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
In this episode we asked Zain Sajjad (@zsajjad93) to show us Flipper, a React Native debugging tool that couldn’t possibly be bad because its logo is a dolphin. Shannon Hicks (@iotashan) joined us because he’s good at React Native, and having a person good at React Native is just good life advice in general.
Watch EpisodeNovember 9, 2020
In this episode we chatted with Dan Skaggs (@dskaggs) about using tooling and processes commonly found in public, open-source projects to effectively scale your engineering organization—including the innersource philosophy. We touched on using a monorepo, talked about how the various dev teams interact, and some challenges as the number of engineers and teams grow. We also talked about some critical pieces to the culture you put in place to ensure all engineers feel comfortable operating this way.
Watch EpisodeNovember 9, 2020
In this episode we chatted with Salem Hilal (@technoheads) about how Etsy does React. Specifically, Etsy uses a monorepo, and we talked about how in the world that works. We also talked about Kevin, which is a tool to help you with webpack, and not a person. Well, I mean, there are people named Kevin too, but we weren’t concerned with them for this episode.
Watch EpisodeNovember 9, 2020
We chatted with Nathan Smith (@nathansmith) and Cory Webb (@corywebb) about Be a Speaker, a React-built service for connecting speakers and conference organizers.
Watch EpisodeNovember 9, 2020
We spoke with the creators of Realize, a new debugging tool that allows React developers to view their component tree and state. The tool is a Chrome and Firefox extension, so we also spent some time discussing the “fun” parts of building browser extensions 🙂
Watch EpisodeNovember 9, 2020
In this episode we talked with Michael Labriola (@mlabriola) about React in the enterprise world. Specifically we discussed state management, CSS handling, dependency management, and in general how things just work differently in an enterprise environment.
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.
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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