PodRocket - A web development podcast from LogRocket

Visualizing Open Source Data in React with Brian Douglas

May 16th, 2024  |  Season 4  |  36 mins 4 secs

open source, react

Brian Douglas, a seasoned consultant and educator, comes on the podcast to talk about the intricacies of visualizing open source data in React. From his journey starting at Netlify to building OpenSauced and engaging with the developer community at GitHub, Brian shares insights on challenges and innovations in data visualization within the React ecosystem.

Incomplete React with Sam Selikoff

May 8th, 2024  |  Season 4  |  32 mins 12 secs

react

In today’s episode, Sam Selikoff, educator and consultant in modern UI development, explores the depths of React and its place in the ecosystem. He talks about React's evolution, compares it with other frameworks, and discusses the innovative potential of server components and new React primitives.

Web development according to The Primeagen [Repeat]

May 1st, 2024  |  Season 4  |  36 mins 34 secs

web development trends

On this repeat episode, The Primeagen, content creator, Twitch streamer, and all-around fun internet guy, gives his take on all the latest trends in web development.

AI and design systems with Brad Frost

April 25th, 2024  |  Season 4  |  37 mins 35 secs

ai

Brad Frost dives deep into the world of design systems and AI integration, discussing the maturity of code versus visual design aspects, the power of component generation, the importance of organizational-specific solutions, and the role of human judgment in AI-driven workflows.

Dan Abramov on React, RSCs, and the future [Repeat]

April 24th, 2024  |  Season 4  |  35 mins 45 secs

react

We welcome on The React Guy, Dan Abramov, to talk about his time working on the React core team, demystifying React Server Components, how React has evolved, and more!

TypeScript-powered backends for frontend devs with Aleksandra Sikora

April 18th, 2024  |  Season 4  |  28 mins 7 secs

We welcome back Aleksandra Sikora, Developer Experience Lead at EdgeDB, and talk to her about the importance of TypeScript-powered backends for frontend developers, focusing on scalability, performance improvements, tools like Redis for caching, and more.

What’s new with the Node.js test runner with Lucas Santos

April 17th, 2024  |  Season 4  |  28 mins 22 secs

node.js

Lucas Santos, senior software engineer at OpenVolt, shares his journey about experiencing frustrations with Jest while working at Klarna, to exploring better testing alternatives, and ultimately contributing to the Node.js test runner's core.

The Angular and Wiz merger with Minko Gechev

April 11th, 2024  |  Season 4  |  31 mins 51 secs

software engineering, web dev, web development

With the recent merger of Angular and Wiz, a Google framework, Minko Gechev, Product and Developer Relations Lead for Angular, returns to talk about the latest news: Angular and Wiz are merging. So we delve into what that means, signals, and how Angular is evolving.

Optimizing URL parsing in Node with Yagiz Nizipli

April 10th, 2024  |  Season 4  |  35 mins 26 secs

url parsing

Yagiz Nizipli, Senior Software Engineer at Sentry, talks about how to optimize URL parsing in Node.js, the development of the Ada parsing library, and future plans for enhancing the URL parser in Node.js.

Astro DB with Ben Holmes

April 4th, 2024  |  Season 4  |  32 mins 49 secs

web development

On today’s episode, we talk to Ben Holmes, Software Deceloper at Astro, about the new release of Astro DB, Astro’s new database platform for content-driven websites.

React Components as a service with Steven Fabre

April 3rd, 2024  |  Season 4  |  26 mins 35 secs

react components

We talk to Steven Fabre, Co-founder of Liveblocks, about the concept of React Components as a service, the challenges faced, and the focus on enabling collaborative experiences.

Vite's past, present and future with Matias Capeletto

March 28th, 2024  |  Season 4  |  43 mins 50 secs

vite

Matias Capeletto, Vite core team member, discusses Vite's history, development process, and its impact on the web development ecosystem, exploring future developments and its current state.

Devin, INP, and the diminishing frontend dev

March 27th, 2024  |  Season 4  |  39 mins 45 secs

panel

On this month’s panel episode, PodRocket hosts Paige, Chris, Noel, and Paul talk about the introduction of Devin, the first AI engineer, Google’s rollout of INP, and if the frontend dev is being diminished.

Anti-patterns in GraphQL and React with Jonas Herrmannsdörfer

March 21st, 2024  |  Season 4  |  32 mins 18 secs

react

Learn about what anti-patterns are, why they’re bad, how to avoid them, and how to deal with them in React with Jonas Herrmannsdörfer, freelance Software Engineer focusing on React.

JSR.io with Kevin Whinnery

March 20th, 2024  |  Season 4  |  34 mins 21 secs

jsrio

We talk to Kevin Whinnery, Head of DevRel at Deno, about Deno’s new registry for JavaScript and TypeScript, JSR.io.

Partial pre-rendering in Next.js with Delba de Oliveira and Wyatt Johnson

March 14th, 2024  |  Season 4  |  26 mins 21 secs

nextjs

We welcome on Debla de Oliveira, Developer Advocate at Vercel, and Wyatt Johnson, Software Engineer at Vercel, to talk about partial pre-rendering and how it can be accomplished in Next.js.