Vue Amsterdam.
Today’s guest Annie Sullivan, a software engineer on the Chrome Platform team, focussing on core web vitals metrics which is all about performance and user experience metrics for websites. We discuss topics such as Largest Contentful Paint (LCP), and how it works behind the scenes. We also touch on Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS) and things that impact browser experience.
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Today we talk with Gal working on developer tooling for the last decade. Previously working at WIX, and now working at Vercel, he has created an open source FNM fast node version manager within that operates within Rust. We talk about Vercel’s Edge Functions, which allows users to insert routing strategies with user code without having performance hits.
In this episode we have special guest Cody Bontecou, a senior full-stack engineer at Dept in Amsterdam. Working remotely from Hawaii, he enjoys primarily writing in VUE 3, but is using VUE 2 for his current projects. The primary focus of today’s discussion is to discuss his blog article Convert a React Component to Vue.js. We talk through his experience converting a timeline component, and in doing so compare the differences between React and a VUE.
In today’s all-panelist episode, we take a deep dive into some of the nooks and crannies of JavaScript. We discuss and debate the benefits and problems of various methods such as getter and setter, Const, Freeze and Proxy.
Today we talk with Paul Asjes, a developer advocate at Stripe. We get some insight into creating a more secure site for credit card transactions. We also discuss card testing, or account stealing, techniques that are used to gain access to active credits cards. This topic is very important because it can have big financial consequences, and if serious enough, could cause a business to close. Paul gives us some techniques and strategies to discourage and prevent this activity.
Today we chat with Thomas Randolph from GitLab, to discuss his Top 10 list of the upcoming TC39 proposal
This week Steve and first-time host Drew Baker talk with Daniel Roe about the new features of Nuxt 3 which has just been released in Beta. We dive into discussions on topics such as the new page-routing syntax, the nitro server, unstorage, zero-config, svg’s, and composables.
Today we chat with Thomas Randolph from GitLab, to discuss his Top 10 list of the upcoming TC39 proposals.
In today’s episode we talk with Drew Baker, the technical director at Funkhaus, a digital agency specializing in web development, branding, identity and full content programming.
Steve, AJ, and Dan talk to Drew Baker, co-founder of Los Angeles based digital agency Funkhaus about Storybook and Nuxt. After a discussion of various server side rendering methods, Drew talks about how they use Storybook, how it integrates tightly with Nuxt, and how it helps Funkhaus quickly and cleanly spin up sites for large customers.
In this episode, we talk with special guest Samuel Adewole. He is a front end engineer at Jagaad in Italy, working in design & development of cloud-based applications, mobile apps and scalable products. We discuss his work with building re-usable components with Vue 3. He walks through step by step, giving insight to the process and pieces of his work.
Today we talk with Dejan Miličić, a consultant with more than 20 years of experience as a professional software developer with RavenDB. His areas of expertise are designing, writing, and maintaining applications, with a focus on software architecture and backend development.
Dejan discusses the challenges and benefits of NoSQL databases, and what he has learned along the way to simplify and reduce the time required to make changes. We also talk about ways to approach different types of NoSQL databases, and how they should be used.
Erik Hanchett is a prominent voice in the VueJs community with his popular Program With Erik YouTube channel, courses, and other resources. Erik now works as a developer at Amazon Web Services, so today Erik talks about how Vue is used at AWS in the Amplify UI tools. He goes over what Amplify is, how it helps developers easily create and configure AWS resources for their websites, and the Amplify UI components he works on that developers can use to create their front end and talk to the back end.
SolidJS is a web development framework that focuses on using reactivity and carries forward several ideas from Knockout.js.
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Ryan Carniato, the creator of SolidJS breaks down the history and ideas behind SolidJS and compares it to React and other frameworks.
Elm is a functional language that compiles to JavaScript and runs in the browser. Lindsay Wardell from NoRedInk joins the JavaScript Jabber panel this week to discuss her background with Vue and Elm. The discussion ranges into how Lindsay got into Elm and how it differs and solves some of the issues that crop up when people build apps with JavaScript.
Steve talks with Anomal Soman about Keycloak, an open source tool for handling authentication and authorization in web apps. They discuss the various installation and environment options for running Keycloak, how to set it up and configure it, the various options in setting up users and roles, and how to easily integrate it with Nuxt.
There’s always more to learn about security, especially nowadays. In this episode, the Jabberers continue their conversation with Feross Aboukhadijeh about supply chain security. You can never be too careful! (Well…maybe.)
“The most important thing you can do is have a mindset shift around dependencies.” _
_- Feross Aboukhadijeh
In This Episode
1) How the BEST way to keep your security tight is NOT done on the computer
2) Why we’re seeing a trend toward THESE kinds of packages in 2022
3) What you NEED to know about dependencies and their expiration dates
Lindsay and Steve get to talk with Matias Capaletto (also known as Patak) about the explosive growth of the Vite ecosystem. They talk about how he got into Vite, and the work that’s gone into making it such a compelling ecosystem for a number of frameworks. They also discuss the origins of Vitest, the first-class test runner for Vite, and Matias’ recent hire by Stackblitz to work full time on Vite.
Malware attacks are scary, so preparation is keys. In this episode, the Jabberers talk with Feross Aboukhadijeh, a developer who’s redefining malware detection to help you prepare for the next assault.
“It’s awesome that such small teams can make complex code, but it’s not enough to just scan for vulnerabilities.”
-Feross Aboukhadijeh
In This Episode
1) This SCARY trend in supple chain malware attacks (and how to prepare)
2) Why tools like Socket are VERY different from common malware detection
3) How companies in 2022 are addressing their security (and what they’re looking for in developers to help them)
Is OAuth all it’s cracked up to be? In this episode, the Jabberers sit down with Dan Moore, an expert in the OAuth world. They discuss the GIANT perks of OAuth (even if you’re a beginner), how to fix OAuth’s biggest issues, and what you NEED to watch out for in OAuth if you’re a prospective client.
“The end goal of OAuth is let someone else handle authentication, and based on tokens you get, you have the insurance that the authentication was valid.”
- Dan Moore
In This Episode
1) The HUGE perks of using OAuth in 2022 (and how to get started)
2) What you SHOULD be looking for in OAuth as a client
3) How to resolve OAuth’s biggest drawbacks and feel confident in your security
Lindsay and Steve talk with Subha Chanda, freelance developer, about a number of topics related to building and managing your own sites. They discuss Subha’s work as a writer, and his work writing for LogRocket (and others), focusing on his article on using ImageKit and Vue. They also discuss the current state of using Nuxt, integrating with a CMS, and what tools Subha reaches for when doing freelance work.
In this episode, the Jabberers sit down with Gil Fink, a Microsoft vet and Google developer who’s gonna convince why having front architecture is a no-brainer. They discuss what differentiates it from components, how “memory floods” are washing away developers (and why they’re causing them!), and the BEST way to move between architectures without losing your mind.
“You need to understand all the moving parts in your architecture.”
- Gil Fink
In This Episode
1) What makes front end architecture VERY different from components
2) The BIGGEST problems around “prop drilling” between your components (and how libraries really help)
3) How “memory floods” overwhelm developers…and why they don’t even realize they’re causing them!
