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Ionic and developer tooling Nov 20, 2020

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Nick, and Kball are joined by Mike Hartington to talk about Ionic, the state of web components, developer tooling, and more!

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Kevin Ball – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
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Automate the pain away with DivOps Nov 13, 2020

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What the what is DivOps?! That’s the question Jonathan Creamer is here to answer. In so doing, we cover the past, present, and future of frontend tooling.

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Amal Hussein – GitHub, X
Nick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
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Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Frontend Feud: HalfStack Edition Nov 06, 2020

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Frontend Feud returns! Emma heads up team Boooooleans 👻 and Nick captains the Whiteboard Interviews Millionaires. We played this game for our friends at HalfStack Conf and the full video of the session is on our YouTube channel too. Take the survey!

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Jem Young – Website, GitHub, X
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Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
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An ode to jQuery Oct 30, 2020

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We take up a listener request this week and have an honest conversation about jQuery. Then, it’s time for something new! Our friends at Hot New Tech review tone.js for us. After that, it’s Pro Tip Time!

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jQuery convo

Hot New Tech

Pro Tip Time

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Bringing it back to TypeScript Oct 23, 2020

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Ben Ilegbodu joins Divya, Suz, & Amal to talk about introducing TypeScript at Stitch Fix, why TypeScript and React work well together, building component libraries, and more.

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Divya – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
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Thank you, Dr. Bahmutov! Oct 16, 2020

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Gleb Bahmutov, PhD joins the show for a fun conversation around end-to-end testing. We get the skinny on Cypress, find out how it’s structured as both an open source library and a SaaS business, tease apart the various types of tests you may (or may not) want to have, and share a lot of laughs along the way.

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Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Christopher Hiller – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
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Frontend Feud Oct 09, 2020

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Our much anticipated Family Feud rip-off inspired game show is finally here! Emma was joined by Nick and special guest Abenezer Abebe to form the Hypertext Assassins. KBall captained (despite never seeing Family Feud before) the DSL Destroyers with Mikeal and special guest Ali Spittel.

Holler if you want MOAR Feud and check the outro for a chance to win some JS Party swag.

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Mikeal Rogers – GitHub, X

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Redux is definitely NOT dead Oct 02, 2020

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Redux maintainer Mark Erikson joins Jerod and Amal for an in-depth conversation around the React community’s fav state management solution. We learn how Mark came to be maintainer of Redux, why and how Redux Toolkit came about, when to go with Redux vs other options, and much more.

ALSO: prop drilling, the grep factor, & lasagna mode (oh my)

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Mark Erikson – Website, GitHub, X
Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Amal Hussein – GitHub, X

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Double your testing trouble Sep 25, 2020

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Justin Searls from Test Double joins the party to talk about patterns he’s identified that lead to failure, minimalism, and of course, testing!

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The Builder Pattern (for your career) Sep 18, 2020

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The panelists discuss their thoughts on career progression while sharing some of their own history. They also talk about important considerations to think about when deciding where to go next, and share useful resources.

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