JS Party: JavaScript, CSS, Web Development

Polypane purveyor Kilian Valkhof joins Nick & Jerod to tell us all about his efforts building a web browser just for web development. We cover it all: from the business concerns, to the technical details, to his excellent choice not to use TypeScript! We even sneak in a feature request that already made its way into this excellent dev tool for ambitious web developers.

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Show Notes:

• What do we want from a web browser?(Friends #14)
• You have how many open tabs?! (Friends #29)
• Core web vitals
• Polypane

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We’re back with another spicy YepNope debate! This time, Nick & regular guest Eric Clemmons are arguing that web development should need a build step, while KBall & special guest Amy Dutton argue that we really shouldn’t. Of course, the stance each panelist is taking is assigned ahead of time. Is that how they really feel? Tune in to find out!

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11ty creator Zach Leatherman is taking the open source site generator fully independent in 2024 and he’s back on the pod to tell us why, how & what we all can do to help.

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• I Need Your Help to Make 11ty Fully Independent and Sustainable in 2024
• An Organizer’s Retrospective on the 11ty Conference
• xkcd: Dependency

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Jerod & KBall discuss what’s new in the world of web development: the State of HTML survey results, Node 22, React Compiler, React 19 Beta, vlt.sh & the Gulp (!) Developer Survey.

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• State of HTML results
• CanIEmail
• MJML
• Node 22 released
• React Compiler now open source (more info)
• React 19 Beta
• vlt
• Gulp Developer Survey
• Grunt
• nalgeon/redka: Redis re-implemented with SQLite
• AI in Production conference

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Two-time React Jammer, Brian Breiholz, joins Jerod & Nick to discuss building 3D games in the browser! We hear of his game jam trials & tribulations, the in-progress game engine he’s building, the dream game he’s been building for a long time & more

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• React Jam
• Disco-Warrior
• Cooper & Onita: Midnight Snack
• React Three Fiber
• Web Game Dev

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Shoelace creator Cory LaViska joins Amal & Jess to tell them all about the forward-thinking library of web components that just joined the Font Awesome family to create Web Awesome.

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• Shoelace.style
• Font Awesome
• Web Awesome

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Brian LeRoux joins Jerod to share how the Enhance team are bringing server side rendered web components to everyone. With Enhance WASM, you author components in friendly, standards based syntax and reuse them across multiple languages, frameworks & servers.

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• Enhance
• Enhance WASM
• Extism
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• Architect

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Ryan Carniato joins Amal & Nick to discuss Solid with a major focus on Signals, which are the cornerstone of reactivity in Solid.

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• Solid JS
• Solid/Signals
• The Signals Proposal
• Solid’s Discord
• Ryan’s YouTube

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Kelvin Omereshone is here to get you excited about boring, reliable tech. He believes a combination of Sails, Inertia, Tailwind & your frontend rendering library of choice are a great combo for building web apps. Tune in to find out why.

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• The Boring JavaScript Stack
• Sails.js
• Screencasts for the modern Sails developer
• Hagfish - Where creators do invoices
• Inertia
• Sailsconf
• The Boring JavaScript Stack (keynote)

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How does Google build Search? What about YouTube and Google Drive? We rely on Chrome’s Lighthouse scores when optimizing our websites, but what does Google prioritize? Recently the Angular and Wiz teams announced their intention to responsibly merge their internal frontend framework, Wiz, with Angular to bring some of Wiz’s best ideas to Angular. We’re chatting with Minko from Angular and Jatin from the Wiz team to learn about how Wiz has been used in Google historically, what it’s good at, and why it’s worth bringing some of its ideas to Angular.

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• Angular and Wiz Are Better Together
• Deferrable Views
• JSParty 312 - Angular Moves fast without breaking things
• JSAction
• JSParty 237 - Qwik is a new kind of web framework
• HTTP Archive
• Angular primitives directory

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Jerod, KBall & Nick discuss the latest news: Devin, Astro DB, The JavaScript Registry, Tailwind 4 & Angular merging with Wiz. Oh, and a surprise mini-game of HeadLIES!

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• Devin, the first AI software engineer
• Astro DB
• JSR - the JavaScript Registry
• Tailwind 4
• Angular merging with Wiz

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Alex & James Moore, founding members of the Open Web Advocacy (OWA), join Amal to talk about the critical work the OWA has been doing to ensure users have browser choice and that web apps can be first-class citizens on mobile devices. We learn about how an ad-hoc group of software engineers worked with regulators, legislators & policymakers to help drive some of the most impactful legislation curbing anti-competitive behaviors on the web for tech giants such as Apple, Google & Microsoft via the EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA).

Tune in for this deeply important & timely discussion as we also unpack recent events with Apple and their DMA (un)compliance, and how the OWA helped successfully organize thousands of web developers from around the world to hold ground for a free & open web.

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• Amal Hussein – Twitter, GitHub

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• Open Web Advocacy
• Open Web Advocacy Open Letter (signed by 1000s to protest the 17.4 breaking changes for web apps on iOS)
• Open Web Advocacy Walled Gardens Report
• European Union Digital Markets Act (DMA) - EUR-Lex
• Article 5: Obligations for gatekeepers - EUR-Lex (from the DMA)
• The Verge: European Union Commission Digital Markets Act
• Blog: The Digital Markets Act is in Force - What Happens Now?
• Blog: Apple Backs Off Killing Web Apps
• Blog: It’s Official: Apple Kills Web Apps
• Blog: Apple on Course to Break All Web Apps in EU within 20 Days
• Blog: Did Apple Just Break Web Apps in iOS17.4 Beta (EU)?

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This week, Amal and Nick are joined by Rick Viscomi and Annie Sullivan from the Chrome team to dive into Core Web Vitals, a set of performance metrics geared towards helping developers surface web page quality signals that are key to delivering great user experiences.

We deconstruct the different vitals and learn how they are helpful, as well as introduce the newest vital to hit the scene, Interaction to Next Paint (INP). Join us for a fun and nerdtastic discussion as we dive into the humbling universe of web performance!

