Hosts from the JavaScript Jabber podcast, AJ O'Neal and Dan Shappir join this week's crossover episode. They begin by giving a brief introduction of themselves. They talk about how to become a web developer and their perspective on being a web developer. Additionally, they discuss creating open-source projects. 

On YouTube

What It Takes To Be A Web Developer: Part 2 - RRU 222

Sponsors

• Chuck's Resume Template
• Developer Book Club 
• Become a Top 1% Dev with a Top End Devs Membership

Socials

• LinkedIn: AJ O'Neal
• Twitter: @coolaj86
• LinkedIn: Dan Shappir 
• Twitter: @DanShappir

Picks

• AJ - LMNT - The Best Electrolyte Drink Mix Ever
• AJ - MikroTik Routers and Wireless - Products
• Dan - JSNation – the main JavaScript conference of 2023
• Dan - JNation 2023

Hosts from the JavaScript Jabber podcast, AJ O'Neal and Dan Shappir join this week's crossover episode. They begin by giving a brief introduction of themselves. They talk about how to become a web developer and their perspective on being a web developer. Additionally, they discuss creating open-source projects. 

Sponsors

• Chuck's Resume Template
• Developer Book Club 
• Become a Top 1% Dev with a Top End Devs Membership

Socials

• LinkedIn: AJ O'Neal
• Twitter: @coolaj86
• LinkedIn: Dan Shappir 
• Twitter: @DanShappir

Chirag Dugar is a Software Development Engineer - II at Javis. He begins the show by talking about transitioning from being a college student to a Software Developer. He also shares his past learnings in coding and making connections during his internship. Moreover, he discusses his React projects, his experiences in creating those and his challenges.

Sponsors

• Chuck's Resume Template
• Raygun - Application Monitoring For Web & Mobile Apps
• Become a Top 1% Dev with a Top End Devs Membership

Socials

• LinkedIn: Chirag Dugar 
• GitHub: ChiragDugar
• Twitter: @c_dugar2011

Picks

• Chirag - In-App Chat & Messaging
• Jack - Raycast
• Paige - vscode-pets

Sami Jaber is a Software Engineer at Builder.io. He joins the show to discuss "Implementing CSS Style Inheritance in React Native". He starts by talking about the inspiration behind the article's concept. He also talks about Mitosis, how to use it, and its features. 

Sponsors

• Chuck's Resume Template
• Raygun - Application Monitoring For Web & Mobile Apps
• Become a Top 1% Dev with a Top End Devs Membership

Links

• Implementing CSS Style Inheritance in React Native
• A Quick Guide to Mitosis

Socials

• Twitter: @samijaber_
• GitHub: samijaber

Picks

• Paige - Adafruit PiTFT 3.5" Touch Screen for Raspberry Pi
• Sami - ATTITUDE | Reinventing Beauty
• TJ - The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides

Bruce A. Tate is a Founder at Groxio, Elixir Expert, and a Technical Author. He joins the show alongside Charles Max Wood to talk about his book, "Seven Languages in Seven Weeks". He also delves into some of the preparations and anticipations that come with reading the book. 

Links

• Seven Languages in Seven Weeks
• grox.io 

Socials

• LinkedIn: Bruce Tate
• Twitter: redrapids

Levan Katsadze is a React.js TypeScript developer and Author of VS Code extension "Blockman". He joins the show alongside Jack, Paige, and TJ to talk about Blockman. He starts off by defining it and describing how it functions. He also talks about the reason why he built the VS Code extension and the process of creating it. 

Sponsors

• Chuck's Resume Template
• Raygun - Application Monitoring For Web & Mobile Apps
• Become a Top 1% Dev with a Top End Devs Membership

Links

• Blockman - Highlight Nested Code Blocks

Socials

• LinkedIn: Levan Katsadze
• GitHub: leodevbro
• leodevbro.github.io

Picks

• Jack - NCDU Command
• Paige - Mayor of Kingstown (TV Series 2021
• TJ - Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (2023)

Are you dissatisfied with your job? Sam Feeney helps organizations improve employee engagement, increase retention, and reinvent hiring while helping individuals (re)discover career satisfaction in their current roles. He joins the show alongside Chuck Wood to tackle altering the way you perceive your job and talk about Career satisfaction.

On YouTube

How Do You Stop Hating Your Job? - BONUS

Socials

• LinkedIn: Sam Feeney

Simon Grimm is a Creator, Indie Maker & Solopreneur. He is currently working at The Ionic Academy. He joins the panel to talk about React Native and Capacitor. He starts by explaining how a "Capacitor" contributes to your web application. They talk about how to build web applications with a capacitor and how it differs from using a React Native. 

