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**JavaScript Jabber**

Stay current on JavaScript, Node, and Front-End development. Learn from experts in programming, careers, and technology every week.

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188 JSJ JavaScript Code Smells with Elijah Manor Dec 02, 2015

Show notes

Check out JS Remote Conf! 02:22 - Elijah Manor Introduction

04:49 - What is a “Code Smell”?

10:21 - Copy/Paste Code Error

jsinspect and jscpd
ES6, ES7, Babel Support

13:11 - Using ES6 to Eliminate Code Smells15:48 - Refactoring Case Statements

The Strategy Pattern

21:29 - Juniors and Code Smells

Code Reviews

27:29 - Isomorphic Code31:12 - Framework Code Smells33:47 - Identifying New Code Smells36:33 - When Code Smells are OK39:10 - Why use parameters?Picks Terms And Conditions May Apply (AJ)
Nodevember (Aimee)
Developer Tea (Aimee)
Jake Shimabukuro (Joe)
Screeps (Joe)
react-styleguide-generator (Elijah)
react-styleguidist (Elijah)
The Phantom Menace - What it Should Have Been (AJ)
Attack of the Clones - What it Should Have Been (AJ)Special Guest: Elijah Manor.
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187 JSJ Vue.js with Evan You Nov 25, 2015

Show notes

JS Remote Conf will be held from Thursday, January 14th - Saturday, January 16th! Sign up today! 01:59 - Evan You Introduction

02:34 - Vue.js vs Competitors and Motivators Behind the Framework

Evan You: Vue.js: A (Re)introduction

07:18 - Use Cases10:06 - Overlapping Elements and The Component System

Getting Started Guide

11:21 - Pulling in Data12:50 - DOM Manipulation13:38 - Ease of Getting Started15:33 - Directives16:18 - Adoption

awesome-vue
vue (GitHub)

19:50 - The Future of Vue.js21:59 - What is Vue.js Not Good At?23:07 - Testing24:06 - Vue, Angular, and React: Reactivity and Performance

Knockout

29:06 - Tradeoffs30:54 - Edgecases32:14 - webpack 33:46 - Bundling35:38 - Benchmarks

js-repaint-perfs

More on Vue.js

Picks Daredevil (Dave)
AlgoRythmics (Aimee)
Relative Finder (Chuck)
FamilySearch (Chuck)
Hard Graft (Evan)
Piano Phase (Evan)Special Guest: Evan You.
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186 JSJ NativeScript with TJ VanToll and Burke Holland Nov 18, 2015

Show notes

Check out JS Remote Conf! Buy a ticket! Submit a CFP! 03:07 - Burke Holland Introduction

04:01 - TJ Van Toll Introduction

04:33 - Telerik

Telerik Platform

04:57 - NativeScript

07:41 - The Views10:07 - Customizability, Styling, and Standardization16:19 - React Native vs NativeScript18:37 - APIs

CocoaPods

21:17 - How NativeScript Works23:04 - Edgecases?

Message Passing
Marshalling (Mapping)

26:12 - Memory Management27:06 - UITableView 29:59 - NativeScript and Angular

33:22 - Adding NativeScript to Existing Projects 33:51 - Building for Wearables and AppleTV

Burke Holland: Apple Watch and the Cross-Platform Crisis

35:59 - Building Universal Applications37:14 - Creating NativeScript

Kendo UI

39:42 - Use Cases

nativescript.org/app-samples-with-code

41:01 - Are there specific things NativeScript isn’t good for?

npmjs.com search: nativescript

42:54 - Testing and Debugging48:35 - Data StoragePicks Caddy (AJ)
OC ReMix #505: Top Gear 'Track 1 (Final Nitro Mix)' by Rayza (AJ)
Jamie Talbot: What are Bloom filters? A tale of code, dinner, and a favour with unexpected consequences (Aimee)
Mike Gehard (@mikegehard) (Aimee)
Joe Eames: Becoming Betazoid: How to Listen and Empathize with Others in the Workplace @ AngularConnect 2015 (Dave)
Exercise (Chuck)
Sleep (Chuck)
electron (Aaron)
The Synchronicity War Series by Dietmar Wehr (Aaron)
PAUSE (Burke)
Outlander (TJ)Special Guests: Burke Holland and TJ VanToll.
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185 JSJ PouchDB with Nolan Lawson Nov 11, 2015

Show notes

Check out JS Remote Conf! 02:29 - Nolan Lawson Introduction

04:19 - PouchDB (vs CouchDB)

05:25 - CouchDB Emulation

Mikeal Rogers

06:45 - How CouchDB Works08:26 - Syncing and Replication10:43 - PouchDB vs Other Paradigms for Building Client-side Apps and Managing Data

13:58 - AP Databases / CP Databases / CA Databases

The CAP Theorem

17:25 - Ignoring Merge Conflicts20:08 - Mutability vs Immutability

“Accountants don’t use erasers”

21:29 - Offline First24:59 - Client-to-client Syncing25:54 - IndexDB and Local Storage28:50 - Authentication and Authorization30:30 - Mobile Support31:42 - Resource Usage When Syncing

