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Postgres.js Apr 15, 2022

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Rasmus Porsager created Postgres.js –the fastest full-featured PostgreSQL client for Node.js and Deno. Today he joins Jerod for a deep-dive on Postgres, why he created this open source library, and how you can use it to build pg-backed JavaScript applications.

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Square – Develop on the platform that sellers trust. There is a massive opportunity for developers to support Square sellers by building apps for today’s business needs. Learn more at changelog.com/square to dive into the docs, APIs, SDKs and to create your Square Developer account — tell them Changelog sent you.

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Rasmus Porsager – GitHub, X
Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

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Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

This is JS Party! Apr 13, 2022

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JS Party is a weekly celebration of JavaScript and the web so fun is at the heart of every episode.

We play games like Frontend Feud… (clip from episode #192)

Discuss and analyze the news… (clip from episode #213)

Explain technical concepts to each other like we’re 5… (clip from episode #195)

Debate hot topics like should websites work without JS? (clip from episode #87)

Interiew amazing devs like Rich Harris and Una Kravets… (clip from episode #167)

This is JS Party! Listen and subscribe today.

We’d love to have you with us. 💚

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Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Kevin Ball – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Amelia Wattenberger – Website, GitHub, X
Nick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
Divya – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Amal Hussein – GitHub, X
Mikeal Rogers – GitHub, X
Feross Aboukhadijeh – Website, GitHub, X
Christopher Hiller – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
Ali Spittel – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X

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Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Headlines and HeadLIES! Apr 08, 2022

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KBall and Jerod digest and disect recent JS community news (React 18, Redwood 1.0, MDN Plus) then sit down for yet another game of HeadLIES! Can KBall fare better than Nick Nisi did last April Fools?!

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Square – Develop on the platform that sellers trust. There is a massive opportunity for developers to support Square sellers by building apps for today’s business needs. Learn more at changelog.com/square to dive into the docs, APIs, SDKs and to create your Square Developer account — tell them Changelog sent you.
Sentry – Working code means happy customers. That’s exactly why teams choose Sentry. From error tracking to performance monitoring, Sentry helps teams see what actually matters, resolve problems quicker, and learn continuously about their applications - from the frontend to the backend. Use the code JSPARTY and get the team plan free for three months.
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Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Kevin Ball – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X

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Headlines

HeadLIES

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Making moves on supply chain security Apr 01, 2022

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Feross has been working on something big. He joins Chris and Nick, along with guests Bret Comnes and Mik Lysenko to discuss Socket, what it is, and its focus on the security of the JavaScript supply chain.

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Square – Develop on the platform that sellers trust. There is a massive opportunity for developers to support Square sellers by building apps for today’s business needs. Learn more at changelog.com/square to dive into the docs, APIs, SDKs and to create your Square Developer account — tell them Changelog sent you.
Sourcegraph – Move fast, even in big codebases. Sourcegraph is universal code search for every developer and team. Easily search across all the code that matters to you and your organization: find example code, explore and read code, debug issues, and more. Head to info.sourcegraph.com/changelog and click the button “Try Sourcegraph now” to get started.
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Bret Comnes – Website, GitHub, X
Mikola Lysenko – GitHub, X
Nick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
Christopher Hiller – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
Feross Aboukhadijeh – Website, GitHub, X

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Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Web development for beginners Mar 25, 2022

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Jen Looper from Web Dev for Beginners and Front-end Foxes joins Jerod and Ali to discuss the exciting (but also intimidating) prospect of getting in to web development in 2022! Where should you start? What technologies should you focus on? Is it better to go all-in on a framework or stick with the fundamentals? Stuff like that!

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Square – Develop on the platform that sellers trust. There is a massive opportunity for developers to support Square sellers by building apps for today’s business needs. Learn more at changelog.com/square to dive into the docs, APIs, SDKs and to create your Square Developer account — tell them Changelog sent you.
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Jen Looper – Website, GitHub, X
Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Ali Spittel – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X

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Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Going full-time on Eleventy Mar 18, 2022

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Zach Leatherman recently announced he will now be working on Eleventy – his simpler static site generator – while continuing to work at Netlify. What makes Eleventy special? How’d he convince Netlify to let him do this? What does this mean for the project’s future? How many questions in a row can we type into this textarea? Tune in to find out!

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Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Nick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X

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Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Enabling performance-centric engineering orgs Mar 11, 2022

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This week Amal and Nick are joined by Dan Shappir, a Performance Tech Lead at Next Insurance, to learn about enabling a performance-first mindset within your engineering org.

Dan recently left his 7+ year tenure leading performance at Wix where he and his team improved, and monitored the speed of millions of websites around the world.

Join us to learn how he lead a cultural transformation that propelled Wix sites to be faster than most other React apps in the wild - including ones built with frameworks like Next.js.

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Dan Shappir – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Amal Hussein – GitHub, X
Nick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X

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Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Remix helps bridge the network chasm Mar 04, 2022

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Kent and our panelists dive deep on the hottest new React framework: Remix. What it does today, what makes it special, how it lured Kent away from a lucrative independent teaching career, and what’s coming up next.

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Kevin Ball – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Ali Spittel – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Divya – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X

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Vitest && Slidev Feb 25, 2022

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Anthony Fu && Matias “Patak” Capeletto from the Vite core team join Jerod && Nick to discuss Vitest – a blazing fast unit-test framework powered by Vite, && Slidev – presentation slides for developers.

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Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Nick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X

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Playing it close to the Vest Feb 18, 2022

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Holla! This week we’re playing Story of the Week and Today I Learned before turning our focus to Vest – a very cool validations framework created by Evyatar Alush.

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Sentry – Working code means happy customers. That’s exactly why teams choose Sentry. From error tracking to performance monitoring, Sentry helps teams see what actually matters, resolve problems quicker, and learn continuously about their applications - from the frontend to the backend. Use the code CHANGELOG and get the team plan free for three months.
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