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• Web performance resources
• Why speed matters
• Core Web Vitals docs
• Interaction to Next Paint (INP)
• Largest Contentful Paint (LCP)
• Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS)
• Measuring Core Web Vitals in the field
• web-vitals.js library
• Web Vitals Chrome extension
• PageSpeed Insights
• Chrome UX Report
• Core Web Vitals Tech Report
• In The Loop by Jake Archibald (🔥🔥🔥 Event Loop Talk referenced on show)
• Scheduler API Polyfill
• Scheduler.yield API Origin Trial
• Speedcurve - Web performance monitoring
• WebPageTest - Website performance and optimization test
• WPO stats - Case studies and experiments demonstrating the impact of web performance optimization (WPO)
• Partytown - Run 3rd Party Scripts from a Web Worker

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Nick delves into the intricacies of technical book writing with authors Adrienne Braganza Tacke and Dylan Hildenbrand. We talk about the process of working with a publisher, coming up with an outline, actually writing the book, and everything that comes after the book is finished.

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• Adrienne’s books
  • Looks Good to Me: Constructive Code Reviews
  • Coding for Kids: Python: Learn to Code with 50 Awesome Games and Activities
• Dylan’s book
  • SvelteKit Up and Running

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Apple kills EU web apps, Amazon launches a JS runtime optimized for serverless workloads & we play a game of 20 (15) questions to welcome Jessica Sachs to the party!

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• Take the OWA survey ASAP!
• It’s Official, Apple Kills Web Apps in the EU
• Arc from The Browser Company
• LLRT: Amazon’s new JS runtime
• QuickJS
• Introducing Tempo • A new date library for JS/TS

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KBall & Amal dive deep with the “Dazzle of Zebras” (possible future band name), Angular team members Jessica Janiuk & Mark “Techson” Thompson. Along with an absolute riot of puns, they cover topics such as Angular’s new deferrable views feature, how the Angular core team handles change, and lessons learned from the AngularJS-Angular 2 debacle that allow Angular to now move fast without breaking things.

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• angular.dev
• Deferrable views
• Angular SSR
• Angular tutorial

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The week Amal & guest co-host Eric Clemmons talk to Dan Abramov all about React Server Components. We learn about why they were created, what problems they solve & how they work to improve application performance. We also dive into the rollout and current support status, the origin story, the community response & walk through the 10+ years of React history which have forever shifted the world of web development.

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• Changelog Beats! Dance Party
• Making Sense of React Server Components
• How Next.js is delivering React’s vision for the future
• Simplifying Server Components
• React Server Components with Aurora Walberg
• “React from Another Dimension” by Dan Abramov at #RemixConf 2023 (YouTube)
• Data Fetching with React Server Components
• RFC: React Server Components (Github)
• Next.js 13: Server Components (docs)
• “Data Fetching with React Server Components” initial 2020 vision (YouTube)
• JavaScript Fatigue
• Click to Component (Github)

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KBall & Amal interview Alex & Pavel from the Angular Signals team. They cover the history, how the Angular team decided to move to signals, what the new mental model looks like, migration path & even dive into community integrations and future roadmap.

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• Angular Signals
• Zone.js
• A Solid option for building UIs
• RxJS
• Angular RFCs
• Angular Signals RFC
• Reactivity project

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Shaundai Person joins Jerod & Nick for a fascinating discussion of her transition from a sales position to Senior Software Engineer at Netflix. Along the way, we discuss sales as a superpower, how to build confidence in yourself & even sneak a little TypeScript talk in there because you know who…

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• Screen Studio

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Jerod, Adam Argyle & the CompressedFM crew hang out prior to their Fronted Feud battle! They discuss CSS as a programming language, Apple’s walled garden, how nobody is on the same social media sites anymore, how to choose tech, the community’s sentiment shift on GraphQL & a whole bunch more. (This episode is for Changelog++ ears only.)

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• Frontend Feud: CSS Podcast vs CompressedFM

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Una & Adam from The CSS Podcast defend their Frontend Feud title against challengers James & Brad from CompressedFM. Let’s get it on!

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• Una Kravets – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, Website
• Adam Argyle – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, Website
• James Q Quick – Twitter, GitHub, Website
• Brad Garropy – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
• Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn

Show Notes:

• The CSS Podcast
• CompressedFM
• More dev game shows!

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Carson Gross (creator of htmx) & Alex Russell (Mr. Web Platform 3000) join Amal for an EPIC discussion on web architectures, the evolution of rendering patterns & the advantages of hypermedia and htmx. We dive deep on why modern web app best practices are falling short & explore how htmx gives devs an HTML-first approach to use tech that’s over 20 years old.

Tune in to learn a new way to do something old, so you can simplify your code & use JavaScript when/where it’s uniquely able to shine ✨

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• Alex Russell – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, Website
• Amal Hussein – Twitter, GitHub

Show Notes:

• htmx site and docs
• EPIC htmx Twitter
• Hypermedia Wikipedia
• Hypermedia Systems - A free digital book from Carson Gross, Adam Stepinski, and Deniz Aksimsek
• Hypermedia Reintroduction (from Hypermedia Systems book)
• Infrequently - Alex Russell’s EPIC blog
• The Market for Lemons
• Performance Inequality Series from Alex Russell
• Netflix Web Performance Case Study (refactoring the Netflix login to vanilla html, js and css)
• Roy Fielding’s Dissertation on REST
• REST APIs Must Be Hypertext-Driven
• HATEOAS Wikipedia
• Open Web Advocacy Group
• Open UI Group
• The Website vs Web App Dichotomy Doesn’t Exist
• As We May Type
• More Capable Form Controls
• Fun Hacks for Faster Content
• Google jsaction lib on Github
• Intercooler.js (Carson’s precursor to htmx)

Previous Changelog interviews with Carson Gross on htmx:

• Is htmx the way to Go? (Go Time #266)
• Less JavaScript more htmx (JS Party #171)

The Market for Lemons - Diagram on Session & Interaction Depth vs Application Architectures (referenced in our podcast discussion)

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It’s our 5th annual New Year’s party! Jerod & the gang review our predictions from last year, discuss what’s trending in the web world, make a few predictions for 2024 & even set some new resolutions for this year.

