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

  • Functional programming with Elm with Lindsay Wardell

    January 10th, 2023  |  Season 3  |  23 mins 37 secs
    elm, functional programming, vite

    Lindsay Wardell, engineer at NoRedInk, comes on to talk about her recent Vite Conf talk, “Functional programming in Vite with Elm,” to tell us what functional programming is and why it’s beneficial.

  • SolidStart with Ryan Carniato

    January 6th, 2023  |  Season 3  |  43 mins 55 secs
    server side rendering, solid, solidstart, vite

    Ryan Carniato comes back on PodRocket to talk about SolidStart, the Solid app framework. We talk about the Solid ecosystem, server-side rendering in JavaScript, and how Vite was a game changer for Ryan. Listen now.

  • Deep diving on concurrent React with Matheus Albuquerque

    January 4th, 2023  |  Season 3  |  38 mins 7 secs
    concurrent react, react

    Matheus Albuquerque, Senior Frontend Engineer at Medallia, comes onto the show to talk about his recent React Advanced conference talk, “Deep diving on concurrent React.”

  • Understanding React's Fiber architecture with Tejas Kumar

    January 3rd, 2023  |  Season 3  |  25 mins 1 sec
    react, react fiber

    Tejas Kumar returns to PodRocket to go into the internals of React: React’s Fiber architecture.

  • Improve how you architect web apps with Addy Osmani and Lydia Hallie (Repeat)

    December 30th, 2022  |  Season 2  |  40 mins 10 secs
    javascript, react, web apps

    Originally published on August 3rd, 2022.
    We are taking some time off from production. We will be back with new episodes on January 3rd, 2023.

    Patterns.dev is a free book on design patterns and component patterns for building powerful web apps with vanilla JavaScript and React. Join authors, Addy Osmani and Lydia Hallie as they discuss patterns, tips, and tricks for improving how you architect apps.

  • Styling the intrinsic web with Mia Suzanne (Repeat)

    December 28th, 2022  |  Season 2  |  50 mins 40 secs
    css, design, responsive design, web design

    Originally published on August 16th, 2022.
    We are taking some time off from production. We will be back with new episodes on January 3rd, 2023.

    We talk to Mia Suzanne about her recent talk, “Styling the intrinsic web,” which details how responsive design has evolved over the past decade and how intrinsic design can still be compatible with responsive design.

  • Bun with Jarred Sumner (Repeat)

    December 27th, 2022  |  Season 2  |  27 mins 56 secs
    bun, javascript, runtime

    Originally published on August 5th, 2022.
    We are taking some time off from production. We will be back with new episodes on January 3rd, 2023.

    Bun has been one of the most talked about JavaScript runtimes since its release, and we got to talk to Jarred Sumner, the creator of Bun, about why it’s so fast, how it’s competing with Node, and more.

  • Married to HTTP/3 with Robin Marx (Repeat)

    December 23rd, 2022  |  Season 2  |  36 mins 4 secs
    http, http3, quic

    Originally published on July 28th, 2022.
    We are taking some time off from production. We will be back with new episodes on January 3rd, 2023.

    In this episode, we talk to Robin Marx, solutions architect at Akamai, about HTTP/3, the third version of the HTTP protocol, how it can be used, and how it’s developed over the past decade.

  • Rocket Surgery: 2022 in review with Kaelan Cooter and Noel Minchow

    December 21st, 2022  |  Season 2  |  1 hr 4 mins
    frontend development, javascript, web development

    It’s the most wonderful time of the year… to serve hot takes on 2022. Join PodRocket hosts Noel and Kaelan as they discuss the ups and downs of web development in 2022, what they hated, what they loved, and how they think the industry will change in 2023.

  • Vue's road to Vite with Haoqun Jiang

    December 20th, 2022  |  Season 2  |  23 mins 10 secs
    frontend, javascript, vue

    Haoqun Jiang, a Vue.js and Vite core team member, joins us to talk about how the Vue core team decided to move from Vue CLI to Vite and what that process entailed.

  • Building a design system in Next.js with Tailwind with Tru Narla

    December 16th, 2022  |  Season 2  |  20 mins 45 secs
    design, design system, nextjs, tailwind, tailwind css

    Software Engineer at Discord and Twitch partner, Tru Narla, joins us today to talk about design systems, using Tailwind to create a positive user experience, and more.

  • A complete rewrite of ESLint with Nicholas Zakas

    December 15th, 2022  |  Season 2  |  24 mins 32 secs
    eslint, rust, web development

    Web development has changed a lot since the release of ESLint in 2013. Nicholas Zakas, the creator of ESLint, joins us to talk about the complete rewrite of ESLint, goals for the rewrite, and how the rewrite will leverage Rust.

  • Deno with Ryan Dahl

    December 14th, 2022  |  Season 2  |  31 mins 25 secs
    deno, javascript runtimes, nodejs, web development

    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.

  • Engineering at Mailchimp with CTO, Eric Muntz

    December 13th, 2022  |  Season 2  |  35 mins 47 secs
    mailchimp

    CTO of Mailchimp, Eric Muntz, joins us to talk about how he started as a software engineer at Mailchimp almost thirteen years ago, the engineering team's mission statement, a few “ghost” stories, and more.

  • What makes pnpm performant with Zoltan Kochan

    December 9th, 2022  |  Season 2  |  31 mins 20 secs
    pnpm

    We sit down with Zoltan Kochan, creator of pnpm, an efficient and fast package manager, to talk about his Vite Conf talk, “What makes pnpm performant.”

  • Figma with Dylan Field

    December 7th, 2022  |  Season 2  |  46 mins 22 secs
    design, development, figma

    CEO and Co-Founder of Figma, Dylan Field, joins us to talk about the collaborative design tool, the importance of design, the early stages of Figma, and more.