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

  • Understanding CSS in 2023 with Kevin Powell

    July 17th, 2023  |  Season 3  |  37 mins 50 secs
    css

    CSS Evangelist, Kevin Powell joins us to talk about container queries, the :has() selector, learning CSS in 2023, and more!

  • Tom Preston-Werner, Next.js, and Zod and tRPC

    July 14th, 2023  |  Season 3  |  12 mins 33 secs
    next.js, trpc, zod

    In this week’s roundup, hear snippets from our discussions with Tom Preston-Werner about React Server Components, our panel on the success of Next.js, and Tejas Kumar on the benefits of Zod and tRPC when working with TypeScript.

  • Server components vs. client components with Atila Fassina

    July 13th, 2023  |  Season 3  |  41 mins 5 secs
    client components, server components

    Want to know the difference between how server components and client components work? Atila Fassina, Senior Developer Experience Engineer at Xata, joins the podcast to go in-depth on how each works and how they can actually work in tandem as well as separately.

  • Git with Derrick Stolee

    July 12th, 2023  |  Season 3  |  38 mins 22 secs
    git, scalar

    Derrick Stolee is a Principal Software Engineer at GitHub working on Git. We talk about Git 2.41, Scalar (a built-in repository manager for large repos), and more.

  • Temporal in 2023 with Ryland Goldstein

    July 11th, 2023  |  Season 3  |  41 mins 37 secs
    temporal

    Temporal is a platform for developers to build highly reliable and scalable applications. Head of Product at Temporal, Ryland Goldstein talks to us about how Temporal helps developers write code that is simple and durable. Listen now to learn more.

  • Fly.io with Dov Alperin

    July 7th, 2023  |  Season 3  |  30 mins 7 secs
    elixir, flyio, phoenix

    Dov Alperin joins us to talk about Fly.io, a platform that lets you run full-stack apps and databases all over the world with no ops required. We talk about running applications close to your users, how Fly.io works, and more!

  • 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.