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• Nick Nisi – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, Website
• Kevin Ball – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
• Christopher Hiller – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, Website

Show Notes:

• Last year’s New Year’s party
• Twitter thread highlighting collaboration between NodeJS and Bun maintainers on finding and improving a node performance bottleneck
• Joyee Cheung (Node contributor and TSC member) sharing her updates on the node performance issue highlighted above
• Direct link to GH issue thread on the suggested node perf improvement
• Smoot - Wikipedia
• JS Party Survey Github Collaboration Repo (content coming soon)

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Daniel Ehrenberg (software engineer at Bloomberg, web standards author / champion & VP of ECMA International) joins us to discuss new features that have landed in JavaScript and to preview what’s cooking in various standards bodies across the web platform.

We cover a wide array (get it?) of topics from improvements to built-ins such as Promises, Maps & Sets, as well as new primitives like Records, Tuples & Temporal. We round out this epic discussion with a look at cross-project standardization efforts like WinterCG, open source sustainability & how Bloomberg’s open source program gives back in important projects in the web ecosystem.

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• Christopher Hiller – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, Website

Show Notes:

Correction: Near the end, Dan misspoke when said the Bloomberg FOSS Fund was done in partnership with Bloomberg Philanthropies. It was actually done together with Bloomberg’s Corporate Philanthropy team.

• TC39’s Active Proposals (Stage 1, 2, 3)
• TC39’s Finished Proposals (Stage 4)
• TC39 Website
• ECMA262 - Webview of the latest published specification of ECMAScript (aka JavaScript)
• ECMA262 GitHub Repo
• WinterCG
• CycloneDX
• W3C Web Performance Working Group
• Iterator Helpers Proposal
• Record and Tuple Proposal
• Temporal Proposal
• Temporal Polyfills
• Decorators Proposal
• Set Methods Proposal
• Type Annotations Proposal
• Module Expressions Proposal
• Array Grouping Proposal
• Promise with Resolvers Proposal
• Error Cause Proposal
• Test262 Github Repo
• Source Map Spec Proposal
• TC39-T4 - a new TC39 task group to standard source maps
• TC53 - ECMAScript modules for embedded systems
• Perf.Now Conference
• Node Conf EU Conference
• Dan’s talk on Async Context at this year’s Node Conf EU
• Igalia
• Bocoup
• Sentry’s blog post on recent funding of their OSS dependencies
• Bloomberg’s Terminal
• Bloomberg Open Source Program Office (OSPO) Launches FOSS Contributor Fund

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Gregg Tavares (author of WebGL/WebGPU Fundamentals) joins Jerod & Amal to give us a tour of these low-level technologies that are pushing the web forward into the world of video games, machine learning & other exciting rich applications.

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• Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
• Amal Hussein – Twitter, GitHub

Show Notes:

• WebGL Fundamentals
• WebGPU Fundamentals
• WebGPU - Wikipedia
• “webgpu” | Can I use…
• Download the latest indie games - itch.io
• PlayCanvas WebGL Game Engine
• PICO-8 Fantasy Console
• Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow: A Novel

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• Zelda, Tears of the Kingdom - Disappointing

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Amal, Nick & special guest Laura Kalbeg geek out over the remarkable growth and evolution of the XState project and its team in recent years. Laura also tells everyone about Stately.ai, a SaaS platform that uses AI to create seamless state management solutions compatible with various tools like XState, Redux & zustand.

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• Amal Hussein – Twitter, GitHub
• Nick Nisi – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, Website

Show Notes:

• XState JS Party debut w/ David “Piano” - X’ gon State it to ya (#191)
• Stately
• XState
• Jump straight into the Stately editor - via state.new (fancy!)
• Laura’s talk where she demoed state machines and the outputted state machine
• All the public machines that folks have made using Stately (must be logged in)
• An intro to state machines and statecharts (with puppies!)
• Laura’s awesome book via Book Apart - Accessibility for Everyone
• NodeConf EU
• NodeConf EU talks from 2023 (workshops were live only)
• The amazing NodeConf EU venue we were ooo’ing and aaah’ing about 😍
• Laura’s NodeConf Talk
• Accessibility for Everyone
• Migrate to XState 5
• Actor Model
• Model-based testing
• Playwright
• Stately Discord
• Redux Toolkit
• zustand

And here’s the state chart for the JS Danger game!

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Una Kravets, web platform ambassador & lead of the Google Chrome UI Developer Relations Team, joins Amal & Nick to take them CSS to school as they start this podcast in CSS kindergarten and end it with a Level-Up CSS Diploma. (LUCD?)

We explore all the amazing features which have recently landed in CSS — enabling super-charged user experiences with no JavaScript. Don’t forgot to check out all the epic links & demos in the show notes — and hold on to your butts, kids, this one is a ride!

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• Typesense – Lightning fast, globally distributed Search-as-a-Service that runs in memory. You literally can’t get any faster!

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• Una Kravets – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, Website
• Amal Hussein – Twitter, GitHub
• Nick Nisi – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, Website

Show Notes:

• What’s new in CSS UI 2023 (the blog post we referenced on the show)
• CSS Podcast - UNA and Adam’s AMAZZZZZZING Podcast - 🙌🏾❤️ Like and Subscribe ❤️🙌🏾
• Igalia
• Bocoup
• Follow Lea Verou and Chris Lilley for CSS Leveling up
• Releasing Color.js: A library that takes color seriously (Lea’s blog post)
• Releasing Color.js (Chris’ blog post)
• Contrast Ratio (a helpful tool to help find the right contract ratios)
• High Definition CSS Color Guide
• What is a color space?
• New color spaces!
• Proposal for “open-stylable” Shadow Roots (aka breaking shadow DOM encapsulation
• CSS Nesting
• Can I Use
• MDN Baseline - a unified view of stable web features
• What are Origin Trials?
• Origin Trials available via Chrome
• Origin Trials available via FireFox
• Origin Trials available via Edge
• “Accessibly blueberry muffin analogy” - Baking Accessibility In (Talk from Cordelia McGee-Tubb)
• “Accessibility is Delicious” - great blog post referencing Cordelia’s talk
• Trigonometric functions in CSS
• nth of syntax
• nth-of-child & nth-of-last-child Codepen demo
• Scoped CSS
• Scoped CSS Codepen demo
• Cascade Layers
• Cascade Layers Codepen demo
• Una’s wonderful YouTube video explaining CSS Cascade Layers
• Popover API
• Anchor positioning
• Scroll driven animations
• Scroll driven animations demo site (scroll-driven-animations.style)
• Container Queries
• Style Queries
• Linear Easing Function MDN
• Create complex animation curves in CSS with the linear() easing function
• Linear Easing Generator (a tool via Jake Archibald)
• View Transitions API
• View Transitions Guide
• View Transitions support in Svelte
• View Transitions support in Astro
• :has() API
• web.dev- Guidance to build modern web experiences that work on any browser
• developer.chrome.com - Simplifying the web to help you build, grow and innovate

