Returning guest Mark Erikson joins the React Round Up team to discuss how he found himself in the position of being an open source maintainer for Redux, how he's helped shepherd/author future versions of Redux (and the complete overhauls that happened when React Hooks were introcuded), and the new examples he's written for Redux Toolkit to make Redux easier for devs to get started with. Mark also addresses some commons misconceptions around React and Redux, such as: is React Context a perfect substitute for Redux (spoiler: it's not), and is Redux still relevant today (it is). Take a listen to hear about getting into open source, where Redux is headed and Mark's broader thoughts on helping the React community document and standardize all the options out there so developers have an easier time choosing the tools needed to solve their particular problems.

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• Cheng Lou - On the Spectrum of Abstraction at react-europe 2016
• Blogged Answers: Why React Context is Not a "State Management" Tool (and Why It Doesn't Replace Redux)
• Coding Career Advice
• GitHub | markerikson/react-community-tools-practices-cheatsheet
• GitHub | markerikson/react-community-tools-practices-cheatsheet - Initial RFC: Scope and Goals #1
• Comparison with Other Frameworks
• Redux Style Guide#
• Redux Essentials, Part 1: Redux Overview and Concepts#
• Redux Fundamentals, Part 1: Redux Overview#
• Redux Toolkit
• RTK Query
• JavaScript for Java-ish Developers
• Mark's Dev Blog
• Twitter: Mark Erikson ( @acemarke )
• GitHub | Mark Erikson



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• Mark- Josh Comeau
• Paige- Open source password manager - Bitwarden
• TJ- Bowflex SelectTech Dumbbells
• Zain- GitHub | zalmoxisus/redux-devtools-extension

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Today the panel is discussing how to introduce new tech at work. They agree that it’s important to get input from all teams on the decision, although it will primarily affect the development team. One should also consider the different ways people make decisions, such as through discussion or quiet thinking, and give everyone time to come to a decision. The panel talks about positive and negative examples of how to introduce new tech at work. Thomas believes that it is important to acknowledge your own biases in decision making and to try to avoid them. The React experts discuss the significance of the team dynamic and the necessity of different roles in decision making or if it is better to have an organic discovery phase. This relates to Thomas’ point about personal biases, and he believes that it is important to put people in roles that are opposite of their personality. When making decisions about new technology, it is also important to note that not all decisions require the same amount of input, and they discuss how to measure how much input is required for a decision.

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• Vue
• 12 React Best Practices You Need to Follow in 2019
• Saul
• Test && commit || revert
• VS Code ESLint

Picks

• Thomas - Teachable Machine
• Charles - White Christmas
• Charles - Holiday Inn
• Chris - Practical React Hooks

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Zain Sajjad is a frontend developer at his company Peekaboo Guru, an app built in React. The show begins with Zain explaining why he chose to build Peekaboo Guru in React. Ultimately, he chose React for its composability and reusability. He talks about how much data is shared between his React and React Native applications.

Zain explains what he means by a container since he is not talking about Docker, and how he has the app organized. He talks about the differences between routing and navigation between React and React Native. When approaching these differences, he breaks things down into components, containers, and platform, paying careful attention to how they work together. This differentiation can actually help a lot with testing as well. 

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• Peekaboo Guru
• React
• React Native
• React Native Navigation
• React Navigation
• SQL
• TensorFlow
• Fun Fun Function
• Immer.js

Picks

• Lucas - Ember.js
• Lucas - 3Blue1Brown
• Thomas - Rite in the Rain notepad

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In this episode of React Round Up, the panel talks with Kay Plößer, describing their experiences learning React. Kay is a software developer from Stuttgart, Germany and the author of the book React from Zero. They discuss the best approach to learning React from scratch. Kay describes the process of writing and producing his book 'React from Zero'. Initially he started with tutorials and lessons and then turned those into a book. It is constructed in two sections: basic and advanced and it's purpose is to help developers learn React without being overwhelmed. He has received great feedback from the people who have bought the book.

Kay then describes his experiences teaching React to developers and talks about his blog post React Hooks Demystified which became really popular. The panel then about how developers can increase and diversify income through writing books and side projects.

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Links

• Kay's Book: React from Zero
• Kay's Blog Post: React Hooks Demystified
• Kay’s LinkedIn
• Kay’s Twitter
• Kay’s GitHub
• Kay's Website
• Kay's Skillshare
• Kay's Facebook
• https://www.facebook.com/React-Round-Up
• https://twitter.com/reactroundup

Picks

• Nader - Finite and Infinite Games by James Carse
• Lucas - An Introduction and Guide to the CSS Object Model
• Lucas - AST Explorer
• Charles - Charles' New Devchat.tv Build on Eleventy on GitHub
• Kay - Wardley maps

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David Khourshid is the author of a library called Xstate, He has been a developer for 7 years, currently works for Microsoft, his passion is frontendTalks a. In college, he actually studied piano performance, and so he talks about how he got into programming and where he started. The panel discusses his unique husky animation and how he came up with the idea for it and went about programming it.