4) The CORRECT way to move between architectures without screwing yourself
Lindsay and Steve talk with Alvaro Saburido about TroisJS, the ThreeJS wrapper for Vue. They talk about Alvaro’s work with Vue at work and creating public content, and then dive into what Three.js is, what it does, and why it’s so exciting.
Want to know what makes a senior developer? We know a thing or two. In this episode, the Jabberers sit down with Shem Magnezi, a senior developer at Wilco who shares what he’s learned over his seasoned career. They talk about the do’s and don’ts of being a manager, why small and large companies share this ONE feature, and a HUGE mindset reset that will keep you ahead of the game.
“It’s important for people to understand where they can make an impact.”
- Shem Magnezi
In This Episode
1) The KEY differences between smaller and larger companies (and how to hedge your bets when applying)
2) What separates the novice from the expert in a company (and what managers are looking for!)
3) If you’re considering the managerial route, consider THIS risk before going down that road
4) Why THIS mindset shift will make your job easier AND make a larger impact on your company
Steve talks with Alex Jover, a developer relations with Storyblok, and the owner of Vue Dose. They cover his history in programming, starting with Backbone.js and jQuery, and how he got into Vue, and also his history of involvement in the Vue community as a Vue Community member,Google GDE, which all lead to his current position at Storyblok. And as always, Steve wraps up the episode with his favorite dad jokes.
Feel like you don’t know enough about Web3? Don’t worry, neither do we. That’s where these podcasts come in! In this new episode, the Jabberers sit down with Nik Kalyani, the founder of Decentology and overall Web3 expert. The gang discusses the “big D” of Web3 (and why you need to understand it), how Web3 changes the game for blockchain and the like, and how Web3 is going to make gaming bigger AND more lucrative.
“For developers, Web3 equals a green field of opportunity!”
- Nik Kalyani
In This Episode
1. The “big D” that you NEED to know to understand Web3 (and why it’s about more than just the tech)
2. The BIGGEST concern about Web2 that Web3 is trying to solve (and how it changes privacy for everyone)
3. How to navigate NFTs, blockchain, and more buzzwords in Web3
4.The future of Java with Web3 (and why it’s easier than Web2!)
5. How Web3 is changing the game for gaming
Want to watch AJ and Dan Shappir do battle LIVE? You’re in the luck! In this episode, the jabberers go deep on the nuances of var, what we can all learn from C++ about coding, and Dan’s go-to remedies for keeping your Script nice, neat, and not-chaotic.
In This Episode
1.The ONE rule you need know about var (and how it affects the future of JavaScript)
2.Why C++ allows variables to execute the code while JavaScript doesn’t (and what we learn from this difference
3.The biggest drawback to all of JavaScript’s recent changes (and how to avoid tripping over yourself)
4.Dan’s go-to remedies for keeping your Script tidy and variables obedient
This episode is a continuation of Javascript Jabber 512, so head over there before tuning into this one! In this Part 2, the Jabberers and Dan Shappir discuss THE difference between Svelte vs. virtual DOM and React, the most noticeable pros and cons of React when a DOM’s around, and how “partial rendering” is changing the game. Per usual, Steve’s dad jokes are 100% funny.
Steve and Josh discuss Josh’s blog post that compares and contrasts Svelte, Vue, and React. They also talk about Josh’s new game Quina, which is a Wordle clone with a few twists and is built with Nuxt. Josh also displays the influence of Steve’s dad joke juggernaut by bringing his own dad jokes for picks.
But really…can it? It absolutely can AND a lot more. In this new episode of JavaScript Jabber, the roundtable sits down with James Q Quick, a software developer, podcast host, and overall future-enthusiast. The team discusses what the “JAM” in JAMstack means for developers, how it’s making integrating features (like payment processing) a breeze, and what you NEED to know about JAMstack going into 2022.
Lindsay and Steve talk with Markus about his project, “Writing Good Tests for Vue Applications.” They discuss how Markus got into programming with PHP, and then later moved into Vue development, as well as how he got into testing. Markus explains how testing “clicked” for him, and that he felt there weren’t enough good resources on writing Vue tests. They then dive into testing with Vue, including component testing, integration testing, and some key concepts for how to write tests.
2022 is here to stay, but do you know what tech will? In this episode, Lindsay and Steve run through their top tech choices for this upcoming year. They agree on why Vite is here to stay, Lindsay’s favorite Vite features that’ll change the game, and tech that you NEED to watch closely this year.
Ever wonder why you feel like you belong in some groups and the black sheep in others? In this episode, the Javascript dudes sit down with Brett Haralson, a software developer and manager at Wix who’s learned the fundamentals of cultivating world-class communities. They discuss what Brett does FIRST to start building a community, how to handle negativity before and when it pops up, and what you NEED to do after you “find your tribe”.
Dan Shappir takes the lead in explaining React's core design, and how it's enabled by the Virtual DOM (VDOM). The panel discusses what the VDOM is, and how it differs from the actual browser DOM. Also how React leverages the VDOM and its reconciliation mechanism. Understanding these concepts is important in order to properly understand and make the best use of React.
Steve talks to David Chuka, a developer from Nigeria, about his recent blog post for Vue Mastery that covers the new features that are currently available in the beta version of Nuxt 3 that was recently released. In addition, David brings the dad jokes to add to Steve’s amazing dad joke repertiore, and they talk about a great place to get web animations for those that need them.
Steve and AJ catch up with Jonathan Reinink, the creator of InertiaJS, a utility for seamlessly connecting front end Javascript frameworks with back ends to create a seamless and performant web app monolith.
They discuss TailwindCSS and Jonathan’s work at Tailwind Labs, and then get into InertiaJS, how it works, and many of the different features. They also discuss the new SSR capability currently in private beta, and Inertia’s growing inclusion into other frameworks, such as Laravel Breeze and Laravel Jetstream.
Yoav Ganbar joins the Jabber crew to discuss Dev FOMO. He leads the panel through a discussion about adopting technologies and knowing about new niches. The panel discusses how to stay on top of the movements in our ecosystem and when we should prioritize other things.
Mordy Oberstein joins the JavaScript Jabber panel to discuss SEO and how what seems like a marketing concern is relevant and exciting for developers.
SEO is working with a black box with regards to Google since Google and other search engines don't tell you anything about how they adjust their search algorithms.
Mordy walks through how developers can contribute to the issues around showing up in search engine results.
Lindsay and Steve sit down with Andrew Courtice, head of front-end engineering at Fathom, do discuss his global state management library Harlem. They talk about how Andrew got started in programming during university, and his move from building desktop applications to the web, as well as his initial start with Vue before it reached 1.0. They then discuss Harlem: what it is, how it works, and what problems it solves. They also discuss the state of global state management in the Vue ecosystem, and how to get started building your own library for Vue (including devtool integration!)
Assaf Krintza joins the JavaScript Jabber panel to discuss the various approaches and uses for state management in web applications. Some of the focus is on React, but many of the tools and approaches work in or have similar options in the other web frameworks.
