React Round Up

Sponsors NetlifySentry use the code “devchat” for 2 months free on Sentry’s small plan Triplebyte offers a $1000 signing bonus Panel David Ceddia Lucas Reis Thomas Aylott With special guest: David Khourshid Episode Summary David Khourshid is the author of a library called Xstate, He has been a developer for 7 years, currently works for Microsoft, his passion is frontendTalks a. In college, he actually studied piano performance, and so he talks about how he got into programming and where he started. The panel discusses his unique husky animation and how he came up with the idea for it and went about programming it. The panel discusses what a state is in React. David defines a state as a moment in time. States can change, when they do, that’s a state transition. They talk about the utility of states and thinking about your app as a state machine. They agree that describing your code as a state machine makes it easier to communicate and connect with non developers. The

Sponsors NetlifySentry use the code “devchat” for 2 months free on Sentry’s small plan Triplebyte offers a $1000 signing bonus Panel David Ceddia Lucas Reis Leslie Cohn-Wein With special guest: Varya Stepanova Episode Summary Today’s guest is Varya Stepanova, who started her career in programming as a front end developer in Russia for Yandex. Now she is an independent consultant specializing in design systems. For Varya, a design system is a systematic approach to providing coherent products under the same brand. The necessity of a design system for a company is dependent upon how large it is and how quickly it is developing. Varya talks about how a component library turns into a design system and shares some of her experience. She talks about how the concepts in a design system are influenced and created by the existing interface. The panel discusses the importance of design system ownership. They all agree that the design system should be owned by either a team or

Sponsors NetlifySentry use the code “devchat” for 2 months free on Sentry’s small plan Triplebyte offers a $1000 signing bonus CacheFly Panel Nader Dabbit Dave Ceddia Lucas Reis Summary The panel shares their first experiences with CSS and compares CSS and CSS-in-JS. The best ways to learn CSS is considered. The panel shares some coding tips; considering when to use libraries and when to use homegrown solutions. Nader Dabbit shares his predictions for the future of frontend technology. The panel discusses these predictions and shares some of their own.  Links https://www.facebook.com/React-Round-Up Picks Nader Dabbit: 21 Lessons for the 21st Century Dave Ceddia: CSS Mastery: Advanced Web Standards Solutionshttps://conference.convertkit.com/  Lucas Reis: https://workflowy.com/  https://www.futureme.org/  Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacyBecome a supporter of this podcast: https:/

Sponsors NetlifySentry use the code “devchat” for 2 months free on Sentry’s small planTriplebyte offers a $1000 signing bonusCacheFly Panel Dave CeddiaThomas Aylott Joined by Special Guest: Leslie Cohn-Wein Summary Leslie Cohn-Wein joins the panel to discuss accessibility. She explains how she got passionate about accessibility. The panel discusses what you have to do to become accessible. Leslie brings up divs and explains how these get in the way of accessibility. The panel discusses roles; Leslie explains what roles does and how to use roles. Accessible testing is discussed and Leslie shares some resources for testing your sites for accessibility. The panel discusses ways to make sites more accessible and how doing something is better than doing nothing. Leslie advises having an accessibility champion on your team whose job it is to think about how to make sites and apps for accessible. The panel discusses the importance of accessibility and how accessibility changes the lives of disabled users. Lin

Sponsors NetlifySentry use the code “devchat” for 2 months free on Sentry’s small planTriplebyte offers a $1000 signing bonusCacheFly Panel Lucas ReisDavid CeddiaThomas AylottJustin Bennett Summary The panel starts by discussing if useEffect is a good API or a bad API. The problems that useEffect solves are considered. The panel agrees it is a much better abstraction where subscriptions are concerned. Suspense and data fetching is discussed, the panel considers what the react team has in store concerning data fetching. The panel discusses what it was like to be a beginner to React and how using React is not an intuitive language. The panel shares some of their mistakes with useEffect, and try to consider useEffect from a beginners perspective. The panel gives advice for using hooks. Links https://twitter.com/ryanflorence/status/1125041041063665666 Picks Lucas Reis: https://github.com/kkuchta/css-only-chat David Ceddia: https://twitter.com/kentcdodds/status/1125876615177629696https://twitter.com/ry

