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**Full Stack Radio**

A podcast for developers interested in building great software products. Every episode, Adam Wathan is joined by a guest to talk about everything from product design and user experience to unit testing and system administration.

Latest Episodes:

143: Rich Harris - Svelte and Defending the Modern Web Jul 22, 2020

Show notes

Topics include:

What is Svelte and how is it different than other JS frameworks in the space?
What special behavior does the Svelte compiler layer on top of vanilla JS syntax and why?
Why the lack of render functions in Svelte isn't a real problem in practice
What are you giving up when you choose to build your application with something like Rails instead of JavaScript?
Why should we be trying to write our applications in a single language, and why should it be JS?
What's wrong with striving to write an application entirely in a language like Ruby instead of entirely in JS?
Why HEY doesn't really make a good argument against the modern web
Thoughts on bundle sizes, code-splitting, and why aggressive code-splitting is still better than frequent round trips to a server-rendered app
How Svelte and Sapper handle SSR
Why page transitions are the killer argument for building SPAs if we want to be able to compete with native experiences
Should we be thinking about JavaScript applications as native applications in terms of offline-support and eventual consistency, or should we keep thinking of them as webpages that depend on the network?

Links:

Supporting the show:

I decided to stop taking sponsors for the show because I think advertisements are annoying and no one wants to listen to them.

If you do want to support the show, the best way to do it is to purchase one of my products:

Tailwind UI, a collection of professionally designed, fully responsive HTML components built with Tailwind CSS.
Refactoring UI, a book and video series I put together with Steve Schoger on designing beautiful user interfaces, without relying on a designer.
Advanced Vue Component Design, a course on designing simpler, more flexible Vue components that are both more powerful and easier to maintain.
Test-Driven Laravel, a massive video course on designing robust Laravel applications with TDD. Learn how to build a real-world application from scratch without writing a single line of untested code.
Refactoring to Collections, a book and video course that teaches you how to apply functional programming principles to break down ugly, complex code into simple transformations — free of loops, complex conditionals, and temporary variables.

142: Jason Cohen - Learning to Hire and Manage a Team Jul 01, 2020

Show notes

Topics include:

How do you decide what role to hire for?
Why it's so important to figure out exactly what your biggest struggle is before hiring
How to decide what the most important thing to focus on is when it feels like there's too much to do
Why it's important to consider the impact of hiring for a specific role on your own happiness vs. just the company's bottom line
Coming to terms with the fact that you can't do everything, and why it's important to focus on something instead of spreading yourself thin across everything
Mistakes people make when they start managing a team for the first time

Links:

Jason's blog, one of the greatest treasure troves of startup advice on the internet
Designing the Ideal Bootstrapped Business, one of Jason's MicroConf talks

Supporting the show:

I decided to stop taking sponsors for the show because I think advertisements are annoying and no one wants to listen to them.

If you do want to support the show, the best way to do it is to purchase one of my products:

Tailwind UI, a collection of professionally designed, fully responsive HTML components built with Tailwind CSS.
Refactoring UI, a book and video series I put together with Steve Schoger on designing beautiful user interfaces, without relying on a designer.
Advanced Vue Component Design, a course on designing simpler, more flexible Vue components that are both more powerful and easier to maintain.
Test-Driven Laravel, a massive video course on designing robust Laravel applications with TDD. Learn how to build a real-world application from scratch without writing a single line of untested code.
Refactoring to Collections, a book and video course that teaches you how to apply functional programming principles to break down ugly, complex code into simple transformations — free of loops, complex conditionals, and temporary variables.

141: Jason Fried - Running the Tailwind Business on Basecamp Jun 10, 2020

Show notes

Topics include:

How did Basecamp evolve from being a team/client communication tool to focusing on keeping your whole company organized, and is it really even that different?
How exactly should we set up Basecamp on day one to support a small 3-5 person remote software team? What tools should we use and which ones should we ignore for now?
Finding the balance between being organized enough and splitting things up too much
How big should projects be? Is "HEY v1" a project, or is a project something more like "HEY File Attachments"?
What tools do you normally enable for regular projects, and how do you use them?
How are you normally using chat at the individual project level?
Why todo lists should be created by the individuals doing the work, and not the people assigning the work
How should we use the company HQ project? What are some less obvious ideas we can apply there that can make a big difference?
Using a "what we're working on" project to keep everyone on the team in the loop and feeling connected
Using "heartbeats" to summarize the work a team has been doing over a period of time for the rest of the company
Advice on bringing on new employees and how to assign them their first project
When you're such a writing-driven company, how do you make sure decisions get written down when they are made in real-time instead of naturally occurring within Basecamp?