The panel discusses what a state is in React. David defines a state as a moment in time. States can change, when they do, that’s a state transition. They talk about the utility of states and thinking about your app as a state machine. They agree that describing your code as a state machine makes it easier to communicate and connect with non developers. The panel discusses the importance of learning from other industries, such as approaching programming the same way construction workers build a house. They debate the Waterfall versus the Agile mindset. 

They talk about the advantages of programming in React and focusing on the state machine, especially because it is important to be intentional about dealing with concepts separate from other concepts. They share different ways to switch to state machine thinking, one of which is to look at your event handlers and make sure they are doing anything besides dispatching events. David talks about his library called Xstate and the basics of his library and his inspiration, and who else is working in state machines. The finish by discussing industry standards. 

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Links

• Xstate
• Keyframers
• Bootstrap
• David’s husky animation
• The Checklist Manifesto
• Sion SCXML
• QT
• Elm
• Thunk
• Observable
• NoFlo
• Sketch Systems
• State Charts 

Picks

• David - Atomic Habits by James Clear 
• David - Bullet Journal
• Thomas - The Checklist Manifesto
• Thomas - Thomas’ Youtube Channel
• David Khourshid - Constructing The User Interface with State Charts (check the library first)

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In this week’s episode of React Round Up the panel works their way through a blog post outlining best practices for React. The first is “keeping components small and function-specific”. The panel discusses the pros of using this best practice and how it relates to the single responsibility principle. This best practice also helps with the next, “reusability is important”.

The panel considers this second best practice and points out some of its flaws. It recommends avoiding the creation of new components. The panel explains that by avoiding creating new components it saves time but can also cause problems as you adapt components to fit more projects. 

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Links

• https://teachablemachine.withgoogle.com/ 
• Practical React Hooks: How to refactor your app to use Hooks 
• 12 React Best Practices You Need to Follow in 2020 
• https://github.com/nadeesha/saul 
• https://www.facebook.com/React-Round-Up
• https://twitter.com/reactroundup

Picks

• Charles - White Christmas 
• Charles - Holiday Inn 
• Charles - The MaxCoders Guide To Finding Your Dream Developer Job 
• Christopher - https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-eslint 
• Christopher - https://www.playingwithfire.co/ 
• Thomas - test && commit || revert

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Front-end developer Maksim Ivanov talks about working for Mojang, the company behind the ridiculously popular game Minecraft. As it turns out, Maksim uses React to build different pieces of the game, and runs the code through a custom renderer to make it work in the game world. In addition to his day job, he also found time to write a book about TypeScript after realizing how much easier getting familiar with new code bases could be if TypeScript was used instead of JavaScript. The panel has used TypeScript to varying degrees themselves, but nobody's gone all in, and they talk about the pros and cons of it, including the initial learning curve and how it can help prevent bugs in the code. Maksim's book covers many aspects of TypeScript in great detail, and it sounds like a good read for anyone just picking up the language.

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Links

• Custom Renderer
• react-game-engine - npm
• react-unity-webgl - npm
• gettext
• newline
• @tjfuller • Instagram
• React Hook Form
• Cheatsheets for experienced React developers getting started with TypeScript
• The RSpec Book
• TypeStrong

Picks

• Maksim - Follow Maksim on Youtube
• Maksim -Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
• Charles - Iron druid chronicles
• Charles - Percy Jackson
• Paige - The Name of the Wind
• TJ - OmniDiskSweeper, OmniWeb, and OmniPresence - The Omni Group
• TJ - https://rtmccormick.com/2018/01/10/clear-node-modules-folders-recursively-mac-linux/

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Today we talk with Fred Schott, the co-creator of Astro, a web framework focused on improving performance. Built around island architecture, it leverages HTML over javascript where it’s an option. Astro is a great option for those who focus on content, marketing, or personal blogs, and it is a great option to use with React. In this episode, we talk about when it makes sense to use Astro, and how to implement it.

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Links

• astro.new 
• Astro | Build faster websites
• Astro Lounge
• Twitter: @FredKSchott
• Twitter: @astrodotbuild

Picks

• Fred- Over the Garden Wall
• Jack- Pizza: The Ultimate Cookbook Featuring More Than 300 Recipes (Italian Cooking, Neapolitan Pizzas, Gifts for Foodies, Cookbook, History of Pizza)
• TJ- The Vergecast Podcast

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In today's episode, we talk about state management, dependency injection, react hooks, API access best practices and more with Tommy Groshong a React UI architect.

