React Wednesdays
Weekly Chat Show on Twitch
React Wednesdays is a weekly chat show with the best and brightest from the React world, hosted by KendoReact Developer Advocate TJ VanToll. New episodes go live every Wednesday at 1:00 pm ET. You can add React Wednesdays to your calendar or follow CodeItLive on Twitch to get notified.
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Comparing Webpack, Rollup, Parcel, and More with Zain Sajjad
This is a history-making episode, as Zain Sajjad (@zsajjad93) became our first ever returning featured guest. In Zain’s first appearance he showed us Flipper, a debugging tool for React Native.
This time Zain is tackled something way easier: a comprehensive comparison of webpack, Rollup, Parcel, and—as he put it—“some extra bundlers to make it more interesting”. Zain does awesome demos, so you’ll want to check this one out—especially if bundlers confuse you as much as they do me.
November 24, 2020
What I Learned Modularizing Underscore with Julian Gonggrijp
On this episode of React Wednesdays we welcomed Julian Gonggrijp (@juliangonggrijp), a Netherlands-based developer that recently implemented a major modularization update to Underscore.js.
Julian talked about why the changes were necessary, how he went about doing them, and what he feels is the best way to use Underscore today. We also chatted about why Underscore is still necessary, and Julian has a surprisingly good answer 🙂
November 23, 2020
Breaking Up Big Apps with Michael Labriola
React is great at helping you build large apps, and as such, the framework is used to create some of the most complex applications on the web today. But size creates problems, and keeping your app loading quickly as it grows is a real challenge.
To help you with this, on this episode of React Wednesdays we welcomed back Michael Labriola (@mlabriola), who covered a variety of techniques for helping you break up your applications.
November 9, 2020
Live Coding a Demo Dashboard into a Real-World App
Ever work through a tutorial for some impressive React app, but once you try to turn it into something “real”, you keep running into wall after wall of unanticipated complexity? Us too.
On this episode, we welcomed Christian Pillsbury (@cjpillsbury), who took us through a demo React dashboard app with static data, and iteratively migrated it to use a RESTful API, and used some cool tech like react-query, suspense, error boundaries and more.
November 9, 2020
Making Authentication Easy with useAuth with Swizec Teller
On this episode of React Wednesdays we were joined by Swizec Teller (@swizec) to talk about an app requirement most developers hate—authentication. We talked about why auth is hard, and looked at Swizec’s useAuth project, which aims to make authentication as easy as possible.
Watch EpisodeNovember 9, 2020
React Unit Testing Workflows with Eric Elliott
This was a fun one, as the one and only Eric Elliott (@_ericelliott) joined us to share his knowledge about all things unit testing. Eric Elliott is a Technology Product and Platform Advisor and the author of “Composing Software”. As co-founder of EricElliottJS.com and DevAnywhere.io, he teaches developers essential
software development skills. He enjoys a remote lifestyle with the most beautiful woman in the world.
Eric and his team introduced us to his preferred unit testing workflow, and demoed it to us live. Check it out!
November 9, 2020
About your hosts
TJ VanToll
Principal Developer Advocate
TJ VanToll is a front-end developer, author, and a Principal Developer Advocate for Progress. TJ has over a decade of web development experience, including a few years working on the jQuery and NativeScript teams. Nowadays he helps web developers build awesome UIs with KendoReact.
Dan Wilson
Director of Marketing and Developer Relations
Dan has extensive experience growing technology focused products and services. He got his first taste of fast-moving bleeding edge tech when he joined his first start-up in 1999 as a software developer. Now Dan works with Digital Primates where they help companies modernize applications and skills with Enterprise JavaScript and React.
KendoReact
React UI Library
React Wednesdays is presented by KendoReact. Designed and built from the ground up specifically for React, KendoReact can augment any existing UI stack. Its 80+ feature-rich components and advanced functionality make it the perfect suite to standardize on.
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