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Amal & Nick are joined by Saron Yitbarek (developer, podcaster, community leader & serial entrepreneur) to catch up and discuss her latest project: Not A Designer

We discuss all the ins & outs of tech entrepreneurship & the challenges of building something new in today’s saturated market. Tune in for a behind-the-scenes look at how she does it & get a sneak peek on what’s possibly next! (Spoiler Alert: we brain stormed it here)

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• Amal Hussein – Twitter, GitHub
• Nick Nisi – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, Website

Show Notes:

• Changelog Merch (re-stocked)
• Not A Designer
• Code Newbie
• Code Newbie Podcast
• Base CS Podcast (via Code Newbie)
• Command Line Heroes Podcast (via RedHat)
• CodeLand Conf
• Forem (now parent company of Dev.to)
• Beehiiv - the newsletter platform built for growth
• Substack - a new economic growth for culture
• ConvertKit - the creator marketing platform
• Y Combinator
• Baz Luhrmann - Everybody’s Free To Wear Sunscreen (aka Amal’s “favorite song”)

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JS Party listeners and panelists celebrate great moments from the last 100 episodes! You’ll hear from 14 of our favorite humans (and 1 horse) across 11 episodes. Here’s to our first 300 episodes and the next 300 as well. 🥂

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• Horse JS – Twitter
• Eric Clemmons – Twitter, GitHub
• Jarvis Yang – GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
• Justin Fagnani – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
• Josh Collinsworth – Twitter, GitHub, Website
• Brian Zelip – Twitter, GitHub, Website
• Rich Harris – Twitter, GitHub
• Erick Wendel – Twitter, GitHub, Website
• Alex Miller – Mastodon, Twitter
• Jonathan Creamer – Twitter, GitHub, Website
• Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
• Amal Hussein – Twitter, GitHub
• Nick Nisi – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, Website
• Kevin Ball – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
• Christopher Hiller – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, Website

Show Notes:

• The future of React with Dan Abramov & Joe Savona (JS Party #267)
• Is print debugging good enough? (JS Party #281)
• This is going to be Lit 🔥 with Justin Fagnani (JS Party #284)
• The spicy React debate show 🌶️ (JS Party #244)
• Digging through Nick Nisi’s tool box (JS Party #278)
• Spicy fonts and static sites 🌶️ with Zach Leatherman (JS Party #79)
• Type War (what is it good for?) with Rich Harris (JS Party #292)
• Recreating Node.js from scratch featuring Erick Wendel (JS Party #268)
• Making web art the hard way with Alex Miller aka SPACEFILLER (JS Party #275)
• Reports of Node’s death are greatly exaggerated with Matteo Collina & James Snell (JS Party #294)
• We ask a lawyer about GitHub Copilot with Luis Villa from Tidelift (JS Party #188)
• Web development’s lost decade with Alex Russell (JS Party #263)
• p5.js - a JavaScript library for creative coding

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Valerie Phoenix from Tech By Choice joins Amal & Kball to tell them all about her non-profit that’s passionate about helping people interested in technology, no matter their experience level.

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• Amal Hussein – Twitter, GitHub
• Kevin Ball – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website

Show Notes:

• Tech By Choice

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The 2nd ever React Jam is on and poppin’, so Jerod & Nick invited the previous winners to the pod to tell us all about the 10 day online game jam. Turns out React and video games are like peanut butter and jelly, after all!

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• Jason McLeod – Twitter, GitHub
• Gustavo Vituri – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
• Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
• Nick Nisi – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, Website

Show Notes:

• React Jam
• React Jam Summer 2023 winners
• Chop Chop game
• The Rune platform
• [Inspiration: Pipe Dream game](https://classicreload.com/win3x-pipe-dream-1991.html_
• The Phaser game framework
• Their Brave MMO game

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Prisma founder Johannes Schickling has been using the Effect library for the last couple years. Today he joins Jerod & Nick to tell us all about this very interesting tool for building robust apps in TypeScript.

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• Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
• Nick Nisi – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, Website

Show Notes:

• Friends: What do we want from a web browser?
• Welcome to Effect
• Effect Days 2024

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With a name like PartyKit, you know we just had to get its founder and CEO Sunil Pai on the show! PartyKit is an open source tool that simplifies creating collaborative, multiplayer applications. Join us to learn all about it and the journey of Sunil and his team!

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• Amal Hussein – Twitter, GitHub
• Kevin Ball – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
• Christopher Hiller – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, Website

Show Notes:

• PartyKit
• PartyKit source code
• PartyKit pre-seed funding internal announcement
• PartyKit Tech Crunch pre-seed funding announcement
• TLDraw - a collaborative digital whiteboard
• TLDraw source code
• CRDTs - Conflict-free replicated data
• Yjs - A CRDT framework with a powerful abstraction of shared data
• Vite conf
• PartyKit at Vite Conf
• Cloudflare Durable Objects
• Cloudflare CDN
• XState - is a state management and orchestration solution for JavaScript and TypeScript apps
• Stately - a visualization platform for XState machines
• Drifting in Space
• Live Blocks

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Fresh off Bun’s big 1.0 launch, Jarred Sumner goes one-on-one with Jerod to discuss the all-in-one JavaScript runtime that’s captured the interest of many. We get into it all: what problem he’s solving, how it’s so fast, why no Windows support, answering the critics, the (not real) beef between Bun and Node, how the VC-backed startup will sustain & more.

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• Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn

Show Notes:

• Bun — A fast all-in-one JavaScript runtime
• Why Bun is going to “be the biggest problem” for Deno
• Bun hype. How we learned nothing from Yarn
• Bun Careers

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Amal, KBall & Chris convene a “semi-emergency” pod to discuss the recent (deserved) hype over Bun and what it all means for Node’s community, maintainers & users.