Lindsay and Steve talk with Máximo Mussini, avid Vite user and plugin creator, about his recent work on Îles, a new static site generation framework built on Vite and Vue. They discuss Máximo’s journey into web development, and his work on the plugin ecosystem in Vite (such as Vite Ruby). They then dive into Îles: what it is, what problems it solves, and what it compares with. They also discuss the concept of “Islands Architecture” that was popularized by tools like Astro.
Ian Johnson is a former Google UX engineer and data visualization engineer with ObservableHQ building data visualizations with JavaScript. He works on both the tools and the visualizations built with D3 on the web. He discusses how to use tools like D3 to tell a story using your data.
Lindsay and Steve talk with Martin Malinda about building performant Vue apps. They discuss his article on building a lazy loading component, and explore browser APIs like requestIdleCallback and intersectionObserver. They end with some general guidance on how to build performant websites.
Filipe Névola is the CEO of MeteorJS. He jumps in to discuss the changes and updates to Meteor over the last several years.
He explains what Meteor is, what its history is, and how it lands within the current JavaScript ecosystem. You can use it to build web and mobile apps and is a mature option to use for your applications.
Lindsay and Steve talk about other ways to build Vue applications than Vue CLI or Vite templates. Lindsay talks about her experience migrating her personal site from Nuxt to Astro, a new static site generator that provides islands of reactivity in a framework agnostic way.
Steve talks about Inertia, and building modern monoliths using Laravel and Vue. They also discuss the release of the Nuxt 3 public beta, and some of the things to keep in mind if you’re looking to migrate from Nuxt 2 to 3.
This week, the JavaScript Jabber panel discusses the various "Creeds of Craftsmanship" from the programming languages out there. They discuss the different principles and the unifying concepts they all have alongside the ethos of what makes each language's approach to programming unique.
Niall Crosby, creator of AgGrid, joins the panel to discuss the journey from building an open source data grid used all over the world to providing support and enterprise features and running a successful business based on that same open source software.
Steve and AJ talk with Max Kordek, founder of his startup Lisk, which is geared towards helping JavaScript developers use the blockchain to develop new applications for new industries. We delve deep into the origins and base technologies of the blockchain, how it has been used, and how it can be used in the future. They also discuss Lisk, it’s purpose, and how Max hopes their SDK will be used by developers to explore the blockchain and find brand new applications for it.
Steve sits down with Andrew Welch of the devmode.fm podcast and they cover a wide variety of topics, ranging from Andrew’s history with web development and his own companies, to VueJS, Nuxt and Vite, how he uses them with CraftCMS, and what’s he’s looking forward to with Nuxt 3. In addition they discuss the history of a couple of HTML response codes, and Andrew’s unique way of asking guests to explain their subjects on his own podcast.
Our very own Will Button from Adventures in DevOps joins us to discuss DevOps in JavaScript. Will also hosts his own YouTube channel discussing DevOps for Developers and is a consultant helping early stage startups getting their applications set up and scaling.
He joins the panel to help the Jabber panel understand how to make Node and JavaScript deploy, scale, and grow.
Steve and Solomon talk to Henry Eze about Hygen. Hygen is a generic file generator that allows you to dynamically generate files, such as Vue templates, tests, and any other file needed in a project. In addition, they talk about Docuvaluate, an AI-based program Henry is working on that is used to evaluate contract language and structure. As always, they wrap up the show with picks, including Steve’s famous dad jokes of the week.
Lindsay and Steve talk with Eric Gardner, Senior Software Engineer at the Wikimedia Foundation, about his journey from graphic design to Vue and the adoption of Vue at the Wikimedia Foundation. They discuss the challenges faced in MediaWiki, the core application behind Wikipedia, and how and why the foundation moved to adopt Vue as its frontend framework of choice. They also discuss some of the future developments at the Foundation, as well as some of the challenges that they still face.
Bianca and Sumitra from Raygun join the panel to talk about Core Web Vitals and how tools like Raygun can help keep tabs on and monitor your performance stats as you change your web application to get you better results on Google.
The JavaScript Jabber panel teams up to discuss their favorite moments and episodes over the last nearly 10 years of the show. They discuss where things are at and where they're going next.
Lindsay and Steve talk to Mike Gallagher, Software Architect at Hip eCommerce, about his blog post exploring server-side rendering and how Nuxt functions under the hood. They explore Mike's specific use case of needing to manage routing on the client, rather than the server, and how he was able to find a solution.
Lindsay, Luke, and Steve talk about different ways to organize Vue code. They discuss the Composition API, comparing it to the Options API, and the available options for abstracting code from components to be reusable. They also discuss Evan You’s comments about the Composition API becoming the recommended path for using Vue in the future.
In this episode, Lindsay and Steve talk with Shawn Wildermuth, author and teacher, about how he sees Vue as a tool for building applications both large and small. We talk about his start giving talks at conferences, and pivoting into education as his primary focus in the developer community, and why he prefers to use Vue for his personal projects. We discuss his recently article on different state management techniques, and explore the Composition API and the new features of Vue 3.2.
Priscila Oliveira and Mark Story join the panel to discuss the recent transition at Sentry from vanilla JavaScript to React and TypeScript.
The show starts out with the panelists nerding out over Sentry and how they use it, then they dive into the code transition and the things that they learned from their conversion to TypeScript.
Lindsay and Steve talk with Steffen Baumgart, developer of the “Blood on the Clocktower” virtual town square, about how he developed the online interface for this social deduction game.
They talk about the game, and how Steffen translated it from in-person to online during the pandemic. They also discuss how its real time features were implemented, and how it handles UX interactions like animations.
Sam Sycamore joins the podcast to tell his story of transitioning into programming after listening to the podcast episode we recorded with Danny Thompson.
Danny told his story about how he went from gas station attendant to programmer in a very short timeframe.
Sam has now made a similar journey from landscape construction to programming and what inspired him to make the switch.
Lindsay, Steve, Luke, and Solomon talk with Ariel from Maison Futari about using Vue without building a full single-page application. We talk about using Vue with Wordpress and other backend frameworks to build widgets, as well as using Vue to build web components. We also explore libraries like Livewire and Inertia to integrate with a Laravel backend.
In this episode, Lindsay, Steve, and Luke talk with David Atanda, product designer and developer. We talk about his path from building products into development, and some of the products he has built. We also talk about how David looks at products and determines what to build next. After that, we discuss his blog post on authentication in Vue, and some of the decisions that need to be made for authenticating an SPA.
Allen Wyma, host of the Flying High with Flutter podcast, joins the Jabber panel to discuss building mobile applications with Flutter.
The discussion includes an exploration of Flutter, how to get started, how it's different from other platforms, and who should consider using it.
The panel talks with prolific JS developer The Jared Wilcurt about developing cross-platform desktop apps using nw.js and vuejs. Jared covers the history of tools to create cross-platform apps, how they all work, and then dives into his GitHub repo that provides the boilerplate to start and create a new app using Vue
Liran Tal joins the Jabber to talk about how to secure your applications and how to check for security vulnerabilities in your application and its dependencies and infrastructure.
Liran explains how to check your supply chain and your own code to make sure you're not leaving things open to malicious actors.
Craig Buckler joins the panel to jabber about Chrome Dev-Tools and some things you may not know you can do with them to empower your own front-end development. Some of the basics you may already know like Incognito mode. Some others you may not know like black boxing libraries you don’t control or throttling connections to simulate poor connections. He also talks through searching through network requests to see how your domain’s specific requests perform.