Sponsor NetlifySentry use the code “devchat” for 2 months free on Sentry’s small planTriplebyte offers a $1000 signing bonusCacheFly Panel Nader DAbitJustin BennettDavid Ceddia Joined by Special Guest: Aggelos Arvanitakis Summary Aggelos Arvanitakis shares things he has learned from his mistakes in his blog posts. The panel discusses the most common problems in react that causes poor performance. Aggelos gives a lot of advice on how to fix or avoid these problems and how to optimize performance. The panel discusses using CSS to optimize performance. The new React API’s are discussed and their effect on performance. Vue state and vue reducer are compared and Aggelos gives tips for maintain state. The episode ends with Aggelos sharing techniques for using redux. Links https://www.orfium.com/https://itnext.io/@aggelosarvanitakis Picks Nader Dabit: https://twitter.com/Eli_Whitehttps://devchat.tv/react-native-radio/react-native-open-source-the-react-native-community-feat-christoph-nakazawa/https://dev.t

Sponsors NetlifySentry use the code “devchat” for 2 months free on Sentry’s small plan Triplebyte offers a $1000 signing bonus Panel Nader Dabit Lucas Reis David Ceddia Thomas Aylott Episode Summary On today’s show the panel discusses what what jobs should be delegated to the front and backend when doing fullstack development with React. They talk about where the data fetching starts coming into play in a react app and the big changes from the old web to the modern web in data fetching. They discuss how much interaction with the backend there is when working with front end applications, but also the importance of properly separating backend and frontend teams. They discuss the pros and cons of separating the front and backend teams, and agree that the problem space between both back and frontend is the user interface. They talk about where middlewares fit in. The panel notes that it is important to ensure that your new app can still communicate with older ve

Sponsors Sentry– use the code “devchat” for $100 creditNetlifyTripleByte Panel Justin BennettThomas AylottDave Ceddia Notes Today’s show has the panel discussing image lazy loading in React. Image lazy loading is the notion that images that are below the fold (rendered outside of your browser view when you initially load a page) are deferred and loaded later, so that your page loads faster. As you scroll down the page and things get close, then they are loaded in. This is a commonly suggested performance optimization, but often it doesn’t work well in React. The panelists talk about their experiences with lazy loading and different methods they’ve seen on other sites. They discuss the tradeoff between having a lot of images and slower loading and the importance of communicating with the design team. Since lazy loading is a unique challenge in React, they give recommendations for implementing lazy loading and tools for tracking site usage. They talk about dealing with JavaScript payloads, bundle and load

Sponsors NetlifySentry use the code “devchat” for 2 months free on Sentry’s small plan Triplebyte offers a $1000 signing bonus CacheFly Panel Nader Dabit Lucas Reis Thomas Aylott Episode Summary Today the panel is discussing the necessity of companies having a dedicated frontend team. They begin by discussing the technologies that might be used by a dedicated frontend team. According to the panel, the necessity of a frontend team is determined by the size of the company. When you try to have a frontend team too soon, it ends up being a huge debacle, but once you get bigger and have multiple teams, it gets more useful. A company is ready for a dedicated frontend team when it is able to build with a common set of components. The panel discusses the concept of ownership in a company. Nader believes that things should be run where there is a team that’s in charge of building a component, and once the component has shipped, they are no longer in charge. The other panelist

Sponsors NetlifySentry use the code “devchat” for 2 months free on Sentry’s small planTriplebyte offers a $1000 signing bonusCacheFly Panel Nader DabitJustin BennettLucas ReisDave CeddiaCharles Max Wood Joined by Special Guests: Thomas Aylott, Conlin Durbin Episode Summary Conlin Durbin is a front end software engineer for a company called Lessonly and occasionally writes about React. Thomas Aylott is a web guy from the 90’s who was briefly on the React team, and he makes thingsthatdostuff.com and groovytiesquad.com. The panel discusses  Conlin’s article Link Lists in the Wild: React Hooks. They begin by talking about the relationship between linked lists and React hooks. Linked lists are used under the hood to render hooks every time that they’re created and maintain integrity of the hook chain. They discuss the importance of knowing what goes on under the hood share their methods of learning. They give tips for learning on the job. The panel agrees that one of the best ways to learn is to teach. Conl

