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**React Round Up**

Stay current on the latest innovations and technologies in the React community by listening to our panel of React and Web Development Experts.

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Latest Episodes:

RRU 020: How to Get a Job (Especially for New Developers) with Charles Max Wood Jul 17, 2018

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Panel:

Charles Max Wood
Lucas Reis
Sia Karamalegos

In this episode, the React Round Up panelists talk about finding a job as a developer. Charles is getting ready to release a course on finding a job and he finds that he is always getting asked about how new developers can find a job. They talk about how they all found their first coder job, picking your target company, and understanding what you want in a job. They also touch on Charles’ upcoming course, the importance of showing initiative, and more! In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

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Why they want to touch on this topic
Get used to failure
CodeSchool
Hack Night meetup
Going to meetups to slowly start networking
Making friends with developers in your community
Networking before you need a job
Learning and helping mindset
Don’t be afraid to ask if people are hiring
How did you figure out what your target company was?
Checking out the culture of a company
Understanding the travel involved
Figure out what you like in a job as you go
Always be looking at your portfolio and resume
Gain as much experience as you can everywhere you go
Stick to learning one language/system
Really master the languages/systems of the company you want to uses
Show initiative
Finding a champion at your target company
And much, much more!

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RRU 019: Error Tracking and Troubleshooting Workflows with David Cramer LIVE at Microsoft Build Jul 10, 2018

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Panel:

Charles Max Wood
Alyssa Nicholl
Ward Bell

Special Guests: David Cramer In this episode, the React Round Up panelists talk to David Cramer about error tracking and troubleshooting workflows. David is the founder and CEO of Sentry, and is a software engineer by trade. He started this project about a decade ago and it was created because he had customers telling him that things were broken and it was hard to help them fix it. They talk about what Sentry is, errors, workflow management, and more! In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

David intro
Founder and CEO of Sentry
What is Sentry?
Working with PHP
De-bugger for production
Focus on workflow
Goal of Sentry
Triaging the problem
Workflow management
Sentry started off as an open-source side project
Instrumentation for JavaScript
Ember, Angular, and npm
Got their start in Python
Logs
Totally open-source
Most compatible with run-time
Can work with any language
Deep contexts
Determining the root cause
And much, much more!

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RRU 018: Evolving Patterns in React with Alex Moldovan Jul 03, 2018

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Panel:

Charles Max Wood
Lucas Reis
Nader Dabit

Special Guests: Alex Moldovan In this episode of React Round Up, the panel discusses the article Evolving Patterns in React with its author, Alex Moldovan. Alex is from Romania and works at Fortech as an engineering manager where he works mostly with the front-end development. He also is one of the co-founders of JSHeroes, which is the biggest JavaScript conference in Romania that also has a growing international community behind it. They answer some of Charles questions about React, talk about his article, their thoughts on the new changes, and more! In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

Lucas was on React Round Up Episode 11
Lucas intro – works for Zocdoc as a senior front-end developer
Alex intro
At Fortech as an engineering manager
Co-founder of JSHeroes
His article Evolving Patterns in React
React.createClass rather than ES6 class
Started working with React in 2015
React and Redux
Nobody knew how to actually build an application in React in the beginning
Mixins
What has replaced the idea of mixins?
Higher Order Components
Render Props article by Michael Jackson
Implicit with mixins to explicit with render props
What about Context?
Do you think these new changes are addressing how we build React apps?
Thoughts on the new APIs and changes from 16 to 17
Error boundaries
Suspense
Server-side rendering
Using the Constructor
Evolving patterns
And much, much more!

