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

  • Opt-in design and React frameworks with Ben Holmes

    December 7th, 2023  |  Season 3  |  35 mins 3 secs
    astro, react

    Ben Holmes, core maintainer at Astro, is back to talk about the new era of React frameworks: opt-in design.

  • Building React Miami on Vercel's stack with Michelle Bakels

    December 6th, 2023  |  Season 3  |  24 mins 33 secs
    react, vercel

    Learn how to build an agile conference website using the Vercel stack with React Miami Creator and Co-Organizer, Michelle Bakels.

  • Vite 5 with Bjorn Lu

    December 5th, 2023  |  Season 3  |  23 mins 42 secs
    vite

    Bjorn Lu, Vite core team member, joins us to talk about all the new features, deprecations, and more in the recent release of Vite 5.

  • Next.js 14 with Tim Neutkens

    December 4th, 2023  |  Season 3  |  38 mins 55 secs
    next js

    Tim Neutkens, Co-Author and Engineering Manager at Next.js, returns to talk about all the new features in Next.js 14.

  • Rendering dilemma, Pinia, and not using Next.js

    December 1st, 2023  |  Season 3  |  10 mins 8 secs
    frameworks, next.js, pinia, react, reactivity, vuex

    In this week’s roundup episode, we cover how different frameworks handle reactivity, the differences between Vuex and Pinia, and the TL;DR of why Kent C. Dodds won’t use Next.js.

  • Deno and Fresh with Luca Casonato

    November 30th, 2023  |  Season 3  |  28 mins 40 secs
    deno, fresh

    Luca Casonato, creator of Fresh and Software Engineer at Deno, returns to talk about the current state of Deno, Fresh, and more!

  • Builder.io, Visual Copilot, and Partytown with Misko Hevery

    November 28th, 2023  |  Season 3  |  39 mins 12 secs
    builder.io, partytown, visual copilot

    Miško Hevery, CTO of Builder.io and creator of Angular, returns to talk about Builder.io’s new AI tool, Visual Copilot, Partytown, and more in the Builder.io ecosystem.

  • useWat with David Khourshid

    November 27th, 2023  |  Season 3  |  46 mins 48 secs
    react

    David Khourshid, founder of Stately, talks about the “weird stuff” in React and how developers can better utilize the framework and understand its quirks.

  • ICYMI: Vercel Edge Functions, Next.js, and AI apps with Hassan El Mghari

    November 25th, 2023  |  Season 3  |  21 mins 25 secs
    vercel

    In this repeat episode picked by host Paul Mikulskis, Hassan El Mghari, Senior Developer Advocate at Vercel, joins us today to talk about some of his projects and how he has been using Vercel Edge Functions and Next.js to build them.

  • Fully typed web apps with Kent C. Dodds (Repeat)

    November 24th, 2023  |  Season 3  |  31 mins 24 secs
    web apps

    In this repeat episode, Kent C. Dodds has a blog post for everything, and in today’s episode he returns to PodRocket to talk about his blog post, “Fully Typed Web Apps.”

  • Migrating 50,000 lines of code to RSCs with Darius Cepulis

    November 22nd, 2023  |  Season 3  |  24 mins 3 secs
    react server components

    It’s a daunting task to migrate 50,000 lines of code, specifically when migrating to React Server Components. But Darius Cepulis, Senior Dev Community Engineer at Mux, did exactly that and lived to tell the tale.

  • Mastering Pinia with Eduardo San Martin Morote

    November 21st, 2023  |  Season 3  |  28 mins 51 secs
    pinia

    We welcome on Eduardo San Martin Morote, creator of Pinia and Vue.js core team member, to talk about Pinia, his new course about mastering Pinia, and more!

  • The rendering dilemma with Atila Fassina

    November 20th, 2023  |  Season 3  |  41 mins 32 secs
    frameworks, reactivity, signals, solid.js

    In a sea of frameworks, what provides the best way to handle reactivity? Atila Fassina, DevRel Engineer at Crab Nebula and Google Dev Expert, returns to answer this question, talk about why Signals and Solid.js are good options, and more.

  • ICYMI: Svelte 4 with Geoff Rich

    November 19th, 2023  |  Season 3  |  31 mins 49 secs
    svelte

    In this repeat episode picked by host Noel Minchow, Geoff Rich and Mike Karan talk about the stable release of Svelte 4 and the next generation of Svelte.

  • Choosing React, Storybook, and native SSR

    November 17th, 2023  |  Season 3  |  12 mins 6 secs
    react, reason, remix, svelte

    In this week’s roundup episode, learn why Chance Strickland still chooses to use React, why Amy Dutton uses Storybook for design-driven development, and how to use Reason and OCaml to natively render React apps.

  • Optimizing third-party loading in Next.js with Houssein Djirdeh

    November 16th, 2023  |  Season 3  |  27 mins 14 secs
    next js

    One of the biggest performance issues in an app stems from using third-party libraries, so Houssein Djirdeh, Senior Software Engineer at Google, talks about how the Chrome Aurora team is developing a package to efficiently load third-party libraries into Next.js apps.