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
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Founder Friday: Johan Eliasson of Nhost
May 28th, 2021 | Season 1 | 22 mins 50 secs
computer programming, database, open source, software engineering, startup, tech, technology, web development
Johan Eliasson joins us to talk about Nhost, an open-source, Backend-as-a-service with a GraphQL API. How does Nhost compare to Firebase and Supabase? Learn more in this episode.
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The middle-end and subtweeting with Laurie Barth
May 25th, 2021 | Season 1 | 39 mins 45 secs
software engineering, tech, web development
In this episode, Brian interviews Laurie Barth, Senior Software Engineer at Netflix, about what it means to be a middle-end developer, job titles, and Web Dev Twitter.
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GraphQL 101 with Anthony Campolo
May 18th, 2021 | Season 1 | 40 mins 27 secs
frontend development, graphql, software engineering, tech, technology, web development
We sit down with Anthony Campolo to talk about the history, common misconceptions, and increased popularity of GraphQL.
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Open source at Facebook with Dmitry Vinnik
May 11th, 2021 | Season 1 | 32 mins 8 secs
developer advocate, developer relations, open source, open source technology, software engineering, tech, technology, web development
Facebook Open Source now has over 600 publicly available projects in its portfolio including some well-known projects like React, React Native, PyTorch, Docusaurus, GraphQL, Jest, and more.
Listen to this episode of PodRocket to hear Dmitry Vinnick, a Developer Advocate at Facebook Open Source, talk about what it means to be open source at Facebook, how to manage such a large portfolio, and what it's like to engage with a community remotely.
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Redux is alive and well with Mark Erikson
May 4th, 2021 | Season 1 | 45 mins 58 secs
frontend development, frontend web development, react, redux, software engineering, tech, technology, web development
What is modern Redux? What is it with the obsession of declaring Redux dead? In this episode, Ben and Brian interview Mark Erikson to talk about all things Redux.
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Founder Friday: Madeleine Reese of Allma
April 30th, 2021 | Season 1 | 30 mins 56 secs
business, frontend development, incident management, software engineering, startup, tech, web development
Ben interviews Madeleine Reese, Founder and CEO of Allma. Allma is building next-generation alerting, incident response, and service cataloging natively in Slack. Their focus is on helping the entire organization to resolve incidents faster and be able to communicate more effectively during an incident. Learn more about Allma in this episode.
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Firebase, development, and design in 2021 with David East
April 27th, 2021 | Season 1 | 28 mins 4 secs
design, developer relations, firebase, frontend development, frontend web development, software engineering, tech, technology, web development
In this episode, Ben and Kate talk to David East, Developer Relations Engineer at Firebase. They talk about the three tiers of the Firebase product -- Build, Release & Monitor, and Engage. They also get into design vs. development and what that means for web developers in 2021.
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What you need to know about Wasp with Martin Šošić
April 20th, 2021 | Season 1 | 20 mins
frontend development, frontend web development, software engineering, tech, technology, web development
Ben interviews Martin Šošić about Wasp, an open-source, declarative DSL for devs. Learn more about how Wasp works and why it has been getting attention on Product Hunt and Hacker News.
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spACE jam
April 13th, 2021 | Season 1 | 29 mins 45 secs
developer experience, devrel, frontend development, frontend engineering, software engineering, web development
Brian interviews Adewale Abati, also known as Ace, a frontend engineer and developer advocate at Flutterwave. Ace is known for sharing his developer experiences through social media, technical writing, public speaking, and his YouTube channel. He also maintains Made in Nigeria -- a curation of awesome open source tools and projects built by Nigerian developers.
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Typesense with Jason Bosco
April 6th, 2021 | Season 1 | 22 mins 17 secs
frontend development, frontend web development, software engineering, tech, technology, web development
Ben interviews Jason Bosco, cofounder of Typesense, an open source search engine that’s optimized for both performance and ease of use. They talk about how Typesense compares to Algolia and Elasticsearch, how to get started using Typesense, and how you can get involved.
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Rocket Surgery: Different flavors of frontend
March 30th, 2021 | Season 1 | 28 mins 25 secs
frontend development, frontend web development, software engineering, tech, technology, web development
Should all frontend developers know CSS and HTML like the back of their hand? What about React, Angular, Vue, and webpack? Where does the list end? In this episode, Kaelan and Brian talk about the nature of frontend and what that means for the future of the profession.
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Founder Friday: David Thor of Architect.io
March 26th, 2021 | Season 1 | 37 mins 13 secs
business, developer operations, devops, software engineering, tech, web development
In this Founder Friday episode, Ben interviews David Thor, founder and CEO of Architect, the world’s first DevOps-as-a-Service platform. They talk about the DevOps landscape, how Architect improves developer productivity, and how it helps teams adopt best practices.
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Expo with Charlie Cheever
March 23rd, 2021 | Season 1 | 38 mins 58 secs
expo, frontend development, mobile development, react native, software engineering, tech, technology, web development
Ben interviews Charlie Cheever, CEO and cofounder of Expo. They talk about the difficulties of building a cross-platform app and what Expo is doing to make that easier for developers. They also get into the state of React Native and more.
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goober with Cristian Bote
March 16th, 2021 | Season 1 | 20 mins 24 secs
css-in-js, engineering, frontend development, javascript, software engineering, tech, web development
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Shawn Swyx Wang: swyxtape vol. 1
March 9th, 2021 | Season 1 | 37 mins 19 secs
developer experience, developer relations, devrel, frontend development, software engineering, tech, web development
Ben and Brian talk to Shawn Wang, better known as Swyx, about infinite building, his experience as a Reddit moderator, blogging platforms, scaling developer relations, and more.
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Alpine.js with Caleb Porzio
March 2nd, 2021 | Season 1 | 31 mins 47 secs
alpinejs, frontend development, javascript, javascript frameworks, software engineering, tech, web development
Ben and Kate talk to Caleb Porzio about Alpine.js and what to expect in 2021. They also get into some of Caleb’s other creations like Laravel Livewire and makevscodeawesome.com.