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RRU 017: Cloud-Hosted DevOps with Ori Zohar and Gopinath Chigakkagari LIVE at Microsoft Build Jun 26, 2018

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Panel:

Charles Max Wood

Special Guests: Ori Zohar and Gopinath Chigakkagari In this episode, the React Round UP panelists discuss Cloud-Hosted DevOps with Ori Zohar and Gopinath Chigakkagari at Microsoft Build. Ori is on the product team at VSTS focusing on DevOps specifically on Azure. Gopinath is the group program manager in VSTS primarily working on continuous integration, continuous delivery, DevOps, Azure deployment, etc. They talk about the first steps people should take when getting into DevOps, define DevOps the way Microsoft views it, the advantages to automation, and more! In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

Ori and Gopi intro
VSTS – Visual Studio Team Services
VSTS gives developers the ability to be productive
Developer productivity
What’s the first big step people should be taking if they’re getting into DevOps?
The definition of DevOps
The people and the processes as the most important piece
DevOps as the best practices
Automating processes
What people do when things go wrong is what really counts
Letting the system take care of the problems
Have the developers work on what they are actually getting paid for
Trend of embracing DevOps
Shifting the production responsibility more onto the developer’s
Incentivizing developers
People don’t account for integration
Continuous integration
Trends on what customers are asking for
Safety
Docker containers
And much, much more!

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Special Guests: Gopinath Chigakkagari and Ori Zohar.
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RRU 016: React, Redux, and JavaScript Architecture with James Sinclair Jun 19, 2018

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Panel:

Charles Max Wood
Sia Karamalegos
Nader Dabit

Special Guests: Jared Palmer In this episode of React Round Up, the panel discusses the article React, Redux, and JavaScript Architecture with the author James Sinclair. James is a web developer in Australia and he works at Squiz were he focuses on building a digital web place. They talk about his article and why he chose to write it, where he falls on the whole Redux debate, how to convince people to come to Redux, and much more! In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

James intro
React, Redux, and JavaScript Architecture
Why were the people you are working with wary of leaving JavaScript?
jQuery
Great article on explaining why we use React
Why React can be fast
Is your team now moving to React or have they already moved over?
Where do you fall on the Redux debate?
Redux’s “disadvantages” are actually advantages
What is your current stack of choice?
Downshift
Conditioner.js
Most React tutorials assume you’re working on a single-page web app
Sprinkles of jQuery
Learning Redux helps to learn in a more functional way
Functional programming as an influence to learn Redux
Managing state
How do you convince someone to learn Redux?
Thoughts on GraphQL
Apollo Server and Prisma
Stimulus
Apollo Link State
And much, much more!

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RRU 015: Visual Studio Code with Rachel MacFarlane and Matt Bierner LIVE at Microsoft Build Jun 12, 2018

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Panel:

Charles Max Wood

Special Guests: Rachel MacFarlane and Matt Bierner In this episode, the React Round Up panelists discuss Visual Studio Code with Rachel MacFarlane and Matt Bierner, who are both developers on Visual Studio Code. They talk about what the workflow at Visual Studio Code looks like, what people can look forward to coming out soon, and how people can follow along the VS Code improvements on GitHub and Twitter. They also touch on their favorite extensions, like the Docker extension and the Azure extension and their favorite VS Code features. In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

Rachel and Matt intro
Month to month workflow of Visual Studio Code
VS Code JavaScript, TypeScript, and Mark Down support
Working on GitHub and within the community
Check out new features incrementally with insiders
Community-driven work
What is coming out in Visual Studio Code?
GitHub helps to determine what they work on
Working on Grid View
Improved settings UI
Highlighting unused variables in your code
Improvements with JS Docs
Dart
Visual Studio Extension API
How do people follow along with the VS Code improvements?
Follow along on GitHub and Twitter
Download VS Code Insiders
Have a general roadmap of what the plan is for the year
Technical debt week
What do you wish people knew about VS Code?
Favorite extensions
Docker extension and Azure extension
And much, much more!

