PodRocket - A web development podcast from LogRocket

Compiling and bundling JavaScript with Michele Riva

May 25th, 2022  |  Season 2  |  29 mins 1 sec

frontend development, javascript, web development

We talk to Michele Riva, Senior Software Architect for Nearform, about his recent BeJS conference talk, "Compiling and bundling JavaScript," including why it's difficult and how to make it painless.

Appsmith with Arpit Mohan

May 13th, 2022  |  Season 2  |  49 mins 8 secs

javascript, open source, ui

Appsmith is an open-source project created to put customizable app tools directly into developers’ hands. Arpit Mohan, CTO of Appsmith, joins us to talk about how he wants to help engineers accomplish more, how Appsmith is used daily by over 1,000 teams, the difficulty of managing microservices, and more.

XState and Stately with Matt Pocock

May 4th, 2022  |  Season 2  |  38 mins 50 secs

javascript, typescript, web development

We talk to Matt Pocock, XState core team and Stately dev advocate, about working at XState, quitting his job to work at Stately, and bringing TypeScript into the XState core.

RedwoodJS: Part 2 with Amanda Giannelli

May 3rd, 2022  |  Season 2  |  26 mins 32 secs

javascript, open source, redwoodjs

Redwood is a fully integrated, end-to-end, production-ready, fully tested framework. We talk to Amanda Giannelli, Software Engineer at Auth0 and a member of the RedwoodJS core team, about Redwood V1 and more.

Remix with Chance Strickland

April 15th, 2022  |  Season 2  |  26 mins 8 secs

frontend development, javascript, react

We talk to Chance Strickland, software engineer at Remix Software, about Remix, how it builds better websites out of the box, and why the team calls it a full-stack framework.

Flightcontrol with Brandon Bayer

April 12th, 2022  |  Season 2  |  34 mins 28 secs

frontend development, javascript, web development, webdev

In this episode, we talk with Flightcontrol's CEO and Cofounder Brandon Bayer about how Flightcontrol is making it easy for developers to deploy scalable, secure applications without any DevOps, how it compares to Heroku, and what it was like going through Y Combinator.

Marko with Dylan Piercey

February 1st, 2022  |  Season 2  |  43 mins 50 secs

frontend development, frontend web development, javascript, software engineering, tech, technology, web development

There are a lot of reactive frontend frameworks out there, but Marko is built with an MPA architecture in mind. In this episode, we talk to Dylan Piercey, Platform Engineer at eBay and core team member of Marko, about the features of Marko, how it works, and how Marko is trying to both optimize multi-page applications and give the developer experience of a single-page application.

Alpine.js with Caleb Porzio (Repeat)

December 31st, 2021  |  Season 1  |  30 mins 38 secs

alpinejs, frontend development, frontend web development, javascript, laravel, software engineering, tech, technology, web development

Originally published on March 2nd, 2021

We are taking some time off from production. We will be back with new episodes on January 4th.

We talk to Caleb Porzio about Alpine.js and what to expect in 2021. We also get into some of Caleb’s other creations like Laravel Livewire and makevscodeawesome.com.

Vue and Vite with Evan You

December 7th, 2021  |  Season 1  |  48 mins 9 secs

frontend development, frontend web development, javascript, software engineering, tech, technology, vite, vue, web development

Evan You joins us on PodRocket to talk about Vue and Vite. What motivated the shift to Vue 3? What is Vite? Do you think Vite will replace Nuxt's webpack default at some point? If you had to start over what would be the biggest rework you would do? Evan answers all of these questions in this episode. Listen now.

Blitz.js with Brandon Bayer (Repeat)

November 26th, 2021  |  Season 1  |  22 mins 16 secs

blitzjs, frontend development, frontend web development, javascript, software engineering, tech, technology, web development

Originally published on January 12, 2021 -- Ben and Brian talk to Brandon Bayer, creator of Blitz.js. We take a deep dive into everything Blitz has to offer. More specifically, we address how Blitz compares with other fullstack frameworks and how Blitz balances being opinionated with being flexible for each aspect of the toolchain. We also talk about community building and beyond.