React Podcast

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23: Ditch Authority with Sunil Pai Oct 02, 2018

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Chantastic talks with Sunil Pai about Facebook, Oculus, and what the future holds for the JavaScript community. They discuss Sunil’s early adventures in programming, the power of a great manager, why firebug changed everything, why he scowls at models, the ways we protect ourselves from criticism, being “evil by accident”, and becoming The CSS Guy for the rest of eternity.

Featuring

Sunil Pai — Twitter, Github
Michael Chan — Twitter, Github, Website

Notes & Links

The “Something” Statements — Sunil's React Rally 2018 talk
Oculus Rooms
Oculus Venues
glamor — inline css for react et al
css-suspense — css loading for react
emotion.sh — style as a function of state
Kye Hohenberger
Max Stoiber

22: Promise Accessibility with Ryan Florence Sep 26, 2018

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Chantastic talks with Ryan Florence about Reach UI and why accessibility is important for everyone. They discuss the balance of physical and mental activity, Ryan’s foray into programming and entrepreneurship, the inspiration behind his accessibility-first component library, and why none of us are really full-stack developers.

Featuring

Ryan Florence — Twitter, Github, Website
Michael Chan — Twitter, Github, Website

Notes & Links

reach.tech
Reach UI — The accessible foundation of your React-based design system.
Voice Over — The screen Reader built into MacOS.
NVDA — The screen reader typically paired with FireFox.
JAWS The screen reader typically paired with IE11 or Edge.
React Spring — Helping react-motion and animated to become best friends
Gatsby v2 Announcement
MDX — A format that lets you seamlessly use JSX in your Markdown documents.
Tweet from Zack — "As someone who recently learned they're going blind, thank you. I never realized quite how important this work is until now and I regret not putting more effort into it in previous projects." — Zack
Brent Jackson

21: Delete Your Components with Kent C. Dodds Sep 18, 2018

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Chantastic talks with Kent C Dodds about his adventures in React development and why we should be optimizing code for delete-ability. They discuss React Rally, managing your career, taming your ego, keeping healthy and happy on Twitter, tools for composing components well and when to use them, and what’s next for React.

Featuring

Kent C. Dodds — Twitter, Github, Website
Michael Chan — Twitter, Github, Website

Notes & Links

downshift — 🏎 Primitive to build simple, flexible, WAI-ARIA compliant enhanced input React components
Compound Components — Ryan's Phoenix ReactJS talk on compound components
glamorous — 💄 Maintainable CSS with React
CodeSandbox
Prop Collections — How to give rendering control to users with prop getters
Simply React — Kent's 2018 React Rally talk on compound components and composition
react-redocx
mdx-deck
Brent Jackson
Adam Morse
Sunil Pai
Sarah Drasner
Marcy Sutton
Nitin Tulswani
Shawn Wang
Ryan Florence

20: Foster Vibrant and Inclusive Communities with Devon Lindsey Sep 11, 2018

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Chantastic talks with Devon about her adventures in web development and why she organizes the ReactJS San Francisco Bay Area meetup. They discuss how to foster vibrant and inclusive communities, why React Rally is so special, and what it means that Apple is sponsoring a React conference.

Featuring

Devon Lindsey — Twitter, Github, Website
Michael Chan — Twitter, Github, Website

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19: Supporting Open Source with Michael Jackson Sep 04, 2018

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Chantastic talks with Michael about his journey into open source and how he's building a business to sustain open source development. They discuss frontend libraries (then and now), the link between business and open source, the genesis of unpkg.com (a CDN for NPM), and the future of modules in the browser.

Featuring

Michael Jackson — Twitter, Github, Website
Michael Chan — Twitter, Github, Website

Notes & Links

Shadowbox.js — Michael's first open source project
React Router
UNPKG — A CDN for NPM
[UNPKG: The CDN for everything on npm] — Michael's 2017 React Rally talk on web modules
Can I use modules — Browser support for script type="module"
Babel on Open Collective — Support JavaScript innovation by donating

18: Prepack and the Future of JavaScript Performance with Nikolai Tillmann Aug 28, 2018

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Chantastic talks with Nikolai about Prepack — a tool for making JavaScript code run faster. They discuss the goals and challenges before Prepack, why it makes global JavaScript faster, and how it could dramatically improve time to interactive performance in large React apps.

Featuring

Nikolai Tillmann — Twitter, Github
Michael Chan — Twitter, Github, Website

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17: Fast, Accessible, and Beautiful Drag and Drop with Alex Reardon Aug 21, 2018

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Chantastic talks with Alex Reardon about his project react-beautiful-dnd. They discuss the physics of drag and drop, accessibility in any language, tricks and tactics for performance tuning UI, and engineering health in open source.

Checkout Alex’s free egghead.io course Beautiful and Accessible Drag and Drop with react-beautiful-dnd!

Featuring

Alex Reardon — Twitter, Github, Medium
Michael Chan — Twitter, Github, Website

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16: The Good, Bad, and Ugly of Open Source with Ken Wheeler Aug 14, 2018

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Michael and Michael talk with Ken about the good, bad, and ugly of open source. Ken shares the pain and frustration he's felt as an open source developer and what keeps him coming back for more as the Director of Open Source at Formidable Labs. They talk GraphQL, Reason, React, and the best tweet Ken ever tweeted...

Featuring

Ken Wheeler — Twitter, Github, Website
Michael Jackson — Twitter, Github, Website
Michael Chan — Twitter, Github, Website

Notes & Links

Formidable Labs: Open Source
URQL — Universal React Query Library
Building the Walmart iOS Pharmacy with React Native — Ken's first talk at React Conf 2016
Using React for Anything but Website — Ken's 2017 React Conf talk
Ken's Best Tweet
ReasonML
reason-react

15: Data Visualization with Shirley Wu Aug 07, 2018

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Michael Jackson, Michael Chan talk with Shirley Wu about D3 and React, creative data visualization, her freelance work, and how she's helping React developers love D3.

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