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React Best Practices - RRU 233 Sep 27, 2023

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In this week’s episode of React Round Up the panel works their way through a blog post outlining best practices for React. The first is “keeping components small and function-specific”. The panel discusses the pros of using this best practice and how it relates to the single responsibility principle. This best practice also helps with the next, “reusability is important”.The panel considers this second best practice and points out some of its flaws. It recommends avoiding the creation of new components. The panel explains that by avoiding creating new components it saves time but can also cause problems as you adapt components to fit more projects.
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Charles - Holiday Inn
Charles - The MaxCoders Guide To Finding Your Dream Developer Job
Christopher - https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-eslint
Christopher - https://www.playingwithfire.co/
Thomas - test && commit || revert

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Game Development in React & Typescript with Maksim Ivanov - RRU 232 Sep 20, 2023

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Front-end developer Maksim Ivanov talks about working for Mojang, the company behind the ridiculously popular game Minecraft. As it turns out, Maksim uses React to build different pieces of the game, and runs the code through a custom renderer to make it work in the game world. In addition to his day job, he also found time to write a book about TypeScript after realizing how much easier getting familiar with new code bases could be if TypeScript was used instead of JavaScript. The panel has used TypeScript to varying degrees themselves, but nobody's gone all in, and they talk about the pros and cons of it, including the initial learning curve and how it can help prevent bugs in the code. Maksim's book covers many aspects of TypeScript in great detail, and it sounds like a good read for anyone just picking up the language.
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Charles - Percy Jackson
Paige - The Name of the Wind
TJ - OmniDiskSweeper, OmniWeb, and OmniPresence - The Omni Group
TJ - https://rtmccormick.com/2018/01/10/clear-node-modules-folders-recursively-mac-linux/

All Astro with Fred Schott - RRU 231 Sep 13, 2023

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Today we talk with Fred Schott, the co-creator of Astro, a web framework focused on improving performance. Built around island architecture, it leverages HTML over javascript where it’s an option. Astro is a great option for those who focus on content, marketing, or personal blogs, and it is a great option to use with React. In this episode, we talk about when it makes sense to use Astro, and how to implement it.
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React Architecture with Tommy Groshong - RRU 230 Sep 06, 2023

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In today's episode, we talk about state management, dependency injection, react hooks, API access best practices and more with Tommy Groshong a React UI architect.
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Data Visualization at Scale with Andrey Goncharov - RRU 229 Aug 23, 2023

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Software Engineer Andrey Goncharov joins the React Round Up crew to discuss how his company Hazelcast has approached visualizing hundreds of data points on potentially hundreds of computers in a way that makes sense to users. Dust off your math skills - it gets a little technical along the way as they discuss graphs, charts, performance optimizations, and bottlenecks, and even handling accessibility of these data-intensive graphs. If you ever have to debug system failures and anomalies, this will be a worthwhile episode to check out.
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How to Organize Your React App ft. Tania Rascia - RRU 228 Aug 16, 2023

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Tania Rascia joins the round up to discuss how to organize your code across files, directories, components, and repos within your React app. The panel chimes in with what they've seen and clarify how these approaches effect the overall application functionality of your app.
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TJ - Edge Impulse

Migrating to React Query from Redux with Pierre Hedkvist - RRU 227 Aug 02, 2023

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Software engineer Pierre Hedkvist joins the React Round Up panelists to share some spicy (controversial) coding decisions he's made and then written about. The first hot topic is using React state to store filter setting in query parameters with the help of a custom Hook, and the second is migrating an app to rely more heavily on React Query instead of Redux.
If you've been considering doing something similar, give this episode a listen to hear Pierre's strategies and advice for anyone looking to get started.
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Pierre - LiveBlocks
TJ - Magic Puzzles

Jumpstart Your React Career With Collin Pfeifer - RRU 226 Jul 20, 2023

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Collin Pfeifer, writer, software engineer, and student at Indiana University joins the React Round Up panel to discuss the intricacies and pitfalls in Create React App, the roadmap of being a self-taught developer, and how the computer education system has changed over the years.
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Collin - GitHub student developer pack
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Jack - Rubik's Cube
TJ - Lensa AI: photo & video editor 4+ - App Store

Figma's Biggest Change - RRU 225 Jul 05, 2023

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Jack, Paige, and TJ join this week's panelist episode to talk about Figma. Figma is a web-based design tool. Jack takes the lead as he talks about its new exciting features, how this tool benefits the designers, what sets it apart from competing design tools, and many more!
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Figma: The Collaborative Interface Design Tool

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Bootstrapping Application with Bun - RRU 224 Jun 21, 2023

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Peter Osah is a Fullstack Software Engineer, Technical Writer, and a Biochemist & Bioinformatics Enthusiast. He joins the show to talk about his article, " Bootstrap your next Preact application with Bun". He begins by giving the listeners an introduction to Bun and its advantages.
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