Episodes
Michael Jackson and Ryan Florence join chantastic to talk about Remix — a killer React framework from the creators of React Router. This is a two part conversation. This week, they dive into the technical challenges of building a React framework and why the ancient techniques found in Turbolinks and PJAX could be the key to high performance server-side rendered and generated React apps….
Published 07/02/20
Joel Hooks shares the story of egghead.io. Joel and chantastic talk about doing the work, the overrated role of passion, the power of a grudge, and building yourself into your own boss.
Published 06/25/20
Tomasz Łakomy shares how to survive the rapidly changing frontend landscape. Tomasz and chantastic talk serverless, end-to-end testing with cypress, and the greatest frontend tool of all time: jQuery.
Published 06/18/20
To celebrate 7 years of React, we have a very special guest: Pete Hunt. He’s the one who asked us to give React just 5 minutes, to reconsider our established frontend practices, and see if separation of technologies was serving us as well as we thought. Pete tells us about the early days of React — it’s rocky community reception, Facebook’s struggle to create meaningful open source, and betting big on CommonJS and a little-known bundler named Webpack.
Published 05/28/20
Dave Geddes tells us about the science of learning and how he uses it to ensure success at mastery.games — where he teaches CSS layout, service workers, and more. We talk about the importance of sleep for learning, the joy of graduating from employee to entrepreneur, and how exterminating a few critters can help you master CSS Grid once and for all
Published 05/21/20
This week Matt Perry tells about Magic Motion — the killer new feature for Framer Motion that makes shared element transitions easy for React developers We talk about full-stack correction for FLIP animations, the virtuous relationship between product and open source, and how “fear-driven development” kept him from finding a Magic Motion solutions earlier…
Published 05/14/20
Dimitrius Clark joins us to drop some good nuggets on building community. We talk about his meetup Reactadelphia, tips for finding the best Code Bootcamps, and how to supercharge your career after graduation — using all the corniest career advice.
Published 05/07/20
Chance Strickland (@chancethedev) and chantastic talk about Reach UI and building flexible libraries for the web. They talk about separation of logic with statecharts, the cascading complexity of accessibility, unopinionated approaches to styling, and the career effects of great open source.
Published 04/30/20
Dominic Nguyen joins us to talk about visual regression testing for design systems with chromatic — the important differences between snapshot testing and visual testing, why the component construct was the missing piece, and how chromatic gives teams confidence.
Published 04/23/20
This week on React Podcast our guest is… me! Max Stoiber takes the host seat to ask about my journey from unemployment line to React Podcaster. Nothing is off limits. We talk faith, family, cancer, death, and finding a place in tech… Thanks Max for dreaming up this episode and convincing me to do it.
Published 04/16/20
Laurie Barth joins us to talk about building a career you’ll love, networking you won’t hate, and a proven strategy to beat imposter syndrome.
Published 04/09/20
Adam Wathan tells us what it takes to make your own money. He’s a prolific author, podcaster, educator, open source creator, and true fullstack developer. He shares a look into what it took to make Refactoring UI and Tailwind CSS smash hits.
Published 04/02/20
Chris Biscardi and I talk about using the platform — what happened in the browser while we were webpacking all-the-things-in-js. We talk about the future of JavaScript meta frameworks, a return to Rails, serverless provider lock-in, and the value of content creation in an economic downturn.
Published 03/26/20
We learn from Maggie Appleton about mental models, conceptual metaphor theory, culture, creative thinking, drawing a box, and how it all comes together in her incredible Egghead course artwork.
Published 03/19/20
This week we chat with Michael of React Training and learn everything we need to know about React Router v6 — what's in store, how to update, and what he's learned about empathy in the process.
Published 03/12/20
We sit down with Max Stoiber and find out what it takes to find luck in open source. Max is the creator of react-boilerploit and the co-creator of styled-components and spectrum.chat.
Published 03/05/20
David Khourshid is the man bringing statecharts to the frontend. We talk about XState, model-based testing with xstate-test, and the future designer/coder integration For the month of february, we're chatting exclusively with Reactathon speakers. You can hear more from David on the topic state-charts for UI development this march. Reactathon is a top React conference in the heart of San Francisco. David and I will be there, chewing people's ears off about better designer tooling. Get a...
Published 02/27/20
Today we chat with Becca Bailey about Refactoring — how to make your React code a little more liveable, human-friendly, and ready for anything. You can hear more from Becca this march, on finding joy in refactoring. Reactathon is a top React conference in the heart of San Francisco. Becca and I will be there, passing out high fives and excited to meet you. Get a ticket at reactathon.com.
Published 02/20/20
Today we chat with Evan Bacon about Expo and delivering on the illusive promise of "write once. run anywhere." For the month of february, we're chatting exclusively with Reactathon speakers. You can hear more from Evan on the topic of using Expo for universal React development this march. Reactathon is a top React conference in the heart of San Francisco. Evan and I will be there, having a good time and happy to chat with you. Get a ticket at reactathon.com.
Published 02/13/20
Today we chat with Daria Caraway and learn how to build considerate React components with TypeScript. For the month of february, we're chatting exclusively with Reactathon speakers. You can hear more from Daria on this topic of developing considerate React components on the Reactathon this march. Reactathon is a top React conference in the heart of San Francisco. Daria and I will be there, high-fiving people and having a good time. Get a ticket at reactathon.com.
Published 02/06/20
Conferences are a big part of the React ecosystem. This year, there's a conference that stands out from the rest: Render(ATL). Render(ATL) is a new conference in Atlanta that promises to introduce React developers to the voice and culture of the south. Today we sit with Justin E. Samuels to hear his vision for the conference, how much he loves his city, and what amazing things await attendees in Atlanta this year.
Published 01/30/20
Every few months, I like to explore professions that are adjacent to programming. Today we're exploring captioning and its impact on our industry. Our guide for this industry is the fabulously giften Norma Miller of White Coat Captioning. I was captivated by her work at last year's React Rally and wanted to share with you what I learned from her. Her company does primarily technical events, which gives her an interesting vantage point into tech conference culture. We talk about typing in...
Published 01/23/20
We're kicking off a new decade by going back in time time to 1999, just 10 years after the birth of the internet. Our guest today is Lee Byron. He takes us on a tour of the early web and personal home pages. And connects the dots between PHP and technologies like React and GraphQL. His work — inside Facebook during a critical pivot to mobile — provides a unique vantage point on the progress of web technologies over the past 20 years.
Published 01/16/20
Today we sit down with award winning cartoonist, a book apart author, web animations expert, new member to the React Core Team, and all round lovely human Rachel Nabors. We talk about her journey to React, the Woman at the Heart of React zine (from this years React Conf), and her charter to make React and React Native documentation friendly, powerful, and inclusive.
Published 12/12/19
React Core Team member Suil Pai in the chair today. React is a complicated project. It's open source but lead by facebook. That's a hard pill for many to swollow. But, for it, we get a framework that's battle-tested at facebook scale — every experimental API tested by billions of users. Today, Sunil and I dive into the future of React as a UI framework, how Concurrent mode marks a shift in focus from developer experience to user experience, and what it'll take to finally get better designer...
Published 12/05/19