In this episode, Lindsay, Steve, Luke, and Solomon talk with Mariana Picolo about her experience refactoring a large Vue application. They discuss the problems developers face with ever-growing applications, actionable steps to discuss these issues with management, and solutions for large bundle sizes, coding best practices, and reducing duplicated code in your codebase.
The JAMstack has been a hot item in the web development community for a while. Initially, it was a basic implementation of front-end tools with some sort of hosted backend. Now, the tools and approaches have become much more powerful.
Brian Rinaldi joins the JavaScript Jabber panel to discuss how things have evolved and what people should be looking into now to take advantage of the offerings within the JAMstack community.
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The Jabber panel along with Vitali Zaidman jump in and discuss how your browser cache works, what the standard is, and what you can expect when you're trying to take advantage of the performance characteristics of your users' browsers.
The browser cache control settings and techniques are not straightforward, so buckle up and learn how to get your browsers to load assets from memory.
In this episode, Steve, Lindsay, and Luke discuss things they wish they'd known earlier in their careers, and things newer developers could benefit from today. They talk about their early days in programming, and the lessons they learned along the way about being developers.
Long time friend of the show Gil Tayar joins us again this time to discussing using JSDoc for JavaScript type annotations instead of TypeScript. Turns out that you can now get all of the benefits of TypeScript types without having to adopt the entire TypeScript workflow. Gil describes the benefits of this approach, and how it could impact the future of Web development.
Luke and Steve talk with Joseph Zimmerman about the future of state management in Vue. Options include the new composition API in Vue 3, the new Pinia library , and the upcoming (still in RFC) Vuex 5. Plus, Steve continues his series of amazing dad jokes for the benefit of the listeners.
Never underestimate the power of teaching. Ian reached out to AJ in regards to previous comments about React on the show and demonstrated that he knows a whole lot more than most of us, so we had him on to talk about his learning journey, the philosophy of react, and top tips for new developers entering the field. Huzzah!
Eric Simons from Stackblitz joins the JSJ panel to discuss the game changing technology announced at Google.io this year. What they demonstrated was their ability to run NodeJS in the browser using new technology called Web Containers. However, the implications go well beyond the realities of running Node in the browser. Eric and the panel dive into the implications of what this new way of working could mean for the web and application development.
Timi Omoyeni joins the podcast to discuss reactivity in Vue. Timi and the panel discuss the react and the ref methods and how they fit into a reactive paradigm within Vue and wander through Timi's story and the use cases for reactive programming within Vue apps.
Lindsay, Steve, and Luke Diebold discuss SEO in Nuxt with Anamol Soman. We talk about how he got started with Vue, and his initial blog posts on Nuxt. We dive into SEO, what it is and why it's important, and how to integrate plugins with Nuxt to improve search engine optimization. We also discuss some of the difficulties developers run into with optimizing their sites.
Rick Viscomi joins us from Google to talk to us about the Chrome User Experience Report (CrUX) and the HTTP Archive. He explains what it tells us about how the web is built, how it performs, and what we know about the web today.
Dan Shappir leads the Jabber crew on another discussion on the things JavaScript developers should know.
They discuss WeakMap, WeakSets, and WeakReferences. They dive into where and how they are used and which places they're implemented.
The conversation starts with garbage collection is and how it works and then moves into the implications it has for this kind of referencings.
Steve talks with Valeri Karpov about Vue 3, how it compares to Vue 2, and what are some of the new features are. Val is also the maintainer of Mongoose, the Nodejs tool for working with MongoDB, so they discuss Val’s coding journey, how he got into working with Mongoose and Vue, and what he’s working on now.
Moran Weber is the CEO of Women on Stage. She helps women prepare for and speak on stages at conferences in technology and other related areas. She joins the Jabber panel this week to discuss women's place in technology, the importance of them appearing at conferences, and the outcomes of women in the technology space.
Lindsay and Steve talk with Maya Shavin about XState, a library for building finite state machines. We talk about what XState is, how it compares to global state management tools like Vuex, and how to integrates it with Vue. We also discuss XState's visualizer, which helps developers see how their state machines work.
Yehonathan Sharvit joins the Jabber crew to discuss Data Oriented Programming. Data Oriented Programming is a way to reduce complexity by managing the shape of the data before we send it over the wire. Rather than managing data you send between services in class hierarchies, you focus on the data's meaning and manipulate it so the data it includes updates to your datastore like Redux and then cascade changes from your data.
In this episode, Lindsay and Steve talk with Luke Diebold and Paolo Caleffi (Callo) about Quasar, a Vue framework that provides a path to build applications for web, desktop, and mobile platforms, while providing a highly customizable Material Design component library. We talk about what it is, how it works, and how to get started, as well as integration with a backend such as Laravel. We also discuss the pain points developers may run into, and what's coming next with Quasar 2.
Micro frontends are the topic of discussion again, this time with Grgur Grisogono, Principal Consultant at Modus Create and co-author of the Manning book "Ext JS in Action". In particular, Grgur explains the new module federation capabilities introduced by Webpack, and describes how they can be used to construct micro frontends in a much more streamlined and modular fashion.
Lindsay and Steve talk with Solomon Eseme, Software Engineer and Technical Writer. They discuss how Solomon got into web development, his journey from the frontend to the backend (and back again), and how he came to use Vue. They dive into Solomon's blog post on building a chat app with Socket.io and Vue 3, and its impact at an enterprise that read it. We also talk about Solomon's upcoming project, Profaily.
Lindsay and Steve discuss Web Workers with Martins Onuoha. They talk about Martins' start in programming, and how he came to love Vue for its simplicity. Martins explains what Web Workers are, when they are useful, and how to integrate them with a Vue application.
Ethan Garofolo is the author of Practical Microservices with Pragmatic Programmers. He starts out debunking the ideas behind pulling parts of a monolith into a different services and change function calls into HTTP calls. Instead, it's an approach that keeps things moving for development teams that solves several productivity issues. He breaks down the ways to move functionality around and which approaches make sense for breaking your application up into pieces that are easy to work on and approachable for multiple teams.
The infamous Jake Archibald, member of the Chrome Team, an author of the Service Worker spec, and host of the HTTP 203 Podcast takes us on a whirlwind tour of recent and upcoming browser standards including Portals, iframes, App Cache, Service Workers, HTML, Browser History and more - why they are the way they are, why we can't have nice things, and how we might get nice things anyway in the future. Lots of good back and forth and only a little name calling… jaffa…
Lindsay and Steve discuss building and hosting a blog using Vue. They discuss their own blogs, and dive into options for managing content with markdown or headless CMS, building the site with Vue or Nuxt (and others), and where to host
If you're building a website or web-app, there's a good chance that you want people to find it so that they will access it. These days this mostly means that you want it to appear in the relevant search engine results pages (SERP). In this episode we are joined by Martin Splitt, DevRel at Google for the Search & Web ecosystem, who explains in detail how search engines work, and what developers and SEOs need to know and do in order to be on their good side.
