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

  • GitHub, open source, and pizza with bdougie

    September 17th, 2021  |  Season 1  |  39 mins 10 secs
    developer experience, devrel, frontend development, frontend engineering, software engineering, web development

    We sit down with the Director of Developer Advocacy at GitHub, Brian Douglas, also known as bdougie, to talk about developer content, Open Sauced, creating a personal brand, and pizza.

  • Vercel and Next.js with Guillermo Rauch

    September 14th, 2021  |  Season 1  |  56 mins 5 secs
    frontend development, frontend web development, nextjs, software engineering, tech, technology, vercel, web development

    We interview Guillermo Rauch, CEO of Vercel and creator of Next.js. We cover how to improve the developer experience and user experience, how Vercel and Next.js are leaning into the e-commerce space, the future of Vercel, Next.js Conf, and more.

  • Swiz tech with Swizec Teller

    September 10th, 2021  |  Season 1  |  42 mins 22 secs
    frontend development, frontend web development, software engineering, tech, technology, web development

    Swizec Teller is a Senior Software Engineer at Tia, a healthcare company for women, as well as a speaker, instructor, and author. Swizec created the course React for Data Viz and wrote Serverless Handbook for Frontend Engineers and the Senior Mindset series.

  • The TanStack with Tanner Linsley

    September 7th, 2021  |  Season 1  |  46 mins 6 secs
    frontend development, frontend web development, software engineering, tech, technology, web development

    We interview Tanner Linsley, the creator of the TanStack, which includes popular tools like React Query and React Table. Tanner is also the Co-Founder and VP of UI/UX at Nozzle.

  • SolidJS with Ryan Carniato

    September 3rd, 2021  |  Season 1  |  37 mins 52 secs
    frontend development, frontend engineering, javascript, software engineering, tech, technology, web development

    Ryan Carniato tells us all about SolidJS, a declarative, efficient, and flexible JavaScript library for building user interfaces.

  • QuickTok with James Q. Quick

    August 31st, 2021  |  Season 1  |  45 mins 34 secs
    frontend development, frontend web development, software engineering, tech, technology, web development

    We talk to James Q. Quick, Developer Media Manager at Auth0, about building a personal brand, the future of DevRel, and TikTok. Listen wherever you get your podcasts and be sure to check out the video recording on our YouTube channel.

  • Founder Friday: Ustin Zarubin of Batch

    August 27th, 2021  |  Season 1  |  28 mins 56 secs
    business, software engineering, startup, tech, web development

    It's Founder Friday on PodRocket where we highlight founders of startups in the dev tools space. In this episode, we talk with Ustin Zarubin, CEO and cofounder of Batch, a platform of SaaS tooling for event driven systems.

  • Epic React, quality content, and office hours with Kent C. Dodds

    August 24th, 2021  |  Season 1  |  51 mins 6 secs
    frontend development, frontend web development, react, reactjs, software engineering, tech, technology, web development

    We sat down with Kent C. Dodds to talk about his mission to improve the world with quality software. Kent has content on Egghead.io and Frontend Masters he also created Testing JavaScript and Epic React. In this episode, we talk about what it's like to teach software development, and, one of our favorite topics of discussion, creating quality content. Listen wherever you get your podcasts and be sure to check out the video recording on our YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efw1wQ9VUZU.

  • Writing audio apps in JavaScript with Nick Thompson

    August 20th, 2021  |  Season 1  |  33 mins 38 secs
    frontend web development, software engineering, tech, technology, web development

    NOTE: In this episode, Nick takes us through a demo of Elementary. You can check out the video for this recording on our YouTube channel.

    We interview Nick Thompson, creator of Elementary Audio, a JavaScript runtime based on Node.js for writing native audio applications, as well as a library and framework for composing audio signal processes.

  • RxJS with Ben Lesh

    August 17th, 2021  |  Season 1  |  40 mins 15 secs
    frontend development, frontend web development, rxjs, software engineering, tech, technology, web development

    In this episode, we sit down with Ben Lesh, RxJS Project Lead. We wanted to know more about observables, use cases, and common pitfalls when using RxJS. Learn more in this episode.

  • Envelop, GraphQL, and The Guild with Uri Goldshtein

    August 10th, 2021  |  Season 1  |  48 mins 55 secs
    frontend development, frontend web development, graphql, software engineering, tech, technology, web development

    In this episode, we talk to the founder of The Guild, Uri Goldshtein. We discuss Envelop (a new GraphQL plugin system) as well as other projects The Guild is working on.

  • Expo: Part 2 with Brent Vatne

    August 6th, 2021  |  Season 1  |  34 mins 22 secs
    expo, mobile development, react native, software engineering, tech, technology

    Ben interviews Brent Vatne, Engineering Manager at Expo, to talk about Expo SDK 42, React Native, and we also have a special announcement about LogRocket!

  • Professional YouTubing with Jessica Chan

    August 3rd, 2021  |  Season 1  |  44 mins 23 secs
    frontend development, frontend web development, marketing, software engineering, tech, technology, web development

    Jessica Chan joins us for a second interview to talk about her decision to focus on YouTubing full time. Jessica shares the importance of YouTube thumbnails, the future of YouTube tutorials, and more.

  • Rust with Luca Palmieri

    July 30th, 2021  |  Season 1  |  28 mins 10 secs
    backend development, rust, software engineering, tech, web development

    In the episode, Ben and Kaelan interview Luca Palmieri, author of Zero To Production In Rust. They talk about the Rust ecosystem, Rust frameworks, and telemetry for Rust APIs.

  • vanilla-extract with Mark Dalgleish

    July 27th, 2021  |  Season 1  |  30 mins 58 secs
    css, frontend development, frontend web development, javascript, software engineering, tech, technology, web development

    In this episode, Ben interviews Mark Dalgleish about CSS Modules and vanilla-extract, which is basically “CSS Modules-in-TypeScript” but with scoped CSS variables. Listen to this episode to learn more about vanilla-extract and how to use it in your next project.

  • Remotion with Jonny Burger

    July 20th, 2021  |  Season 1  |  24 mins 47 secs
    frontend development, frontend web development, javascript, react, reactjs, software engineering, tech, technology, web development

    Remotion gives you the tools for video creation, but the rules of React stay the same. Ben interviews Jonny Burger, creator of Remotion, to talk about how developers can create videos programmatically using React.