33:06 - Use Cases

Patricia Garcia: Good Tech for Hard Places: Fighting Ebola with JS Offline Apps @ JSConf EU 2015

34:53 - Partitioning Data36:22 - Getting Started

pouchdb-inspector

37:09 - Contribution

38:53 - Upcoming FeaturesPicks source-map-explorer (Jamison)
Facebook: Managing Bias Videos (Jamison)
Computers Are Fast (Jamison)
86 Mac Plus Vs. 07 AMD DualCore. You Won't Believe Who Wins (Jamison)
Authy App (AJ)
Chip Network Channel on YouTube (AJ)
Oregon (AJ)
Browser Authenticator (AJ)
Node Authenticator (AJ)
AngularConnect (Aimee)
Kevin Old (@kevinold) (Aimee)
Jordan Kasper (@jakerella) (Aimee)
Highrise (Chuck)
Streak (Chuck)
The Accursed Kings Series by Maurice Druon (Nolan)
The Smash Brothers (Nolan)
Super Smash Bros. Melee (Nolan)Special Guest: Nolan Lawson.
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184 JSJ Web Performance with Nik Molnar Nov 04, 2015

Show notes

Submit a talk or buy a ticket! Check out JS Remote Conf! 02:30 - Nik Molnar Introduction

02:50 - What Microsoft’s Cross-Platform and Open Tooling Team Does03:41 - Microsoft and Open Source05:25 - Performance08:15 - Is good, clean architecture at odds with high-performance code?09:41 - Latency and Bandwidth

Moore’s Law

20:23 - Hierarchy of Needs for Users of Software

24:36 - Controlling Performance

“Performance Budget”

26:21 - The Cost of Performance (ROI)31:57 - Speed Index

WebPagetest

41:50 - Avoiding the “It feels fast on my machine” Syndrome45:03 - RUM = Real User Monitoring

Navigation Timing
Resource Timing
User Timing

46:24 - Synthetic Testing47:50 - Performance Audits

OODA Loop
- Observe
- Orient
- Decide
- Act

50:39 - Do LessMore From Nik

Picks UtahJS 2015 (Dave)
ES6 Overview in 350 Bullet Points (Jamison)
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal (High Frequency Training) (Jamison)
Chris Zacharias: Page Weight Matters (Jamison)
React Rally Talks (Jamison)
MONEY Master the Game: 7 Simple Steps to Financial Freedom by Tony Robbins (Chuck)
Rush Revere and the Star-Spangled Banner by Rush Limbaugh (Chuck)
Visual Studio Code (Nik)
High Performance Browser Networking by Ilya Grigorik (Nik)
Nik's Pluralsight Courses (Nik)Special Guest: Nik Molnar.
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183 JSJ Should I go to college? Oct 28, 2015

Show notes

JS Remote Conf 2016 will be from January 14th-16th from noon-4:30PM ET! Get your early bird tickets or submit a CFP now thru December 14th! 02:46 - Panel Consensus and Experience and Career Paths16:00 - The School Doesn’t Matter

David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants by Malcolm Gladwell

19:59 - Panel Experience and Career Paths (Cont’d)38:36 - Practically Helpful Knowledge and Disciplines; Interviewing and Hiring46:38 - Privilege and Navigating Without Opportunity49:54 - Why get a degree if it’s not necessary?

Support Structure

01:02:13 - Consensus Part 2Picks The More Things Change (Jamison)
Allison Kaptur: Effective Learning Strategies for Programmers (Jamison)
@Aimee_Knight (Joe)
Star Wars Battlefront (Joe)
Amazing Grass (Aimee)
Daniel Brain: Sane, scalable Angular apps are tricky, but not impossible. Lessons learned from PayPal Checkout. (Aimee)
xkcd: Correlation (Dave)
Lviv, Ukraine (Dave)
CharlesMaxWood.com (Chuck)
Every Time Zone (Chuck)
The Positioning Manual for Technical Firms by Philip Morgan (Chuck)
JS Remote Conf (Chuck)
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182 JSJ RxJS with Matthew Podwysocki Oct 21, 2015

Show notes

02:19 - Matthew Podwysocki Introduction

04:01 - RxJS

Reactive JavaScript Interview w/ Jeffrey Van Gogh & Matthew Podwysocki @ JSConf 2010
“First-class Events”

10:18 - Practical Experience of Use

Observables

17:28 - observable-spec 21:43 - Observables and Promises 25:06 - Using RxJS in Common Frameworks

27:53 - Are there places where observables might not be better than callbacks/Promises?29:16 - Why would someone use RxJS on the backend in place of Node streams?

