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**The Call Kent Podcast**

The Call Kent podcast is a regular podcast where you call in with a question and Kent answers. Call in with your questions right from your web browser with any device at https://kentcdodds.com/call

Latest Episodes:

Why XState? Oct 19, 2021

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I see you use XState on your new website. Why and how do you use it? Are there any best practices and pitfalls?

Implementing a simple state machine library in JavaScript

Forms in React Oct 19, 2021

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What do you use for dealing with forms in React?

Improve the Performance of your React Forms

How small should components be Oct 19, 2021

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I was wondering how to decide when the html is too trivial to turn into a component. For example turning msg into a component. Maybe it's useful for styled components? Thanks

When to break up a component into multiple components

Using Fly.io Replays Oct 18, 2021

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Finding out more about the best places to use Fly.io's request replays, when to use it and when not to use it.

How I built a modern website in 2021

Why is forwardRef required to limit re-renders? Oct 18, 2021

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In the "Fix perf death by a thousand cuts" exercise in the Epic React Performance workshop, extra credit 3 "write an HOC to get a slice of app state": why is forwarding the ref in the HOC required to actually prevent all the Cells from re-rendering?

Traditional logins vs. passwordless magic links Oct 14, 2021

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Your website currently uses magic links to sign in users. This seems to be a completely secure method of authentication, yet is still quite uncommon compared to the traditional username + password combo's. Why do you think that is? If it's just as secure, or perhaps more secure, how can we improve adoption of this method?

How I built a modern website in 2021 (I've got a section in here that describes the auth flow)

How to plan curriculum Oct 13, 2021

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I need some tips to write a course and suggestions to choose the app idea, decompose it into lessons, things to focus on, deploy the app and writing tests.

Why Remix over other React frameworks? Oct 12, 2021

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What brings you to Remix over other React frameworks like Next and Gatsby? Remix is going open source soon so I'd love to pad my excitement even further with knowing truly what it brings over its competitors.

What did paypal-scripts do? Oct 11, 2021

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I'd like to learn more about paypal-scripts. What tasks did the package cover: linting, transpiling, CI, deploy, etc. Please share any advice you can about starting a similar toolkit.