Lindsay and Steve talk with Debbie O'Brien, Head Developer Advocate at Bit and former Head of Learning at Nuxt about her new position. We talk about what Bit is, and how they are bringing a new approach to component development. We also talk about how Debbie is having to learn React, what that looks like for an experienced Vue developer, and ways we learn new frameworks and libraries.
If you're building a website or web-app, there's a good chance that you want people to find it so that they will access it. These days this mostly means that you want it to appear in the relevant search engine results pages (SERP). In this episode we are joined by Martin Splitt, DevRel at Google for the Search & Web ecosystem, who explains in detail how search engines work, and what developers and SEOs need to know and do in order to be on their good side.
In this episode, Lindsay and Steve talk Nuxt 3 with Daniel Roe, Framework Engineer at Nuxt. We talk about upcoming features, including Nitro (the new server-side renderer for Nuxt), serverless deployment with Netlify or Vercel, Nuxt Kit, and an upcoming Nuxt CLI. We also dive into deployment options, and how to deploy you application in Nuxt 2 and 3. We end with a discussion on release date, and how you can participate in the private alpha for Nuxt 3.
Having done a three-part series on the things JavaScript developers MUST know, Dan now leads a panel discussion on the things that JavaScript developers SHOULD know. These are things that devs can get by without knowing, but that will improve their abilities if they do know and understand. Subjects covered include: passing functions args by value vs by reference, sparse arrays, property descriptors, event capture, and more.
Steve and A.J. talk with Chris Mather, the creator of the Elements framework, a new monolith-style web framework for generating web apps. They discuss the reason for adding YAF (Yet Another Framework), the pieces that are used to build the framework, and how it all works together.
Anthony Campolo joins the conversation to lead the discussion of RedwoodJS. RedwoodJS is a full-stack framework that provides a way of building a fast and secure front-end that JAMstack gives you with the power and flexibility of a backend.
It doesn't have an official ORM, instead it uses GraphQL through Prisma. This discussion goes deep into the history and implementation of RedwoodJS.
In this episode, Lindsay and Steve talk to Alex Grozav, creator of the Inkline UI framework. We discuss how he came to web development, and what led him to creating his own UI framework. We talk about the differences between Inkline and other common frameworks, as well as the driving principles behind Inkline's design. Alex also shared his advice for anyone looking to build a UI framework or library.
In this episode, the panel discusses the final list of things that developers need to know and how and when they're important. These topics include:
You're working on planning and executing your professional and technical journeys, but what about your psychological journey? The reality is that without taking better care of yourself, you are potentially setting yourself up for failure, and potentially also putting your health and wellbeing at risk. We are joined by Wei-Ming Lam, a coach and Yoga Instructor who provides practical advice for constructing and tuning your psychological stack.
The panel talks with Jay Hariani, CTO of GovTribe. GovTribe is an enterprise application built with Laravel and VueJS that provides government contractors with a centralized location for available government contract and grant information that is easily searchable and customizable. The discussion covers why GovTribe went with Laravel and Vue, what their strengths are, and other tools that GovTribe uses to get very good SEO results and customer satisfaction.
In this episode, Lindsay, Steve, and Raymond talk with Michael Tintiuc, tech lead at Modus Create and author of the Ionic Vue library. We discuss what Ionic is, how Michael integrated it with Vue, and how everything works together for building mobile applications. We also discuss Michael's experience as a designer and using multiple languages, and how that impacts his work as a developer.
In this episode, Lindsay and Steve talk to Daniel Kelly about his theme for Nuxt, Awake, and his experience building it. We discuss Daniel's experience with Laravel, then compare PHP and JavaScript development. We talk about building the theme, integrating it with Netlify CMS, and the benefits of this approach. We also discuss the plugins Daniel is using in Awake to make it as fast as possible.
Luis Atencio jabbers about enjoying and using JavaScript. He enjoys the multi-paradigm nature of the language. The discussion ranges over the nature of JavaScript and how it's object-oriented, and how the paradigms can be blended to provide powerful functionality. They also dive into how to break down problems in JavaScript and how the language enables this.
We spoke with Marco about his book, Seriously Good Software, and what it means for developers.
Steve and Lindsay talk with Erik Hanchett about his experience teaching VueJS. Erik is a published author, prolific Youtube video creator, and has created multiple online courses all for the purpose of teaching Vue. The discussion ranges from how he creates runs his courses, to the benefits of writing for an established publisher, to developer job interviews, and finally certifications for developers.
Christian Nunciato works on a system called Pulumi, which is a system that allows you to build infrastructure with code. This is usually aimed at the cloud and allows us to use tools to manage infrastructure and do setups and updates.
Micro-services have been very popular on the backend for a while now. But can this architecture be applied to the front-end as well? Should it be applied to the front-end? Michael Geers, who literally wrote the book on micro-fronts ends, explains what they are and why they can be a powerful architectural pattern especially when implementing large-scale projects. He also describes how Web Components can be used to enable this type of application architecture.
In this episode, Lindsay, Steve, and Raymond talk with Oscar Spencer, developer at Tidelift and creator of the Grain programming language. We discuss Vue's reactivity engine, both how it worked in Vue 2 and how it's changed for Vue 3. We also talk about some use cases, both within Vue and outside of it. Finally, we talk a bit about Grain, a strongly-typed functional language that compiles to WASM.
Components have become the go-to method for structuring and composing UIs on the Web. Usually this means relying on a JavaScript framework such as React, Vue, or Angular. But it turns out that there is a standard mechanism for creating components built into browsers. Ben Farrell who wrote a book on this mechanism - Web Components - joins the panel to explain what they are, how they work, and why they are a great, light-weight alternative to JavaScript frameworks.
Steve and AJ talk with Gareth Brown, author of the recently released Manning video course “Building Web Applications with Firebase”. They discuss what Firebase is, the services it offers, and how it is used in different types of applications, both large and small.
In this episode, Lindsay, Steve, and Raymond talk with Anjolaoluwa Adebayo-Oyetoro (Jola), lead front-end developer at RevelFinance and technical writer at LogRocket. We discuss how his team found itself making too many API calls, and decided to move to GraphQL. We talk about what GraphQL is, its strengths, and how to solve common problems like usage in Vue and authentication. Jola also gives his tips on learning GraphQL, and where to go to learn it.
Testing JavaScript Applications by Lucas da Costa (Coupon for 40% off: podjsjabber19)
Lucas da Costa literally wrote the book on testing JavaScript. He's also maintainer on ChaiJS and Sinon. The podcast follows a three part structure for testing: Entrance tests, integration tests, and structural tests. These form a pyramid of testing that has the entrance tests at the base and the structural and system tests at the top. The episode also covers TDD and approaches to different kinds of JavaScript testing.
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Lindsay and Steve talk with Alba Silvente, senior frontend developer at Blue Harvest and ambassador for Nuxt and Storyblok. We talk about how she came to use Vue, and some of the technologies that she loves to use. We discuss her blog series on building a dashboard with Tailwind, Nuxt, and Storyblok. We also explore how to integrate Storyblok into a Nuxt app.