RabbitMQ

32:28 - Are Promises dying?36:13 - Observable Gotchas

Hot vs Cold Observables

40:29 - Influence

47:47 - Will observables in ES2016 replace RxJS?Picks A cartoon guide to Flux (Aimee)
Promisees (Aimee)
The Dear Hunter - Act IV Rebirth in Reprise (Jamison)
Jessie Char: Expert On Nothing @ NSConf7 (Jamison)
XHR Breakpoints (Dave)
Glove and Boots (Dave)
Computer Programming (Joe)
Evan Czaplicki’s Thesis for Elm (Joe)
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho (Chuck)
thaliproject (Matthew)
BBC Micro Bit (Matthew)
Minutemen (Matthew)Special Guest: Matthew Podwysocki.
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181 JSJ The Evolution of Flux Libraries with Andrew Clark and Dan Abramov Oct 14, 2015

Show notes

Sign up for JS Remote Conf! Dan and Andrew's super awesome, helpful document that they made for the show during preparation03:22 - Andrew Clark Introduction

03:39 - Dan Abramov Introduction

04:03 - Flux

Flux vs MVC

09:36 - Data Flow

22:52 - Conceptualizing React and Flux

React.js Conf 2015 - Flux Panel
Does redux limit ambiguity that exists in Flux?

27:50 - Documentation 30:38 - The Elm Programming Language 32:34 - Making Patterns Explicit in Frameworks

36:31 - Getting Started with React and Flux

Classes

42:42 - Where Flux Falls Short58:23 - Keeping the Core Small; Making DecisionsPicks Strange Loop 2015 Videos (Jamison)
Typeset In The Future (Jamison)
Open-source as a project model for internal work (w/ speaker notes) by Kevin Lamping (Jamison)
Explanation of Zipf's Law (Dave)
Will Conant's talk at UtahJS 2015 on Flux (Dave)
The Legend of ZERO (3 Book Series) by Sara King (Joe)
Camel Up (Joe)
The Elm Programming Language (Joe)
Boundaries: A talk by Gary Bernhardt from SCNA 2012 (Aimee)
Nodevember (Aimee)
TV Fool (Chuck)
RCA Outdoor Digital HDTV VHF UHF Yagi Type Antenna (Chuck)
The Michael Vey Book Series (Chuck)
BusinessTown (Dan)
Elon Musk: The World’s Raddest Man (Dan)
Professor Frisby's Mostly Adequate Guide to Functional Programming (Dan)
Abiogenesis (Dan)
react-future (Dan)
The Righteous Mind (Andrew)
lodash-fp (Andrew)
Inside Amy Schumer (Andrew)
dataloader (Andrew)
Careers at OpenGov (Andrew)Special Guests: Andrew Clark and Dan Abramov .
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180 JSJ Finding a Job Oct 07, 2015

Show notes

02:14 - 15 Minute Podcast Listener chat with Charles Wood 03:23 - Amy’s Upcoming Talk at Nodevember 04:45 - Junior, Mid-level, and Senior Developers08:00 - Advice for Devs Straight Out of Boot Camp (How Job Hunts Work)14:28 - Looking For the Right Job For YOU

The Passionate Programmer: Creating a Remarkable Career in Software Development by Chad Fowler

23:22 - Mentorship & Company Culture 27:16 - Nailing the Interview

Salary Expectations
Get to Know Potential Team Members
Confidence

32:57 - Be Prepared: Coding is HARD Work35:27 - Getting To Know People & Networking

Hackathons
Open Source Contribution
Don’t Be Afraid … APPLY!
Apprenticeships
- Saron Yitbarek: CodeNewbie
Conferences

46:45 - Communication and People Skills

Conway’s Law

Get in touch with Aimee or Chuck!

Tweet @cmaxw
Fork Aimee’s Ask Me Anything!

Picks JS Remote Conf (Chuck)
Rails Remote Conf (Chuck)
Remote Conference Talks (Chuck)
Standing Desks (Aimee)
We have a problem with promises (Aimee)
Interview Cake (Aimee)
Nodevember (Aimee)
A standing desk for $22 (Chuck)
SmartCells Anti-Fatigue Comfort Mat (Chuck)
Pebble Time (Chuck)
Pebble.js (Chuck)
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179 JSJ redux and React with Dan Abramov Sep 30, 2015

Show notes

02:25 - Dan Abramov Introduction

02:43 - Dan’s Background and Journey Into Building Stuff with React

Visual Basic

05:48 - redux and React 10:07- The Elm Programming Language 12:19 - Reducers14:04 - Hot Reloading 17:50 - “React makes you a better JavaScript developer.”22:10 - Time Travel28:26 - Storing Data and Managing State

Interacting with the browser on CircleCI's VM

34:43 - [Patreon] Support Dan Abramov Creating Redux and React Hot Loader 36:24 - react-transform

41:34 - Using redux outside React43:52 - Editors and Programmer Productivity45:35 - Future PlansPicks The OAuth2 RFC (Aimee)
Michael Ries: Hiring Apprentices (Jamison)
@sebmck: "Sometimes having email history isn't always a good thing..." (Jamison)
Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain (Jamison)
Firefly (Joe)
The Elm Programming Language (Joe)
Google Keep (Dave)
15 Minute Podcast Listener chat with Charles Wood (Chuck)
Pebble Time (Chuck)
100 Days of Burpees (Chuck)
Broad City (Dan)
Jamie xx: In Colour (Dan)
Cycle.js (Dan)Special Guest: Dan Abramov .
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