Screenshots:

Links:

Basecamp
Shape Up, Basecamp's recent book on how they work
Going Remote: Basecamp Walkthrough, a livestream where Jason and DHH go over their real Basecamp account

Supporting the show:

I decided to stop taking sponsors for the show because I think advertisements are annoying and no one wants to listen to them.

If you do want to support the show, the best way to do it is to purchase one of my products:

Tailwind UI, a collection of professionally designed, fully responsive HTML components built with Tailwind CSS
Refactoring UI, a book and video series I put together with Steve Schoger on designing beautiful user interfaces, without relying on a designer.
Advanced Vue Component Design, a course on designing simpler, more flexible Vue components that are both more powerful and easier to maintain.
Test-Driven Laravel, a massive video course on designing robust Laravel applications with TDD. Learn how to build a real-world application from scratch without writing a single line of untested code.
Refactoring to Collections, a book and video course that teaches you how to apply functional programming principles to break down ugly, complex code into simple transformations — free of loops, complex conditionals, and temporary variables.

140: Evan You - Reimagining the Modern Dev Server with Vite May 28, 2020

Show notes

Topics include:

What is Vite and what makes it different than existing tools like Webpack?
How do ES Modules actually work in the browser and what are the limitations?
Will we ever be able to use ES Modules in production for large complex projects?
How does Vite work under the hood, and how does it support non-JS files like Vue files, or CSS files?
How hot module replacement is implemented under the hood in Vite
Optimizing modules with many dependencies to keep the development experience fast
What is VitePress and how does it compare to VuePress?
Bundling sites for production with Vite
What's the roadmap for Vite 1.0?

Links:

Supporting the show:

I decided to stop taking sponsors for the show because I think advertisements are annoying and no one wants to listen to them.

If you do want to support the show, the best way to do it is to purchase one of my products:

Tailwind UI, a collection of professionally designed, fully responsive HTML components built with Tailwind CSS
Refactoring UI, a book and video series I put together with Steve Schoger on designing beautiful user interfaces, without relying on a designer.
Advanced Vue Component Design, a course on designing simpler, more flexible Vue components that are both more powerful and easier to maintain.
Test-Driven Laravel, a massive video course on designing robust Laravel applications with TDD. Learn how to build a real-world application from scratch without writing a single line of untested code.
Refactoring to Collections, a book and video course that teaches you how to apply functional programming principles to break down ugly, complex code into simple transformations — free of loops, complex conditionals, and temporary variables.

139: Alex DeBrie - DynamoDB for Relational Database Diehards May 08, 2020

Show notes

Topics include:

Does DynamoDB only make sense for things like your cache, or is it a good choice for a primary data store?
An overview of the terminology used in DynamoDB and how the terminology compares to a relational database
How primary keys work in DynamoDB
What data types are available in DynamoDB
How DynamoDB is a schemaless database
Why it's important to understand your access patterns in advance with DynamoDB, unlike in a relational database
Understanding why and how you usually have multiple record types in a single DynamoDB table
What "index overloading" is in DynamoDB
Understanding partition keys and sort keys
How to structure your data in DynamoDB to make it possible to query related data, and how those queries work
How secondary indexes work, allowing you to access the same data in different ways
How to accommodate access patterns you didn't know about before you designed your schema
When to flatten relationships vs. nest them
Should you use DynamoDB if you aren't "web-scale"?
How local development works with DynamoDB

Links:

DynamoDB Homepage
Alex's blog, loaded with great DynamoDB content
The DynamoDB Book, Alex's recent book
DynamoDB Guide

Supporting the show:

I decided to stop taking sponsors for the show because I think advertisements are annoying and no one wants to listen to them.