The panel continues its discussion of various JavaScript programming topics, and whether or not they are required knowledge for JavaScript programmers. This time the debate gets even more heated with topics such as promises and async / await, regular expressions (regex), the DOM and Service Workers. Ultimately we conclude that some you must indeed know to be successful at JavaScript development, but some you just need to know enough about to know to stay away from them.
This week the panel talks with a UK boot camp student about her decision to switch careers and learn to program. They discuss unique challenges such as being part of an underrepresented group and entering the field during a pandemic. Additionally, they discuss technology choices and overall, seek to gain a deeper understanding of the state of JavaScript for new developers.
In this episode of Views on Vue, Lindsay, Steve, and Raymond explore Svelte with Mark Volkmann, the author of Svelte in Action. We talk about what Svelte is, and how it compares to Vue. We also talk about Sapper, and all that it can do for a server-side generated application.
This week the panel is joined by Mark Volkmann to discuss Svelte and how it compares and differs from front-end frameworks such as React and Angular. Mark has written a book and has given talks about Svelte and also about Sapper, an application framework built on top of Svelte. He explains to the panel how Svelte components are defined differently than other JavaScript frameworks, and how they are actually compiled into the production code, which isn’t dependent on any external libraries. He also explains why and how Svelte forgoes the use of a virtual DOM, using direct DOM manipulations instead. Finally he describes Sapper and explains how it can be used to quickly and easily create Web-apps that use SSR, static pages generation and dynamic routing.
In this episode of Views on Vue, Lindsay and Steve talk with Daniel Roe, CTO of Parent Scheme, about the Vue 3 Composition API. They discuss what the composition API is, and how it simplifies development of features in Vue. Daniel is also working on composition API hooks for Nuxt, and we dive into how these hooks work to enable SSR with Vue 3. We then talk about Vuex and the composition API, and whether you can (or should) replace it.
We talk about the Pros and Cons of using a database directly vs using an abstraction layer, common mistakes, optimistic concurrency, and a nice tangent into programming concurrency models to top it off.
In this episode of Views on Vue, Lindsay and Steve talk with John Datserakis, software engineer at Indigo Ag. We catch up on what John’s been doing since his last appearance on the show, and discuss his experience working with React and Typescript in production. We talk about React hooks, and how they compare to Vue 3 Composition API. We also talk about how React is closer to plain Javascript compared to Vue’s ‘batteries included’ approach.
In this episode of Views on Vue, we talk with Gleb Bahmutov, VP of Engineering at Cypress, about the importance of end-to-end testing, and why to use Cypress for your tests. We discuss how to write tests that cover a majority of your codebase, as well as new features such as component testing. We also talk about code coverage, and generating reports to determine how well your tests work to validate your application.
In this episode of Views on Vue, Lindsay and Steve talk with Raymond Camden about the upcoming Vue 3 release, and how it’s important for open source in general to communicate well with developers. We discuss the needs of developers who just want to get work done, and the need to not break the expectations around a library or framework. We talk about the Composition API, as well as new features like Teleport and Suspense.
Ran Levy, a well known and prolific technology podcaster joins the show to talk with the panel about software bugs. Topics of discussion include the inevitability of software bugs – are they an intrinsic part of software development? Also, can they be minimized and their impact mitigated? And what can software companies, and the developers themselves, do in order to deliver properly working software.
In this episode of Views on Vue, Steve talks with Nick Basile of Lambda School in Auston, TX, about using Vue for rapid prototyping new projects. Nick talks about why he uses Vue, and how the prototyping works in Vue. We also digress slightly to discuss Tailwind CSS, a popular utility CSS library, and how it fits in with his prototyping process.
For Web apps to be useful and successfully compete with native applications, they need to be able to access device features, such as the camera, local file system, Bluetooth, and more. Obviously such a mechanism needs to be secure and respect user privacy. In this episode Thomas Steiner, a Developer Advocate for the Web at Google, joins to discuss Project Fugu, and the benefits and capabilities that it already provides, and will provide in the future. Thomas, who is actively involved in this project, explains the design and development process for this project, and how it’s being rolled out and tested.
In this episode the panel discusses various programming topics, and whether or not they are required knowledge for JavaScript programmers. This includes topics such as scopes and hoisting, closures, the event-loop, and the behavior of this. For each such topic, the panel discusses whether or not JavaScript devs are required to know and understand them in order to write better code, or pass job interviews, or to understand existing codebases. Alternatively, if these are topics that JavaScript developers don’t need to know, and maybe should even avoid.
In this episode of Views on Vue, Lindsay and Steve talk with Debbie O’Brien, Head of Learning at Nuxt. We discuss Nuxt becoming a company, the new component and content modules, and the static module. We also talk about enhancements to the Nuxt documentation, providing new ways to learn Nuxt and ways to integrate it with other technologies.
The reality of Covid-19 has changed the way that many people work, working remotely from home instead of coming into the office. Achieving work-life balance can always be a challenge in tech, but can be especially challenging when work and life mix in the same location. In this episode the panel discusses this important topic, and how it has impacted their own lives and careers. Also, how it changes over time and during a career.
Connell has been working on Universal AR, a cross-platform Augmented Reality kit for Mobile Browsers delivering native-level performance using only JavaScript (and a bit of WASM under the hood). We talk about what AR actually is, some of its use cases, as well as the fascinating details as to how the Zap.works team is delivering near native performance and accuracy without IR, LiDAR, or any other of the common advanced AR sensors - just the good ol' phone camera and advanced Computer Visual trickery.
Building websites at an enterprise scale presents many challengers. In this episode the panel talks with Tim Benniks about how the global cosmetics brand L’Oreal uses VueJS in conjunction with Sitecor and other tools to develop websites for its many brands around the world. Tim also discusses his experience in building cross-cultural development teams, and the challenges presented by teams comprised of developers from multiple countries.
The panel talks with Jonathan Reinink about his new library, IntertiaJS. InertiaJS is a tool that allows you to create a monolith server rendered site, but where you write your own custom back end, and then use a front end framework like React, Vue, or Svelte. We discuss how Intertia works at a very granular level, how it compares to tools like Next.js and Nuxt, why monoliths are better than using APIs, how Interita handles authentication and form submissions, and much more.
Danny Thompson discusses his road to a successful tech career, after working for years outside the industry (frying chicken at gas-stations). He explains the importance of setting goals and following through, and how to overcome adversity, and handle setbacks. It's simultaneously a very inspirational story, but also filled with lots of very practical advice and action items to pursue. For example, the importance of attending and participating in Meetups and engaging with the local tech community.
Yoav Wiess is a Developer Advocate at Google on the Chrome team, and also co-chair of the W3C Performance Working Group. In this episode Yoav explains how JavaScript resources are currently being delivered to browsers, and limitations and downsides with these approaches. He then describes a proposal for an advanced JavaScript delivery method that addresses these limitations. When this proposal is implemented, it will enable much more efficient download of JavaScript into browsers, boosting Web performance. This is a public proposal, and Yoav invites the community to participate in the standardization process.
This week the Views of Vue panelists discuss the frameworks built using Vue. We start with the Vue CLI, then go into Gridsome and static site pros and cons, Nuxt and server side rendering, and Vuepress for simple setup and development. We also discuss other frameworks like Quasar, Vapper, and the experimental Vite.