Sponsors NetlifySentry use the code “devchat” for 2 months free on Sentry’s small planTriplebyte offers a $1000 signing bonusCacheFly Panel Justin BennettLucas Reis Joined by Special Guest: Parashuram Summary Parashuram (aka Ram) and the panel compares various frameworks including the differences between React Native and NativeScript. Ram discusses what it’s like introducing react native to mobile teams which leads to a panel discussion of web app developer experience compared to mobile app developers. Ram shares the changes that are being made to React Native and what this means for its developers. Some of the things to look forward to are a leaner and more browser-like React Native.  The episode ends with Ram sharing a little of his story. Links http://artsy.github.io/blog/2017/07/06/React-Native-for-iOS-devs/http://artsy.github.io/artsy-x-react-native.htmlhttps://github.com/necolas/react-native-webhttps://github.com/vincentriemer/react-native-domhttps://microsoft.github.io/reactxp/https://facebook.

Sponsors NetlifySentry use code “devchat” for 2 months free Triplebyte Panel Lucas Reis Charles Max Wood Special Guest: Florian Rival Episode Summary Florian is a software engineer working for Facebook. He has previously worked with React Native making apps. He has also created an open source game creation software called GDevelop. Florian talks about his inspiration for GDevelop. He delves into the nature of GDevelop as a desktop app built on the web. Florian talks about his decision to not go full JavaScript in his app and to redo the interface. He ultimately decided to combine C++ and JavaScript, and top it with a React interface. Florian discusses how C++ is used in this web application and how it connects to react. The panel discusses the use cases for WebAssembly and the performance quality. They discuss the bundle sizes in WebAssembly compared to other languages and compatibility with different browsers. Florian talks about how WebAssembly and React work together in his a

Sponsors NetlifySentry use the code “devchat” for 2 months free on Sentry’s small plan TriplebyteCacheFly Panel Justin Bennett Lucas Reis Joined by Special Guest: Nat Alison Summary Nat Alison shares with the panel her work in translating Reactjs. Lucas Reis thanks her for her work in this very important project. Nat updates the panel on how the translation is going and discusses some of the specifics of updating, changing language direction and how it all got started. The panel moves on to discussing Nat’s work with her Polyhedra application. Nat discloses what she learned while creating this app, how she tested the app and why she used the react framework for this project. The panel discusses suspense features and what they could do for this app. Nat ends the episode by sharing her inspiration for this app. Links https://github.com/reactjs/reactjs.org-translationhttps://reactjs.org/languageshttps://isreacttranslatedyet.com/https://polyhedra.tessera.li/https://github.com/tesse

Sponsors NetlifySentry use the code “devchat” for $100 creditTriplebyte offers a $1000 signing bonusCacheFly Panel Charles Max WoodNader DabitJustin Bennett Joined by Special Guest: Adam Laycock Summary Adam Laycock describes his experience at React conf 2018, the atmosphere, the people and the talks. The panel shares how the approach conferences, taking notes, getting to know people, accessing information and getting out of their comfort zone. Adam shares some of the major topics covered at including, hooks, suspense, and concurrent rendering. The panel considers these topics and React conferences they look forward to attending. The episode ends with the panel comparing Angular and React, conferences, upgrades, and routers for React. Links https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/buildhttps://medium.com/curated-by-versett/talks-worth-watching-react-conf-2018-bfbdd40922aahttps://reactjs.org/community/conferences.htmlhttps://twitter.com/atlaycockhttps://github.com/alaycockhttps://adamlaycock.ca/https://medium.c

Sponsors NetlifySentry use the code “devchat” for 2 months free on Sentry’s small planCacheFly Panel Lucas ReisJustin BennettCharles Max Wood Special Guest: Ajay NS Episode Summary In this episode of React Round Up, the panel talks with Ajay NS, a Computer Engineering student at National Institute of Technology Surat who is passionate about frontend development and design. Ajay talks about his article Why you should use GatsbyJS to build static sites on Medium and why he felt the need to write it. After attending the Plone Conference in Tokyo where he gave a talk about GatsbyJS, he realized that compared to React or Angular, Gatsby helped new developers learn about frontend development without facing too many complications. Ajay explains that he decided to write the article and share his experiences with Gatsby to help ease the learning process for new developers who are curious about frontend development. They discuss best cases to use Gatsby for and also cases where it may not be a good idea to use it