On YouTube

Creating Apps with Capacitor and React Native - RRU 217

Sponsors

• Chuck's Resume Template
• Raygun - Application Monitoring For Web & Mobile Apps
• Become a Top 1% Dev with a Top End Devs Membership

Links

• The Ionic Academy

Socials

• Devdactic
• GitHub: saimon24
• LinkedIn: Simon Grimm
• Twitter: @schlimmson

Picks

• Jack - Shop Polarized Sunglasses
• Paige - Unseen Sunscreen SPF 40 | Oil-Free Face Sunscreen
• Simon - Gandalf the Grey™ & Balrog™
• TJ - 11/22/63: A Novel: King, Stephen

Hosts of the Adventures in Angular podcast, Chuck Wood and Lucas Paganini, join the React Round Up Panel on this week's episode crossover. They begin the episode by contrasting the two frameworks and offering their own viewpoints on React and Angular. Additionally, they explain each of the frameworks' strong points.

Sponsors

• Chuck's Resume Template
• Developer Book Club 
• Become a Top 1% Dev with a Top End Devs Membership

Educational Links

• react.dev
• Article by Lucas Paganini
• Video by Lucas Paganini

Promoted Links

• Web Animations Course: lucaspaganini.com/web-animations
• Hire Angular Experts: unvoid.com
• Blues.io
• Paige Niedringhaus
• Blue Collar Coder

Socials

• YouTube @lucaspaganiniweb
• LinkedIn @lucaspaganiniweb
• Twitter @lucaspaganini 
• Instagram @lucaspaganini
• TikTok @lucaspaganiniweb
• Twitter: @cmaxw
• Twitter: @tjvantoll
• Twitter: @jherr
• Twitter: @pniedri

Picks

• Chuck - Atiwa
• Lucas - Modernize an Enterprise React App by Paige Niedringhaus
• Paige - Scubapro / Dive Skins / Diving Suits: Sports & Outdoors
• TJ - 11/22/63 by Stephen King

Sean Austin is the CEO and Co-Founder of Helios. It is pioneering speech analytics for Wall Street. He joins the show to explain more about his company's background, how it got started and some of the factors they consider that have an impact on the company. He also discusses the services they can provide to their clients. 

Sponsors

• Chuck's Resume Template
• Developer Book Club 
• Become a Top 1% Dev with a Top End Devs Membership

Links

• Helios
• Markets Slammed With Noise, Investors Trust Tone to Set the Record Straight
• The Helios Life Episode
• Sean Austin
• LinkedIn: Sean Austin
• Twitter: @stlgotmynikeson

Picks

• Paige - 1923 (TV Series 2022–2023) - IMDb
• Sean - The Last of Us (TV Series 2023– ) - IMDb
• TJ - hoopla
• TJ - Libby app

Jack, Paige, and TJ join this week's panelist episode to tackle all things React and their take on different frameworks. They start off by talking about the pros and cons of "Create React App". They also discuss the Typescript 5.0 features and the SvelteKit, which was just released.

On YouTube

The React Universe - RRU 214

Sponsors

• Chuck's Resume Template
• Developer Book Club 
• Become a Top 1% Dev with a Top End Devs Membership

Links

• Create React App
• Announcing TypeScript 5.0 Beta
• SvelteKit
• @astrojs/react Astro Documentation
• Gatsby: The Fastest Frontend for the Headless Web
• Netlify
• I Was Wrong About Nested React Components | YouTube

Picks

• Jack - Logitech MX Vertical Ergonomic Wireless Mouse
• Paige - Only Murders in the Building (TV Series 2021– ) - IMDb
• TJ - The Sixth Sense (1999) - IMDb

Giulio Zausa is a Software Engineer at Flux. They build next-generation collaborative tools for hardware design. He joins the show to talk about his projects on Flux. He also shares some of his tips and experiences on how to improve your application performance. Moreover, he dives into what the react-three-fiber library is all about and its functions. 

