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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:

123: Ian Landsman - Marketing and Positioning a New Tailwind CSS Product Sep 11, 2019

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Topics include:

Building website templates vs. a UI kit
Should the product be positioned as a UI library or an educational resource?
One-time purchase pricing vs. subscription pricing vs. some combination of the two
Why marketing features can sometimes be better than marketing benefits
"Dribbble but with code"

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Links:

Tailwind CSS
Tweet previewing the Tailwind component directory
Article on Sketch pricing model
MegaMaker Club
Thermostat, the NPS survey software Ian is working on

122: Matt Biilmann - Architecting the Netlify Dashboard with React and Redux Aug 28, 2019

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Topics include:

Walking through how a single screen in the app is rendered in step-by-step detail
How they separate container components and presentational components to make things easier to reason about
How the Redux store is organized
How they handle caching data on the client and deciding when to bust the cache
How the API is designed
Why they are sticking with REST instead of Graphql
How they handle authentication in their app

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121: Benedikt Deicke - Building Userlist.io Aug 14, 2019

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Topics include:

The risks and technical challenges of building client-side API integrations and why Benedikt decided to focus on a server-side integration for launch
Building Userlist with Ember instead of trendier tools like React
How the Ember app authenticates with the Rails API
Strategies for keeping email deliverability high for Userlist's customers
How Benedikt built Userlist's complex segmentation engine by creating a custom AST structure and compiling it to SQL
How the automation and email scheduling system works

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120: Taylor Otwell - Serverless Laravel with Vapor Jul 31, 2019

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Topics include:

What is serverless?
What AWS services Vapor manages and how they are billed
Using a single RDS instance with multiple databases
Understanding cold boots with Lambda and how to minimize the effect they have on your application's performance
Performance on Vapor
How queues work with Vapor
Tuning your queue concurrency based on your database connection limit
Strategies for preventing your web instances and queue instances from competing for resources
How scheduled tasks work with Vapor
How file uploads work with Vapor
Limitations when running code on Lambda and strategies for working around them

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Links:

Laravel Vapor
Intro to Laravel Vapor, Taylor's talk at Laracon

119: Ryan Toronto - Why a Back-End Developer Made the Switch to SPAs Jul 17, 2019

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Topics include:

How modernizing a Flash app drove Ryan to start building SPAs
How products are really just user interfaces to the end user, and why that means it makes sense to make the UI the core of your codebase
Why the backend will continue to be commoditized and application developers will be spending more and more of their time in the UI
What makes something a web app instead of a website, and why almost everything is actually an app
Why application developers still need to write server-side code right now and what areas have the biggest room for innovation and improvement

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Links:

EmberMap, Ryan's tutorial site
Mirage.js
Client-side SQL
GraphQL
Hasura GraphQL Engine, an automatic GraphQL API over Postgres
Conversation on ugprading API requests
Interview with Michelle Bu of Stripe

118: Aaron Gustafson - Semantic HTML: The Hard Parts Jul 03, 2019

Show notes

Topics include:

Can you have more than one "h1" on page?
How important is heading order?
Why not everything that looks like a heading should necessarily be a heading
Why you may want to include invisible headings in some situations
What the document outline is and how your use of headings impacts it
How to make your heading levels dynamic to make your components more flexible
What a "sectioning context" is
Can you have multiple "article" elements on one page?
What even is an "article" anyways?
How to use elements like "section" and "aside" properly
Should navigation items be in lists?
Why Aaron can't remember the last time he used a "span"

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Links:

Aaron's personal website
HTML5 Element Flowchart from html5 Doctor

117: Mitchell Hamilton - Writing CSS-in-JS with Emotion Jun 20, 2019

Show notes

Topics include:

What CSS-in-JS even is
What Emotion does differently than other CSS-in-JS libraries
How to actually use Emotion to style your projects
How the JSX pragma works and what it's for
How Emotion works under the hood
Performance
Adding global styles to your project
Style re-use and composition in Emotion
Using Emotion with server-side rendering

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116: Jerod Santo - Building the Changelog Platform with Elixir and Phoenix Jun 05, 2019

Show notes

Topics include:

How pattern matching works in Elixir and why it's more powerful than method overloading in other languages
How Elixir's pipe operator makes the transition from OO to functional programming more natural
Why you don't need to be intimidated by unfamiliar features like GenServers to use Elixir for web app development
Noticeable differences between working with Rails and Phoenix and what it was like to transition
How the Phoenix ORM makes n+1 queries impossible
Why background tasks are a lot easier in Elixir than in an ecosystem like PHP
What other tools and technology power the Changelog platform
How the Changelog Phoenix app is deployed

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Links:

Building rapid UI with utility-first CSS, Adam's episode of JS Party
Elixir
Phoenix
Chris McCord on The Changelog
The Changelog source code
Confident Ruby
"Why we chose Turbolinks"
Programming Phoenix book
Elixir Forum
Our Slack

115: Jason Lengstorf - Gatsby for Skeptics May 22, 2019

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Topics include:

How Gatsby is more than just a static site generator
How you create pages with Gatsby and how it's more powerful than traditional static site generators
The benefits of having a unified data access layer for all of your content
How to build dynamic applications with Gatsby
Why Gatsby is actually faster than static HTML
How Gatsby makes performance best practices easy
Gatsby themes and why they are more exciting than traditional CMS themes

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114: Sebastian De Deyne - React for Vue Developers May 08, 2019

Show notes

Topics include:

How Vue focuses on making things easy at the cost of a more complex API, while React focuses on keeping things simple at the cost of a steeper learning curve
How to translate Vue's computed properties to React using the useMemo hook
How to translate Vue's watchers to React using the useEffect hook
How to translate Vue's v-model to React using value props and event listeners
How to translate Vue's events to React using callback props
How to translate Vue's slots to React by passing JSX as a normal prop
How to handle transitions in React with libraries like Pose

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Links:

Why I prefer React over Vue, from Sebastian's blog
React docs
Introducing Hooks at React Conf
Hooks docs
Vue Template Explorer
Pose, animation library for React and Vue
Overreacted.io, Dan Abramov's React blog

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