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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 stream live every Wednesday at 1:00 PM Eastern US time. You can add React Wednesdays to your Google calendar to get reminders for upcoming episodes.
The React Developer tools are an an official set of React debugging tools from the React team, and are available for Firefox and for Chrome.
And on this episode of React Wednesdays, we’re welcoming Joe Morgan (@joesmorgan), author of How to Debug React Components Using React Developer Tools, to show us how it all works.
Joe will demo the developer tools for us live, showing both how to debug your components, and—the part I’m most excited for—how to find and fix performance problems in your React applications. Join us and bring your debugging questions!
Wednesday, May 12th
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On this episode of React Wednesdays, we welcomed Jonny Burger - the creator of Remotion - an awesome library that lets you create videos with React!
Jonny shared how it all works and was awesome to give us a demo!
If you’ve ever wanted to create a video with React, or if you’re just curious about how it all works, then this the place to learn that!
March 18, 2021
On this episode of React Wednesdays, Emily Rose from Microsoft joined us to show us how to build custom extensions to Microsoft Teams with React.
Emily explained what Teams apps are, and then showed us what Teams apps look like live on stream.
This is a great one to check out if you’re curious what Teams are can do, and see the types of things you might want to build for your company or organization. And to learn more, check out Emily’s writeup on the stream, which includes a list of follow-up resources, as well the Teams developer documentation.
March 11, 2021
On this episode of React Wednesdays we welcomed Brandon Bayer (@flybayer), creator of Blitz.js.
Blitz.js is a full-stack framework that’s built on top of Next.js, and inspired by full-stack frameworks like Ruby on Rails. This was pretty exciting as full-stack frameworks have been growing like crazy in the React world lately.
Brandon was awesome and demoed Blitz.js for us, and answered our questions of why you should use Blitz.js over just using Next, and where Blitz.js got its name from.
March 5, 2021
On this episode of React Wednesdays we welcomed the creator of React Query, Tanner Linsley (@tannerlinsley).
Over the past year, React Query has grown to become one of the most popular state management tools in the React world.
Tanner was awesome enough to demo React Query for us, and to chat about all that's new in the latest version, React Query v3.
February 26, 2021
Working in large React apps brings up new and fun concerns. Like, how do you organize your files so your team can find things? How do you agree on which dependencies to use? And, how to ensure that tabs versus spaces arguments don’t ruin friendships?
Luckily, on this episode we welcomed Paige Niedringhaus (@pniedri), who has a ton of experience working in large React apps and teams at The Home Depot. Paige shared some tips & tricks she’s learned over the years, and demoed some of her tips for us!
February 19, 2021
On this episode of React Wednesdays, we welcomed Dragomir Răzvan (@razvandragomir), author of the recently viral article “I Almost Got Fired for Choosing React in Our Enterprise App”.
We used Dragomir’s article as a guide and chatted about React in the enterprise in general. Like, when is React a good fit and when is it not? What are some good practices to make React work better on large teams? And what recommendations does Dragomir have for developers starting new enterprise projects today?
February 11, 2021
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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.
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