Lindsay, Austin, and Steve discuss some of their tips on how to build Vue applications. Our discussion ranges from auto registration of components, separating data by features, and error handling.
Gareth McCumskey, a Solutions Architect in Cape Town, South Africa engages the panelists of JavaScript Jabber in an informative discussion about the broad topic of serverless. The JavaScript expert explains that serverless is essentially a way to use the existing managed services of the cloud in building a solution. He expounded on the different ways in which to employ the use of serverless.
In this episode of Views on Vue, we talk with Maya Shavin, a Senior Frontend Developer at Cloudinary. We talk about CSS component libraries, CSS-in-JS with Vue, and pros and cons with using libraries like Tailwind CSS. We also discuss Storefront UI, a component library focused on eConmerce.
SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT at the end of this episode. Don't miss it. Kyle Simpson, author of the You Don't Know JS Yet series joins the JavaScript Jabber panel to discuss the origins and approach to his book series. The discussion varies to the basic parts of JavaScript, the parts you should know, and how to learn them.
We talk to Tiago Alves about Nativescript-Vue - what it is, how is it different from Cordova or React Native, and why it's a good choice for building mobile apps. We talk about mobile components vs HTML, native APIs, and how to run your app while in development.
The Views on Vue panel talks with Erik Hanchett, prolific VueJS educator, about his new Vue 360 course and other educational resources he provides to the VueJS comunity. We also talk about personal branding and how to get started building your own brand.
Jonathan Sampson hops into the Jabber session to talk about the Brave Browser. He and the panel wander through the topics of privacy, browser design, and features.
What is MongoDB? How does it work? How is it different than a standard relational database? How does it fit into a modern web app? This week, the panel gets the answers to these questions and more when they talk to Joe Karlsson, Software Engineer and Developer Advocate at MongoDB.
In this episode of Views on Vue, we talk to John Leider, the creator of Vuetify. We discuss how he started in programming and web development, and what led to the creation of Vuetify. We also talk about what's coming next with version 3, and how John is able to run an open source project as his business.
In this episode, we talk to Brad Balfour, senior developer at Bloomberg, about how his team began to implement Vue in their existing applications. We also discuss how Vue let their team move faster, and how the Vue component ecosystem allows for quick development using existing solutions. We also talk about the experience of learning and implementing Vue on a large project with an existing team.
In this episode, Lindsay, Steve, and Austin talk with Gregg Pollack of Vue Mastery about his course with Evan You on the new reactivity model in Vue 3. We also discuss the Composition API, and whether it is the right decision to use. At the end, we discuss marketing and building up an audience for your own video courses.
The panel is joined by Travis Tidwell, co-founder and CTO of Form.io, a ME*N stack platform that incorprates a form builder with automatically generated REST API endpoints. Travis discusses the history of Form.io, how it’s built and works, and lays the smackdown on panelist and noted NoSQL database skeptic AJ O’Neal by showing how MongoDB is the appropriate DB for storing form data in JSON format.
In this episode, we talk to Amir Rustamzadeh about the end-to-end testing framework Cypress. We discuss what it is, what it's useful for, and how to test a Vue application. We also discuss mocking APIs, and how easy it is to get started with Cypress.
Gil Tayar gave a presentation recently on ES modules in Node. He joins the panel to discuss how to use and think about ES modules. With considerable pushback from AJ, Gil explains how to start using modules and what the tradeoffs are between modules, script tags, and build
Noam Rosenthal has worked in both web and native technologies. He leads off with a discussion of the history of the web, browsers, and specifically webkit. The panel then goes into how browsers and built and discuss the differences between the different browsers.
Joe Karlsson is a developer advocate at MongoDB. He and the panel walk through the different approaches, uses, and libraries for building IoT with JavaScript
The JSJ panel talks with Morad Stern from Wix about personal branding; what it is, why it’s important for developers, and how to build it.
Austin expands on his talk at VueConf US, discussing various methods to share data between components. We talk about props and events, slots and scoped slots, event bus, Vuex, and Vue.observable. We also share our experiences with each of those methods of data communication.
Matt Crook joins the conversation to talk with the JavaScript Jabber panel to talk about his experience going through Nashville Software School. The panel discusses and asks questions about getting into programming, working through the bootcamp, and what prospects are for bootcamp graduates.
In this episode, Lindsay and Steve talk with Gwen Faraday about Vue component libraries: what they are, why you want them, and what they solve. We discuss a couple examples that Gwen likes (Vuetify and Element). We also talk about Gwen's upcoming courses on component libraries, and her live streaming on YouTube.
Join us as we talk to Joyce Lin, a developer relations advocate with Postman, and we talk about this amazing tool for interacting with APIs. We discuss it’s more well-known features, and also learn about other less well known, but very powerful features that allow users to greatly increase the usefulness of the tool, both for front end and back end developers.
Dan Shappir takes the lead to explain all of the acronyms and metrics for measuring the performance of your web applications. He leads a discussion through the ins and outs of monitoring performance and then how to improve and check up on how your website is doing.
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In this episode of Views on Vue, guest, Matt Brophy of Urban Outfitters speaks about how they do progressive form enhancement, and also dynamic Vuex modules for dynamic pages.
Dan Shappir takes the lead and walks the panel through the history of JavaScript and a discussion on ES6, TypeScript, the direction and future of JavaScript, and what features to be looking at and looking for in the current iteration of JavaScript.
In this episode of JavaScript Jabber the panelists and guest delve into the advantages of the shadow dom, transitioning from polymer js polyfills to native web components when moving for SAP UI to UI5, which works within React, Vue, Angular, and others.
The Jared Wilcurt, a prolific Vue developer leads the panelists of Views on Vue into an educational episode on writing tests in Vue. He also speaks about a library that he has been working on that solves a bunch of problems around snapshot testing in Vue.
Lindsay has been working with Gridsome for a while and leads the discussion about what Gridsome is and how it works. A bit of time is spent comparing it to Gatsby from the React Ecosystem. Lindsay also walks the panel through the process of building a Gridsome plugin.
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Adam dives into how to document your application using OpenAPI (formerly Swagger) and then how to generate great documentation for your API's using Redoc. He gives us the history of Redoc, breaks down the process for building API documentation, and understanding the OpenAPI specification.
Today’s guest is Ben Collins, who creates online courses, writes tutorials, and teaches workshops around G Suite and App Script. Apps Script is a scripting platform developed by Google for light-weight application development in the G Suite platform. It is an implementation of JavaScript with the express purpose of extending Google apps. App Script was started 10 years ago as a side project, and it eventually took on its own life. Ben talks about some of the different things that App Script can do and where things are stored. They discuss different ways you can get into the script and how to import external scripts from a CDN. Ben gives two examples, one simple and one sophisticated, that you might build from App Script. He talks about event triggers and how authentication is handled. He goes over the three deployment options, namely web app, app executable, sheets add-on, and deploying from the manifest. Ben talks about how triggers are managed in App Script and options for debugging. There is also the option to develop locally as well as in the browser. The show ends with him talking about how to build using HTML in App Script.
In this episode of JavaScript Jabber the panel interviews security expert, Kevin A. McGrail. He starts by explaining what security frameworks and what they do. The panel wonders how to know if your developers are capable of self-auditing your security or if you need help. Kevin shares recommendations for companies to look at to answer that question.