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Links

• React Context for Dependency Injection Not State Management
• Reduce State Management Footprint with React Query
• Reduce State Management Footprint with React Query
• Test Double
• TommyGroshong.com
• LinkedIn: Thomas Groshong 
• Twitter: Tommy Groshong ( @tgroshon ) 

Picks

• Jack- Deno Deploy
• Paige- Ted Lasso
• Paige- GitHub | foambubble/foam
• TJ- Land of the Giants
• Tommy- The Courier
• Tommy- The Anarchist Handbook

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Software Engineer Andrey Goncharov joins the React Round Up crew to discuss how his company Hazelcast has approached visualizing hundreds of data points on potentially hundreds of computers in a way that makes sense to users. Dust off your math skills - it gets a little technical along the way as they discuss graphs, charts, performance optimizations, and bottlenecks, and even handling accessibility of these data-intensive graphs. If you ever have to debug system failures and anomalies, this will be a worthwhile episode to check out.

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Links

• Hazelcast | The Leading In-Memory Computing Platform
•  Chart.js | Open Source HTML5 Charts for your Website

Picks

• Andrey- Designing Data-Intensive Applications by Martin Kleppmann
• Paige-  Netflix Series | The Queen’s Gambit
• TJ- City of Stairs: A Novel (The Divine Cities) by Robert Jackson Bennett

Special Guest: Andrey Goncharov.

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Tania Rascia joins the round up to discuss how to organize your code across files, directories, components, and repos within your React app. The panel chimes in with what they've seen and clarify how these approaches effect the overall application functionality of your app.

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Links

• React Architecture: How to Structure and Organize a React Application | Tania Rascia
• Backends for Frontends pattern - Cloud Design Patterns | Microsoft Docs
• Chakra UI
• Front End Tables: Sorting, Filtering, and Pagination | Tania Rascia

Picks

• Jack- react-location - npm
• Paige - Newline.co
• Paige- Fullstack React with Typescript course
• Tania - Netlify
• TJ - Edge Impulse

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Software engineer Pierre Hedkvist joins the React Round Up panelists to share some spicy (controversial) coding decisions he's made and then written about. The first hot topic is using React state to store filter setting in query parameters with the help of a custom Hook, and the second is migrating an app to rely more heavily on React Query instead of Redux.

If you've been considering doing something similar, give this episode a listen to hear Pierre's strategies and advice for anyone looking to get started.

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Links

• Storing State in the URL with React
• Migrating from Redux to React Query
• Pierre Hedkvist
• Twitter: @PierreHedkvist

Picks

• Paige - ChrisFix | Youtube Channel
• Pierre - YJS
• Pierre - LiveBlocks
• TJ - Magic Puzzles

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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.

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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

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Jack, Paige, and TJ join this week's panelist episode to talk about Figma. Figma is a web-based design tool. Jack takes the lead as he talks about its new exciting features, how this tool benefits the designers, what sets it apart from competing design tools, and many more!

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Links

• Figma: The Collaborative Interface Design Tool

Picks

• Jack - Monkeytype | A minimalistic, customizable typing test
• Paige - Ted Lasso (TV Series 2020–2023)
• TJ - The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

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Peter Osah is a Fullstack Software Engineer, Technical Writer, and a Biochemist & Bioinformatics Enthusiast. He joins the show to talk about his article, " Bootstrap your next Preact application with Bun". He begins by giving the listeners an introduction to Bun and its advantages. 

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Links

• Bootstrap your next Preact application with Bun

Socials

• LinkedIn: Peter Osah

Picks

• Jack - Spider Grills - The Original Spider-22
• Paige - GitHub Copilot · Your AI pair programmer
• TJ - The Vergecast

 

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Oluwaseun Raphael Afolayan is the Co-Founder of MyTherapist.ng, Technical Author, Fullstack Mobile Engineer, and eSports Gamer. He joins the show to talk about Firebase. He discusses the services that Firebase offers and why he chose it. 

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Links

• Firebase

Socials

• LinkedIn: Oluwaseun Raphael Afolayan

Picks

• Jack - Insta360 X3 – Waterproof 360 Action Camera
• Paige - Star Trek: Picard (TV Series 2020–2023)
• TJ - GCI Outdoor

 

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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

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• 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

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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. 

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Socials

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

 

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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.

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

Picks

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

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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. 

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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

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