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Special Guests: Matt Bierner and Rachel MacFarlane.
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RRU 014: Razzle with Jared Palmer Jun 05, 2018

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Panel:

Nader Dabit

Special Guests: Jared Palmer In this episode of React Round Up, the panel discusses Razzle and other projects with Jared Palmer. Jared is the lead engineer at The Palmer Group, where he spends his time building apps and services for companies that have been underserved by the recent technological changes. They talk about what Razzle is, the benefit of server-side rendering, and the difficulties he faced putting this project together. They also touch on why he chose to create Razzle and some of his other projects like Backpack and After.js. In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

Jared intro
How he got into programming
Fell into programming by accident
What is Razzle?
Create React App with server-side rendering
Gatsby
Goal of Razzle
What are the benefits of adding server-side rendering?
The power of React
Next.js
React can hydrate once it renders on the server
Razzle is thin layer around 2 Webpack watch tasks
How do you handle routing?
React Router
After.js
Performance pros to server-side rendering
Is an app built in Razzle still considered a single-page application?
React Resolver
What were the technical difficulties putting Razzle together?
Why made you want to create this?
Wanted direct control over the project
Backpack
And much, much more!

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RRU 013: Visual Studio Code and the VS Code Azure Extension with Matt Hernandez and Amanda Silver LIVE at Microsoft Build May 29, 2018

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Panel: Charles Max Wood Special Guests: Matt Hernandez and Amanda Silver In this episode, the JavaScript Jabber panelists discuss Visual Studio Code and the VS Code Azure Extension with Matt Hernandez and Amanda Silver at Microsoft Build. Amanda is the director of program management at Microsoft working on Visual Studio and VS Code. Matt works on a mix between the Azure and the VS Code team, where he leads the effort to build the Azure extensions in VS code, trying to bring JavaScript developers to Azure through great experiences in VS Code. They talk about what’s new in VS Code, how the Azure extension works, what log points are, and much more! In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

Amanda intro
Matt intro
What’s new in VS Code?
VS Code core
VS Live Share
Shared Terminal
Now have Linux support
Live Share is now public to the world for free
What would you use Shared Terminal for?
Are there other things coming up in VS Code?
Constantly responding to requests from the community
Live Share works for any language
How does the Azure extension work?
Azure App Service
Storage extension
Azure Cosmos DB
What are log points?
All a part of a larger plan to create a better experience for JS developers
Visual debuggers
Is it the same plugin to support everything on Azure?
Want to target specific services that node developers will take advantage of
And much, much more!

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Orphan Black
Shout out to VS Code team
Battle of the Books

Matt

Amanda

Special Guests: Amanda Silver and Matt Hernandez.
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RRU 012: The Future of Higher Order Components and Render Props with Paul Gray May 22, 2018

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Panel:

Nader Dabit

Special Guests: Paul Gray In this episode of React Round Up, the panel discusses the future of higher order components and render props with Paul Gray. Paul is a software developer at an educational technology company called Learning Objects. They have a learning platform there that helps instructional designers create better contents. They talk about how he got into programming and React, when you would want to use HOCs and render props, and chainable components. In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

Paul intro
React
How long have you been working with React?
How did you get into programming?
TI-89 Calculators in high school
Software engineering degree in college
Big fan of HOCs when they came out
Chainable components
Chainable components API
Promises
Anatomy of render prop components
TypeScript
async/await GitHub Gist
Use cases
Tool to share reusable code in React
How long has this been in the works?
With State
Mapp
Chain function
Functional Programming
Functional Programming in Scala by Paul Chiusano
And much, much more!

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Paul

Special Guest: Paul Gray.
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RRU 011: Simple React Patterns with Lucas Reis May 16, 2018

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Panel:

Charles Max Wood
Cory House

Special Guests: Lucas Reis In this episode of React Round Up, the panel discusses simple React patterns with Lucas Reis. Lucas works as a senior front-end developer at Zocdoc and previously worked in Brazil for an ecommerce company called B2W. He recently wrote a blog post about simple React patterns that really took off and became popular on the web. They talk about this blog post, what defines a successful pattern, and then they discuss the different patterns that he has discovered in his years of React programming. In particular, we dive pretty deep on: