PodRocket
A web development podcast from LogRocket
Displaying all 3 Episode of PodRocket with the tag “chrome”.
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Speeding up the web with the speculation rules API | Barry Pollard
November 6th, 2025 | 44 mins 33 secs
chrome, speculation rules, web perf optimization
Barry Pollard from the Chrome devrel team joins PodRocket to discuss the speculation rules API, a new browser feature designed to improve web performance through prefetch and pre-render techniques. Barry breaks down the history of speculative loading, contrasts SPA vs MPA behavior, and explains the nuances of hover prefetching, conservative prefetch, and the powerful new pre-render until script mode. Learn how Shopify and WordPress are adopting the API, what telemetry from Chrome Status reveals, and what developers need to know about potential pitfalls, caching behavior, and how the API is becoming a standard for static sites and e-commerce performance.
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Plasmo with Stefan Aleksic and Louis Vilgo
August 17th, 2022 | Season 2 | 28 mins 45 secs
chrome, frontend, web development
We sit down with Stefan Aleksic and Louis Vilgo to talk about their platform, Plasmo, and how they’re trying to revolutionize how Chrome extensions are developed, tested, and deployed.
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Bringing page transitions to the web with Jake Archibald
July 26th, 2022 | Season 2 | 35 mins
chrome, googleio, web page transitions
In this episode, we talk to Jake Archibald, programs engineer and developer advocate working on Chrome, about web page transitions introduced at this year’s Google I/O conference. We talk about the issues with creating web page transitions and what Chrome is doing to bring easy-to-use transitions to the web.