They’re joined by Node Technical Steering Committee members Matteo Collina & James Snell who are here to dispel Bun antagonism rumors, discuss the pros & cons of each runtime, explain how Node continues to thrive & even announce a VERY big upcoming feature!

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• Matteo Collina – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, Website
• James Snell – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, Website
• Amal Hussein – Twitter, GitHub
• Kevin Ball – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
• Christopher Hiller – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, Website

Show Notes:

• Matteo’s tweet on Jarred Summer’s obsession with performance optimizations
• Bun’s claim to being a “drop in-replacement for Node.js”
• Platformatic 1.0 release annoucement
• AWS lambda quatas
• Node TODO - your guide to getting started with Node.js Core development
• Node.js’s new built-in test runner
• Node.js project governance
• Matteos recent newsletter which Amal magically connected with in the future - “My thoughts on Bun and other Adventures”
• fastify - “Fast and low overhead web framework, for Node.js”
• OpenJS foundation
• Soon to be released PR for adding the new WebSocket lib to Node Core
• Node.js supported binaries
• Node.js github issue #19308 “Adding Websocket support to core” which is 5+ years old and coincidentally closed on the day this podcast was released

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This week, we’re joined by Ron Perris, a Security Engineer at Reddit and software security enthusiast. Together, we dive into best practices and common pitfalls, covering topics from dangerous URLs to JSON injection attacks. Tune in for an educational conversation, and don’t forget to bring your notebooks!

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• Christopher Hiller – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, Website

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• 10 React Security Best Practices Cheatsheet (by Ron Perris & Liran Tal)
• ZAP - the worlds most widely used web app scanner
• Loco Moco Security Conference in Hawai’i
• Node.js Ecosystem Security Working Group
• Node.js Security Bug Reporting
• Node.js Hacker One Page
• Node.js Third Party Labs Hacker One Page (now disabled)
• Python’s Advocate Library - for making secure HTTP requests on behalf of a third party
• DOMPurify - DOM-only, super-fast, uber-tolerant XSS sanitizer for HTML, MathML and SVG
• ESLint Security Plugin
• Content Security Policy

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Love it or hate it, TypeScript is here to stay for the foreseeable future. But, what happens when widely adopted packages go completely Type free or remove TypeScript in favor of JS with type annotations? Join us to unpack these recent events with Rich Harris, creator of Svelte, as he walks us through the nuanced decision his team made for the Svelte project, and ofc, lots of laughs along the way.

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• News article from May 2023 when Svelte switched from TS to JSDoc type annotations
• DHH’s blog post “Open Source Hooliganism and the TypeScript Meltdown”
• DHH’s tweet announcing Turbo’s removal of TS
• Rich’s quote tweet of DHH Turbo announcement
• JSDoc docs
• Official TS docs highlighting support for JS Doc type annotations
• ECMA proposal for Type Annotations
• Principles of Writing Consistent, Idiomatic JavaScript

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• While typing(scripting) it
• Not my type
• Can’t type this
• You fought in the Type Wars?

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Jerod & the gang discuss the news (Astro 3.0, Vercel + Astro, Python in Excel) then play eight crazy rounds of HeadLIES! Headline or headLIE? You decide…

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• Astro 3.0
• Vercel official hosting provider of Astro
• Python in Excel

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Mark Erikson (web dev professor/historian, OSS Maintainer & engineer at Replay) joins us to talk about the shift from CommonJS to ESM. We discuss the history of module patterns in JS and the grueling effort to push the world’s biggest developer ecosystem forward. Get ready to go to school kids, this one’s deep!

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• History and Timeline of ES Modules
• Node API Reference for ESM
• Andrew Branch’s WIP TypeScript module processing documentation
• Sindre Sorhus: Pure ESM packages
• Modern Guide to Packaging a JS Library
• Guide for shipping ESM and CJS in one Package

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Nick celebrates a decade of writing everyone’s favorite language with guest Josh Goldberg, who contributes to TypeScript, maintains typescript-eslint, and is an all-around great person! Jerod is also here to join the celebration, but let’s keep that a secret from him!

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• Nick’s been writing TypeScript for a decade
• TSConf
• TypeScript 2.0 announcement
• Nick’s utility type for deeply-nested objects
• Kaka Ruto Vim tweet
• A Language Server for Postgres
• Learning TypeScript - Josh’s book
• Deno
• Bun
• |> pipeline operator

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Jim (Hyphen) Nielsen joins Jerod & Nick for a fun conversation about language-level toll roads, when (and how) to quit, the stratification of social networking & the state of the world in publishing your thoughts on the internet.

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• Language-Level Toll Roads
• The Art of Knowing When to Quit
• Metalsmith
• Gorilla is back
• Subscribe Wherever You Get Your Content

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Val Town is a shiny, new social programming environment to write, run, deploy and share code. Steve Krouse –Val Town creator– joins Jerod & Amal to tell us all about it.

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• Val Town

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KBall and Amal go deep on careers. They share their career journeys, talk through learnings and mishaps that happened along the way, and break down key factors to understand about big role transitions like “Senior->Staff” as well as “Engineer->Manager”.

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• Bocoup
• Amal on The Changelog talking about bossing up

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Una & Adam from The CSS Podcast defend their Frontend Feud title against challengers Chuck & Robbie from Whiskey Web and Whatnot. Let’s get it on!

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• The CSS Podcast
• Whiskey Web and Whatnot
• More dev game shows!

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Justin Fagnani joins us this week to talk about Lit, a library that helps you build web components. With 17% of pageviews in Chrome registering use of web components, Lit has gained widespread adoption across a variety of companies looking to create reusable components which leverage the power and interoperability of the web platform. Tune in to learn about what makes this tiny library so incredibly lit!

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• Lit docs & examples
• Throwback Lit html episode on the Web Platform Podcast with Amal
• Polymer Library - Lit’s predecessor
• Custom Elements
• Shadow DOM
• Templates and Slots
• JS Tagged Template Literals
• Lit Element base class
• Amal’s singing about “dangerously set innerHTML”
• Proposal for Scoped Custom Element Global Registries
• Proposal for declarative Shadow DOM
• Proposal for Template Instantiation
• Proposal for DOM Parts
• Proposal for “open-stylable” Shadow Roots
• Proposal for JavaScript Decorators
• Lit labs packages
• Google’s Wireit - updates your npm scripts to make them smarter
• Justin’s npm cli RFC for adding Googe’s Wireit script runner to npm

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Austin Gil returns to JS Party, bringing a fresh perspective on the fundamentals of file uploads. Brace for an insightful session as we navigate the complexities of this key JavaScript topic together, much like a dedicated coach drilling the fundamentals into his team!