If you do want to support the show, the best way to do it is to purchase one of my products:

Tailwind UI, a collection of professionally designed, fully responsive HTML components built with Tailwind CSS
Refactoring UI, a book and video series I put together with Steve Schoger on designing beautiful user interfaces, without relying on a designer.
Advanced Vue Component Design, a course on designing simpler, more flexible Vue components that are both more powerful and easier to maintain.
Test-Driven Laravel, a massive video course on designing robust Laravel applications with TDD. Learn how to build a real-world application from scratch without writing a single line of untested code.
Refactoring to Collections, a book and video course that teaches you how to apply functional programming principles to break down ugly, complex code into simple transformations — free of loops, complex conditionals, and temporary variables.

138: Tom Preston-Werner - Building Full-Stack JS Apps with Redwood.js Apr 22, 2020

Show notes

Topics include:

What does it mean for Redwood to be a JAMStack framework?
What does the React layer look like? What’s new, and what’s leveraging existing community tools?
Why Redwood ships with it’s own routing layer
What “cells” are in Redwood, and how they aim to provide a declarative abstraction on top of data fetching
How Redwood tries to provide clear decoupling behind the front-end and back-end, even though it is providing a full-stack solution
What “services” are in Redwood
Using Prisma 2 to fetch data from your database in your services
What database solutions exist today that work well with Redwood in a serverless environment?

Links:

Redwood.js homepage
PredictCovid.com, a Redwood app in production
Example blog application built with Redwood
Prisma

Supporting the show:

I decided to stop taking sponsors for the show because I think advertisements are annoying and no one wants to listen to them.

If you do want to support the show, the best way to do it is to purchase one of my products:

Tailwind UI, a collection of professionally designed, fully responsive HTML components built with Tailwind CSS
Refactoring UI, a book and video series I put together with Steve Schoger on designing beautiful user interfaces, without relying on a designer.
Advanced Vue Component Design, a course on designing simpler, more flexible Vue components that are both more powerful and easier to maintain.
Test-Driven Laravel, a massive video course on designing robust Laravel applications with TDD. Learn how to build a real-world application from scratch without writing a single line of untested code.
Refactoring to Collections, a book and video course that teaches you how to apply functional programming principles to break down ugly, complex code into simple transformations — free of loops, complex conditionals, and temporary variables.

137: Tim Neutkens - Continuing to Innovate with Next.js 9.3 Apr 08, 2020

Show notes

Topics include:

An overview of the new getStaticProps, getStaticPaths, and getServerSideProps APIs
How Next.js helps you serve static pages from an edge CDN automatically, without affecting the actual authoring experience
Using getStaticPaths to statically pregenerate dynamic routes
How the fallback feature of getStaticPaths works and lets you statically render pages on-demand to avoid long build times
How the upcoming incremental static generation feature will work in Next.js
Deploying Next.js to a platform other than Zeit, and how you retain all of Next’s benefits automatically
How getServerSideProps is different from getInitialProps
Why getServerSideProps actually improves performance, even though it introduces another hop
How getServerSideProps results in smaller bundle sizes vs. getInitialProps
Using getServerSideProps to safely talk directly to a database, skipping the need for an API
Why Zeit as a company has started to favor client-side data fetching with SWR over getInitialProps/getServerSideProps, and how they are combining that with statically pregenerated “shells” for incredibly fast feeling experiences
What’s coming next in future releases

Links:

Supporting the show:

I decided to stop taking sponsors for the show because I think advertisements are annoying and no one wants to listen to them.

If you do want to support the show, the best way to do it is to purchase one of my products:

Tailwind UI, a collection of professionally designed, fully responsive HTML components built with Tailwind CSS
Refactoring UI, a book and video series I put together with Steve Schoger on designing beautiful user interfaces, without relying on a designer.
Advanced Vue Component Design, a course on designing simpler, more flexible Vue components that are both more powerful and easier to maintain.
Test-Driven Laravel, a massive video course on designing robust Laravel applications with TDD. Learn how to build a real-world application from scratch without writing a single line of untested code.
Refactoring to Collections, a book and video course that teaches you how to apply functional programming principles to break down ugly, complex code into simple transformations — free of loops, complex conditionals, and temporary variables.

