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React Wednesdays

React Wednesdays is a chat show with the best and brightest from the React world, hosted by KendoReact Developer Advocate, Kathryn Grayson Nanz. Check out the past episode recordings available on demand. That's a real treasure of conversations with React experts waiting to be discovered!

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Learning with Hetali: Ep 1

Stay tuned for the first React 101 topic of the new React Wednesdays segment - Learning with Hetali!

February 08, 2023

 

Functional Programming with JavaScript Object Arrays

In this episode of React Wednesdays, Ed Charbeneau is going to wow Kathryn Grayson Nanz with his JS skills and talk about using map, filter, and reduce to manipulate arrays of objects, using techniques borrowed from functional programming

February 22, 2023

 

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React Wednesdays: Learning Astro with Nate Moore

On this episode of React Wednesdays, we explored Astro - a modern static site builder that allows you to use React (and any other framework) while shipping bare-minimum client-side JavaScript.

Nate Moore from Astro demonstrated how to use Astro with your existing React components and discussed Astro's forthcoming WASM-powered compiler.

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August 27, 2021

React Wednesdays: Let’s Learn Solid JS

On this episode of React Wednesdays, we welcomed in Ryan Carniato, a member of the Marko team at eBay, and the author of Solid JS. Solid is a declarative, efficient, and flexible JavaScript library for building user interfaces.

It has some features that are similar to React (component model, hooks), but also some that are quite different—for example, Solid doesn’t use a virtual DOM.

Ryan demoed Solid for us, and discussed how and why React developers might want to check out Solid.

This was a fun one as Solid is growing in popularity, and we're curious to see it in action.

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August 16, 2021

React Wednesdays: Building Native Audio Apps in JS

On this episode of React Wednesdays, we welcomed Nick Thompson, author of Elementary Audio, a new project that makes native audio APIs accessible to JavaScript developers.

Nick explained what the project is, and then demoed a few awesome examples for us.

If you’ve ever had the misfortune of working with native audio apps, you’re probably familiar with C++ and pain. But that might be changing due to Elementary Audio!

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August 6, 2021

React Wednesdays: Let’s Try GitHub Copilot Together

On this episode of React Wednesdays we tried out GitHub Copilot, a fascinating new tool that uses AI to give you suggestions on the code you need to write.

And to help us try it out we invited back Paige Niedringhaus (@pniedri), a staff software engineer at Blues Wireless that’s going to help us discover all the crazy things Copilot can do.

 

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July 16, 2021

React Wednesday: DOM APIs for React Developers

Libraries like React abstract away DOM APIs so that you rarely ever have to deal with them. And while that’s mostly a good thing, knowing how the DOM APIs work can have some real benefits—for example when you need to write code that works on any app regardless of framework.

On this episode of React Wednesdays, TJ VanToll gave a hands-on demo of the most popular DOM APIs and showed how to select DOM nodes, move DOM nodes, attach event listeners, and more.


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July 2, 2021

React Wednesdays: Rewriting a JS Library That Runs on a Billion Devices

On this episode of React Wednesdays we welcomed Netto Farah (@nettofarah), who helped rewrite an 8-year-old JavaScript analytics library that runs on billion devices every day.

Netto’s writeup on the rewrite is pretty amazing, and includes details like testing JavaScript on a Nintendo Wii, and how they went about testing on 160 different client-side destinations.

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June 25, 2021

About your hosts

Kathryn Grayson Nanz
Kathryn Grayson Nanz

Developer Advocate for KendoReact

Kathryn Grayson Nanz is a developer advocate at Progress with a passion for React, UI and design, and sharing with the community. She started her career as a graphic designer and was told by her Creative Director to never let anyone find out she could code because she'd be stuck doing it forever. She ignored his warning and has never been happier. You can find her writing, blogging, streaming and tweeting about React, design, UI and more. 

Hetali Shah
Hetali Shah

Technical Support Engineer | DevTools

Hetali started her career as a Junior Technical Support Engineer at Progress for Kendo UI for Angular. She is now a full Technical Support Engineer supporting our customers daily in complicated and advanced scenarios to provide solutions. As she embarks on her journey to provide support for KendoReact, she is currently learning React. We took this opportunity to start a series on React Wednesdays called ‘Learning with Hetali’ where she will be discussing and/or demonstrating the topics and concepts she has learned.

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React Wednesdays is presented by KendoReact - a professional React component library. Designed and built from the ground up specifically for React, KendoReact can augment any existing UI stack. Its 100+ feature-rich UI components and advanced functionality make it the perfect suite to standardize on.

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