PodRocket - A web development podcast from LogRocket

About the show

PodRocket covers everything you need to know about frontend web development on a weekly basis. Join LogRocket cofounder Ben Edelstein, the LogRocket engineering team, and more, as they interview experienced developers about all the libraries, frameworks, and tech industry issues they deal with every day.

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Episodes

  • Zod and tRPC with Tejas Kumar

    July 5th, 2023  |  Season 3  |  32 mins 34 secs
    trpc, zod

    Our very own PodRocket host, Tejas Kumar, comes onto the show to talk about his latest talk, “Zod and tRPC for the rest of us” from the CanariasJS conference.

  • Zod with Matt Pocock (Repeat)

    July 4th, 2023  |  Season 3  |  28 mins 50 secs
    typescript

    Originally published on January 17, 2023.
    We are taking some time off from production. We will be back with new episodes on July 5th, 2023.
    We welcome back TypeScript’s “it” guy, Matt Pocock, onto the podcast to talk about Zod, how it aids in working with TypeScript, and how to use it.

  • ICYMI: Making typesafe APIs easy with tRPC with Trash Dev (Repeat)

    July 1st, 2023  |  Season 3  |  24 mins 27 secs
    typesafe apis

    In this repeat episode picked by host Noel Minchow, Chris Bautista, Senior Software Engineer at Netflix, also known as Trash Dev online and to his Twitch community, joins us to go through his recent Next.js Conf talk, “Making typesafe APIs easy with tRPC.”

  • Svelte 4, Kent C. Dodds, and Matteo Collina

    June 30th, 2023  |  Season 3  |  13 mins 1 sec
    javascript, svelte, web development

    In this week’s roundup, hear snippets of our discussions about the recent release of Svelte 4 with Geoff Rich, Kent C. Dodds explains his newest stack, The Epic Stack, and Matteo Collina explains modular monoliths.

  • Stack Overflow survey, React Server Components, and Google Domains

    June 29th, 2023  |  Season 3  |  37 mins 18 secs
    google domains, react server components, stack overflow

    We’re back with our panel episode to talk about the recent release of the Stack Overflow developer survey, issues with React Server Components and how they’re shaping the development landscape, and the recent acquisition of Google Domains. We’re joined by panelists Shruti Kapoor, Colby Fayock, and Jason Lengstorf.

  • Speed up React apps with less JavaScript with Miško Hevery

    June 28th, 2023  |  Season 3  |  24 mins 55 secs
    javascript, react

    Miško Hevery, creator of Angular, Qwik, and CTO of Builder.io, comes on to talk about how too much JavaScript can slow apps down and how to rectify it.

  • Tom Preston-Werner talks React Server Components and the future of RedwoodJS

    June 27th, 2023  |  Season 3  |  40 mins 17 secs
    react, redwood js

    Tom Preston-Werner talks to us about how the Redwood team is going all in on React Server Components.

  • Web Platform Baseline with Rachel Andrew

    June 26th, 2023  |  Season 3  |  30 mins 10 secs
    browser support, css

    Baseline helps you to see whether a feature or API is safe to use in your site or web applications. Rachel Andrew joins us to talk about Baseline, browser support, CSS, and more.

  • Svelte 4 with Geoff Rich

    June 23rd, 2023  |  Season 3  |  29 mins 49 secs
    svelte, svelte 4

    Geoff Rich and Mike Karan talk about the stable release of Svelte 4, the new version of svelte.dev, and the future of Svelte.

  • GitHub Copilot with Rizèl Scarlett

    June 22nd, 2023  |  Season 3  |  20 mins 1 sec
    ai, github

    Rizèl Scarlett joins us to talk about GitHub Copilot, how it works, what it has been trained on, and more.

  • Matteo Collina on modular monoliths, Platformatic, and Pino

    June 21st, 2023  |  Season 3  |  30 mins 26 secs
    backend development, node.js

    Matteo Collina, Co-Founder and CTO of Platformatic, Node.js TSC member, and Lead Maintainer of Fastify, joins us again to talk about modular monoliths, his new backend development platform Platformatic, and many of his other projects including Pino.

  • Should you use React in 2023? with Tru Narla

    June 20th, 2023  |  Season 3  |  27 mins
    react

    Tru Narla, software engineer at Discord and Twitch partner, returns to talk about whether developers should continue to use React in 2023 as she delves into her latest talk from React Summit.

  • Deno with Ryan Dahl (Repeat)

    June 17th, 2023  |  Season 3  |  31 mins 34 secs
    deno, javascript runtimes, node.js

    We sit down with Ryan Dahl, creator of Deno and Node.js, to talk about his experience in web development, why he created Node.js, and why he sees Deno as the next step for JavaScript runtimes

  • Svelte compiler, linters, and React Server Components

    June 16th, 2023  |  Season 3  |  10 mins 48 secs
    linters, react, svelte

    In this week’s roundup, hear snippets of our discussions about Svelte’s compiler, the difference between linters and formatters, and what React Server Components actually are. This episode features Svelte core team member, Simon Holthausen, open-source maintainer, Josh Goldberg, and Astro’s Ben Holmes.

  • The Epic Stack with Kent C. Dodds

    June 14th, 2023  |  Season 3  |  29 mins 41 secs
    dev tools, web development

    Kent C. Dodds is back again with his newest project, the Epic Stack, a stack curated by Kent aimed at giving devs the tools they need without overwhelming them with too many options.

  • Christopher "Vjeux" Chedeau on browser video editing

    June 13th, 2023  |  Season 3  |  22 mins
    browser video editing

    Christopher "Vjeux" Chedeau, frontend engineer at Facebook and co-creator of React Native, comes on to talk about his journey to create the first video editor for the browser, the issues he encountered along the way, and what he learned for the future of video editing.