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• JS Party #243
• File Upload
• Angular
• React
• Solid
• Austin’s blog post series on file uploads
• 200 MDN
• Austin Gil on file uploads
• Amazon S3
• Akamai
• Cloudflare R2

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Darcy Clarke, former GitHub Staff Engineering Manager and founder of vlt, joins us to discuss a major bug in the npm ecosystem that he recently disclosed. We cover the bug’s timeline, nuances, and impact, all while setting some important context on npm packages, clients, and registries. Tune in to learn how to protect your codebase and gain a deeper understanding of this crucial part of the JavaScript ecosystem.

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• Feross Aboukhadijeh – Twitter, GitHub, Website

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• Darcy / vlt’s blog post on this massive npm bug
• Feross / Socket’s follow-up blog post in this issue
• Refactor Conf - Darcy & Feross will be speaking in July
• Verdaccio (not to be mistaken with Versace) - an open source npm registry proxy
• Github layoffs for engineering team in India
• Bug filled July 28th, 2022 related to binding.gyp and triaged on October 22nd, 2022
• Darcy’s original test POC from Nov 2nd, 2022
• Darcy’s POC from March 8th, 2023 which was used in the HackerOne report to Github
• Legacy docs for npm publish params
• Tool for checking packages for manifest mismatches
• Great resource for security acronyms

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Let’s debate debugging techniques! Do you print debug or dive deep into debugging tools? KBall & Jerod argue that print statements are all you need while Amal & guest Eric Clemmons take the other side. Who will win and why will it be Jerod? 😉

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• patch-package
• replay.io

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The panel dives into all of the supporting structures that we build around writing code, what works in different environments, and good and bad practices they have seen. From PR etiquette to CI/CD to how to write a ticket, they look at them from an open source perspective, an enterprise perspective, and everything in between.

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• Graphite
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• LaunchDarkly
• Split.io
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Million.js is a JavaScript library that helps render large datasets in the browser efficiently using a virtual DOM and custom diffing algorithm. Aiden and Tobi join Nick to talk about what it does, it’s goals, and where it’s going.

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• Million.js
• Million Discord
• Next.js
• Rules of Blocks
• React
• What is the virtual DOM in React?

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KBall interviews Nick Nisi about the Pandora’s box that is his tooling/developer setup. Starting at the lowest layer of the terminal emulator he uses, they move upwards into command line tools, into Tmux (terminals within terminals!), his epic NeoVim configuration, and finally into the tools he uses for notekeeping and productivity.

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• Nick’s Dotfiles
• Kitty
• WezTerm
• Nerd Fonts
• RipGrep
• fzf
• Zoxide
• tmux
• Neovim
• Lua
• Lazy.nvim
• Telescope.nvim
• Zettelkasten
• Obsidian
• Yabai
• Raycast
• Omnifocus

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Nick is excited to explain CVA to us like we’re five (then again like we’re 41).
KBall is excited to share details of his new stack (for the new app he’s building).
Jerod is excited to share some recent news items (but he’s the only one).

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• Class Variance Authority
• KBall’s new stack
  • QwikCity
  • Joist-ORM
• Bun’s new bundler
• MDN’s new Baseline
• JavaScript’s new frontend framework: VanJS
  • kriszyp/put-selector
  • Rich Harris quote

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Nick & KBall sit down with the brilliant Stephen Haberman to discuss all things ORMs! 💻🔍

From the advantages and disadvantages of ORMs in general, to delving into the intricacies of his innovative project Joist, which brings a fresh, idiomatic, ActiveRecord-esque approach to TypeScript. 🚀

So sit back, relax, and let’s dive deep into the world of ORMs with the experts!

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• TypeScript: Documentation - Mapped Types
• Hello from Joist | Joist
• TypeORM - Amazing ORM for TypeScript and JavaScript (ES7, ES6, ES5). Supports MySQL, PostgreSQL, MariaDB, SQLite, MS SQL Server, Oracle, WebSQL databases. Works in NodeJS, Browser, Ionic, Cordova and Electron platforms.
• Active Record Basics — Ruby on Rails Guides
• graphql/dataloader: DataLoader is a generic utility to be used as part of your application’s data fetching layer to provide a consistent API over various backends and reduce requests to those backends via batching and caching.
• facebook/Haxl: A Haskell library that simplifies access to remote data, such as databases or web-based services.
• Working with Entity Manager | MikroORM
• Object-Relational Mapping is the Vietnam of Computer Science
• kysely-org/kysely: A type-safe typescript SQL query builder
• Validation Rules | Joist
• Derived Fields | Joist
• The Streaming Database | Materialize
• PostgreSQL: The world’s most advanced open source database
• PostgreSQL: Documentation: 15: 41.3. Materialized Views
• Joist Slack

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Developer slash artist Alex Miller joins Jerod & Amelia to discuss the challenge he faced after deciding to eschew fancy frameworks and libraries in favor of vanilla JS to build an interactive essay called Grid World for the html review.

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• Myst
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• Daniel Shiffman
• Drawing Lines is Hard
• Algorithmically generated goods by SPACEFILLER

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Dax Raad joins KBall and Nick to chat about SST, a framework that makes it easier to build full-stack applications on AWS. We chat about how the project got started and its goals. Then we discuss OpenNext, an open source, framework-agnostic server less adapter for Next.js.

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Adam Argyle joins Amelia and Nick to catch them up on all the goings on within the world of CSS colors. There are a lot more options than you’d expect if you haven’t been keeping up, and Adam’s here to help you avoid the “gray dead zone”!

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• OKLCH in CSS: why we moved from RGB and HSL—Martian Chronicles, Evil Martians’ team blog
• CSS HD Gradients
• Gradient.style Discord
• High Definition CSS Color Guide - Chrome Developers

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Feross and his team at Socket recently shipped a wrapper library for the ubiquitous npm package manager’s command-line interface that brings enhanced security when you need it most: before executing any code

Bradly Farias lead this effort, so Jerod & Chris invited him on the show to learn all about it.

