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

  • Welcome to PodRocket

    July 14th, 2022  |  Season 2  |  53 secs
    frontend development, web development

    Welcome to PodRocket, LogRocket’s podcast created to bring you in-depth interviews with experienced engineers like Guillermo Rauch, updates on new releases like Node 18 with Beth Griggs, and conference talks with speakers like Jenn Creighton. So follow PodRocket and tell your friends; we have a lot more coming your way.

  • React 18 with Shruti Kapoor

    July 13th, 2022  |  Season 2  |  38 mins 28 secs
    frontend development, react, web development

    With React 18 now officially released, Shruti Kapoor comes to give us the rundown on the updated UI features, concurrency, how to install 18, and more!

  • The Nx roadmap with Juri Strumpflohner

    July 12th, 2022  |  Season 2  |  40 mins
    build system, database, monorepo

    We talk to Juri Strumpflohner, Director of Engineering and Dev Experience at Nrwl, about Nx, the future of Nx in 2022, and the importance of monorepos.

  • Speeding up the supply chain using commercial vehicle data with Jin Zang and Dhruv Gupta

    July 8th, 2022  |  Season 2  |  37 mins
    data, universal data platform, vehicle applications

    Axle is a universal data platform for trucking and supply chains that makes developing universal vehicle applications easy. We talk to Jin Zang and Dhruv Gupta, co-founders of Axle, about how Axle integrates across providers seamlessly, reduces development time and costs, and enables new vehicle applications.

  • Lexical with Elena Bukareva and Acy Watson

    July 6th, 2022  |  Season 2  |  36 mins 40 secs
    framework, meta, texteditor

    In this episode, we talk about Lexical, the new extensible text editor framework from Meta, with Elena Bukareva, software engineering manager at Meta, and Acy Watson, software engineer for the Lexical core team.

  • Storybook with Chantastic (Repeat)

    July 5th, 2022  |  Season 2  |  51 mins 59 secs
    chromatic, storybook, web development

    Chantastic joins us to talk about Chromatic, component-driven development, testing, Spider-Man, and more.

  • Modern React with Paige Niedringhaus (Repeat)

    July 1st, 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.

  • The state of CSS in 2022 with Adam Argyle

    June 29th, 2022  |  Season 2  |  49 mins 3 secs
    browser compatibility, cascade layers, css

    We welcome Adam Argyle back onto the pod as we discuss his latest talk from Google I/O 2022, “The State of CSS in 2022.” We talk browser compatibility, cascade layers, color, and so much more.

  • Data on the Edge with Greg Brimble

    June 28th, 2022  |  Season 2  |  28 mins
    cloudflare, data, edge

    We talk to Greg Brimble, Systems Engineer at Cloudflare, about his talk from this year’s Remix Conf, “Full Stack Fast: Data on the Edge.” He covers what the Edge is, how Cloudflare fits into Edge computing, and more.

  • Apollo with Peggy Rayzis

    June 24th, 2022  |  Season 2  |  38 mins 10 secs
    app development, graphql, supergraph

    Modern app development is complex and developers have to keep pace with the change of innovation and everything that's constantly being asked of them. Apollo aims to simplify that process by helping developers build a supergraph, a unified network of all your data services and capabilities. Peggy Rayzis, Developer Experience Lead at Apollo, joins us to talk about the supergraph, GraphQL, and more.

  • Debugging async JavaScript with Jenn Creighton

    June 23rd, 2022  |  Season 2  |  36 mins 44 secs
    async, javascript

    Today we talk with Jenn Creighton, Senior Software Engineer at Netflix and host of single-threaded: a software developer podcast, about debugging, error handling, and her recent conference talk at React Miami.

  • PlanetScale data with Sam Lambert

    June 22nd, 2022  |  Season 2  |  33 mins 35 secs
    data, database

    We talk to Sam Lambert, CEO of PlanetScale, the MySQL-compatible serverless database platform made for developers.

  • Scaling CSS with Stephanie Eckles

    June 21st, 2022  |  Season 2  |  36 mins 5 secs
    css, design

    Stephanie Eckles is the author of ModernCSS.dev, which provides modern solutions to old CSS problems as in-depth tutorials. Stephanie is an instructor, speaker, and frontend engineer as well as the creator of Style Stage, SmolCSS, and 11ty.Rocks. Stephanie joins us to talk about how to improve your CSS skills.

  • What's new in Firebase with Kirupa Chinnathambi

    June 17th, 2022  |  Season 2  |  22 mins 7 secs
    data, firebase, google

    Kirupa Chinnathambi, Product Manager at Google, joins us to talk about Firebase Extensions, integrations, and more.

  • Vue Storefront with Filip Rakowski

    June 15th, 2022  |  Season 2  |  31 mins 35 secs
    ecommerce, vue

    We talk to Filip Rakowski, Co-founder and CTO of Vue Storefront, a lightning-fast frontend platform for headless commerce. We talk about eCommerce frontend frameworks and how to connect Vue Storefront to other eCommerce services.

  • Xata with Monica Sarbu

    June 14th, 2022  |  Season 2  |  32 mins 30 secs
    data, startup

    In this episode, we talk about Xata, the serverless database that feels like a spreadsheet. CEO and Founder, Monica Sarbu, joins us to talk about the work the Xata team is doing to fix the DX story around databases, the future of data, and more.