PodRocket - A web development podcast from LogRocket

SPAs, island architecture, and the future of development with Ryan Carniato and Dylan Piercey

March 29th, 2022  |  Season 2  |  51 mins

island architecture, single-page applications, software engineering, tech, web development

Ryan Carniato joined us back in September to talk about SolidJS, a declarative, efficient, and flexible JavaScript library for building user interfaces, and Dylan Piercey joined us in February to share about Marko, a declarative, HTML-based language that makes building web apps fun. Today, both Ryan and Dylan join us for a special episode where we cover trends in web development.

Slinkity with Ben Holmes

February 23rd, 2022  |  Season 2  |  32 mins 59 secs

11ty, tech, web development, webdev

Ben Holmes joins us to talk about Slinkity -- the simplest way to handle styles and component frameworks on your 11ty site.

Git and monorepos with Derrick Stolee

February 22nd, 2022  |  Season 2  |  41 mins 10 secs

development, git, tech, web development

We talk to Derrick Stolee, Principal Software Engineer at GitHub, about monorepos, finding pain points of Git, Git performance at scale, what Git will look like in the future, and more.

Airplane.dev with Ravi Parikh

February 16th, 2022  |  Season 2  |  30 mins

frontend development, frontend web development, software engineering, tech, technology, web development

Ravi Parikh, Co-Founder of Airplane and Heap, joins us to talk about Airplane.dev -- a developer platform for quickly building internal tools and automating internal workflows and processes.

If you're an engineer and you find yourself constantly running the same SQL query over and over again, or the same script or on-call runbook, Airplane wants to make it really easy to take that one off script or SQL query or whatever eng only operation that you're bottlenecked on and turn that into a robust reusable internal app that anybody in your company can use.

Vest with Evyatar Alush

February 15th, 2022  |  Season 2  |  42 mins 41 secs

frontend development, frontend web development, software engineering, tech, technology, web development

Evyatar Alush, Frontend Engineer at Facebook, joins us to talk about Vest, a declarative validations framework he created that is inspired by unit testing libraries. How do you have a declarative validation library that also is inspired by testing frameworks like Jest and Mocha? Find out in this episode.

Supabase: Part 2 with Jon Meyers

February 11th, 2022  |  Season 2  |  36 mins 15 secs

database, frontend development, frontend web development, software engineering, supabase, tech, technology, web development

It's our 100th episode of PodRocket! Jon Meyers, Developer Advocate at Supabase joins us to talk about the open-source alternative to Firebase, updates since we talked to Supabase CEO, Paul Copplestone, what to look for in 2022, and more.

Benthos and blobfish with Ash Jeffs

February 9th, 2022  |  Season 2  |  41 mins 55 secs

open source, software engineering, tech, technology, web development

We talk to Ash Jeffs about Benthos, a declarative data streaming service with a unique mascot and documentation that is both informative and entertaining. In this episode, we discuss stream processing, burnout, and the blobfish.

Modern React with Paige Niedringhaus

February 8th, 2022  |  Season 2  |  50 mins

frontend development, frontend web development, react, reactjs, software engineering, tech, technology, web development

Paige Niedringhaus, Staff Software Engineer at Blues Wireless and author of the Modernizing React Apps course, joins us to talk about keeping your React application up to date, challenges React developers are experiencing, VS Code extensions that you should try, career changes, and more.

Building technical, open-source, and inclusive communities with Hannah Neil

February 4th, 2022  |  Season 2  |  36 mins 20 secs

community management, frontend development, frontend web development, marketing, software engineering, tech, technology, web development

We talk to Hannah Neil, Senior OSS Community Manager at NGINX and former Technical Community Manager at Postman, about creating a career in community management for API-focused products, the difference between community stewardship and community management, and inclusion in technical communities.

Marko with Dylan Piercey

February 1st, 2022  |  Season 2  |  43 mins 50 secs

frontend development, frontend web development, javascript, software engineering, tech, technology, web development

There are a lot of reactive frontend frameworks out there, but Marko is built with an MPA architecture in mind. In this episode, we talk to Dylan Piercey, Platform Engineer at eBay and core team member of Marko, about the features of Marko, how it works, and how Marko is trying to both optimize multi-page applications and give the developer experience of a single-page application.