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The panel dives into a topic that makes most software developers cringe: Professional networking. Starting with a definition - what does it even mean? - they go into hacks they’ve found for getting more comfortable with networking, building your network in person or online, and then using your network to find new job opportunities or consulting work.

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Grab a comfy seat and a hot cup of joe, because it’s time for some coffee talk with Nick & KBall! Special guest Thomas Eckert joins the party and brings a bunch of questions for us to discuss.

Who wins in a fist fight: Tailwind CSS people or “real” CSS people? Is Agile overrated? What’s the longest bug you’ve ever chased? How about some underrated libraries/packages that people should know about? And more!

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Jerod & the gang catch you up on what’s new and poppin’ in the web development world. We go deep on GitHub Copilot X and the latest AI advancements, take a bathroom break while Nick talks about TypeScript 5 & continue the debate about the future of React.

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• Mozilla.ai
• Firefly Adobe GenAI
• TypeScript 5.0
• React.dev is now a thing

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Node core committer Erick Wendel joins Jerod & KBall to talk us through how he created his own JS runtime using V8, Libuv & more. Along the way we learn from his learnings, wrap our heads around the differences between Node, Bun & Deno, and talk about creating awesome content for developers… whether they like it or not!

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• 🎥 Creating your own JavaScript Runtime using V8, Libuv and more
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• LibUV

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Dan Abramov & Joe Savona from the React Team join Jerod & Nick for a wide-ranging discussion about React’s place in the frontend ecosystem. We cover everything from React competing with React, their responses to SPA fatigue and recent criticisms, to Server Components and the future of the framework.

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• React server componenets intro video
• React server componenets demo app
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• React’s blog to get updates

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Zach Leatherman returns to the show to discuss his progress over the last year since going full-time on Eleventy, including Eleventy 2.0, the release of WebC, and the state of static site generators.

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• Eleventy on YouTube
• The JavaScript Site Generator Review, 2023
• Astro
• WebC - single file web components
• is-land

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KBall and Nick interview one of the leaders of the Tauri project about this next generation app bundling toolkit: the security, size, and performance features that make it special (and dare we say, better than Electron?), and what’s coming next.

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Una & Adam from The CSS Podcast defend their Frontend Feud title against challengers David & Shaw from the keyframers. Let’s get it on!

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Amal sits down for a one-on-one with Alex Russell, Microsoft Partner on the Edge team, and former Web Standards Tech Lead for Chrome, whose recent post, The Market for Lemons, stirred up a BIG conversation in the web development community.

Have we really lost a decade in potential progress? What happened? Where do we go from here?

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• The Market for Lemons
• The case for frameworks - a rebuttal post by Laurie Voss
• A visual for session depth & frequency - a potential rubric for app architecture
• How Browsers Work
• How to build a Browser in Python
• Life of a Pixel
• WebPageTest
• The Mobile Performance Inequality Gap, 2021
• Alex’s Blog post on Performance Baseline’s
• Principal Agent Problem
• Alex’s talk on Progressive Enhancement @ Chrome Dev Summit
• React just released experimental support for web
• Chromium University
• Vincent Scheib - tweets lots of cool things
• Summertime Afternoon - a fun little WebGL app which sparks joy

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The panel dives into the current hot topic that is Generative AI. They start by defining it (a surprisingly difficult topic), then go into experiences they’ve had, how to get started working with it as a developer, and where they think it will and will not be useful in the near future.

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A deep dive into Qwik, how it makes your apps fast by default, and the carefully calibrated amount of “magic” that makes it uniquely powerful.

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• Qwik
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Fred K. Schott joins the party again to discuss all the new and fun changes in Astro 2. Nick and KBall dig in on what’s new, what’s exciting, and what to expect from the framework built around content.

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• JS Party - Build faster websites with Astro 1.0
• Astro Islands
• React Server Components
• React use hook
• Content collections
• Upgrade to Astro v2
• Astro server-side rendering
• Astro migration guide
• Language Server Protocol
• Astro language tools
• Zod
• SolidJS
• Jotai
• TanStack Query
• State of JS 2022
• JS Party on the State of JS Survey
• Fred’s thread on the State of JS survey
• Vite
• Partytown
• Astro on OpenCollective
• Astro on StackBlitz

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Jerod & the gang analyze the State of JS 2022 survey results, play a wicked game of HeadLIES & share some Pro Tips to help you live your best dev life.

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• The 2022 State of JS survey
• Amazon is now accepting your applications for its home surveillance drone
• ProseLint
• mason.nvim
• Store app state in the url
• Graphite
• Graphite on The Changelog

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KBall and Chris dive into the current JavaScript trends towards smaller frameworks, compiled JavaScript, and why Chris believes “this time is different” with regards to developers caring about network speed and reducing JS sent over the wire.

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• SolidJS
• Astro
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• HTMX
• JavaScript is the CO2 of the web
• Qwik is a new kind of web framework
• Chris’s resource list

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It’s our 4th annual New Year’s party! Jerod & the gang review our (failed) resolutions from last year, discuss what’s trending in the web world, make a few predictions of our own & even set some new (probably failed) resolutions for this year.

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• NUC (Next Unit Computing)
• ConstitutionDAO

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Deno creator Ryan Dahl goes one-on-one with Jerod to discuss their new npm support, why he’s so excited about JavaScript containers, Deno Deploy’s present & future, what he thinks about alternative runtimes like Bun, WinterCG, how Wasm fits into the story & more!

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KBall interviews CSS instructor & YouTuber extraordinaire Kevin Powell in a wide ranging discussion about CSS and how to learn it - what to start with, what to ignore, and various topics in between.