Burke Holland works for Microsoft on the Azure team in developer relations. He starts the show talking about how he got started in serverless. He’s careful to note that just because things are marketed as serverless doesn’t always make them so. In order for something to be serverless, it must be sufficiently abstracted in terms of technology, only require payment for what is used, and infinitely scalable. He talks about the statelessness of serverless, and the panel discusses what it means to be stateless. Burke reminds listeners that serverless is not for long-lived operations, but there are features in serverless providers that can help you get around this. Burke talks about how writing serverless code differs from standard or previous coding approaches and practices. He advises that serverless functions are best kept small, and talks about how to fit them in with other kinds of APIs.
In this episode of Views on Vue the panel interviews Mirjam Bäuerlein, a developer who is new to Vue. Mirjam starts by explaining her coding journey. She has been coding as a hobby since she was 11 and about 3 years ago decided to make it a career. Her work at the time moved her to frontend development in React; giving her the shot that she needed to get a jump on her new career path. Her newest job is using Vue and is the reason she switched to Vue.
In this episode of Views on Vue the panel shares what their set-ups look like. They start by discussing IDE and text editors. Most of them use VScode for their setups but they like to use others when they need them. The panelist list some of their favorite plugins, Vetur, Prettier, Vue peeks, NPM, word counters, and spell checkers. They talk about Vue CLI and other CLIs they use.
Maximiliano Firtman is a mobile web developer from Buenos Ares, Argentina. He has been a developer for 24 years and his most recent focus has been on progressive web apps, or PWAs. Steve and Max reflect on the technologies they were using when they first got started in web development and talk about their experience with mobile development. One area that Max emphasized was bringing the web into the mobile space. They discuss the progression of web access on mobile and some of the available tools. Max notes that responsible design has a very high cost in web performance for mobile devices, which requires unique approaches. They discuss some of the issues with latency in mobile, even on 4G. The solution to this latency is PWAs.
In this episode, the panel interviews Austin Gil, author of Vuetensils. Austin begins by explaining that Vuetensils is and why he wrote it. Vuetensils is a UI library filled with naked components that make it easy to build accessible apps. The panel explains that it is not as opinionated as other libraries making it easy to style yourself.
Noah, a.k.a. Svelte Master, is from Indiana and recently moved to San Francisco. He has been given title Computational Linguist by SoundHound. He starts the show by talking about his Youtube channel all about Svelte. Svelte is a JavaScript framework similar to React and Vue. When you write components, Svelte will compile it into Vanilla JS, CSS, or HTML, and create a small bundle that will be sent to the client. Svelte is a ‘disappearing framework’, so your bundles come out as DOM APIs and there is no Svelte in the end result. Because the Svelte framework doesn’t send with the bundle, bundle sizes are significantly smaller, and it runs on all browsers. Noah shares some Svelte’s performance statistics. Sapper is a companion technology to Svelte that gives you server side rendering, routing, code splitting, and other features.
In this episode of Views on Vue the new panel is introduced. Lindsay Wardell is a full-stack developer from Portland, Oregon. Steve Edwards was in tech support for 20 years and is a self-taught programmer who is now working full time in Vue. Devlin was a registered nurse, who studied development by night. Charles Max Wood, CEO of Devchat.tv, got a degree from BYU and has been in development and podcasting for about 13 years.
Each of the panelists shares what they are using Vue for, work and personal projects. The panel gives Charles advice on his project.
Today the panel is discussing iterating on open source projects. Aimee and AJ recall a conversation they had in the past on this subject and AJ talks about some of his experience iterating with open source. AJ believes that we have an obligation to capture the value of what you create so that we can reinvest and create more value, though he admits that making money in open source is a unique challenge because donations only really work if you have a project that gets billions of downloads a month. As your project grows, it has to change in order to survive, and eventually you will need to get financial support from your project. The panel agrees that some of the main issues with iterating in open source are maintaining the code and getting feedback from users, financial backing, and roadmapping and integrations.
Carl Mungazi is a frontend developer at Limejump in London. He is a former journalist and switched to programming in 2016. Today the panel is discussing the benefits of reading source code. Carl began reading source code because he came into programming late and from a different field. His first project was with Mithril, and he read the source code and documentation to help him understand it. The panelists discuss how reading the source code has helped them and others to improve their coding. They compare reading and understanding source code to learning a foreign language, and discuss different methods.
Today the panel is talking about security features that are being added to Node 13. AJ talks about the background and what he’s working with Let’s Encrypt. He talks about changes that Node has made to the TLS module. TLS is a handshake that happens between a client and a server. They exchange certificates, generate some random numbers to use for encryption, and TLS handles the encryption. The move to HTTP/2 is all about fixing legacy bugs and legacy features from the SSL days and reducing the number of handshakes.
Guests Chris heilmann and Zohair Ali are developers for Microsoft working on the Edge project. Today they are talking about Edge on Chromium and the future of developer tools. Edge will now be built in Chromium rather than being its own engine, aligning it more with what is being used on the open web right now. The Edge team wanted to seize the opportunity to bring something into the Chromium project based on the needs of real users and contribute to the open source web. Edge on Chromium won’t be limited to Windows 10 either, but will be available on Mac, Windows 7, and Windows 8. This project is still in beta with no set release date, so the Edge team is looking for people to test it out on Mac and tell them how it works.
In this episode of JavaScript Jabber, Charles talks about the new direction he has for the company. He wants to drive people to the point that they have the skills that make people want to hire and work with them, to teach them how to ‘Max out’. Today the panel the skills that developers need to progress in their careers: social skills.
Tanmai is one of the founders at Hasura. Hasura gives you instant graphQL APIs on top of a Postgres database. The eventual idea is to make data access secure and easy. Tanmai explains the challenges of doing this in the cloud. He talks about some of the difficulties with the tooling around using GraphQL and its bias towards working well with a monolith. Since GraphQL is basically a shared type system that describes your API, that means all your types need to be in the same code base. This is at odds with the folks who want to do microservices and serverless functions, because since their API is split across multiple services they have different types, and forcing these types to work together defeats the purpose of using microservices. Also, storing state across requests doesn’t work well with serverless and cloud native stuff. In short, learning to live without state is one of the general challenges with going serverless.
JavaScript Jabber celebrates its 400th episode with former host Dave Smith and some other familiar voices. Each of the panelists talks about what they’ve been up to. Dave hasn’t been on the show for 3 years, but he and Jameson Dance have started a podcast called Soft Skills Engineering where they answer questions about the non-technical side of engineering. When he left the show he was the director of engineering on Hire View, and currently he works for Amazon on Alexa.
Guest Paige Niedringhaus has been a developer full time for 3 years, and today she is here to talk about Node 12. One of the things she is most excited about is the ES6 support that is now available, so things that used to require React, Angular, or Vue can now be done in Node. The require function will not have to be used in Node 12. AJ is worried about some of these changes and expresses his concerns. Paige assures him that in the beginning you won’t have to switch things to imports. You may have to change file extensions/types so Node can pick up what it’s supposed to be using. They are also trying to make it compatible with CommonJS.