136: Michael Chan - React Is Not a Rails Competitor Mar 25, 2020

Show notes

Topics include:

What do people actually mean when they say "I used to use Rails, but now I use React"?
Why back-end development is still a crucial part of building any web application
What third-party services people are using to try and replace custom back-end code
Would you default to building a Rails back-end for a React side project, or is your instinct to try and use third-party services only?
How far do you think front-end-first frameworks like Next.js are going to get their hands dirty in the back-end?
Are new developers missing out by starting with React and not realizing how important tools like Rails and Laravel are for building complete production-ready applications?
Are relational databases legacy tech or are they underappreciated?

Links:

Supporting the show:

I decided to stop taking sponsors for the show because I think advertisements are annoying and no one wants to listen to them.

If you do want to support the show, the best way to do it is to purchase one of my products:

Tailwind UI, a collection of professionally designed, fully responsive HTML components built with Tailwind CSS
Refactoring UI, a book and video series I put together with Steve Schoger on designing beautiful user interfaces, without relying on a designer.
Advanced Vue Component Design, a course on designing simpler, more flexible Vue components that are both more powerful and easier to maintain.
Test-Driven Laravel, a massive video course on designing robust Laravel applications with TDD. Learn how to build a real-world application from scratch without writing a single line of untested code.
Refactoring to Collections, a book and video course that teaches you how to apply functional programming principles to break down ugly, complex code into simple transformations — free of loops, complex conditionals, and temporary variables.

135: Lessons Learned Building Tailwind UI Mar 04, 2020

Show notes

Topics include:

What Tailwind UI is and why we decided to build it
How odd numbers can wreak havoc on a user interface, and how to avoid them
Crafting the perfect form control
Unexpected benefits of working with CSS Grid
Abusing single column grids just to use gap, and why we desperately need gap support in Flexbox

Links:

Tailwind UI

Supporting the show:

I decided to stop taking sponsors for the show because I think advertisements are annoying and no one wants to listen to them.

If you do want to support the show, the best way to do it is to purchase one of my products:

Tailwind UI, a collection of professionally designed, fully responsive HTML components built with Tailwind CSS
Refactoring UI, a book and video series I put together with Steve Schoger on designing beautiful user interfaces, without relying on a designer.
Advanced Vue Component Design, a course on designing simpler, more flexible Vue components that are both more powerful and easier to maintain.
Test-Driven Laravel, a massive video course on designing robust Laravel applications with TDD. Learn how to build a real-world application from scratch without writing a single line of untested code.
Refactoring to Collections, a book and video course that teaches you how to apply functional programming principles to break down ugly, complex code into simple transformations — free of loops, complex conditionals, and temporary variables.

134: Mark Dalgleish - You Should Be Using Layout Components Feb 12, 2020

Show notes

Topics include:

What problems you run into when baking white space into components, and why your components should never contain any surrounding white space at all
Layout challenges you run into due to the way the browser includes line-height in the size of text elements
The trick Mark's team uses to remove surrounding white space from text elements, without removing the space between wrapping lines
Using a "stack" component to specify the space between sibling elements
Issues with naively just using margin on one side of an element to space elements
The upcoming "gap" property in CSS and how it proves layout components are a good idea
Using a "content block" component for horizontal spacing/sizing at the page level
Tricks for maintaining vertical rhythm despite 1px borders trying to ruin it all for you
Why tools like React are so important for being able to implement designs in a way that matches how designers think

Links:

"Rethinking Design Best Practices", Mark's talk at ReactiveConf 2019
Braid, the design system Mark works on
Playroom

Supporting the show:

I decided to stop taking sponsors for the show because I think advertisements are annoying and no one wants to listen to them.

If you do want to support the show, the best way to do it is to pick up one of my books or courses:

Refactoring UI, a book and video series I put together with Steve Schoger on designing beautiful user interfaces, without relying on a designer.
Advanced Vue Component Design, a course on designing simpler, more flexible Vue components that are both more powerful and easier to maintain.
Test-Driven Laravel, a massive video course on designing robust Laravel applications with TDD. Learn how to build a real-world application from scratch without writing a single line of untested code.
Refactoring to Collections, a book and video course that teaches you how to apply functional programming principles to break down ugly, complex code into simple transformations — free of loops, complex conditionals, and temporary variables.

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