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• Raygun – Never miss another mission-critical issue again — Raygun Alerting is now available for Crash Reporting and Real User Monitoring, to make sure you are quickly notified of the errors, crashes, and front-end performance issues that matter most to you and your business. Set thresholds for your alert based on an increase in error count, a spike in load time, or new issues introduced in the latest deployment. Start your free 14-day trial at Raygun.com

Featuring:

• Kevin Powell – Twitter, GitHub, Website
• Kevin Ball – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website

Show Notes:

• Take the State of JS survey!
• Kevin Powell website
• Kevin’s Youtube Channel
• Flexbox Froggy
• Flexbox Zombies
• Grid Garden
• Grid Critters
• Designing Intrinsic Layouts
• CSS Stats
• MJML (for emails)
• Utopia.fyi
• CSS-Tricks
• Smashing Magazine
• Josh Comeau
• ModernCSS
• SmolCSS
• I am not a fan of what React has done to the web, but it’s VERY nice

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Thomas Steiner (Web Developer Advocate at Google) joins Amal & Nick to talk about Project Fugu – an effort to close gaps in the web’s capabilities enabling new classes of applications to run on the web.

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• Square – Develop on the platform that sellers trust. There is a massive opportunity for developers to support Square sellers by building apps for today’s business needs. Learn more at changelog.com/square to dive into the docs, APIs, SDKs and to create your Square Developer account — tell them Changelog sent you.
• Vercel – Vercel combines the best developer experience with an obsessive focus on end-user performance. Our platform enables frontend teams to do their best work. Unlock a better frontend workflow today.
• Lolo Code – If you’re familiar with building severless apps, think of Lolo Code as your backend with a visual editor that lets you think and build at the same time. All this without having to provision or manage servers. Use the visual editor to build your app, connect nodes, and add any npm libraries you need. You can even write your own integrations. This makes Lolo Code very Zapier-ish, but for devs. Try it free today with no credit card required at lolo.co/jsparty
• Sentry – Working code means happy customers. That’s exactly why teams choose Sentry. From error tracking to performance monitoring, Sentry helps teams see what actually matters, resolve problems quicker, and learn continuously about their applications - from the frontend to the backend. Use the code CHANGELOG and get the team plan free for three months.

Featuring:

• Thomas Steiner – Twitter, GitHub, Website
• Amal Hussein – Twitter, GitHub
• Nick Nisi – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, Website

Show Notes:

• Web Capabilities (Project Fugu :blowfish:)
• New capabilities status - Chrome Developers
• Fugu API Tracker
• Web Incubator Community Group (WICG)
• Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group (WHATWG)
• World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
• Getting started with Chrome’s origin trials - Chrome Developers
• Chrome Origin Trials
• Firefox Origin Trials
• Fugu API Tracker
• Fugu App Showcase

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Debbie O’Brien –Senior Program Manager at Microsoft– joins Amal & Nick for a deep-dive on Playwright, an automation library for cross-browser end-to-end testing. Along the way, we learn why Microsoft decided to fork Puppeteer, Playwright’s unique value proposition, cool features like auto-waiting & the trace viewer, how it compares to Cypress & a lot more.

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• Square – Develop on the platform that sellers trust. There is a massive opportunity for developers to support Square sellers by building apps for today’s business needs. Learn more at changelog.com/square to dive into the docs, APIs, SDKs and to create your Square Developer account — tell them Changelog sent you.
• Sentry – Working code means happy customers. That’s exactly why teams choose Sentry. From error tracking to performance monitoring, Sentry helps teams see what actually matters, resolve problems quicker, and learn continuously about their applications - from the frontend to the backend. Use the code CHANGELOG and get the team plan free for three months.
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Featuring:

• Debbie O'Brien – Twitter, GitHub, Website
• Amal Hussein – Twitter, GitHub
• Nick Nisi – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, Website

Show Notes:

Shout out to Caio Amaral for requesting this episode. You, too, can request an episode!

• Mallorca
• playwright.dev
• Playwright on GitHub
• Nuxt
• puppeteer
• Selenium
• Playwright test for VSCode
• Getting started - VS Code
• Testing Library
• Playwright on YouTube
• What’s new in Playwright 1.27
• Test Generator
• CI GitHub Actions

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

KBall and Boneskull dive deep with Paloma Oliveira on the cultural and social consequences of open source software, explore her background in arts and government-supported open source, and discuss practical approaches to change the culture of open source towards more sustainability.

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• Sentry – Working code means happy customers. That’s exactly why teams choose Sentry. From error tracking to performance monitoring, Sentry helps teams see what actually matters, resolve problems quicker, and learn continuously about their applications - from the frontend to the backend. Use the code CHANGELOG and get the team plan free for three months.
• Vercel – Vercel combines the best developer experience with an obsessive focus on end-user performance. Our platform enables frontend teams to do their best work. Unlock a better frontend workflow today.
• Sourcegraph – Transform your code into a queryable database to create customizable visual dashboards in seconds. Sourcegraph recently launched Code Insights — now you can track what really matters to you and your team in your codebase. See how other teams are using this awesome feature at about.sourcegraph.com/code-insights

Featuring:

• Paloma Oliveira – Twitter, GitHub
• Kevin Ball – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
• Christopher Hiller – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, Website

Show Notes:

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Estelle Weyl has been building the web since 1999 and documenting it since 2007. Today she joins Amal for a loooong and deeeep conversation about new and !important features of CSS & HTML. Sit down, strap in, and prepare to be schooled!

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• Raygun – Never miss another mission-critical issue again — Raygun Alerting is now available for Crash Reporting and Real User Monitoring, to make sure you are quickly notified of the errors, crashes, and front-end performance issues that matter most to you and your business. Set thresholds for your alert based on an increase in error count, a spike in load time, or new issues introduced in the latest deployment. Start your free 14-day trial at Raygun.com
• Sourcegraph – Transform your code into a queryable database to create customizable visual dashboards in seconds. Sourcegraph recently launched Code Insights — now you can track what really matters to you and your team in your codebase. See how other teams are using this awesome feature at about.sourcegraph.com/code-insights
• Retool – The low-code platform for developers to build internal tools — Some of the best teams out there trust Retool…Brex, Coinbase, Plaid, Doordash, LegalGenius, Amazon, Allbirds, Peloton, and so many more – the developers at these teams trust Retool as the platform to build their internal tools. Try it free at retool.com/changelog

Featuring:

• Estelle Weyl – Twitter, GitHub
• Amal Hussein – Twitter, GitHub

Show Notes:

• web platform tests
• test262 report
• Estelle’s CSS slides
• Google’s web.dev site
• Open Web Docs
• MDN: Cascade
• MDN: Cascade Layers
• MDN: Specificity
• MDN: important
• Merry-Go-Round
• Specificity with Fish