About This Episode

• Chrome Profiler
• Performance Testing
• Using React in building apps
• THREE.js and react-three-fiber library
• 
  

Sponsors

• Chuck's Resume Template
• Developer Book Club 
• Become a Top 1% Dev with a Top End Devs Membership

Links

• Flux
• Scaling 3D Graphics on the Web (GrazJS #34)
• react-three-fiber
• Giulio Zausa
• GitHub: giulioz
• Twitter: @giuliozausa

Picks

• Giulio - v86
• Paige - OpenAPI Initiative: Home
• TJ - Poker Face (TV Series 2023– ) - IMDb

Alex Olivier is a Product Lead at Cerbos. It is a self-hosted, open-source authorization layer that separates your authorization logic from your core application code. He joins the show to talk about the company in more detail and what it can offer to its users. Additionally, he explains the process of Testing and Setting it up. 

About this Episode

• How authorization enables a company to scale, win enterprise clients, and meet regulatory requirements
• The ongoing shift in decoupling applications into specialized services, authentication was first, and now authorization being the next big one
• Stateful vs Stateless authorization
• Configuration vs Code - Cerbos policies
• Being ‘Cloud Native’ - first class support for metrics, telemetry, observability
• Learning about Cerbos for new users

Sponsors

• Chuck's Resume Template
• Developer Book Club 
• Become a Top 1% Dev with a Top End Devs Membership

Links

• Cerbos
• Cerbos @ CollisionConf 2022 - YouTube
• Cerbos #3 - How Cerbos Works - YouTube
• LinkedIn: Cerbos
• LinkedIn: Alex Olivier

Picks

• Alex - Wireless Flight Adapter 
• Jack - Fusion 360
• Paige - Your Best Portable Monitor On-the-Go – Arzopa Store
• TJ - Sign Up for National Geographic Newsletters

Sam Magura is a Software developer at Spot. He joins the show alongside, Jack and TJ to talk about his article, "Why We're Breaking Up with CSS-in-JS". He was the second most active maintainer of Emotion, a widely-popular CSS-in-JS library for React. But realized it came with a big performance cost and added unnecessary complexity. He describes the specific inefficiencies that he has encountered while using it and how he came to realize them. Moreover, he talks about his solution to these performance problems. 

Sponsors

• Chuck's Resume Template
• Developer Book Club starting with Clean Architecture by Robert C. Martin
• Become a Top 1% Dev with a Top End Devs Membership

Links

• Why We're Breaking Up with CSS-in-JS - DEV Community 👩‍💻👨‍💻
• emotion-js/emotion
• GitHub: srmagura
• LinkedIn: Sam Magura

Picks

• Jack - Watch The Midnight Gospel | Netflix Official Site
• Sam - Skiing in Colorado
• TJ - M3GAN (2022) - IMDb

Jack Franklin is working on Chrome DevTools as a Frontend Engineer at Google. He joins the show to talk about his article, "Why I don't miss React: a story about using the platform". He explains why he wrote his article and about his experience working with ChromeDevTools. Additionally, he dives into the advantages of Web components and its difference from React. He tackles all of the key points of his article. 

Sponsors

• Chuck's Resume Template
• Developer Book Club starting with Clean Architecture by Robert C. Martin
• Become a Top 1% Dev with a Top End Devs Membership

Links

• Why I don't miss React: a story about using the platform
• Jack Franklin
• Jack (@jack@indieweb.social)
• Twitter: @Jack_Franklin

Picks

• Jack F. - Ben Vallack
• Jack H. - Midjourney - Discord
• Paige - Watch Mythic Quest | Apple TV+
• TJ - Bokksu

Talking about their 2023 Hot Takes and predictions, Jack, Paige, and TJ tackle this week's Panelist episode. They discuss their hopes for this year as well as potential improvements to the various languages and technologies. Additionally, they also dive into some of the software development tools and share their recommendations and expectations for them. 

Sponsors

• Chuck's Resume Template
• Developer Book Club starting with Clean Architecture by Robert C. Martin
• Become a Top 1% Dev with a Top End Devs Membership

Picks

•  Jack - Four Thousand Weeks
• Paige - ErGear Height Adjustable Electric Standing Desk
• TJ - Buy AirPods Pro

Collin Pfeifer, writer, software engineer, and student at Indiana University joins the React Round Up panel to discuss the intricacies and pitfalls in Create React App, the roadmap of being a self-taught developer, and how the computer education system has changed over the years.

Sponsors

• Chuck's Resume Template
• Developer Book Club starting with Clean Architecture by Robert C. Martin
• Become a Top 1% Dev with a Top End Devs Membership

Links

• Why Create React App is Outdated in 2022
• Collin Pfeifer
• Twitter: @pfeifer_collin

Picks

• Collin - GitHub student developer pack
• Collin - Thrifting mystery packs
• Jack - Rubik's Cube
• TJ - Lensa AI: photo & video editor 4+ - App Store