Sponsors Sentry use the code “devchat” for $100 creditTriplebyteCacheFly Panel Lucas ReisJustin BennettCharles Max Wood Joined by special guests: Chris Toomey Episode Summary In this episode of React Round Up, Chris Toomey introduces himself, talks about his work and his podcast and moves on to explaining the differences between a React vs GraphQL centric application. Justin explains in detail how the Relay framework works, and Chris describes the scenarios where GraphQL stands out in the process of building an application and also throws some light on the benefits of choosing it over other APIs such as REST. The panel then discusses how GraphQL is advantageous in the documentation context since it has a good schema, and also in data modeling. Chris shares some past examples of creating React applications where GraphQL and Apollo made things much simpler, and also elaborates on the trade-offs and challenges associated with it. Links The Bike ShedChris Toomey: React & GraphQL – Bringing Simplicity

Sponsors Sentry use the code “devchat” for $100 creditTriplebyteCacheFly Panel Lucas ReisNader DabitCharles Max Wood Joined by special guest: Thomas Aylott Episode Summary In this episode of React Round Up, Thomas Aylott, Founder at Things That Do Stuff, gives an overview of Framer X, explains what it is used for and how it can be beneficial for web designers. The panelists then discuss the timeline and usage of different design and developer tools along with their compatibility with various platforms. Thomas shares his front-end development experiences from 2005, the kind of technologies he learnt and how, with interesting and fun anecdotes, and also talks about about his time at Facebook. They discuss the fact that how Ruby on Rails has brought about a significant change in web development, work-life balance in general, and in the end, the importance of making checklists and taking ownership. Links Things That Do StuffThomas’s websiteThomas’s TwitterThomas’s GitHubThomas’s YouTubePrettier Picks N

Sponsors Sentry use the code “devchat” for $100 creditTriplebyteCacheFly Panel Lucas ReisCharles Max Wood Joined by special guest: Jared Palmer Episode Summary  In this episode of React Round Up, Jared Palmer, Lead Engineer at Palmer Group, gives the listeners an overview of React Suspense, how it helps to resolve conflicts with resource scheduling and how it differs from current practices. He mentions that it is developed completely by the React team and talks about some of its applications, especially in handling images. He explains how React Suspense will reduce code size for loading states, the mechanism of parallel execution and how complexity in logic can be simplified with it. Jared also mentions some modules where Suspense can already be integrated with and advises on where it is not recommended to be used yet. The panelists then discuss server-side rendering with Suspense and their approach in technology adoption, which is incremental. Finally they talk about Redux and move on to picks. Links

Sponsors Sentry– use the code “devchat” for $100 creditTripleByte offers a $1000 signing bonusCacheFly Episode Summary In this episode of React Round Up, Justin Bennett speaks with co-founder of Couchbase, Chris Anderson. Chris has been working with NoSQL databases for approximately a decade, and is currently working on FaunaDB, doing development outreach, while writing codes to connect with the different eco systems: Serverless, JAMStacks and React Native. He is also a blogger on a platform he calls ‘Serverless’ and enjoys decoding web applications and converting them to mobile. Chris elaborates on the particulars and functions of JAMstacks, FaunaDB, React Native, Expo, Firebase and Netlify along with their databases. He tells of his journey with FaunaDB and explains what led to its introduction. He also gives a detailed explanation on Serverless functions, Multi-cloud deployment and extends advice to apprentices in the similar field. Links https://serverless.com/author/chrisanderson/https://twitter.co

Sponsors Sentry use the code “devchat” for $100 creditNetlifyTriplebyteCacheFly Panel Lucas ReisJustin BennettNader DabitCharles Max Wood Episode Summary In this 50th episode of React Round Up, the panelists start with talking briefly about themselves, their work, as well as their side projects. Lucas Reis is a Senior Frontend Engineer at Zocdoc, and is working on the Zocdoc website, specifically on performance and SEO. He is also involved in sharing frontend knowledge throughout the company. Justin Bennett is a Senior Engineer at Artsy and focuses on web performance along with several open source projects. He is also interested in release processes and continuous integration. Nader Dabit is with Amazon Web Services as a Developer Advocate, working on GraphQL, React to React Native, Vue and is involved in community work too. Charles Max Wood is mainly focused on making this podcast better that includes things like getting sponsors, dealing with business issues, releasing the episodes on time, etc. He tal