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!
Stay tuned for the first React 101 topic of the new React Wednesdays segment - Learning with Hetali!
February 08, 2023
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
On this episode we chatted with Parashuram (@nparashuram) from Facebook. Parashuram is an engineering manager on Oculus, where he works on the React Native companion app, and on the headset itself, using React VR.
As part of that work, Parashuram gets to play with Hermes, the JavaScript engine designed to help React Native apps start up fast. I asked Parashuram important questions, like “Is working on VR as awesome as it sounds?”, and, “How can I be cool like you when I grow up?” I asked questions about Hermes too. And we got to see a really cool demo of a new Hermes profiler.
November 9, 2020
Are you fascinated by phones with two screens? Have you ever wondered about what it’s like to build an app these devices? Are you very confused by folding phones and want to see one live?
If you answered yes to at least one of those questions—we’ve got a stream for you! On this episode we welcomed Craig Dunn and Keil Aloia from the Microsoft Surface Duo team. Crag and Keil demoed what it’s like to build React Native apps for the Duo, and then we asked them a bunch of questions—like, what is Android doing to help support dual-screen devices?
November 9, 2020
On this episode we solved remote working. Maybe. Or perhaps we had an interesting chat with Dan DiGangi (@dandigangi), Rob Ocel (@robocell) and Dan Skaggs (@dskaggs)—people that have either worked remote, managed remote workers, or both. We shared tips & tricks we’ve learned—like how to make friends with that squirrel you’ve been watching outside your window for the last five months.
Watch EpisodeNovember 9, 2020
On this episode we chatted with Matan Borenkraout (@matanbobi) about React concurrent mode, the React scheduler APIs, and some of the new browser APIs for handling concurrency. Matan is good at this stuff because he wrote a blog post that includes “hidden magic” in the title, and anyone that knows about hidden magic has to be interesting.
Watch EpisodeNovember 9, 2020
On this episode we chatted with members of the React Spectrum, a new suite of React components from Adobe. We looked at what Spectrum is like today, and what Adobe has planned for their components and design systems.
Watch EpisodeNovember 9, 2020
In this episode we talked with Kiki Saintonge (@kikisaintonge), the product manager of React Native for Windows + macOS. We asked what React Native for Windows + macOS even is, why you’d want to use it, and why Microsoft would be working on React Native for macOS.
Watch EpisodeNovember 9, 2020
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.
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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